Lead Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 404 484
Rank change year-on-year +42 +80 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 7 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.043% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.046% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £460 £390 £463
25th Percentile £550 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £554
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +3.88% +5.43%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £600
90th Percentile £632 £670 £644
UK median daily rate £800 £635 £600
% change year-on-year +25.98% +5.83% -1.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +42 3 £400 -20.00% 1
South West - 3 £563 -
North of England +30 1 £604 +20.80%
North West +26 1 £604 +20.80%
Lead Java Developer
UK

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Lead Java Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Vert.x
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Apigee
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) WSO2