Java Developer Jobs in Manchester

Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Developer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 189 167
Rank change year-on-year +54 -22 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 9 26 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.51% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.54% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 53
10th Percentile £56,225 £28,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £79,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £100,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,842 4,561
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.70% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 3,750 2,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,143 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,164 £81,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 1 £65,000 - 3
Stockport - 1 £56,500 - 1
Java Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer 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 Manchester region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (66.67%) React
3 6 (66.67%) Docker
3 6 (66.67%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) Kafka
4 5 (55.56%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (55.56%) User Experience
4 5 (55.56%) SDLC
5 4 (44.44%) Case Management
5 4 (44.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) CRM
5 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
6 3 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
7 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Finance
7 2 (22.22%) Agile
8 1 (11.11%) TDD
8 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
8 1 (11.11%) Games
8 1 (11.11%) e-Learning

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Corretto
5 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
5 1 (11.11%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
1 4 (44.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
2 5 (55.56%) User Experience
3 4 (44.44%) Case Management
3 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform