Lead Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 742 827
Rank change year-on-year +271 +85 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 295 21 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.034% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.038% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 8
10th Percentile £66,000 £68,500 £66,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -6.91% +32.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £89,852 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,290 £95,000
UK median annual salary £98,750 £97,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +1.28% -2.50% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland +121 274 - -
South East - 14 £87,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £105,000 - 1
North of England +40 2 £80,000 +10.34% 1
North West +8 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Lead Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 286 (96.95%) Software Engineering
3 285 (96.61%) Agile
4 280 (94.92%) Finance
5 274 (92.88%) Law
5 274 (92.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (88.14%) Operational Stability
7 244 (82.71%) SDLC
8 198 (67.12%) CI/CD
8 198 (67.12%) SQL
9 185 (62.71%) Community of Practice
10 184 (62.37%) Marketing
11 153 (51.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 152 (51.53%) Machine Learning
13 145 (49.15%) Spring
14 137 (46.44%) Cloud Native
15 134 (45.42%) Architectural Design
16 130 (44.07%) AWS
17 123 (41.69%) NoSQL
18 116 (39.32%) Information Architecture
18 116 (39.32%) Scala
19 106 (35.93%) Performance Tuning
20 97 (32.88%) Apache Spark
21 96 (32.54%) Influencing Skills
21 96 (32.54%) Big Data
22 91 (30.85%) Banking
23 89 (30.17%) Investment Banking
24 84 (28.47%) Kafka
25 83 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
26 80 (27.12%) Continuous Delivery

Lead Java Engineer 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 97 (32.88%) Apache Spark
2 31 (10.51%) Cloud Foundry
3 21 (7.12%) GemFire
4 3 (1.02%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 130 (44.07%) AWS
2 44 (14.92%) Azure
3 41 (13.90%) GCP
4 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (41.69%) NoSQL
2 96 (32.54%) Big Data
3 39 (13.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 38 (12.88%) CockroachDB
5 35 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (10.17%) MongoDB
7 21 (7.12%) Hazelcast
8 17 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (5.08%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.05%) MySQL
11 6 (2.03%) CouchDB
12 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
14 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.34%) Impala
14 1 (0.34%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 36 (12.20%) Cypress.io
2 22 (7.46%) Jasmine
2 22 (7.46%) JUnit
2 22 (7.46%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (7.46%) Protractor
2 22 (7.46%) Selenium
2 22 (7.46%) WebDriver
3 21 (7.12%) Jaeger
4 14 (4.75%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.73%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.05%) Gradle
7 3 (1.02%) Git
7 3 (1.02%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.34%) Maven
8 1 (0.34%) Spock
General
1 280 (94.92%) Finance
2 274 (92.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 274 (92.88%) Law
3 184 (62.37%) Marketing
4 96 (32.54%) Influencing Skills
5 91 (30.85%) Banking
6 89 (30.17%) Investment Banking
7 22 (7.46%) Prime Brokerage
8 8 (2.71%) Social Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (49.15%) Spring
2 84 (28.47%) Kafka
3 77 (26.10%) Spring Boot
4 51 (17.29%) React
5 42 (14.24%) REST
6 39 (13.22%) HTML
7 37 (12.54%) AngularJS
7 37 (12.54%) CSS
7 37 (12.54%) J2EE
8 34 (11.53%) Hibernate
9 25 (8.47%) JSON
10 24 (8.14%) JPA
11 22 (7.46%) Jest
11 22 (7.46%) JMS
11 22 (7.46%) jQuery
11 22 (7.46%) Node.js
11 22 (7.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 21 (7.12%) OpenTelemetry
13 17 (5.76%) GraphQL
13 17 (5.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 137 (46.44%) Cloud Native
2 57 (19.32%) Public Cloud
3 24 (8.14%) Private Cloud
4 22 (7.46%) Data Structures
5 21 (7.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (7.12%) Replication
6 6 (2.03%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.03%) PropTech
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.69%) Linux
1 5 (1.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.02%) Unix
2 3 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (96.95%) Software Engineering
2 285 (96.61%) Agile
3 260 (88.14%) Operational Stability
4 244 (82.71%) SDLC
5 198 (67.12%) CI/CD
6 185 (62.71%) Community of Practice
7 153 (51.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 152 (51.53%) Machine Learning
9 134 (45.42%) Architectural Design
10 116 (39.32%) Information Architecture
11 106 (35.93%) Performance Tuning
12 83 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (27.12%) Continuous Delivery
14 75 (25.42%) Tech Ops
15 51 (17.29%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (14.58%) TDD
17 33 (11.19%) Microservices
18 30 (10.17%) Decision-Making
18 30 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (9.83%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 198 (67.12%) SQL
3 116 (39.32%) Scala
4 38 (12.88%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.46%) Groovy
5 22 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.69%) Python
7 2 (0.68%) C#
7 2 (0.68%) C++
7 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (15.93%) Terraform
2 24 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.12%) Grafana
3 21 (7.12%) HAProxy
3 21 (7.12%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (7.12%) Kibana
3 21 (7.12%) Prometheus
3 21 (7.12%) Zipkin
4 3 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (13.56%) Oracle
2 24 (8.14%) Dynatrace
2 24 (8.14%) Splunk
3 19 (6.44%) Google
4 18 (6.10%) SaltStack
5 3 (1.02%) Solace
5 3 (1.02%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.34%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) Informatica