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 £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 654 866
Rank change year-on-year +150 +212 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 206 24 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.050% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.056% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 14
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,441 £63,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,735 £64,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £80,294 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +0.37% -
75th Percentile £103,438 £97,290 £84,688
90th Percentile £107,500 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £135,000 £92,169 £100,000
% change year-on-year +46.47% -7.83% +17.65%

All Permanent 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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +110 196 - -
South East +11 5 £81,250 +54.76%
North of England 0 2 £80,000 -0.37%
North West -8 2 £80,000 +14.29%
Northern Ireland - 2 £105,000 -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
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 26 July 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.

1 206 (100.00%) Java
2 202 (98.06%) Agile
3 201 (97.57%) Software Engineering
4 199 (96.60%) Finance
5 196 (95.15%) Law
5 196 (95.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (87.86%) Operational Stability
7 173 (83.98%) SDLC
8 145 (70.39%) CI/CD
9 143 (69.42%) SQL
10 131 (63.59%) Community of Practice
11 119 (57.77%) Cloud Native
12 117 (56.80%) Spring
13 114 (55.34%) Marketing
14 109 (52.91%) Artificial Intelligence
15 107 (51.94%) Machine Learning
16 99 (48.06%) Architectural Design
17 89 (43.20%) Information Architecture
18 87 (42.23%) NoSQL
19 84 (40.78%) AWS
19 84 (40.78%) Banking
20 81 (39.32%) Investment Banking
20 81 (39.32%) Scala
21 79 (38.35%) Kafka
22 71 (34.47%) Performance Tuning
23 65 (31.55%) Spring Boot
24 63 (30.58%) Continuous Delivery
25 62 (30.10%) Apache Spark
26 61 (29.61%) Influencing Skills
26 61 (29.61%) Big Data

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 62 (30.10%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.53%) Cloud Foundry
3 21 (10.19%) GemFire
4 2 (0.97%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.49%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.78%) AWS
2 21 (10.19%) Azure
3 17 (8.25%) GCP
4 5 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (1.46%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.97%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (42.23%) NoSQL
2 61 (29.61%) Big Data
3 38 (18.45%) CockroachDB
4 31 (15.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 21 (10.19%) Hazelcast
6 18 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (8.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (7.77%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.46%) MySQL
10 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.49%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.49%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.49%) Impala
11 1 (0.49%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 37 (17.96%) Cypress.io
2 22 (10.68%) Jasmine
2 22 (10.68%) JUnit
2 22 (10.68%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (10.68%) Protractor
2 22 (10.68%) Selenium
2 22 (10.68%) WebDriver
3 21 (10.19%) Jaeger
4 15 (7.28%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.46%) Maven
6 2 (0.97%) Gradle
6 2 (0.97%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.49%) Git
7 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.49%) Spock
General
1 199 (96.60%) Finance
2 196 (95.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 196 (95.15%) Law
3 114 (55.34%) Marketing
4 84 (40.78%) Banking
5 81 (39.32%) Investment Banking
6 61 (29.61%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (10.68%) Prime Brokerage
8 4 (1.94%) Social Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Aviation
10 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (56.80%) Spring
2 79 (38.35%) Kafka
3 65 (31.55%) Spring Boot
4 39 (18.93%) REST
5 38 (18.45%) CSS
5 38 (18.45%) HTML
6 37 (17.96%) React
7 28 (13.59%) Hibernate
8 24 (11.65%) JPA
8 24 (11.65%) JSON
9 22 (10.68%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.68%) J2EE
9 22 (10.68%) Jest
9 22 (10.68%) JMS
9 22 (10.68%) jQuery
9 22 (10.68%) Node.js
9 22 (10.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 21 (10.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (8.25%) GraphQL
11 17 (8.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (57.77%) Cloud Native
2 29 (14.08%) Public Cloud
3 22 (10.68%) Data Structures
4 21 (10.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (10.19%) Replication
5 15 (7.28%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.46%) Unix
2 2 (0.97%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (98.06%) Agile
2 201 (97.57%) Software Engineering
3 181 (87.86%) Operational Stability
4 173 (83.98%) SDLC
5 145 (70.39%) CI/CD
6 131 (63.59%) Community of Practice
7 109 (52.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 107 (51.94%) Machine Learning
9 99 (48.06%) Architectural Design
10 89 (43.20%) Information Architecture
11 71 (34.47%) Performance Tuning
12 63 (30.58%) Continuous Delivery
13 54 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (24.27%) Tech Ops
15 39 (18.93%) TDD
16 32 (15.53%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (13.11%) Microservices
18 25 (12.14%) Design Patterns
18 25 (12.14%) Multithreading
19 23 (11.17%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 206 (100.00%) Java
2 143 (69.42%) SQL
3 81 (39.32%) Scala
4 39 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.68%) Groovy
5 22 (10.68%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.43%) Python
7 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (13.11%) Terraform
2 22 (10.68%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.19%) Grafana
3 21 (10.19%) HAProxy
3 21 (10.19%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (10.19%) Kibana
3 21 (10.19%) Prometheus
3 21 (10.19%) Zipkin
4 2 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (13.11%) Oracle
2 24 (11.65%) Dynatrace
2 24 (11.65%) Splunk
3 17 (8.25%) Google
4 10 (4.85%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.97%) Solace
5 2 (0.97%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.49%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) Informatica