Senior Java Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Java Developer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 149 204
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 31 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.50% 0.66% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.72% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 27 15 9
10th Percentile - - £56,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.36% -29.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £71,250 £93,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - +2.36% -29.44%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 5,794 2,079 5,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 91.26% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,572 1,214 4,303
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +6.42% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in Manchester

Senior 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 Senior Java Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. 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 +5 9 £65,000 -
Senior Java Developer
North West

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 21 June 2026, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 16 (51.61%) Agile
4 14 (45.16%) Spring
5 13 (41.94%) AWS
6 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 12 (38.71%) Docker
6 12 (38.71%) Spring Boot
6 12 (38.71%) TDD
7 10 (32.26%) Clean Code
7 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
7 10 (32.26%) Serverless
8 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (25.81%) Scrum
9 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
10 7 (22.58%) AI
11 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (19.35%) Terraform
12 5 (16.13%) SDLC
12 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
13 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (12.90%) Azure
13 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
13 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 4 (12.90%) GCP
13 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
13 4 (12.90%) Microservices
13 4 (12.90%) Splunk
14 3 (9.68%) ChatGPT

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Serverless
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) ChatGPT
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JUnit
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) Spock
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Spring
2 12 (38.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.45%) JPA
4 2 (6.45%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) Node.js
4 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
4 2 (6.45%) Swagger
5 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) DevOps
3 12 (38.71%) TDD
4 10 (32.26%) Clean Code
5 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.81%) Scrum
6 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
7 7 (22.58%) AI
8 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (16.13%) SDLC
10 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (12.90%) Microservices
11 3 (9.68%) Code Quality
11 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
11 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
12 2 (6.45%) End-to-End Testing
12 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Groovy
4 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.45%) Scala
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (19.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Splunk
2 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
2 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace