Lead Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Lead Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 658 645
Rank change year-on-year +62 -13 +289
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 15 34 23
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.029% 0.068% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.072% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 14
10th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £74,375
25th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £122,773 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +22.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £142,500 £155,000 £120,625
90th Percentile £160,500 £165,000 £127,750
UK median annual salary £102,500 £122,773 £100,000
% change year-on-year -16.51% +22.77% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,098 46,955 40,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 93.36% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 29,535 25,178 32,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,564
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Lead Java Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in England

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +36 11 £117,500 -12.96% 4
North of England - 3 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £88,750 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £80,000 - 2
Lead Java Engineer
UK

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Lead Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
3 8 (53.33%) AWS
4 7 (46.67%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Kafka
6 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (20.00%) Order Management
7 3 (20.00%) RESTful
7 3 (20.00%) Spring
7 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (13.33%) API Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Azure
8 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 2 (13.33%) Degree
8 2 (13.33%) DevOps
8 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (13.33%) Go

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Solr
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Appium
1 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
1 1 (6.67%) JUnit
1 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
1 1 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Games
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Redux
3 2 (13.33%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (6.67%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (6.67%) MACH
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Equities
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (20.00%) Order Management
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (13.33%) API Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes