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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 211 171
Rank change year-on-year +16 -40 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 31 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.40% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.42% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 38
10th Percentile £56,250 £24,000 £39,975
25th Percentile £62,500 £29,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.80% +2.00%
75th Percentile £70,750 £66,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% -

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 4,541 7,387 4,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.14% 95.28% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,291 4,562 3,210
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +23 26 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Cheshire - 8 £57,500 - 2
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) Clean Code
3 17 (45.95%) React
4 16 (43.24%) AWS
5 15 (40.54%) TDD
5 15 (40.54%) Spring
5 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
5 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
5 15 (40.54%) User Experience
6 14 (37.84%) Docker
6 14 (37.84%) Finance
7 13 (35.14%) Test Automation
7 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
8 12 (32.43%) DevOps
8 12 (32.43%) Microservices
9 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (27.03%) Front End Development
10 10 (27.03%) RESTful
11 9 (24.32%) UX Design
11 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (24.32%) Terraform
11 9 (24.32%) Serverless
12 8 (21.62%) DynamoDB
12 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
12 8 (21.62%) Amazon Corretto
12 8 (21.62%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (21.62%) Games

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (24.32%) Serverless
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) DynamoDB
2 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) MySQL
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Babel
1 2 (5.41%) webpack
2 1 (2.70%) Android Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) Mockito
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Games
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) React
2 15 (40.54%) Spring
2 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
3 10 (27.03%) RESTful
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon Corretto
5 5 (13.51%) Kafka
5 5 (13.51%) REST
6 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.11%) CSS
7 3 (8.11%) HTML
7 3 (8.11%) Redux
8 2 (5.41%) CSS3
8 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.41%) HTML5
9 1 (2.70%) Jest
9 1 (2.70%) JPA
9 1 (2.70%) Node.js
9 1 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) e-Learning
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) Clean Code
3 15 (40.54%) TDD
3 15 (40.54%) User Experience
4 13 (35.14%) Test Automation
5 12 (32.43%) DevOps
5 12 (32.43%) Microservices
6 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.03%) Front End Development
7 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (24.32%) UX Design
9 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (21.62%) Pair Programming
9 8 (21.62%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 5 (13.51%) SDLC
12 4 (10.81%) BDD
12 4 (10.81%) Case Management
12 4 (10.81%) CRM
12 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) Python
6 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (24.32%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (2.70%) Veracode