Lead Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 677 617
Rank change year-on-year +138 -60 +165
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 25 13 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.021% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.022% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 24
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile - £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £135,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -42.59% +42.11% +15.15%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,789 58,700 38,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.45% 95.19% 90.75%
Number of salaries quoted 18,998 36,657 25,585
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% -8.33% -

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 8 £72,500 -9.38% 3
Midlands +66 7 £72,500 +3.57%
West Midlands +54 7 £72,500 +3.57%
North of England +45 7 £97,500 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £90,000 - 3
Scotland - 4 - -
North West - 1 £105,000 - 1
Lead Java Developer
UK

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, Lead Java Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (88.00%) AWS
3 16 (64.00%) Agile
3 16 (64.00%) Microservices
3 16 (64.00%) Spring Boot
4 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
4 14 (56.00%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (56.00%) Spring
5 13 (52.00%) RESTful
5 13 (52.00%) Docker
6 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
6 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
6 12 (48.00%) TDD
7 11 (44.00%) BDD
8 10 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (40.00%) AngularJS
8 10 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
8 10 (40.00%) Maven
8 10 (40.00%) Scrum
8 10 (40.00%) SOAP
8 10 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
8 10 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (40.00%) Git
9 9 (36.00%) JPA
9 9 (36.00%) Web Services
9 9 (36.00%) JUnit
9 9 (36.00%) SonarQube
9 9 (36.00%) Bootstrap

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (28.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (36.00%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (32.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (32.00%) AWS KMS
4 8 (32.00%) Route 53
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) Azure
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (36.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (40.00%) Git
2 10 (40.00%) Maven
3 9 (36.00%) JUnit
3 9 (36.00%) Mockito
3 9 (36.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (32.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 8 (32.00%) DbUnit
4 8 (32.00%) jMock
5 7 (28.00%) JIRA
6 2 (8.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.00%) Law
4 4 (16.00%) Private Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) Spring Boot
2 14 (56.00%) Spring
3 13 (52.00%) RESTful
4 10 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 10 (40.00%) SOAP
5 9 (36.00%) Bootstrap
5 9 (36.00%) JPA
5 9 (36.00%) Web Services
6 8 (32.00%) Hibernate
6 8 (32.00%) PowerMock
6 8 (32.00%) Spring Batch
6 8 (32.00%) Spring Integration
7 5 (20.00%) Kafka
8 3 (12.00%) REST
9 2 (8.00%) Flutter
9 2 (8.00%) React
9 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
1 16 (64.00%) Microservices
2 12 (48.00%) TDD
3 11 (44.00%) BDD
4 10 (40.00%) Scrum
5 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (32.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (32.00%) Kanban
6 8 (32.00%) Open Source
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (28.00%) SDLC
8 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
9 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 5 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
10 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) Scala
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Jaspersoft