Lead Java Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in England is £97,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 779 858 1002
Rank change year-on-year +79 +144 -197
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 63 71 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.084% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53 55 57
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £78,691 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in England

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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 +113 45 £135,000 +28.57% 4
South East - 14 £87,500 - 1
North of England +33 2 £80,000 +10.34% 1
North West +1 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Lead Java Engineer
UK

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (69.84%) Software Engineering
3 37 (58.73%) Agile
4 33 (52.38%) Banking
4 33 (52.38%) AWS
5 29 (46.03%) Investment Banking
6 28 (44.44%) Finance
7 26 (41.27%) Python
8 23 (36.51%) GCP
9 22 (34.92%) JavaScript
10 21 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (31.75%) Apache Ignite
11 20 (31.75%) gRPC
11 20 (31.75%) Apache Airflow
11 20 (31.75%) dbt
11 20 (31.75%) Dremio
11 20 (31.75%) Apache Arrow
11 20 (31.75%) Apache
11 20 (31.75%) Front Office
11 20 (31.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 20 (31.75%) Asset Management
11 20 (31.75%) Fixed Income
11 20 (31.75%) Equities
11 20 (31.75%) Derivative
11 20 (31.75%) Protocol Buffers
11 20 (31.75%) TypeScript
11 20 (31.75%) Pandas
11 20 (31.75%) Hedge funds
11 20 (31.75%) SciPy
11 20 (31.75%) NumPy

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (31.75%) Apache
1 20 (31.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.35%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Drupal
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) AWS
2 23 (36.51%) GCP
3 20 (31.75%) dbt
4 18 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 6 (9.52%) Azure
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.17%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (31.75%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (31.75%) Apache Ignite
2 20 (31.75%) Dremio
3 18 (28.57%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.52%) CouchDB
4 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (9.52%) MySQL
5 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.59%) Impala
7 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.59%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Gradle
2 5 (7.94%) JIRA
3 4 (6.35%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (52.38%) Banking
2 29 (46.03%) Investment Banking
3 28 (44.44%) Finance
4 20 (31.75%) Front Office
5 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
6 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.35%) Law
8 3 (4.76%) Legal
9 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Aviation
10 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
10 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.75%) gRPC
1 20 (31.75%) NumPy
1 20 (31.75%) Pandas
1 20 (31.75%) Protocol Buffers
1 20 (31.75%) SciPy
2 18 (28.57%) Spring
3 15 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 13 (20.63%) Kafka
5 10 (15.87%) Hibernate
6 6 (9.52%) REST
7 4 (6.35%) JPA
8 3 (4.76%) HTML
8 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.76%) XML
9 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.17%) HTML5
9 2 (3.17%) JSON
9 2 (3.17%) SOAP
10 1 (1.59%) OAuth
10 1 (1.59%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.75%) Derivative
1 20 (31.75%) Equities
1 20 (31.75%) Fixed Income
1 20 (31.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 20 (31.75%) Hedge funds
2 8 (12.70%) Client/Server
3 6 (9.52%) PropTech
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.17%) Blockchain
6 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (69.84%) Software Engineering
2 37 (58.73%) Agile
3 20 (31.75%) Asset Management
4 18 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 18 (28.57%) Line Management
5 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 12 (19.05%) Microservices
7 11 (17.46%) TDD
8 7 (11.11%) DevOps
9 6 (9.52%) E-Commerce
10 5 (7.94%) Fintech
11 4 (6.35%) API Integration
11 4 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.35%) Data Protection
11 4 (6.35%) Kanban
11 4 (6.35%) Multithreading
11 4 (6.35%) Scrum
12 3 (4.76%) Open Source
12 3 (4.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (41.27%) Python
3 22 (34.92%) JavaScript
4 20 (31.75%) TypeScript
5 14 (22.22%) Kotlin
6 12 (19.05%) SQL
7 8 (12.70%) Scala
8 2 (3.17%) C#
8 2 (3.17%) C++
8 2 (3.17%) PHP
8 2 (3.17%) Ruby
9 1 (1.59%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.17%) Google
2 1 (1.59%) Cloudera
2 1 (1.59%) Informatica