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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 223 227
Rank change year-on-year +51 +4 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 78 19 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.70% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.46% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 61 13 49
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

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 10,344 4,120 9,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 88.97% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,248 2,034 7,558
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £36,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,925 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%

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 June 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 1 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
Manchester +43 71 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Cheshire +2 6 £60,000 - 3
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 78 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
3 30 (38.46%) Agile
4 27 (34.62%) DevOps
4 27 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (30.77%) Spring
6 22 (28.21%) AWS
7 20 (25.64%) Spring Boot
8 18 (23.08%) Scrum
9 16 (20.51%) Docker
9 16 (20.51%) JavaScript
10 15 (19.23%) Clean Code
10 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 15 (19.23%) TDD
11 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
11 14 (17.95%) SQL
12 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
12 13 (16.67%) Microservices
13 12 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (15.38%) Git
13 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
13 12 (15.38%) Serverless
14 11 (14.10%) AI
15 10 (12.82%) RESTful
15 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
16 8 (10.26%) Azure
16 8 (10.26%) CSS
16 8 (10.26%) HTML
16 8 (10.26%) Open Source
16 8 (10.26%) React

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 (2.56%) CICS
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) JBoss
2 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.28%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) AWS
2 12 (15.38%) Serverless
3 8 (10.26%) Azure
4 7 (8.97%) GCP
5 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) MySQL
2 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.56%) DB2
3 2 (2.56%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) GitLab
4 4 (5.13%) JUnit
4 4 (5.13%) Spock
5 3 (3.85%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.85%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.56%) Maven
7 1 (1.28%) Postman
7 1 (1.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (19.23%) Finance
2 6 (7.69%) Banking
3 5 (6.41%) Advertising
4 2 (2.56%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) Spring
2 20 (25.64%) Spring Boot
3 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 10 (12.82%) RESTful
5 8 (10.26%) CSS
5 8 (10.26%) HTML
5 8 (10.26%) React
6 5 (6.41%) Hibernate
6 5 (6.41%) Node.js
6 5 (6.41%) Vue
7 4 (5.13%) J2EE
7 4 (5.13%) Kafka
7 4 (5.13%) REST
8 3 (3.85%) CSS3
8 3 (3.85%) HTML5
8 3 (3.85%) SOAP
9 2 (2.56%) JMS
9 2 (2.56%) JPA
9 2 (2.56%) Middleware
9 2 (2.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.13%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 30 (38.46%) Agile
3 27 (34.62%) DevOps
3 27 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (23.08%) Scrum
5 15 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 15 (19.23%) TDD
6 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
7 13 (16.67%) Microservices
8 12 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (14.10%) AI
10 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.26%) Open Source
12 7 (8.97%) Code Quality
12 7 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
13 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (7.69%) Investment Management
14 5 (6.41%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 78 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.95%) SQL
4 7 (8.97%) Python
4 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.69%) C++
6 4 (5.13%) Groovy
7 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (6.41%) Splunk
2 4 (5.13%) AppDynamics
2 4 (5.13%) Pega
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Cognos
4 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.28%) Veracode
4 1 (1.28%) VMware
4 1 (1.28%) WSO2