Java Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Java Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 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 123 164 213
Rank change year-on-year +41 +49 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 21 51 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.99% 1.00% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.05% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 22
10th Percentile £52,375 £47,375 £45,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +8.16%
75th Percentile £73,625 £72,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £92,000 £90,250 £85,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,232 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.36% -6.81% +14.29%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
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 Engineer 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
Stockport +13 1 - - 7
Bolton - 1 - - 8
Rochdale - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -
Java Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Manchester region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) TDD
4 8 (38.10%) OO
4 8 (38.10%) Dependency Injection
4 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
5 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (33.33%) CSS
5 7 (33.33%) HTML
6 6 (28.57%) XML
6 6 (28.57%) Customer Service
6 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
6 6 (28.57%) Microservices
6 6 (28.57%) SDLC
7 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (23.81%) SOLID
7 5 (23.81%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (23.81%) Blockchain
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (23.81%) Coaching
7 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
7 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (23.81%) OOD
7 5 (23.81%) IBM
7 5 (23.81%) e-Learning

Java Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) GemFire
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) IBM Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (19.05%) MySQL
4 3 (14.29%) Apache Ignite
4 3 (14.29%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (14.29%) Redis
5 1 (4.76%) KDB
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) Maven
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Cantonese Language
2 2 (9.52%) Front Office
2 2 (9.52%) Law
2 2 (9.52%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) CSS
1 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 6 (28.57%) XML
3 5 (23.81%) Spring
4 4 (19.05%) Kafka
4 4 (19.05%) Middleware
5 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (9.52%) React Native
6 2 (9.52%) REST
6 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (4.76%) jQuery
7 1 (4.76%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Blockchain
1 5 (23.81%) e-Learning
1 5 (23.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (14.29%) Derivative
2 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (9.52%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (9.52%) Equities
3 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Dependency Injection
3 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
3 8 (38.10%) OO
3 8 (38.10%) TDD
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Customer Service
5 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
6 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Coaching
6 5 (23.81%) OOD
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) SOLID
7 4 (19.05%) Electronic Trading
7 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) IBM
1 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (19.05%) Solace
2 4 (19.05%) TIBCO
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.76%) Revolut