Lancashire Java Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Java skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cobham Cockermouth Colchester Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newry Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	15
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching permanent IT job ads	58	109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	9.163 %	18.23 %
Salaries quoted	41	95
Average minimum salary	£33,465	£34,432
Average salary	£36,128	£39,437
% change on same period last year	-8.39 %
Average maximum salary	£38,791	£44,442
UK excluding London average salary	£40,176	£40,183
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	633	598
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.369 %	0.256 %
Salaries quoted	528	466
Average minimum salary	£28,296	£29,727
Average salary	£31,149	£31,902
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum salary	£34,002	£34,078
UK excluding London average salary	£35,495	£35,768
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
Java North West

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Java
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Lancashire region.

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Blackburn	-16	17	£34,412	+12.63 %
Chorley	+4	9	£55,000	-
Preston	-17	9	£39,250	-5.87 %
Skelmersdale	-	4	£35,000	-
Accrington	-	3	£35,000	-
Newton-le-Willows	-	2	-	-
Burnley	-	1	£28,750	-

Java North West

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Java.

1 54 (49.09 %) J2EE 2 45 (40.91 %) SQL 3 40 (36.36 %) HTML 4 39 (35.45 %) Oracle 5 32 (29.09 %) XML 5 32 (29.09 %) WebSphere 6 31 (28.18 %) SQL Server 7 29 (26.36 %) AIX 8 27 (24.55 %) .NET 9 22 (20.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 22 (20.00 %) HTTP 10 19 (17.27 %) Shell Script 10 19 (17.27 %) TCP/IP 10 19 (17.27 %) DB2 11 18 (16.36 %) Hibernate

12 17 (15.45 %) IBM 12 17 (15.45 %) JSP 13 16 (14.55 %) Internet 14 15 (13.64 %) Spring 15 14 (12.73 %) Web Development 15 14 (12.73 %) UNIX 15 14 (12.73 %) OO 16 13 (11.82 %) ASP 17 12 (10.91 %) WPS 18 11 (10.00 %) Marketing 18 11 (10.00 %) C# 18 11 (10.00 %) WebSphere MQ 18 11 (10.00 %) Jython 19 10 (9.091 %) webMethods 19 10 (9.091 %) ClearQuest

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 54 (49.09 %) J2EE 2 40 (36.36 %) HTML 3 32 (29.09 %) XML 3 32 (29.09 %) WebSphere 4 27 (24.55 %) .NET 5 18 (16.36 %) Hibernate 6 17 (15.45 %) JSP 7 15 (13.64 %) Spring 8 13 (11.82 %) ASP 9 10 (9.091 %) CSS 10 8 (7.273 %) XSL 11 7 (6.364 %) Struts 12 5 (4.545 %) Servlets 12 5 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 13 4 (3.636 %) JDBC 13 4 (3.636 %) XHTML 14 3 (2.727 %) SOAP 14 3 (2.727 %) Middleware 14 3 (2.727 %) AJAX 14 3 (2.727 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 22 (20.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 12 (10.91 %) WPS 3 11 (10.00 %) WebSphere MQ 4 10 (9.091 %) IIS 5 9 (8.182 %) IBM HTTP Server 6 6 (5.455 %) Apache 7 4 (3.636 %) JBoss 8 1 (0.909 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.909 %) SharePoint 8 1 (0.909 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (0.909 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (6.364 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.818 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.909 %) 3ds Max 3 1 (0.909 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (0.909 %) Adobe Premiere	Communications & Networking 1 22 (20.00 %) HTTP 2 19 (17.27 %) TCP/IP 3 16 (14.55 %) Internet 4 5 (4.545 %) Intranet 5 3 (2.727 %) FTP 6 1 (0.909 %) SMS 6 1 (0.909 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (28.18 %) SQL Server 2 19 (17.27 %) DB2 3 5 (4.545 %) RDBMS 3 5 (4.545 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.909 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.909 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 10 (9.091 %) ClearCase 1 10 (9.091 %) Eclipse 1 10 (9.091 %) ClearQuest 2 7 (6.364 %) Flash 3 4 (3.636 %) JBuilder 4 1 (0.909 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (0.909 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (0.909 %) Subversion
General 1 11 (10.00 %) Marketing 2 9 (8.182 %) Retail 3 3 (2.727 %) Finance 3 3 (2.727 %) Health 3 3 (2.727 %) Auditing 4 2 (1.818 %) Banking 5 1 (0.909 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (0.909 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (0.909 %) Video Editing 5 1 (0.909 %) 3D Graphics 5 1 (0.909 %) Military 5 1 (0.909 %) Government 5 1 (0.909 %) Multimedia 5 1 (0.909 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (0.909 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 57 (51.82 %) Developer 2 29 (26.36 %) Java Developer 3 22 (20.00 %) WebSphere Administrator 3 22 (20.00 %) Administrator 4 10 (9.091 %) Web Developer 5 8 (7.273 %) J2EE Developer 5 8 (7.273 %) webMethods Developer 5 8 (7.273 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 7 (6.364 %) WebSphere Specialist 7 6 (5.455 %) Senior Java Developer 7 6 (5.455 %) Senior Developer 7 6 (5.455 %) Analyst 7 6 (5.455 %) Test Analyst 7 6 (5.455 %) Software Developer 8 5 (4.545 %) .NET Developer 8 5 (4.545 %) Systems Developer 9 4 (3.636 %) Team Leader 9 4 (3.636 %) Project Manager 9 4 (3.636 %) Tester 10 3 (2.727 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.909 %) Handset 1 1 (0.909 %) SCORM	Operating Systems 1 29 (26.36 %) AIX 2 14 (12.73 %) UNIX 3 10 (9.091 %) Solaris 4 7 (6.364 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (12.73 %) OO 1 14 (12.73 %) Web Development 2 10 (9.091 %) Electronic Trading 2 10 (9.091 %) UML 2 10 (9.091 %) EAI 2 10 (9.091 %) B2B 3 8 (7.273 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (5.455 %) Pay per click 4 6 (5.455 %) Performance Testing 4 6 (5.455 %) SEO 4 6 (5.455 %) E-Commerce 5 5 (4.545 %) OOD 5 5 (4.545 %) Project Management 5 5 (4.545 %) Unit Testing 5 5 (4.545 %) Search Engine Marketing 5 5 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (3.636 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (3.636 %) Asset Management 7 2 (1.818 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (1.818 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 45 (40.91 %) SQL 2 19 (17.27 %) Shell Script 3 11 (10.00 %) Jython 3 11 (10.00 %) C# 4 10 (9.091 %) JavaScript 5 8 (7.273 %) VB6 5 8 (7.273 %) VB 5 8 (7.273 %) PL/SQL 6 7 (6.364 %) Delphi 7 6 (5.455 %) C++ 8 5 (4.545 %) C 8 5 (4.545 %) PHP 9 4 (3.636 %) Perl 9 4 (3.636 %) VB.NET 10 1 (0.909 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.909 %) Python 10 1 (0.909 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.909 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.909 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 5 (4.545 %) Degree 2 2 (1.818 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.909 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 3 (2.727 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 39 (35.45 %) Oracle 2 17 (15.45 %) IBM 3 10 (9.091 %) webMethods 4 7 (6.364 %) Microsoft 5 3 (2.727 %) Websense 5 3 (2.727 %) SurfControl 5 3 (2.727 %) Blue Coat 6 2 (1.818 %) Adobe 7 1 (0.909 %) Symbian 7 1 (0.909 %) Autodesk