Java Jobs in the North West

Java
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 45 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 639 466 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.44% 4.79% 8.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.97% 16.01% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 217 324 309
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £48,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,700 £94,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%

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 1,881 2,911 3,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.83% 29.95% 40.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 2,371 1,779
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,825 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Java in the North West

Java
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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
Lancashire +33 380 £57,560 -22.01% 82
Manchester +4 171 £80,000 +28.00% 270
Cheshire +7 36 £55,000 -31.25% 85
Cumbria - 29 £41,000 - 1
Merseyside +22 22 £67,500 +58.82% 43
Java
England

Java
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 16 (2.50%) Confluence
2 8 (1.25%) nginx
3 7 (1.10%) Apache
4 6 (0.94%) Camunda
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.47%) GemFire
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 86 (13.46%) AWS
2 57 (8.92%) Azure
3 48 (7.51%) GCP
4 12 (1.88%) IBM Cloud
5 10 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 9 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (1.41%) Serverless
7 8 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (0.94%) OpenShift
9 4 (0.63%) SaaS
10 3 (0.47%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.47%) Apigee
10 3 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.47%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (0.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.47%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 382 (59.78%) DNS
2 379 (59.31%) VPN
3 4 (0.63%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.60%) MongoDB
3 18 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.88%) MySQL
6 11 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.56%) Cloud Spanner
8 7 (1.10%) Big Data
9 6 (0.94%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.47%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.47%) Redis
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (6.26%) JIRA
2 36 (5.63%) Git
3 16 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 16 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (2.19%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.03%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.88%) GitLab
8 10 (1.56%) JUnit
8 10 (1.56%) Maven
9 7 (1.10%) Selenium
10 6 (0.94%) JMeter
11 5 (0.78%) Postman
12 4 (0.63%) Appium
12 4 (0.63%) Fiddler
12 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.31%) TestNG
General
1 438 (68.54%) Finance
2 398 (62.28%) Analytical Skills
3 391 (61.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (9.23%) Social Skills
5 39 (6.10%) Banking
6 31 (4.85%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (0.94%) Cantonese Language
8 6 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.63%) Law
10 3 (0.47%) Military
11 2 (0.31%) Automotive
11 2 (0.31%) Front Office
11 2 (0.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.31%) Marketing
11 2 (0.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.31%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 423 (66.20%) Developer
2 407 (63.69%) Software Developer
3 89 (13.93%) Lead
4 77 (12.05%) Software Engineer
5 63 (9.86%) Senior
6 36 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (3.60%) Java Engineer
8 22 (3.44%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 22 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (2.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (2.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 13 (2.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (1.72%) Java Developer
12 10 (1.56%) Senior Java Engineer
13 9 (1.41%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (1.41%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (1.25%) Technical Leader
15 7 (1.10%) Senior Developer
15 7 (1.10%) Team Leader
16 6 (0.94%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.79%) Node.js
2 35 (5.48%) React
3 33 (5.16%) Spring
4 31 (4.85%) Spring Boot
5 28 (4.38%) Kafka
6 20 (3.13%) RESTful
7 16 (2.50%) CSS
8 14 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 14 (2.19%) HTML
9 12 (1.88%) XML
10 8 (1.25%) REST
11 7 (1.10%) .NET
11 7 (1.10%) Playwright
12 6 (0.94%) KeystoneJS
12 6 (0.94%) Swagger
13 5 (0.78%) gRPC
13 5 (0.78%) jQuery
13 5 (0.78%) Middleware
13 5 (0.78%) SOAP
14 4 (0.63%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 379 (59.31%) Cyberattack
2 51 (7.98%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 14 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.03%) e-Learning
6 12 (1.88%) Blockchain
6 12 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.63%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.47%) Derivative
12 3 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.47%) Life Science
12 3 (0.47%) Wiki
13 2 (0.31%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 397 (62.13%) Linux
2 380 (59.47%) Android
3 7 (1.10%) Unix
4 4 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (80.13%) Agile
2 430 (67.29%) OO
3 416 (65.10%) OOP
4 404 (63.22%) Design Patterns
5 401 (62.75%) Line Management
6 382 (59.78%) Mathematics
7 380 (59.47%) Android Development
8 161 (25.20%) Software Engineering
9 72 (11.27%) Microservices
10 65 (10.17%) SDLC
11 63 (9.86%) DevOps
12 62 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (8.29%) Mentoring
14 47 (7.36%) CI/CD
15 42 (6.57%) Roadmaps
16 41 (6.42%) Containerisation
17 40 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (6.10%) Test Automation
19 38 (5.95%) Collaborative Culture
20 36 (5.63%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 445 (69.64%) Python
2 393 (61.50%) Go
3 391 (61.19%) C++
4 66 (10.33%) C#
4 66 (10.33%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.92%) SQL
6 38 (5.95%) C
7 27 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.66%) Ada
9 16 (2.50%) VB
10 7 (1.10%) PHP
11 6 (0.94%) Lua
12 5 (0.78%) Rust
12 5 (0.78%) Scala
13 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.31%) R
15 1 (0.16%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 399 (62.44%) Security Cleared
2 381 (59.62%) DV Cleared
3 125 (19.56%) Degree
4 23 (3.60%) HND
5 19 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.63%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.31%) CISSP
10 2 (0.31%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.16%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.94%) QA
2 5 (0.78%) NIST
3 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.47%) GDPR
4 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.16%) SEPA
6 1 (0.16%) TARGET2
System Software
1 433 (67.76%) Docker
2 22 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 382 (59.78%) Ansible
2 57 (8.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.76%) Terraform
4 4 (0.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) Istio
6 2 (0.31%) Kibana
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (11.89%) Oracle
2 34 (5.32%) Google
3 16 (2.50%) IBM
4 13 (2.03%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.25%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg
6 4 (0.63%) Solace
6 4 (0.63%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.31%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.16%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.16%) Databricks
8 1 (0.16%) Dell
8 1 (0.16%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.16%) Informatica
8 1 (0.16%) Intel
8 1 (0.16%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.16%) New Relic
8 1 (0.16%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.16%) Planview
8 1 (0.16%) Workday