Lead and principal Java jobs in the UK
Live lead and principal Java jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 174 live vacancies matching lead and principal Java jobs in the UK, advertised by 77 different employers. 14 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Technocred, Pubmatic, Hr Champ and Remotefriendly. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Of the 174 roles, 20 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £97,250. The middle half of the market sits between £80,000 and £110,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for lead and principal Java jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 34% are fully remote, 37% are hybrid and 1% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Java in this slice most often ask for it alongside Python, React, AWS, C#, C++ and Kubernetes. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Data Architect
Lead/Senior Java Microservice Developer
Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer
Hiring Lead/Architect - Full Stack
Lead/Architect- Full Stack
Sr. Software Architect
Senior/Lead React Developer
IT Infrastructure Manager
Architect / Developer
Digital / Technical Project Manager - Ecommerce
CRM Marketing Lead
Senior Product Designer & Product Manager - (Autos & Travel)
Application Developer, Lead
Technical / Enterprise Architect
Software Engineering Manager - Data Platform @ Addepar | Sway Ventures Job Board
Principal Backend Engineer - MPG - Fully remote from the UK or the EU | Climax Studios
Staff Product Manager (Partner & Developer Ecosystem) @ Saviynt | Ten Eleven Ventures Job Board
Staff Software Engineer - New Markets Japan (JLPT N1 Fluent) at Alpaca — Social Leverage
Salesforce Discovery Lead - Career at Zensar
AWS Cloud Developer/Architect
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many lead and principal Java jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 174 live vacancies across 77 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do lead and principal Java jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £97,250, based on the 20 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £80,000 to £110,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Can these roles be done remotely?
34% are advertised as fully remote and 37% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
1% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Technocred, Pubmatic, Hr Champ, Remotefriendly and Visma. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often Python, React, AWS, C# and C++. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
How much does a Java developer earn in the UK?
£97,250 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 77% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 154 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a Java developer in the UK?
124 of the 174 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 60 fully remote and 64 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate Java developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Engineering Manager, SOLUTION ARCHITECT, Staff Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer and Senior/Principal Software Engineer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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