Lead Java Developer Contracts

Lead Java Developer
UK

The median Lead Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 640 760
Rank change year-on-year +105 +120 -102
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 36 47 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.083% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.087% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 52
10th Percentile £533 £530 £550
25th Percentile £625 £563 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £750
90th Percentile - £895 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +26.83% -10.87% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer.

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Java Developer in the UK

Lead Java Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +107 34 £650 +2.36% 9
Work from Home +108 20 £825 +34.69% 6
London +92 20 £825 +13.79% 7
UK excluding London +64 15 £650 +26.83% 3
North of England +36 6 £650 +13.04% 1
West Midlands +28 6 £650 +13.04%
Midlands +28 6 £650 +13.04%
Yorkshire +17 4 £650 +13.04%
North West +22 2 £650 - 1
Scotland +39 1 £400 -
South East - 1 £400 - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (75.00%) Agile
3 23 (63.89%) Software Engineering
4 20 (55.56%) TypeScript
5 18 (50.00%) AWS
6 16 (44.44%) Microservices
6 16 (44.44%) Finance
7 15 (41.67%) GCP
8 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
9 13 (36.11%) Banking
9 13 (36.11%) Spring
10 12 (33.33%) dbt
10 12 (33.33%) Dremio
10 12 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
10 12 (33.33%) Hedge funds
10 12 (33.33%) SciPy
10 12 (33.33%) NumPy
10 12 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
10 12 (33.33%) Pandas
10 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
10 12 (33.33%) gRPC
10 12 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
10 12 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
10 12 (33.33%) Investment Banking
10 12 (33.33%) Asset Management
10 12 (33.33%) Derivative
10 12 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (33.33%) Apache
10 12 (33.33%) Python

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 12 (33.33%) Apache
1 12 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (41.67%) GCP
3 12 (33.33%) dbt
4 11 (30.56%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
1 12 (33.33%) Dremio
2 11 (30.56%) Data Lake
3 10 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (25.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.78%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.78%) DB2
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Git
1 9 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.78%) JMeter
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Banking
3 12 (33.33%) Front Office
3 12 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) Spring
2 12 (33.33%) gRPC
2 12 (33.33%) NumPy
2 12 (33.33%) Pandas
2 12 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (33.33%) SciPy
3 11 (30.56%) Spring Boot
4 8 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 8 (22.22%) JPA
4 8 (22.22%) REST
5 7 (19.44%) React
6 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) Kafka
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.78%) CSS
7 1 (2.78%) HTML
7 1 (2.78%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Derivative
1 12 (33.33%) Equities
1 12 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 12 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 12 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 23 (63.89%) Software Engineering
3 16 (44.44%) Microservices
4 12 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 11 (30.56%) Coaching
5 11 (30.56%) DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) Line Management
6 9 (25.00%) High Availability
6 9 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (22.22%) Investment Management
8 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 6 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.11%) TDD
11 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Greenplum
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle
1 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
1 1 (2.78%) Splunk