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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 179 206
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 58 7 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.64% 0.20% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.22% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46 7 54
10th Percentile £50,625 £52,950 £30,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,250 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.92% -4.69% -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 8,080 3,198 8,267
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 89.60% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,132 2,193 6,661
10th Percentile £29,775 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +29 51 £70,000 +5.66% 20
Cheshire -33 6 £60,000 -17.24% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 58 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (39.66%) Agile
5 22 (37.93%) AWS
6 20 (34.48%) Spring
6 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
7 19 (32.76%) DevOps
8 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
9 14 (24.14%) Git
9 14 (24.14%) Microservices
9 14 (24.14%) SQL
10 13 (22.41%) AngularJS
11 12 (20.69%) Clean Code
11 12 (20.69%) Scrum
11 12 (20.69%) TDD
12 10 (17.24%) Azure
12 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (17.24%) Docker
12 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
12 10 (17.24%) Open Source
12 10 (17.24%) Serverless
12 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
13 9 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (15.52%) RESTful
14 8 (13.79%) GCP
14 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
14 8 (13.79%) Node.js
15 7 (12.07%) CSS

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 (3.45%) CICS
1 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
2 1 (1.72%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) Serverless
3 8 (13.79%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) DB2
4 2 (3.45%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.34%) JIRA
4 3 (5.17%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.17%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 6 (10.34%) Banking
3 5 (8.62%) Advertising
4 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Games
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) Spring
1 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
2 13 (22.41%) AngularJS
3 9 (15.52%) RESTful
4 8 (13.79%) Node.js
5 7 (12.07%) CSS
5 7 (12.07%) HTML
5 7 (12.07%) React
5 7 (12.07%) REST
6 6 (10.34%) Hibernate
7 5 (8.62%) Vue
8 4 (6.90%) J2EE
9 3 (5.17%) CSS3
9 3 (5.17%) HTML5
9 3 (5.17%) Kafka
9 3 (5.17%) SOAP
10 2 (3.45%) Apache Camel
10 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.45%) JMS
10 2 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.45%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (39.66%) Agile
4 19 (32.76%) DevOps
5 14 (24.14%) Microservices
6 12 (20.69%) Clean Code
6 12 (20.69%) Scrum
6 12 (20.69%) TDD
7 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (17.24%) Open Source
7 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (10.34%) AI
10 6 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.34%) Investment Management
11 5 (8.62%) Product Roadmap
11 5 (8.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Pega
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) WSO2
3 1 (1.72%) Cognos
3 1 (1.72%) IBM
3 1 (1.72%) Veracode
3 1 (1.72%) VMware