Lead Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £86,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 714 832
Rank change year-on-year +219 +118 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 290 22 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.044% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 8
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,000 £73,125
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £80,294 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -6.91% +32.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £89,852 £91,250
90th Percentile £99,375 £97,290 £95,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £92,169 £100,000
% change year-on-year +13.92% -7.83% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Java Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +111 270 - -
South East +6 13 £87,500 +66.67%
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England +23 2 £80,000 +10.34%
North West -8 2 £80,000 +14.29%
Northern Ireland - 2 £105,000 -
Lead Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 290 (100.00%) Java
2 282 (97.24%) Software Engineering
3 281 (96.90%) Agile
4 276 (95.17%) Finance
5 270 (93.10%) Law
5 270 (93.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (87.93%) Operational Stability
7 239 (82.41%) SDLC
8 196 (67.59%) SQL
9 193 (66.55%) CI/CD
10 180 (62.07%) Marketing
11 179 (61.72%) Community of Practice
12 151 (52.07%) Artificial Intelligence
13 149 (51.38%) Machine Learning
14 143 (49.31%) Spring
15 138 (47.59%) Cloud Native
16 128 (44.14%) Architectural Design
17 123 (42.41%) AWS
18 122 (42.07%) NoSQL
19 116 (40.00%) Scala
20 110 (37.93%) Information Architecture
21 106 (36.55%) Performance Tuning
22 97 (33.45%) Apache Spark
23 96 (33.10%) Influencing Skills
23 96 (33.10%) Big Data
24 92 (31.72%) Banking
25 89 (30.69%) Investment Banking
26 87 (30.00%) Kafka
27 85 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
28 78 (26.90%) Spring Boot

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:

Application Platforms
1 97 (33.45%) Apache Spark
2 32 (11.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 21 (7.24%) GemFire
4 2 (0.69%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.41%) AWS
2 39 (13.45%) Azure
3 35 (12.07%) GCP
4 5 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (1.03%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.69%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (42.07%) NoSQL
2 96 (33.10%) Big Data
3 39 (13.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 38 (13.10%) CockroachDB
5 36 (12.41%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (10.00%) MongoDB
7 21 (7.24%) Hazelcast
8 17 (5.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.76%) MySQL
11 6 (2.07%) CouchDB
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
14 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.34%) Impala
14 1 (0.34%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 37 (12.76%) Cypress.io
2 22 (7.59%) Jasmine
2 22 (7.59%) JUnit
2 22 (7.59%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (7.59%) Protractor
2 22 (7.59%) Selenium
2 22 (7.59%) WebDriver
3 21 (7.24%) Jaeger
4 15 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 9 (3.10%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.41%) Gradle
7 3 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.34%) Git
9 1 (0.34%) Spock
General
1 276 (95.17%) Finance
2 270 (93.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 270 (93.10%) Law
3 180 (62.07%) Marketing
4 96 (33.10%) Influencing Skills
5 92 (31.72%) Banking
6 89 (30.69%) Investment Banking
7 22 (7.59%) Prime Brokerage
8 9 (3.10%) Social Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Aviation
10 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (49.31%) Spring
2 87 (30.00%) Kafka
3 78 (26.90%) Spring Boot
4 50 (17.24%) React
5 42 (14.48%) REST
6 38 (13.10%) CSS
6 38 (13.10%) HTML
7 35 (12.07%) AngularJS
7 35 (12.07%) J2EE
8 33 (11.38%) Hibernate
9 24 (8.28%) JPA
9 24 (8.28%) JSON
10 22 (7.59%) Jest
10 22 (7.59%) JMS
10 22 (7.59%) jQuery
10 22 (7.59%) Node.js
10 22 (7.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 21 (7.24%) OpenTelemetry
12 17 (5.86%) GraphQL
12 17 (5.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 138 (47.59%) Cloud Native
2 55 (18.97%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.93%) Private Cloud
4 22 (7.59%) Data Structures
5 21 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (7.24%) Replication
6 6 (2.07%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.07%) PropTech
7 2 (0.69%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) Linux
1 3 (1.03%) Unix
2 2 (0.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (97.24%) Software Engineering
2 281 (96.90%) Agile
3 255 (87.93%) Operational Stability
4 239 (82.41%) SDLC
5 193 (66.55%) CI/CD
6 179 (61.72%) Community of Practice
7 151 (52.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 149 (51.38%) Machine Learning
9 128 (44.14%) Architectural Design
10 110 (37.93%) Information Architecture
11 106 (36.55%) Performance Tuning
12 85 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
13 76 (26.21%) Continuous Delivery
13 76 (26.21%) Tech Ops
14 51 (17.59%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (15.17%) TDD
16 32 (11.03%) Microservices
17 31 (10.69%) Decision-Making
18 29 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 28 (9.66%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 290 (100.00%) Java
2 196 (67.59%) SQL
3 116 (40.00%) Scala
4 39 (13.45%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.59%) Groovy
5 22 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.72%) Python
7 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (15.52%) Terraform
2 27 (9.31%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.24%) Grafana
3 21 (7.24%) HAProxy
3 21 (7.24%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (7.24%) Kibana
3 21 (7.24%) Prometheus
3 21 (7.24%) Zipkin
4 2 (0.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (13.79%) Oracle
2 24 (8.28%) Dynatrace
2 24 (8.28%) Splunk
3 18 (6.21%) SaltStack
4 17 (5.86%) Google
5 2 (0.69%) Solace
5 2 (0.69%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.34%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) Informatica