Lead Java Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Java Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in London is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 457 575
Rank change year-on-year +78 +118 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 13 45 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 44
10th Percentile £77,500 £72,250 £78,691
25th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £87,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £135,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £130,000 £153,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £165,000 -
England median annual salary £112,500 £97,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -4.88% +2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in London

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +27 3 £80,000 -15.79% 1
Lead Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) React
2 7 (53.85%) Spring
3 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
4 5 (38.46%) Maven
4 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) Oracle
5 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
5 4 (30.77%) Git
5 4 (30.77%) JIRA
5 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) REST
5 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Application Security
6 3 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
6 3 (23.08%) Innovative Thinking

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
2 4 (30.77%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) JMS
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Application Security
5 3 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Fintech
5 3 (23.08%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
5 3 (23.08%) Pair Programming
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) SOLID
7 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PhD
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle