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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 200 215
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 52 36 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.41% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.80% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 36 25 18
10th Percentile £55,625 £56,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £29,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -9.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £68,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -14.71% +6.25%

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 11,885 4,515 7,347
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 88.56% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,838 2,269 4,582
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -18 51 £65,000 - 14
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 52 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (42.31%) Agile
3 21 (40.38%) Spring
4 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 17 (32.69%) DevOps
5 17 (32.69%) Spring Boot
6 15 (28.85%) Docker
7 14 (26.92%) AWS
7 14 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (23.08%) Scrum
9 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
10 10 (19.23%) Clean Code
10 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
10 10 (19.23%) Serverless
11 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
11 9 (17.31%) Microservices
11 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
11 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
11 9 (17.31%) TDD
11 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
12 8 (15.38%) AI
12 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (15.38%) Git
13 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
13 7 (13.46%) Python
13 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
13 7 (13.46%) Splunk
14 6 (11.54%) C++
14 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
14 6 (11.54%) Containerisation

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) AWS
2 10 (19.23%) Serverless
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.77%) MySQL
2 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) JUnit
3 4 (7.69%) Spock
4 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) Maven
4 3 (5.77%) Postman
4 3 (5.77%) Selenium
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (17.31%) Finance
2 3 (5.77%) Advertising
3 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.92%) Banking
3 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.92%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (40.38%) Spring
2 17 (32.69%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
4 6 (11.54%) Kafka
4 6 (11.54%) RESTful
5 5 (9.62%) Hibernate
5 5 (9.62%) Terraform
6 4 (7.69%) React
7 3 (5.77%) CSS
7 3 (5.77%) HTML
7 3 (5.77%) JPA
7 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
7 3 (5.77%) Spring MVC
7 3 (5.77%) Swagger
8 2 (3.85%) Node.js
8 2 (3.85%) REST
8 2 (3.85%) Vue
9 1 (1.92%) JMS
9 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 17 (32.69%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (23.08%) Scrum
6 10 (19.23%) Clean Code
7 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
7 9 (17.31%) Microservices
7 9 (17.31%) TDD
7 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
8 8 (15.38%) AI
8 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
10 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (9.62%) Design Patterns
11 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (7.69%) Secure Coding
12 4 (7.69%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 6 (11.54%) C++
5 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.69%) Groovy
6 4 (7.69%) SQL
7 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.77%) Scala
8 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Splunk
2 4 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) YouTube