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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 223 227
Rank change year-on-year +63 +4 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 76 18 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.72% 0.38% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 58 12 47
10th Percentile £51,250 £58,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -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 9,777 4,153 9,011
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 88.64% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,765 2,150 7,192
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
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 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +44 68 £68,750 +1.85% 11
Cheshire +1 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 19 May 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 76 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (44.74%) CI/CD
3 32 (42.11%) Agile
4 29 (38.16%) DevOps
5 27 (35.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (34.21%) Spring
7 24 (31.58%) AWS
8 22 (28.95%) Spring Boot
9 18 (23.68%) Scrum
10 17 (22.37%) Docker
10 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
11 15 (19.74%) Clean Code
11 15 (19.74%) Microservices
11 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
11 15 (19.74%) TDD
12 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (18.42%) SQL
13 13 (17.11%) AngularJS
13 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
13 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
13 13 (17.11%) Serverless
14 12 (15.79%) Git
15 10 (13.16%) AI
15 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
16 9 (11.84%) Open Source
16 9 (11.84%) RESTful
17 8 (10.53%) Azure
17 8 (10.53%) Python
18 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
18 7 (9.21%) 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 (2.63%) CICS
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) JBoss
2 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.32%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) AWS
2 13 (17.11%) Serverless
3 8 (10.53%) Azure
4 7 (9.21%) GCP
5 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.32%) GitHub
8 1 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
1 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) MySQL
2 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.63%) DB2
3 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) JIRA
3 5 (6.58%) GitLab
4 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 4 (5.26%) Spock
5 3 (3.95%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.95%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.63%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (19.74%) Finance
2 6 (7.89%) Banking
3 5 (6.58%) Advertising
4 2 (2.63%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) Spring
2 22 (28.95%) Spring Boot
3 13 (17.11%) AngularJS
4 9 (11.84%) RESTful
5 7 (9.21%) CSS
5 7 (9.21%) HTML
5 7 (9.21%) React
6 5 (6.58%) Hibernate
6 5 (6.58%) Node.js
6 5 (6.58%) REST
6 5 (6.58%) Vue
7 4 (5.26%) J2EE
8 3 (3.95%) CSS3
8 3 (3.95%) HTML5
8 3 (3.95%) Kafka
8 3 (3.95%) SOAP
9 2 (2.63%) JMS
9 2 (2.63%) Middleware
10 1 (1.32%) JPA
10 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 32 (42.11%) Agile
3 29 (38.16%) DevOps
4 27 (35.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (23.68%) Scrum
6 15 (19.74%) Clean Code
6 15 (19.74%) Microservices
6 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
6 15 (19.74%) TDD
7 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.16%) AI
9 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
10 9 (11.84%) Open Source
11 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
11 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 8 (10.53%) Python
5 7 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.89%) C++
7 4 (5.26%) Groovy
8 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.21%) Terraform
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.26%) Pega
1 4 (5.26%) Splunk
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Cognos
3 1 (1.32%) IBM
3 1 (1.32%) Veracode
3 1 (1.32%) VMware
3 1 (1.32%) WSO2