Lead Java Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £122,773 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 555 625
Rank change year-on-year +173 +70 +134
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 15 37 48
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 37
10th Percentile £82,820 £75,500 £69,000
25th Percentile £104,868 £83,750 £87,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £135,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £140,677 £165,000 £117,500
90th Percentile - - £122,500
UK median annual salary £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Lead Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Java Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Java Engineer.

Lead Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Java Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) Microservices
3 13 (86.67%) Docker
4 11 (73.33%) Agile
4 11 (73.33%) Banking
4 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
4 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (66.67%) Finance
6 9 (60.00%) RESTful
6 9 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (60.00%) GCP
6 9 (60.00%) Public Cloud
6 9 (60.00%) Event-Driven
6 9 (60.00%) API Design
6 9 (60.00%) Cloud Native
7 8 (53.33%) Release Automation
7 8 (53.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (53.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (53.33%) npm
7 8 (53.33%) Jest
7 8 (53.33%) Architectural Design
7 8 (53.33%) Micro Frontends
7 8 (53.33%) Distributed Applications
7 8 (53.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (53.33%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
7 8 (53.33%) webpack
7 8 (53.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (53.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (53.33%) Git

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) GCP
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) npm
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Cucumber
1 8 (53.33%) Cypress.io
1 8 (53.33%) Git
1 8 (53.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 8 (53.33%) webpack
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
2 10 (66.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) RESTful
2 8 (53.33%) Jest
2 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
2 8 (53.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 8 (53.33%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (53.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Microservices
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) API Design
3 9 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 9 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) Architectural Design
4 8 (53.33%) Change Management
4 8 (53.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (53.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (53.33%) Micro Frontends
4 8 (53.33%) Release Automation
4 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
5 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Coaching
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.67%) PhD
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform