Java Engineer Jobs in the North West

Java Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Engineer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 250 241
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 31 51 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.48% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12 44 22
10th Percentile £29,425 £48,100 £49,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,188 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -15.53% +24.00%
75th Percentile £92,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £108,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £92,169
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.35% +18.44%

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 6,983 10,671 6,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 95.27% 89.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,726 7,891 3,941
10th Percentile £24,875 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,125 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the North West

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the North West

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the North West

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +46 28 £65,000 -0.71% 37
Cheshire -4 2 £100,000 +19.40% 2
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (64.52%) Software Engineering
3 16 (51.61%) Spring
4 15 (48.39%) Finance
4 15 (48.39%) Agile
5 13 (41.94%) Microservices
6 12 (38.71%) AWS
6 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
7 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
7 11 (35.48%) MongoDB
7 11 (35.48%) Spring Boot
8 10 (32.26%) NoSQL
8 10 (32.26%) Kafka
8 10 (32.26%) DevOps
9 9 (29.03%) TDD
9 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
10 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (25.81%) JIRA
10 8 (25.81%) Electronic Trading
10 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (25.81%) Middleware
10 8 (25.81%) TIBCO
10 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
10 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
10 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
10 8 (25.81%) Confluence
10 8 (25.81%) Solace
10 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
11 7 (22.58%) Docker
11 7 (22.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Java Engineer 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 8 (25.81%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) MongoDB
2 10 (32.26%) NoSQL
3 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (25.81%) Relational Database
4 5 (16.13%) KDB
5 3 (9.68%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (9.68%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (9.68%) MySQL
5 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
5 3 (9.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) JIRA
2 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
2 6 (19.35%) GitLab
2 6 (19.35%) Selenium
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Electronics
3 2 (6.45%) Front Office
3 2 (6.45%) Law
3 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.45%) Marketing
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.23%) Cantonese Language
4 1 (3.23%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (51.61%) Spring
2 11 (35.48%) Spring Boot
3 10 (32.26%) Kafka
4 8 (25.81%) Middleware
5 6 (19.35%) CSS
5 6 (19.35%) HTML
6 5 (16.13%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (16.13%) Rendezvous
7 4 (12.90%) XML
8 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.45%) FastAPI
9 2 (6.45%) jQuery
9 2 (6.45%) Node.js
9 2 (6.45%) React Native
10 1 (3.23%) REST
10 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (19.35%) Wiki
3 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.68%) Derivative
5 2 (6.45%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (6.45%) Equities
5 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Software Engineering
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) Microservices
4 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) DevOps
6 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) TDD
7 8 (25.81%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
8 7 (22.58%) Code Quality
8 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
9 6 (19.35%) API Development
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.13%) SDLC
10 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
11 4 (12.90%) Customer-Centricity
11 4 (12.90%) Information Security
11 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 4 (12.90%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Solace
1 8 (25.81%) TIBCO
2 5 (16.13%) Bloomberg
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) SAP