Lead Java Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Lead Java Developer salary in the North of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 285 260
Rank change year-on-year +31 -25 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 8 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.076% 0.031% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.033% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £75,625 - £56,875
25th Percentile £78,438 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.08%
75th Percentile £82,188 - £86,250
90th Percentile £83,875 - -
England median annual salary £87,500 £135,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -35.19% +45.95% -7.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 9,287 9,163 6,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.85% 94.42% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,269 4,433 5,087
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Lead Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire - 6 £81,250 - 1
North West - 2 £80,000 -
Lead Java Developer
England

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Lead Java Developer 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 North of England region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Apigee
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (25.00%) Data Design
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Docker
4 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Flutter
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Go
4 2 (25.00%) Groovy
4 2 (25.00%) HP Fortify
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) Jest
4 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (25.00%) Maven
4 2 (25.00%) React
4 2 (25.00%) Scala

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) Apigee
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Flutter
1 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (25.00%) Jest
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Data Design
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Fortify