Lead Java Engineer
UK

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the UK is £98,750 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 577 893 1091
Rank change year-on-year +316 +198 -255
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 337 77 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.074% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.080% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 54 60 61
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £82,813 £71,121 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £97,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £86,250
% change year-on-year +8.98% -6.91% +32.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +271 295 £87,500 +8.98% 3
Scotland +121 274 - -
England +101 60 £97,500 -4.88% 8
London +118 42 £115,000 +9.52% 6
Work from Home +79 35 £135,000 +28.57% 7
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
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Midlands - 2 £60,000 -

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

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 featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 337 (100.00%) Java
2 315 (93.47%) Software Engineering
3 309 (91.69%) Agile
4 302 (89.61%) Finance
5 277 (82.20%) Law
5 277 (82.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (77.45%) Operational Stability
7 245 (72.70%) SDLC
8 202 (59.94%) SQL
9 199 (59.05%) CI/CD
10 185 (54.90%) Marketing
10 185 (54.90%) Community of Practice
11 155 (45.99%) Artificial Intelligence
11 155 (45.99%) AWS
12 154 (45.70%) Spring
13 152 (45.10%) Machine Learning
14 140 (41.54%) Cloud Native
15 134 (39.76%) Architectural Design
16 127 (37.69%) NoSQL
17 123 (36.50%) Scala
18 121 (35.91%) Banking
19 116 (34.42%) Information Architecture
19 116 (34.42%) Investment Banking
20 106 (31.45%) Performance Tuning
21 97 (28.78%) Apache Spark
22 96 (28.49%) Big Data
22 96 (28.49%) Influencing Skills
23 90 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
24 87 (25.82%) Kafka
25 86 (25.52%) Spring Boot

Lead Java Engineer 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 97 (28.78%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.20%) Cloud Foundry
3 21 (6.23%) GemFire
4 18 (5.34%) Apache
4 18 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.19%) Confluence
6 3 (0.89%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.59%) Drupal
8 1 (0.30%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 155 (45.99%) AWS
2 60 (17.80%) GCP
3 46 (13.65%) Azure
4 18 (5.34%) dbt
5 17 (5.04%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.59%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.04%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (37.69%) NoSQL
2 96 (28.49%) Big Data
3 39 (11.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 38 (11.28%) CockroachDB
5 35 (10.39%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (8.90%) MongoDB
7 21 (6.23%) Hazelcast
8 19 (5.64%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (5.34%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (5.34%) Apache Ignite
9 18 (5.34%) Dremio
10 17 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (4.75%) Data Lake
12 15 (4.45%) Relational Database
13 9 (2.67%) MySQL
14 6 (1.78%) CouchDB
15 5 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.89%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
17 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 36 (10.68%) Cypress.io
2 22 (6.53%) Jasmine
2 22 (6.53%) JUnit
2 22 (6.53%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (6.53%) Protractor
2 22 (6.53%) Selenium
2 22 (6.53%) WebDriver
3 21 (6.23%) Jaeger
4 14 (4.15%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.26%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.67%) Gradle
7 5 (1.48%) JIRA
8 4 (1.19%) Git
9 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.30%) Maven
10 1 (0.30%) Spock
General
1 302 (89.61%) Finance
2 277 (82.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 277 (82.20%) Law
3 185 (54.90%) Marketing
4 121 (35.91%) Banking
5 116 (34.42%) Investment Banking
6 96 (28.49%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (6.53%) Prime Brokerage
8 18 (5.34%) Front Office
9 11 (3.26%) Social Skills
10 7 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.59%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (45.70%) Spring
2 87 (25.82%) Kafka
3 86 (25.52%) Spring Boot
4 51 (15.13%) React
5 44 (13.06%) REST
6 39 (11.57%) AngularJS
6 39 (11.57%) HTML
7 38 (11.28%) Hibernate
8 37 (10.98%) CSS
8 37 (10.98%) J2EE
9 28 (8.31%) JPA
10 27 (8.01%) JSON
11 22 (6.53%) Jest
11 22 (6.53%) JMS
11 22 (6.53%) jQuery
11 22 (6.53%) Node.js
11 22 (6.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 21 (6.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 18 (5.34%) gRPC
13 18 (5.34%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 140 (41.54%) Cloud Native
2 57 (16.91%) Public Cloud
3 39 (11.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (7.12%) Private Cloud
5 22 (6.53%) Data Structures
6 21 (6.23%) Fixed Income
6 21 (6.23%) Replication
7 18 (5.34%) Derivative
7 18 (5.34%) Equities
7 18 (5.34%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.37%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.78%) PropTech
10 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.48%) Linux
1 5 (1.48%) Windows
2 3 (0.89%) Unix
2 3 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (93.47%) Software Engineering
2 309 (91.69%) Agile
3 261 (77.45%) Operational Stability
4 245 (72.70%) SDLC
5 199 (59.05%) CI/CD
6 185 (54.90%) Community of Practice
7 155 (45.99%) Artificial Intelligence
8 152 (45.10%) Machine Learning
9 134 (39.76%) Architectural Design
10 116 (34.42%) Information Architecture
11 106 (31.45%) Performance Tuning
12 90 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
13 81 (24.04%) Continuous Delivery
14 75 (22.26%) Tech Ops
15 51 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (13.95%) TDD
17 39 (11.57%) Microservices
18 32 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
19 30 (8.90%) Decision-Making
20 29 (8.61%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 337 (100.00%) Java
2 202 (59.94%) SQL
3 123 (36.50%) Scala
4 56 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.87%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.42%) Python
7 22 (6.53%) Groovy
8 15 (4.45%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.59%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) C++
9 2 (0.59%) PHP
9 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.59%) Ruby
9 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 11 (3.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (13.95%) Terraform
2 30 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.23%) Grafana
3 21 (6.23%) HAProxy
3 21 (6.23%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (6.23%) Kibana
3 21 (6.23%) Prometheus
3 21 (6.23%) Zipkin
4 3 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (11.87%) Oracle
2 24 (7.12%) Dynatrace
2 24 (7.12%) Splunk
3 19 (5.64%) Google
4 18 (5.34%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.89%) Solace
5 3 (0.89%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.30%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.30%) Databricks
6 1 (0.30%) Informatica