Lead Java Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in England is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 780 859
Rank change year-on-year +153 +79 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 28 63 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.060% 0.074% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.078% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 26 53 55
10th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £70,000
25th Percentile £87,575 £82,500 £78,691
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £97,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £140,677 £142,500 £117,500
90th Percentile - £165,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £116,250 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +16.25% +5.26% -5.00%

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 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +75 13 £112,500 -16.67% 7
South West - 10 £122,773 -
North of England +74 4 £88,000 +10.00% 2
North West +28 4 £88,000 +10.00% 2
South East +87 1 £110,000 +25.71% 2
Lead Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 28 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (67.86%) Agile
3 17 (60.71%) Microservices
4 16 (57.14%) Docker
4 16 (57.14%) Finance
5 15 (53.57%) Banking
6 14 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
7 12 (42.86%) RESTful
7 12 (42.86%) Git
7 12 (42.86%) Spring Boot
8 11 (39.29%) Cloud Native
8 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
8 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
9 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven
9 10 (35.71%) API Design
9 10 (35.71%) AWS
9 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (32.14%) DevOps
10 9 (32.14%) Public Cloud
10 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
10 9 (32.14%) GCP
10 9 (32.14%) Spring
11 8 (28.57%) Azure
11 8 (28.57%) Cypress.io
11 8 (28.57%) Cucumber
11 8 (28.57%) Change Management
11 8 (28.57%) Web Services
11 8 (28.57%) webpack
11 8 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus

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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) GCP
3 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) npm
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Git
2 8 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 8 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 8 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (28.57%) webpack
3 5 (17.86%) Maven
4 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (10.71%) IntelliJ
6 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.57%) GitLab
6 1 (3.57%) JUnit
6 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (57.14%) Finance
2 15 (53.57%) Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
5 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Front Office
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Advertising
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) RESTful
1 12 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 9 (32.14%) Spring
3 8 (28.57%) Jest
3 8 (28.57%) Web Services
4 7 (25.00%) React
5 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 4 (14.29%) REST
6 3 (10.71%) Kafka
7 2 (7.14%) .NET
7 2 (7.14%) CSS
7 2 (7.14%) HTML
7 2 (7.14%) XML
8 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.57%) JMS
8 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
8 1 (3.57%) SOAP
8 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (32.14%) Public Cloud
3 8 (28.57%) Distributed Applications
3 8 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Agile
2 17 (60.71%) Microservices
3 14 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
6 10 (35.71%) API Design
6 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven
6 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 9 (32.14%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Architectural Design
8 8 (28.57%) Change Management
8 8 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (28.57%) Micro Frontends
8 8 (28.57%) Release Automation
9 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
10 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.57%) PhD
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Argo
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle