Java Developer Job Trends in the North West

Java Developer
England > North West

The median Java Developer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 196 165
Rank change year-on-year +19 -31 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 39 32 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.79% 0.46% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.49% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 18 29
10th Percentile £56,250 £24,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £61,875 £29,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,300 £68,625 £86,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.29% +6.25% -5.88%

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 4,478 6,592 3,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 95.07% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,547 3,694 2,969
10th Percentile £26,866 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,888
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 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 +21 27 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Cheshire - 10 £57,500 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, 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 39 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (66.67%) Agile
3 22 (56.41%) AWS
4 20 (51.28%) Clean Code
4 20 (51.28%) Spring
4 20 (51.28%) Spring Boot
5 19 (48.72%) TDD
6 17 (43.59%) DevOps
6 17 (43.59%) Microservices
7 16 (41.03%) Docker
7 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
8 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
9 12 (30.77%) React
9 12 (30.77%) Serverless
10 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
10 11 (28.21%) RESTful
10 11 (28.21%) User Experience
11 10 (25.64%) Azure
11 10 (25.64%) Front End Development
11 10 (25.64%) Terraform
11 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
12 9 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (23.08%) UX Design
13 8 (20.51%) Amazon Corretto
13 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (20.51%) DynamoDB
13 8 (20.51%) Pair Programming
13 8 (20.51%) Performance Monitoring
14 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development

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 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Serverless
3 10 (25.64%) Azure
4 9 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (15.38%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) DynamoDB
2 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Babel
3 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.13%) webpack
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Mockito
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Games
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) Spring
1 20 (51.28%) Spring Boot
2 12 (30.77%) React
3 11 (28.21%) RESTful
4 8 (20.51%) Amazon Corretto
5 7 (17.95%) REST
6 6 (15.38%) Node.js
7 5 (12.82%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.69%) CSS
8 3 (7.69%) HTML
8 3 (7.69%) Redux
9 2 (5.13%) CSS3
9 2 (5.13%) HTML5
9 2 (5.13%) Jest
10 1 (2.56%) Apache Camel
10 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.56%) JPA
10 1 (2.56%) OAuth
10 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) e-Learning
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) Clean Code
3 19 (48.72%) TDD
4 17 (43.59%) DevOps
4 17 (43.59%) Microservices
5 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
6 11 (28.21%) User Experience
7 10 (25.64%) Front End Development
8 9 (23.08%) UX Design
9 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (20.51%) Pair Programming
9 8 (20.51%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (15.38%) BDD
11 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
11 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
12 4 (10.26%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.64%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) Google
1 1 (2.56%) Pega
1 1 (2.56%) Veracode
1 1 (2.56%) WSO2