Lead Java Engineer Job Trends in Shropshire

Lead Java Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in Shropshire is £44,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 - -
75th Percentile £46,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £44,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 506 161 159
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.20% 98.17% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 332 146 80
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £23,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £58,875
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Lead Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £44,000 - 2
Lead Java Engineer
West Midlands

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 6 October 2026, Lead Java Engineer 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 Shropshire region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus