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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 206 152
Rank change year-on-year +61 -54 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 34 29 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.68% 0.43% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.45% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25 15 33
10th Percentile £56,250 £24,000 £36,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £35,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,000 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,400 £69,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 4,403 6,420 3,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.88% 94.25% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 3,561 2,716
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £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 £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +37 24 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Cheshire +10 8 £57,500 -20.69% 3
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 34 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (64.71%) Agile
3 19 (55.88%) AWS
4 18 (52.94%) Spring
4 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
5 17 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 15 (44.12%) DevOps
6 15 (44.12%) Microservices
6 15 (44.12%) TDD
7 13 (38.24%) Docker
7 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
8 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
9 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
10 10 (29.41%) Serverless
11 9 (26.47%) Azure
11 9 (26.47%) React
12 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
12 8 (23.53%) REST
12 8 (23.53%) RESTful
12 8 (23.53%) User Experience
13 7 (20.59%) Front End Development
13 7 (20.59%) Node.js
13 7 (20.59%) Terraform
13 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
14 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
14 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 6 (17.65%) GCP

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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) Serverless
3 9 (26.47%) Azure
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) Babel
3 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.88%) webpack
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Mockito
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Games
3 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
1 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 9 (26.47%) React
3 8 (23.53%) REST
3 8 (23.53%) RESTful
4 7 (20.59%) Node.js
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon Corretto
5 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
6 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) CSS
7 3 (8.82%) HTML
7 3 (8.82%) Redux
8 2 (5.88%) CSS3
8 2 (5.88%) HTML5
8 2 (5.88%) Jest
9 1 (2.94%) Apache Camel
9 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.94%) JPA
9 1 (2.94%) OAuth
9 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (14.71%) e-Learning
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Sports Betting
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 15 (44.12%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) Microservices
3 15 (44.12%) TDD
4 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
6 8 (23.53%) User Experience
7 7 (20.59%) Front End Development
8 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (17.65%) UX Design
9 5 (14.71%) BDD
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
9 5 (14.71%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Google
1 1 (2.94%) Pega
1 1 (2.94%) Veracode
1 1 (2.94%) WSO2