Java Developer Job Trends in the North West

Java Developer
England > North West

The median Java Developer salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 214 227
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 71 15 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.69% 0.33% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.38% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 54 11 48
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £98,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 9,389 3,964 8,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 87.82% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,419 2,203 7,106
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,268 £84,370 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North West

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Manchester +40 63 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Cheshire -1 6 £60,000 -17.24% 2
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, 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 North West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (45.07%) CI/CD
3 30 (42.25%) Agile
4 27 (38.03%) DevOps
5 26 (36.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (33.80%) Spring
7 23 (32.39%) AWS
8 21 (29.58%) Spring Boot
9 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
9 16 (22.54%) Scrum
10 15 (21.13%) Docker
10 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
11 14 (19.72%) Clean Code
11 14 (19.72%) Microservices
11 14 (19.72%) SQL
11 14 (19.72%) TDD
12 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (16.90%) AngularJS
13 12 (16.90%) Git
13 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
13 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
13 12 (16.90%) Serverless
14 9 (12.68%) AI
14 9 (12.68%) Open Source
14 9 (12.68%) RESTful
15 8 (11.27%) Azure
15 8 (11.27%) Python
15 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
16 7 (9.86%) CSS
16 7 (9.86%) GCP

Java Developer 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 2 (2.82%) CICS
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) JBoss
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.41%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) AWS
2 12 (16.90%) Serverless
3 8 (11.27%) Azure
4 7 (9.86%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.23%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
1 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.63%) MySQL
2 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.82%) DB2
3 2 (2.82%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.45%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 3 (4.23%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.23%) IntelliJ
4 3 (4.23%) JUnit
4 3 (4.23%) Spock
5 1 (1.41%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (19.72%) Finance
2 6 (8.45%) Banking
3 5 (7.04%) Advertising
4 2 (2.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.80%) Spring
2 21 (29.58%) Spring Boot
3 12 (16.90%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.68%) RESTful
5 7 (9.86%) CSS
5 7 (9.86%) HTML
5 7 (9.86%) React
6 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
6 5 (7.04%) Node.js
6 5 (7.04%) REST
6 5 (7.04%) Vue
7 4 (5.63%) J2EE
8 3 (4.23%) CSS3
8 3 (4.23%) HTML5
8 3 (4.23%) Kafka
8 3 (4.23%) SOAP
9 2 (2.82%) JMS
9 2 (2.82%) Middleware
10 1 (1.41%) JPA
10 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) CI/CD
2 30 (42.25%) Agile
3 27 (38.03%) DevOps
4 26 (36.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (22.54%) Scrum
6 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
7 14 (19.72%) Clean Code
7 14 (19.72%) Microservices
7 14 (19.72%) TDD
8 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.68%) AI
10 9 (12.68%) Open Source
11 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
12 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
13 6 (8.45%) Containerisation
13 6 (8.45%) Front End Development
13 6 (8.45%) Investment Management
13 6 (8.45%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
3 14 (19.72%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) Python
5 6 (8.45%) C++
5 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) Groovy
6 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Pega
2 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
2 3 (4.23%) Splunk
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) Cognos
4 1 (1.41%) IBM
4 1 (1.41%) Veracode
4 1 (1.41%) VMware
4 1 (1.41%) WSO2