Java Job Trends in the North West

Java
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 54 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 -26 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 158 256 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.09% 3.69% 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 13.45% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 85 110 202
10th Percentile £47,050 £36,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,800 £86,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

All Programming Languages
North West

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 922 1,904 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.02% 27.42% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 746 1,060 1,243
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,254
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,938 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,225 £83,159
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Java job vacancy trend in the North West

Java
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the North West

Java
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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 -14 112 £71,000 +18.33% 135
Cheshire +18 34 £58,750 -21.14% 19
Merseyside +11 8 £50,500 -59.60% 1
Lancashire -2 1 £55,000 -19.12% 36
Cumbria - 1 - -
Java
England

Java
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 8 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (2.53%) Camunda
3 3 (1.90%) Mule
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.63%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.47%) AWS
2 36 (22.78%) Azure
3 27 (17.09%) GCP
4 17 (10.76%) Serverless
5 13 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.96%) GitHub
7 7 (4.43%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.53%) PaaS
9 4 (2.53%) SaaS
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.63%) Boomi
12 1 (0.63%) Datadog
12 1 (0.63%) dbt
12 1 (0.63%) Firebase
12 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) AMQP
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
1 2 (1.27%) SSH
2 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.92%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.39%) MongoDB
3 15 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.49%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.33%) MySQL
5 8 (5.06%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.16%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.53%) KDB
8 3 (1.90%) Big Data
9 2 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.63%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 18 (11.39%) GitLab
2 16 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.59%) JIRA
4 11 (6.96%) Git
5 9 (5.70%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.70%) Selenium
6 8 (5.06%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.80%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.53%) JUnit
10 2 (1.27%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.27%) Babel
10 2 (1.27%) Maven
10 2 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.27%) webpack
11 1 (0.63%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.63%) Locust
11 1 (0.63%) MLflow
11 1 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 49 (31.01%) Finance
2 35 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.86%) Games
4 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.80%) Electronics
7 5 (3.16%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.53%) Marketing
9 3 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.27%) Billing
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (39.87%) Developer
2 51 (32.28%) Senior
3 37 (23.42%) Java Developer
4 35 (22.15%) Software Engineer
5 23 (14.56%) Senior Developer
6 20 (12.66%) Java Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (8.23%) Lead
9 12 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (6.33%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (5.70%) Architect
12 9 (5.70%) AWS Architect
12 9 (5.70%) AWS Solution Architect
12 9 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (5.06%) Backend Developer
13 8 (5.06%) DevOps Architect
13 8 (5.06%) Senior Architect
13 8 (5.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.65%) Spring
1 50 (31.65%) Spring Boot
2 34 (21.52%) React
3 28 (17.72%) RESTful
4 19 (12.03%) Kafka
5 17 (10.76%) REST
6 16 (10.13%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.23%) HTML
8 12 (7.59%) Node.js
9 10 (6.33%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.70%) CSS
11 7 (4.43%) .NET
11 7 (4.43%) Amazon Corretto
11 7 (4.43%) Web Services
12 5 (3.16%) gRPC
12 5 (3.16%) Redux
13 4 (2.53%) Jest
13 4 (2.53%) Middleware
13 4 (2.53%) Rendezvous
13 4 (2.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.43%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.43%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.80%) Wiki
6 5 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.27%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.63%) Blog
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.63%) IoT
9 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Linux
2 6 (3.80%) Android
3 2 (1.27%) CentOS
3 2 (1.27%) Debian
3 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) SUSE
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (48.73%) Agile
2 58 (36.71%) Software Engineering
3 55 (34.81%) DevOps
4 52 (32.91%) CI/CD
4 52 (32.91%) Microservices
5 37 (23.42%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.78%) TDD
7 30 (18.99%) Test Automation
8 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.19%) User Experience
10 23 (14.56%) Clean Code
10 23 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (13.92%) Code Quality
12 21 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (13.29%) Roadmaps
12 21 (13.29%) SDLC
13 20 (12.66%) Unit Testing
14 19 (12.03%) Decision-Making
15 17 (10.76%) API Development
15 17 (10.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.48%) SQL
2 36 (22.78%) Python
3 31 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.99%) TypeScript
5 24 (15.19%) C#
6 8 (5.06%) C++
7 7 (4.43%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.43%) Ruby
7 7 (4.43%) Rust
8 6 (3.80%) PHP
9 5 (3.16%) C
9 5 (3.16%) Go
9 5 (3.16%) R
10 4 (2.53%) Dart
10 4 (2.53%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.27%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.27%) Scala
11 2 (1.27%) Swift
12 1 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.59%) Degree
3 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) GDPR
2 8 (5.06%) HIPAA
2 8 (5.06%) NIST
3 5 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.16%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (29.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (29.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.86%) Terraform
3 5 (3.16%) Ansible
4 3 (1.90%) Grafana
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (8.86%) Google
2 10 (6.33%) Oracle
3 8 (5.06%) Bloomberg
4 7 (4.43%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.16%) IBM
6 4 (2.53%) Moogsoft
6 4 (2.53%) SAP
6 4 (2.53%) Solace
6 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 4 (2.53%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.63%) Pega
9 1 (0.63%) Talend
9 1 (0.63%) Veracode
9 1 (0.63%) WSO2