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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 661 752
Rank change year-on-year +121 +91 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 44 36 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.065% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.069% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 65
10th Percentile £596 £473 £543
25th Percentile £625 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £750
90th Percentile - £918 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +26.83% -14.58% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 12 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
England +100 43 £650 +2.36% 12
Work from Home +129 28 £825 +32.00% 8
London +88 27 £825 +13.79% 7
UK excluding London +36 16 £650 +26.83% 5
North of England +21 7 £650 +13.04% 2
West Midlands +23 6 £650 +13.04%
Midlands +22 6 £650 +13.04%
Yorkshire +16 4 £650 +13.04%
North West +17 3 £650 - 2
South East - 1 £400 - 1
South West - 1 £563 - 2
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 44 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (77.27%) Agile
3 29 (65.91%) Software Engineering
4 26 (59.09%) TypeScript
5 24 (54.55%) AWS
6 23 (52.27%) Finance
7 21 (47.73%) JavaScript
7 21 (47.73%) GCP
8 19 (43.18%) Apache
8 19 (43.18%) Banking
8 19 (43.18%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (40.91%) dbt
9 18 (40.91%) Apache Ignite
9 18 (40.91%) Dremio
9 18 (40.91%) Investment Banking
9 18 (40.91%) Asset Management
9 18 (40.91%) Derivative
9 18 (40.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (40.91%) Python
9 18 (40.91%) Front Office
9 18 (40.91%) Fixed Income
9 18 (40.91%) Equities
9 18 (40.91%) Hedge funds
9 18 (40.91%) SciPy
9 18 (40.91%) NumPy
9 18 (40.91%) Protocol Buffers
9 18 (40.91%) gRPC
9 18 (40.91%) Apache Airflow
9 18 (40.91%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (40.91%) Pandas

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 19 (43.18%) Apache
2 18 (40.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) AWS
2 21 (47.73%) GCP
3 18 (40.91%) dbt
4 17 (38.64%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.82%) Azure
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (40.91%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (40.91%) Apache Ignite
2 18 (40.91%) Dremio
3 17 (38.64%) Data Lake
4 12 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.27%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
1 9 (20.45%) JUnit
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.27%) JMeter
General
1 23 (52.27%) Finance
2 19 (43.18%) Banking
3 18 (40.91%) Front Office
3 18 (40.91%) Investment Banking
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) gRPC
1 18 (40.91%) NumPy
1 18 (40.91%) Pandas
1 18 (40.91%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (40.91%) SciPy
2 13 (29.55%) Spring
3 11 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 9 (20.45%) React
5 8 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 8 (18.18%) JPA
5 8 (18.18%) REST
6 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.82%) Kafka
7 2 (4.55%) PySpark
7 2 (4.55%) Spring Security
8 1 (2.27%) CSS
8 1 (2.27%) HTML
8 1 (2.27%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Derivative
1 18 (40.91%) Equities
1 18 (40.91%) Fixed Income
1 18 (40.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (40.91%) Hedge funds
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) Agile
2 29 (65.91%) Software Engineering
3 18 (40.91%) Asset Management
4 17 (38.64%) Line Management
5 15 (34.09%) Microservices
6 12 (27.27%) DevOps
6 12 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 11 (25.00%) Coaching
8 9 (20.45%) High Availability
8 9 (20.45%) Unit Testing
9 8 (18.18%) Investment Management
9 8 (18.18%) Scrum
10 6 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (13.64%) Front End Development
10 6 (13.64%) TDD
11 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
11 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
12 3 (6.82%) BDD
12 3 (6.82%) IT Strategy
12 3 (6.82%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (59.09%) TypeScript
3 21 (47.73%) JavaScript
4 18 (40.91%) Python
5 4 (9.09%) SQL
6 2 (4.55%) Scala
7 1 (2.27%) Haskell
7 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Bloomberg
1 2 (4.55%) Reuters
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.27%) Splunk