Java Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Java Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Engineer salary in the North West is £88,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 217 210
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 23 29 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.39% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 9
10th Percentile £43,500 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £49,313 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £60,482 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.50% -10.40% +17.39%
75th Percentile £95,750 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £99,700 £79,375 £90,250
England median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -2.86%

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 4,547 7,414 4,220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.15% 95.31% 93.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 4,565 3,227
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +26 20 £88,000 +34.42% 4
Cheshire - 2 £100,000 - 1
Lancashire -7 1 £55,000 - 1
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 23 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) Software Engineering
3 12 (52.17%) Finance
3 12 (52.17%) Spring
4 11 (47.83%) Agile
4 11 (47.83%) Spring Boot
5 9 (39.13%) Microservices
5 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
5 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 9 (39.13%) AWS
6 8 (34.78%) MongoDB
6 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
7 7 (30.43%) Docker
7 7 (30.43%) DevOps
7 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
7 7 (30.43%) Code Quality
7 7 (30.43%) Kafka
8 6 (26.09%) GitHub
8 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
8 6 (26.09%) Confluence
8 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
8 6 (26.09%) JIRA
8 6 (26.09%) Wiki
8 6 (26.09%) Selenium
8 6 (26.09%) TDD
8 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) GitLab
8 6 (26.09%) API Development

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 6 (26.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MongoDB
1 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 4 (17.39%) KDB
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
1 6 (26.09%) GitLab
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
1 6 (26.09%) Selenium
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Electronics
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Spring
2 11 (47.83%) Spring Boot
3 7 (30.43%) Kafka
4 4 (17.39%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (17.39%) Middleware
4 4 (17.39%) Rendezvous
5 3 (13.04%) CSS
5 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) XML
7 1 (4.35%) jQuery
7 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Wiki
2 5 (21.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Software Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
4 7 (30.43%) Code Quality
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
5 6 (26.09%) API Development
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (26.09%) TDD
6 5 (21.74%) Electronic Trading
6 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (17.39%) Information Security
7 4 (17.39%) Low Latency
7 4 (17.39%) Prototyping
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Bloomberg
1 4 (17.39%) Solace
1 4 (17.39%) TIBCO
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) SAP