Java Software Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Java Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the North West is £90,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 220 198
Rank change year-on-year -5 -22 +117
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 12 22 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.23% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 8
10th Percentile £63,700 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £76,750 £49,000 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,500 £55,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +63.06% -24.75% +28.26%
75th Percentile £99,625 £75,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £99,850 £78,375 £90,375
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +39.39% -5.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 4,618 7,144 4,189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.96% 95.25% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 4,176 3,206
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £31,091
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £42,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Manchester +13 9 £90,500 +63.06% 3
Cheshire - 2 £100,000 -
Lancashire - 1 £55,000 - 2
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Java Software Engineer 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 North West region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 8 (66.67%) Spring
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (50.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (50.00%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Docker
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) Kafka
5 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
5 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
5 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (33.33%) JIRA
6 4 (33.33%) Wiki
6 4 (33.33%) Selenium
6 4 (33.33%) GitHub
6 4 (33.33%) Confluence
6 4 (33.33%) GitLab
6 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
6 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (33.33%) API Development
7 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (25.00%) TypeScript

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Wiki
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) API Development
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) TDD
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (16.67%) Information Security
7 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
7 2 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
7 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) SAP