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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 192 202
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 48 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.37% 0.74% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.85% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 35 26 17
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £73,125 £69,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% +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 11,957 4,483 6,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 87.76% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 2,281 3,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -42 38 £65,000 - 11
Merseyside -2 8 £45,000 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 48 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (39.58%) Spring
3 17 (35.42%) Agile
3 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
4 15 (31.25%) Docker
4 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
5 14 (29.17%) AWS
5 14 (29.17%) DevOps
6 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
7 10 (20.83%) Serverless
8 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.67%) AI
9 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 8 (16.67%) Scrum
10 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (14.58%) Microservices
10 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
10 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
10 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
10 7 (14.58%) Splunk
10 7 (14.58%) SQL
10 7 (14.58%) TDD
11 6 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 6 (12.50%) Kafka
11 6 (12.50%) Python
12 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda

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 (29.17%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) Serverless
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.33%) Azure
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
1 5 (10.42%) GitLab
1 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.33%) JUnit
2 4 (8.33%) Spock
3 3 (6.25%) Maven
3 3 (6.25%) Postman
3 3 (6.25%) Selenium
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.08%) Games
2 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (39.58%) Spring
2 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.50%) Kafka
4 5 (10.42%) Hibernate
5 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.33%) Terraform
6 3 (6.25%) JPA
6 3 (6.25%) OpenAPI
6 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 3 (6.25%) Swagger
7 2 (4.17%) Node.js
7 2 (4.17%) React
7 2 (4.17%) REST
8 1 (2.08%) CSS
8 1 (2.08%) HTML
8 1 (2.08%) JMS
8 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Agile
1 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
3 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
3 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 8 (16.67%) AI
4 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 8 (16.67%) Scrum
5 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (14.58%) Microservices
5 7 (14.58%) TDD
6 6 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 5 (10.42%) Code Quality
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.33%) SDLC
8 4 (8.33%) Secure Coding
8 4 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.58%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) Python
5 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.33%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) Groovy
7 3 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Splunk
2 4 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) YouTube