Java Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Java Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Java Engineer salary in Cheshire is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.19% - 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £91,250
75th Percentile - - £100,000
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,465 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.71% -3.02% +17.39%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 813 1,282 537
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.28% 96.17% 87.46%
Number of salaries quoted 411 871 386
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £23,850
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.76% +6.11%
75th Percentile £56,875 £56,352 £65,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £83,149
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Cheshire

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Java Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 2 £100,000 -
Java Engineer
North West

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, 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 Cheshire region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL