Lead Java Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Lead Java Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in Manchester is £88,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 217 234
Rank change year-on-year +72 +17 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 4 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.19% 0.020% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.021% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £82,950 - £55,500
25th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £93,875 £87,500 -
90th Percentile £97,250 - £77,500
North West median annual salary £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,941 4,840 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.62% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 3,745 2,661
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,107 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,925 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in Manchester

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Manchester region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Docker

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes