Lead Java Developer Jobs

Lead Java Developer
UK

The median Lead Java Developer salary in the UK is £135,000 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 760 783 1035
Rank change year-on-year +23 +252 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 82 104 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 80 96 130
10th Percentile £72,500 £50,000 £49,875
25th Percentile £94,063 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% +11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £165,000 £120,000 £118,125
90th Percentile - £146,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer.

Salary trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

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 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
England +26 80 £135,000 +42.11% 7
London +88 67 £135,000 +37.76% 1
Work from Home +54 62 £135,000 +54.29% 3
UK excluding London -48 14 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East +6 5 £80,000 +14.29% 1
South West - 5 £65,000 - 1
North of England 0 2 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North West -8 2 £90,000 +28.57% 2
West Midlands -12 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Midlands -31 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Wales - 1 £70,000 -

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (84.15%) AWS
3 67 (81.71%) Software Engineering
4 58 (70.73%) Agile
5 56 (68.29%) Banking
5 56 (68.29%) Python
6 55 (67.07%) Finance
7 54 (65.85%) Fixed Income
7 54 (65.85%) Investment Banking
7 54 (65.85%) JavaScript
7 54 (65.85%) GCP
8 53 (64.63%) Protocol Buffers
8 53 (64.63%) Pandas
8 53 (64.63%) TypeScript
8 53 (64.63%) gRPC
8 53 (64.63%) Apache Airflow
8 53 (64.63%) Amazon Athena
8 53 (64.63%) Apache Ignite
8 53 (64.63%) Dremio
8 53 (64.63%) dbt
8 53 (64.63%) Hedge funds
8 53 (64.63%) SciPy
8 53 (64.63%) NumPy
8 53 (64.63%) Derivative
8 53 (64.63%) Apache
8 53 (64.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 53 (64.63%) Asset Management
8 53 (64.63%) Equities
8 53 (64.63%) Front Office
8 53 (64.63%) Apache Arrow

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 53 (64.63%) Apache
1 53 (64.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 69 (84.15%) AWS
2 54 (65.85%) GCP
3 53 (64.63%) dbt
4 51 (62.20%) Snowflake
5 19 (23.17%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (23.17%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.88%) Serverless
8 2 (2.44%) Azure
9 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (64.63%) Amazon Athena
1 53 (64.63%) Apache Arrow
1 53 (64.63%) Apache Ignite
1 53 (64.63%) Dremio
2 51 (62.20%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 56 (68.29%) Banking
2 55 (67.07%) Finance
3 54 (65.85%) Investment Banking
4 53 (64.63%) Front Office
5 5 (6.10%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (64.63%) gRPC
1 53 (64.63%) NumPy
1 53 (64.63%) Pandas
1 53 (64.63%) Protocol Buffers
1 53 (64.63%) SciPy
2 15 (18.29%) PySpark
3 12 (14.63%) Spring
4 7 (8.54%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.88%) REST
6 2 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.22%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.22%) JPA
7 1 (1.22%) JSON
7 1 (1.22%) Kafka
7 1 (1.22%) React
7 1 (1.22%) SOAP
7 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (65.85%) Fixed Income
2 53 (64.63%) Derivative
2 53 (64.63%) Equities
2 53 (64.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (64.63%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (81.71%) Software Engineering
2 58 (70.73%) Agile
3 53 (64.63%) Asset Management
4 52 (63.41%) Line Management
5 27 (32.93%) Investment Management
6 15 (18.29%) Migration
7 12 (14.63%) Microservices
8 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
9 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.76%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.54%) DevOps
11 7 (8.54%) Scrum
12 6 (7.32%) Fintech
13 5 (6.10%) Coaching
13 5 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.10%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
14 4 (4.88%) Continuous Deployment
14 4 (4.88%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (4.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (68.29%) Python
3 54 (65.85%) JavaScript
4 53 (64.63%) TypeScript
5 17 (20.73%) SQL
6 3 (3.66%) Scala
7 2 (2.44%) Ruby
8 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (7.32%) Degree
2 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Bloomberg
1 15 (18.29%) Reuters