Remote lead and principal Java jobs in the UK
Live remote lead and principal Java jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 60 live vacancies matching remote lead and principal Java jobs in the UK, advertised by 27 different employers. 4 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Pubmatic, Remotefriendly, Naspa and Immersiveai. 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 60 roles, 6 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £123,000. The middle half of the market sits between £110,000 and £124,750, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote 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, 100% are fully remote. 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, C#, C++, Machine Learning, TypeScript 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.
Full Stack Architect
Staff Backend Engineer
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote
Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote
Delivery Lead / Engineering Manager
Principal Engineer – AI and Full Stack | Remote
Ethena LabsSenior/Staff iOS Engineer (iOS Lead)Aug 5Remote
Technical Architect - iMMERSIVE
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Financial Reporting)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager (Developer Productivity)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Collections)310k - 387k PLNSQL, Jupyter
AffirmPolandSenior Engineering Manager, Merchant Servicing362k - 453k PLN
Principal Software Engineer - Golang
Principal Software Engineer - Data Analytics
Principal / Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Monetization (Ad Server)
Principal/Senior Software Engineer - Java
Principal/Senior/Software Engineer (AI-Powered Advertising Agents - AgenticOS)
Principal Software Engineer - Payments
Principal Security Engineer
Principal Security Analyst
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote lead and principal Java jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 60 live vacancies across 27 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 remote lead and principal Java jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £123,000, based on the 6 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £110,000 to £124,750. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Pubmatic, Remotefriendly, Naspa, Immersiveai and Grafana Labs. 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, C#, C++, Machine Learning and TypeScript. 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?
£123,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 124% 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: 54 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
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 Application Developer, Lead, Senior Product Designer & Product Manager - (Autos & Travel), Digital / Technical Project Manager - Ecommerce, Architect / Developer and Principal Machine Learning 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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