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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 44 31
Rank change year-on-year +26 -13 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 709 460 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.28% 4.73% 8.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.40% 15.89% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 219 318 307
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,813 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,500 £93,250 £91,750
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 1,948 2,895 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 25.51% 29.74% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,189 2,355 1,799
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £83,750 £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 5 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 5 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 +29 402 £57,560 -22.01% 62
Manchester +10 187 £80,000 +28.00% 215
Cheshire +25 68 £57,500 -28.13% 44
Cumbria - 29 £41,000 - 1
Merseyside +25 22 £67,500 +58.82% 26
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 29 (4.09%) Confluence
2 7 (0.99%) Apache
3 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.42%) GemFire
5 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
5 2 (0.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 159 (22.43%) AWS
2 136 (19.18%) Azure
3 112 (15.80%) GCP
4 10 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 9 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (1.27%) Serverless
6 8 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (0.42%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (0.42%) Apigee
7 3 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.42%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (0.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (0.42%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.42%) SaaS
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 382 (53.88%) DNS
2 379 (53.46%) VPN
3 4 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.14%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.54%) NoSQL
3 17 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.83%) MySQL
4 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.41%) Cloud Spanner
7 7 (0.99%) Big Data
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.42%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.42%) Redis
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.28%) Power BI
9 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (9.59%) JIRA
2 44 (6.21%) Bitbucket
3 41 (5.78%) SonarQube
4 40 (5.64%) GitLab
5 35 (4.94%) Selenium
6 32 (4.51%) Maven
7 31 (4.37%) Git
7 31 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 29 (4.09%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.26%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 14 (1.97%) Jenkins
12 10 (1.41%) JUnit
13 6 (0.85%) JMeter
14 5 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.56%) Appium
15 4 (0.56%) Fiddler
15 4 (0.56%) LoadRunner
16 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
16 2 (0.28%) TestNG
General
1 466 (65.73%) Finance
2 458 (64.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 398 (56.14%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.59%) Banking
5 59 (8.32%) Social Skills
6 31 (4.37%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.40%) Retail
8 15 (2.12%) Corporate Banking
8 15 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 6 (0.85%) Cantonese Language
9 6 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.42%) Law
11 3 (0.42%) Military
12 2 (0.28%) Automotive
12 2 (0.28%) Front Office
12 2 (0.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.28%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.28%) Marketing
12 2 (0.28%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 424 (59.80%) Developer
2 407 (57.40%) Software Developer
3 158 (22.28%) Software Engineer
4 111 (15.66%) Senior
5 90 (12.69%) Lead
6 89 (12.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (3.10%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 22 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
8 18 (2.54%) Java Engineer
9 15 (2.12%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (2.12%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 12 (1.69%) Java Developer
11 9 (1.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (1.13%) Technical Leader
13 7 (0.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (0.99%) Senior Developer
13 7 (0.99%) Team Leader
14 6 (0.85%) Analyst
14 6 (0.85%) Senior Java Developer
15 5 (0.71%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (11.57%) Node.js
2 62 (8.74%) Spring
3 59 (8.32%) Spring Boot
4 58 (8.18%) .NET
4 58 (8.18%) React
5 56 (7.90%) Kafka
6 44 (6.21%) CSS
7 42 (5.92%) HTML
8 35 (4.94%) RESTful
9 28 (3.95%) JPA
9 28 (3.95%) Redux
10 23 (3.24%) REST
11 17 (2.40%) Hibernate
12 15 (2.12%) CSS3
12 15 (2.12%) HTML5
12 15 (2.12%) Jest
12 15 (2.12%) Sass
13 14 (1.97%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.69%) XML
15 7 (0.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 430 (60.65%) Cyberattack
2 52 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (7.19%) Linux Command Line
3 51 (7.19%) Management Information System
4 39 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.56%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.42%) Derivative
13 3 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.42%) Life Science
13 3 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 448 (63.19%) Linux
2 381 (53.74%) Android
3 7 (0.99%) Unix
4 4 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (83.22%) Agile
2 424 (59.80%) OO
3 416 (58.67%) OOP
4 401 (56.56%) Line Management
5 398 (56.14%) Design Patterns
6 382 (53.88%) Mathematics
7 380 (53.60%) Android Development
8 236 (33.29%) Software Engineering
9 152 (21.44%) Microservices
10 107 (15.09%) Mentoring
11 84 (11.85%) DevOps
12 81 (11.42%) SDLC
13 79 (11.14%) User Experience
14 75 (10.58%) CI/CD
15 69 (9.73%) Containerisation
15 69 (9.73%) Scrum
16 67 (9.45%) Test Automation
17 64 (9.03%) Machine Learning
18 62 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
19 59 (8.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 496 (69.96%) Python
2 444 (62.62%) Go
3 442 (62.34%) C++
4 141 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 85 (11.99%) SQL
6 66 (9.31%) C#
7 56 (7.90%) Rust
8 43 (6.06%) TypeScript
9 38 (5.36%) C
10 17 (2.40%) Ada
11 16 (2.26%) VB
12 7 (0.99%) PHP
13 5 (0.71%) Scala
14 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.28%) R
17 1 (0.14%) Ruby
17 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 438 (61.78%) Security Cleared
2 432 (60.93%) DV Cleared
3 125 (17.63%) Degree
4 58 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 56 (7.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 51 (7.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 23 (3.24%) HND
8 19 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.56%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.28%) CISSP
12 2 (0.28%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.14%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.80%) QA
2 19 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.71%) NIST
4 3 (0.42%) GDPR
4 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) TARGET2
System Software
1 455 (64.17%) Docker
2 22 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 382 (53.88%) Ansible
2 86 (12.13%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.39%) Terraform
4 4 (0.56%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) Kibana
6 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 70 (9.87%) Oracle
2 34 (4.80%) Google
3 32 (4.51%) Solace
4 8 (1.13%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg
5 4 (0.56%) IBM
5 4 (0.56%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.28%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.28%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.14%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.14%) Databricks
7 1 (0.14%) Dell
7 1 (0.14%) Informatica
7 1 (0.14%) Intel
7 1 (0.14%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.14%) New Relic
7 1 (0.14%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.14%) Planview
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.14%) Workday