Lead Java Developer
UK

The median Lead Java Developer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 801 846 990
Rank change year-on-year +45 +144 -333
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 93 139 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 93 128 133
10th Percentile £66,500 £50,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +24.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £145,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -7.69%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 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 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Top 12 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 24 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
England +102 91 £90,000 -5.26% 8
London +148 61 £110,000 -4.35% 5
Work from Home +74 54 £107,500 +19.44% 5
UK excluding London +5 31 £72,500 +3.57% 4
South West -4 11 £70,000 -10.54% 1
South East +19 10 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North of England +50 7 £90,000 +28.57% 1
North West +11 6 £90,000 +28.57% 1
West Midlands +19 2 £68,750 +14.58%
Midlands -9 2 £68,750 +14.58%
Yorkshire +88 1 £60,000 -21.31%
Wales - 1 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 93 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (70.97%) AWS
3 35 (37.63%) Software Engineering
4 33 (35.48%) Agile
5 27 (29.03%) Finance
5 27 (29.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (27.96%) Spring
6 26 (27.96%) GCP
7 25 (26.88%) JavaScript
8 23 (24.73%) DevOps
9 22 (23.66%) Banking
10 21 (22.58%) Python
10 21 (22.58%) Mentoring
11 19 (20.43%) Front Office
12 18 (19.35%) Fixed Income
12 18 (19.35%) Equities
12 18 (19.35%) Apache
12 18 (19.35%) Asset Management
12 18 (19.35%) Derivative
12 18 (19.35%) Investment Banking
12 18 (19.35%) Microservices
12 18 (19.35%) Line Management
12 18 (19.35%) Pandas
12 18 (19.35%) TypeScript
12 18 (19.35%) Hedge funds
12 18 (19.35%) SciPy
12 18 (19.35%) NumPy
12 18 (19.35%) Protocol Buffers
12 18 (19.35%) gRPC
12 18 (19.35%) Apache Airflow

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 18 (19.35%) Apache
1 18 (19.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) Mule
4 1 (1.08%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 66 (70.97%) AWS
2 26 (27.96%) GCP
3 18 (19.35%) dbt
4 16 (17.20%) Snowflake
5 10 (10.75%) Azure
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.30%) Serverless
7 3 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (19.35%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (19.35%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (19.35%) Dremio
2 16 (17.20%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.15%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Gradle
1 3 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) Maven
General
1 27 (29.03%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Banking
3 19 (20.43%) Front Office
4 18 (19.35%) Investment Banking
5 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.96%) Spring
2 18 (19.35%) gRPC
2 18 (19.35%) NumPy
2 18 (19.35%) Pandas
2 18 (19.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (19.35%) SciPy
3 16 (17.20%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.83%) REST
5 4 (4.30%) Hibernate
5 4 (4.30%) Kafka
5 4 (4.30%) React
5 4 (4.30%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (3.23%) CSS
6 3 (3.23%) JPA
6 3 (3.23%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.15%) .NET
7 2 (2.15%) EJB
7 2 (2.15%) JavaBeans
7 2 (2.15%) RESTful
7 2 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (19.35%) Derivative
2 18 (19.35%) Equities
2 18 (19.35%) Fixed Income
2 18 (19.35%) Hedge funds
3 14 (15.05%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.30%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.15%) e-Health
7 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.08%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.63%) Software Engineering
2 33 (35.48%) Agile
3 23 (24.73%) DevOps
4 21 (22.58%) Mentoring
5 18 (19.35%) Asset Management
5 18 (19.35%) Line Management
5 18 (19.35%) Microservices
6 17 (18.28%) Investment Management
7 15 (16.13%) Fintech
7 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
9 12 (12.90%) User Stories
10 10 (10.75%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.75%) Scrum
11 9 (9.68%) Low Latency
12 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.60%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.60%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 7 (7.53%) Kanban
13 7 (7.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (26.88%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.58%) Python
4 18 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.75%) C#
6 9 (9.68%) SQL
7 5 (5.38%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.38%) Scala
8 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Degree
2 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle
2 1 (1.08%) Google
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft