Java Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Java Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Engineer salary in the North West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 215 210
Rank change year-on-year +69 -5 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 127 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.51% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 97 7 13
10th Percentile £64,000 £43,500 £48,900
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +25.93% +5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,700 £79,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +25.00%

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 11,982 4,476 6,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 87.75% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,792 2,277 3,904
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 £59,500 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +8.18% -2.70% -5.79%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies 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 14 October 2026.

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 14 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 +6 75 £75,000 -11.76% 43
Merseyside - 34 £75,000 - 3
Lancashire +22 11 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Cheshire +15 7 £75,000 -25.00% 1
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2026, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (54.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (43.31%) Software Engineering
4 33 (25.98%) Spring
5 23 (18.11%) Agile
5 23 (18.11%) AWS
6 17 (13.39%) Spring Boot
7 15 (11.81%) AI
8 14 (11.02%) Microservices
9 12 (9.45%) REST
10 11 (8.66%) Observability
11 10 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 10 (7.87%) Front End Development
11 10 (7.87%) Mentoring
11 10 (7.87%) Scala
11 10 (7.87%) Vue
12 9 (7.09%) CI/CD
12 9 (7.09%) React
12 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
12 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
13 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
13 8 (6.30%) Test Automation
14 7 (5.51%) Design Patterns
15 6 (4.72%) Collaborative Culture
15 6 (4.72%) Kafka
15 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
15 6 (4.72%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (4.72%) SaaS
15 6 (4.72%) SQL
15 6 (4.72%) TypeScript

Java Engineer 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 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.36%) Tomcat
1 3 (2.36%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.11%) AWS
2 6 (4.72%) SaaS
3 5 (3.94%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (3.15%) Azure
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.79%) GCP
5 1 (0.79%) GitHub
5 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Claude Code
2 4 (3.15%) Git
3 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.36%) JUnit
3 3 (2.36%) Mockito
3 3 (2.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (7.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (3.94%) Banking
2 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
3 3 (2.36%) iGaming
4 2 (1.57%) Finance
4 2 (1.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.98%) Spring
2 17 (13.39%) Spring Boot
3 12 (9.45%) REST
4 10 (7.87%) Vue
5 9 (7.09%) React
6 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.72%) Kafka
8 4 (3.15%) RESTful
9 3 (2.36%) Jest
9 3 (2.36%) Playwright
9 3 (2.36%) React Native
10 2 (1.57%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.79%) CSS
11 1 (0.79%) HTML
11 1 (0.79%) Node.js
11 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (54.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 55 (43.31%) Software Engineering
3 23 (18.11%) Agile
4 15 (11.81%) AI
5 14 (11.02%) Microservices
6 11 (8.66%) Observability
7 10 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 10 (7.87%) Front End Development
7 10 (7.87%) Mentoring
8 9 (7.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (6.30%) Test Automation
10 7 (5.51%) Design Patterns
11 6 (4.72%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (4.72%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (3.94%) Customer Experience
12 5 (3.94%) Customer-Centricity
12 5 (3.94%) Event-Driven
12 5 (3.94%) Secure Coding
12 5 (3.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (3.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 127 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (7.87%) Scala
3 6 (4.72%) SQL
3 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.36%) Python
6 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.36%) IBM
2 2 (1.57%) Adobe