Lead Java Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Lead Java Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £88,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - 185
Rank change year-on-year - - +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 2 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.060% - 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £72,125 - £70,911
25th Percentile £77,188 - £71,176
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 - £80,147
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.93%
75th Percentile £99,688 - £89,264
90th Percentile £104,375 - £89,617
England median annual salary £120,000 £135,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,899 4,322 3,463
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.31% 94.59% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 2,185 2,572
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £39,500 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,224 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% -7.96% -

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Lead Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in Yorkshire

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2025. 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
North Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £105,000 - 1
Lead Java Engineer
England

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 9 October 2025, Lead Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript