Lead Java Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 436 515
Rank change year-on-year +41 +79 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.009% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.009% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £523 £538
25th Percentile - £530 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £581 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% -7.00% -9.94%
75th Percentile - £655 £719
90th Percentile £560 £674 £750
UK median daily rate £825 £538 £675
% change year-on-year +53.49% -20.37% +10.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Lead Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland - 3 £500 -
East of England +5 1 £600 -4.00%
North of England - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £500 -
Lead Java Engineer
UK

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
3 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Mockito
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing

Lead Java Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (60.00%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana