Lead Java Engineer
UK

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 880 1078
Rank change year-on-year +314 +198 -211
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 349 72 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.073% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.080% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 61 56 65
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,250
25th Percentile £83,750 £70,735 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £92,169 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -7.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,250 £80,294 £86,250
% change year-on-year +7.42% -6.91% +32.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +262 298 £86,250 +7.42% 2
Scotland +128 278 - -
England +99 69 £100,000 +5.26% 3
London +117 51 £135,000 +28.57% 1
Work from Home +57 40 £135,000 +28.57% 5
South East - 13 £87,500 -
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England +29 2 £80,000 +10.34% 1
North West -3 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £105,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) Java
2 328 (93.98%) Software Engineering
3 321 (91.98%) Agile
4 315 (90.26%) Finance
5 282 (80.80%) Law
5 282 (80.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 264 (75.64%) Operational Stability
7 248 (71.06%) SDLC
8 204 (58.45%) SQL
9 200 (57.31%) CI/CD
10 187 (53.58%) Marketing
11 185 (53.01%) Community of Practice
12 162 (46.42%) AWS
13 157 (44.99%) Artificial Intelligence
14 154 (44.13%) Spring
15 153 (43.84%) Machine Learning
16 144 (41.26%) Cloud Native
17 134 (38.40%) Architectural Design
18 132 (37.82%) Banking
19 128 (36.68%) NoSQL
20 126 (36.10%) Investment Banking
21 123 (35.24%) Scala
22 116 (33.24%) Information Architecture
23 106 (30.37%) Performance Tuning
24 97 (27.79%) Apache Spark
25 96 (27.51%) Big Data
25 96 (27.51%) Influencing Skills
26 95 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
27 90 (25.79%) Kafka
28 89 (25.50%) Spring Boot

Lead Java Engineer 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 97 (27.79%) Apache Spark
2 32 (9.17%) Cloud Foundry
3 26 (7.45%) Apache
3 26 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (6.02%) GemFire
5 4 (1.15%) Confluence
6 2 (0.57%) Drupal
6 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 162 (46.42%) AWS
2 66 (18.91%) GCP
3 45 (12.89%) Azure
4 26 (7.45%) dbt
5 25 (7.16%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (0.86%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.87%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (36.68%) NoSQL
2 96 (27.51%) Big Data
3 39 (11.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 38 (10.89%) CockroachDB
4 38 (10.89%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (8.88%) MongoDB
6 27 (7.74%) Amazon Athena
7 26 (7.45%) Apache Arrow
7 26 (7.45%) Apache Ignite
7 26 (7.45%) Dremio
8 24 (6.88%) Data Lake
9 21 (6.02%) Hazelcast
10 17 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (4.30%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.29%) MySQL
13 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.72%) CouchDB
14 3 (0.86%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
15 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (10.60%) Cypress.io
2 22 (6.30%) Jasmine
2 22 (6.30%) JUnit
2 22 (6.30%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (6.30%) Protractor
2 22 (6.30%) Selenium
2 22 (6.30%) WebDriver
3 21 (6.02%) Jaeger
4 15 (4.30%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.15%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.01%) Gradle
7 5 (1.43%) JIRA
8 3 (0.86%) Maven
9 2 (0.57%) Git
9 2 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.29%) Spock
General
1 315 (90.26%) Finance
2 282 (80.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 282 (80.80%) Law
3 187 (53.58%) Marketing
4 132 (37.82%) Banking
5 126 (36.10%) Investment Banking
6 96 (27.51%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (7.45%) Front Office
8 22 (6.30%) Prime Brokerage
9 12 (3.44%) Social Skills
10 5 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Legal
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Aviation
13 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (44.13%) Spring
2 90 (25.79%) Kafka
3 89 (25.50%) Spring Boot
4 52 (14.90%) React
5 44 (12.61%) REST
6 39 (11.17%) AngularJS
7 38 (10.89%) CSS
7 38 (10.89%) HTML
8 37 (10.60%) Hibernate
8 37 (10.60%) J2EE
9 28 (8.02%) JPA
10 26 (7.45%) gRPC
10 26 (7.45%) JSON
10 26 (7.45%) NumPy
10 26 (7.45%) Pandas
10 26 (7.45%) Protocol Buffers
10 26 (7.45%) SciPy
11 22 (6.30%) Jest
11 22 (6.30%) Node.js
11 22 (6.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 144 (41.26%) Cloud Native
2 59 (16.91%) Public Cloud
3 47 (13.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (8.02%) Fixed Income
5 26 (7.45%) Derivative
5 26 (7.45%) Equities
5 26 (7.45%) Hedge funds
6 25 (7.16%) Private Cloud
7 22 (6.30%) Data Structures
8 21 (6.02%) Replication
9 8 (2.29%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.72%) PropTech
11 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.57%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.86%) Linux
1 3 (0.86%) Unix
2 2 (0.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (93.98%) Software Engineering
2 321 (91.98%) Agile
3 264 (75.64%) Operational Stability
4 248 (71.06%) SDLC
5 200 (57.31%) CI/CD
6 185 (53.01%) Community of Practice
7 157 (44.99%) Artificial Intelligence
8 153 (43.84%) Machine Learning
9 134 (38.40%) Architectural Design
10 116 (33.24%) Information Architecture
11 106 (30.37%) Performance Tuning
12 95 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
13 81 (23.21%) Continuous Delivery
14 78 (22.35%) Tech Ops
15 51 (14.61%) Technical Leadership
16 48 (13.75%) TDD
17 38 (10.89%) Microservices
18 33 (9.46%) Decision-Making
18 33 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (8.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 349 (100.00%) Java
2 204 (58.45%) SQL
3 123 (35.24%) Scala
4 65 (18.62%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.75%) TypeScript
6 33 (9.46%) Python
7 22 (6.30%) Groovy
8 16 (4.58%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.57%) PHP
9 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.57%) Ruby
9 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 10 (2.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (13.47%) Terraform
2 33 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.02%) Grafana
3 21 (6.02%) HAProxy
3 21 (6.02%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (6.02%) Kibana
3 21 (6.02%) Prometheus
3 21 (6.02%) Zipkin
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (12.03%) Oracle
2 24 (6.88%) Dynatrace
2 24 (6.88%) Splunk
3 18 (5.16%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.87%) Google
5 2 (0.57%) Solace
5 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.29%) Databricks
6 1 (0.29%) Informatica