Lead Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the South East is £110,000 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 278 376 -
Rank change year-on-year +98 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 1 14 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.012% 0.084% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.089% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - £71,125 -
25th Percentile £105,000 £71,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £87,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 7,286 15,677 13,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.09% 93.90% 90.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 11,345 8,528
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the South East

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +61 1 £110,000 +25.71%
Oxfordshire +43 1 £110,000 -
Lead Java Engineer
England

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform