Java Jobs in Merseyside

Java
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 31 53 37
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 22 39 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.20% 3.01% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.18% 11.75% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 25
10th Percentile - £36,050 £38,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £36,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £42,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% -48.48% +50.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £55,000 £86,250
90th Percentile - £74,875 -
North West median annual salary £57,836 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.46% -7.41% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 109 332 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 25.77% 25.66% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 82 255 145
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Merseyside

Java
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Java in Merseyside

Java
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Merseyside 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
Southport - 3 - -
Liverpool +11 2 £67,500 +58.82% 54
Java
North West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) DNS
1 20 (90.91%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 21 (95.45%) Finance
2 20 (90.91%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Developer
2 20 (90.91%) Software Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) Spring
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (90.91%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Android
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Agile
1 21 (95.45%) Design Patterns
2 20 (90.91%) Android Development
2 20 (90.91%) Line Management
2 20 (90.91%) Mathematics
2 20 (90.91%) OO
2 20 (90.91%) OOP
3 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
3 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
3 1 (4.55%) DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (4.55%) Kanban
3 1 (4.55%) Microservices
3 1 (4.55%) Open Source
3 1 (4.55%) Scrum
3 1 (4.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) C++
1 20 (90.91%) Go
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Ansible