Java Jobs in Manchester

Java
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 171 322 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.02% 6.30% 10.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.42% 18.68% 22.16%
Number of salaries quoted 109 219 230
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £97,528 £77,715 £79,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,548 £87,500
North West median annual salary £57,836 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.46% -7.41% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 730 1,724 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.26% 33.72% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 560 1,399 1,292
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,750 £38,800
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -1.40% +5.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
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 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
Rochdale +5 5 - -
Bolton -15 5 - - 17
Salford +10 4 £39,500 -31.30% 1
Wigan - 4 - - 1
Stockport +4 3 £56,500 +13.00% 2
Bury - 3 - - 22
Altrincham +4 1 £65,000 +30.00% 17
Dukinfield - 1 - -
Heywood - 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Oldham - 1 - -
Sale - 1 - -
Java
North West

Java
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 16 (9.36%) Confluence
2 7 (4.09%) nginx
3 6 (3.51%) Apache
4 5 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.92%) Camunda
5 3 (1.75%) GemFire
6 2 (1.17%) CMS
6 2 (1.17%) WordPress
7 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.95%) AWS
2 54 (31.58%) Azure
3 48 (28.07%) GCP
4 10 (5.85%) Azure Machine Learning
4 10 (5.85%) IBM Cloud
5 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.26%) Serverless
6 8 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.92%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.34%) SaaS
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.75%) Apigee
9 3 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.96%) DNS
2 26 (15.20%) VPN
3 4 (2.34%) HTTP
4 2 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.58%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.58%) Firewall
5 1 (0.58%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.87%) MongoDB
2 16 (9.36%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.02%) MySQL
4 10 (5.85%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.09%) Big Data
7 5 (2.92%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.75%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.75%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.75%) Redis
9 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.17%) Power BI
10 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (17.54%) Git
2 24 (14.04%) JIRA
3 13 (7.60%) SonarQube
4 12 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.26%) GitLab
5 9 (5.26%) Maven
6 6 (3.51%) JUnit
7 5 (2.92%) Postman
7 5 (2.92%) Selenium
8 4 (2.34%) Appium
8 4 (2.34%) Fiddler
8 4 (2.34%) JMeter
8 4 (2.34%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (49.12%) Finance
2 45 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (22.81%) Banking
4 36 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (19.88%) Social Skills
6 11 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.51%) Cantonese Language
7 6 (3.51%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.34%) Law
9 2 (1.17%) Automotive
9 2 (1.17%) Front Office
9 2 (1.17%) Legal
9 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.17%) Marketing
9 2 (1.17%) Retail
9 2 (1.17%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (30.41%) Software Engineer
2 42 (24.56%) Senior
3 41 (23.98%) Developer
4 37 (21.64%) Lead
5 27 (15.79%) Software Developer
6 21 (12.28%) Java Engineer
7 18 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (8.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Technical Leader
12 7 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.51%) Team Leader
14 5 (2.92%) Data Engineer
14 5 (2.92%) Graduate
14 5 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (21.05%) Node.js
2 33 (19.30%) React
3 32 (18.71%) Spring
4 30 (17.54%) Spring Boot
5 28 (16.37%) Kafka
6 19 (11.11%) RESTful
7 14 (8.19%) AngularJS
7 14 (8.19%) CSS
8 12 (7.02%) HTML
9 9 (5.26%) XML
10 7 (4.09%) Playwright
11 6 (3.51%) .NET
11 6 (3.51%) REST
12 5 (2.92%) gRPC
12 5 (2.92%) KeystoneJS
12 5 (2.92%) Swagger
13 4 (2.34%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.34%) jQuery
13 4 (2.34%) Middleware
14 3 (1.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Cyberattack
2 19 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.02%) Public Cloud
5 11 (6.43%) e-Learning
5 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.85%) Blockchain
7 7 (4.09%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.51%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.75%) Derivative
11 3 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.75%) Life Science
11 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Wiki
12 2 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.22%) Linux
2 27 (15.79%) Android
3 7 (4.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.88%) Agile
2 85 (49.71%) Software Engineering
3 61 (35.67%) DevOps
4 49 (28.65%) Mentoring
5 48 (28.07%) Microservices
6 43 (25.15%) CI/CD
6 43 (25.15%) OO
7 35 (20.47%) OOP
7 35 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.88%) Design Patterns
9 33 (19.30%) TDD
10 32 (18.71%) Test Automation
11 31 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (16.96%) SDLC
13 28 (16.37%) Code Quality
14 27 (15.79%) Android Development
14 27 (15.79%) Coaching
15 26 (15.20%) Line Management
15 26 (15.20%) Mathematics
16 25 (14.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.95%) Python
2 63 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 40 (23.39%) Go
4 33 (19.30%) C++
5 26 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 21 (12.28%) SQL
7 19 (11.11%) C#
8 7 (4.09%) PHP
9 5 (2.92%) Lua
9 5 (2.92%) Scala
10 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) Rust
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.37%) DV Cleared
3 27 (15.79%) Degree
4 16 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.34%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.17%) CISSP
8 2 (1.17%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.17%) PhD
9 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.51%) QA
2 5 (2.92%) NIST
3 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) GDPR
4 3 (1.75%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) SEPA
6 1 (0.58%) TARGET2
System Software
1 77 (45.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (32.75%) Kubernetes
2 28 (16.37%) Ansible
3 23 (13.45%) Terraform
4 4 (2.34%) Grafana
5 3 (1.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (19.88%) Google
2 15 (8.77%) Oracle
3 14 (8.19%) IBM
4 10 (5.85%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.09%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.34%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.34%) Solace
6 4 (2.34%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.17%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.58%) Databricks
8 1 (0.58%) Dell
8 1 (0.58%) Informatica
8 1 (0.58%) Intel
8 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.58%) New Relic
8 1 (0.58%) Planview
8 1 (0.58%) Revolut
8 1 (0.58%) Workday