Java Job Trends in Lancashire

Java
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 31 23 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 4.24% 2.09% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.74% 10.50% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £56,176 -
25th Percentile - £56,383 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +93.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £44,375
90th Percentile - £88,750 £47,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £61,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +2.08%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 264 219 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 36.11% 19.87% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 56 139 90
10th Percentile £24,438 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £30,313 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,186 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,522
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.94% +0.95%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Java job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Java
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Java

Java
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Blackpool 0 1 £55,000 -4.45% 1
Java
North West

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (96.77%) AWS
1 30 (96.77%) Azure
2 24 (77.42%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Bitbucket
1 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
1 6 (19.35%) GitLab
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
1 6 (19.35%) Maven
1 6 (19.35%) Selenium
1 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
1 6 (19.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (96.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Corporate Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 24 (77.42%) Senior
2 24 (77.42%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (77.42%) .NET
1 24 (77.42%) Node.js
2 6 (19.35%) CSS
2 6 (19.35%) CSS3
2 6 (19.35%) HTML
2 6 (19.35%) HTML5
2 6 (19.35%) Jest
2 6 (19.35%) JPA
2 6 (19.35%) Kafka
2 6 (19.35%) React
2 6 (19.35%) Redux
2 6 (19.35%) REST
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
2 6 (19.35%) Sass
2 6 (19.35%) Spring
2 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (77.42%) Cyberattack
1 24 (77.42%) Linux Command Line
1 24 (77.42%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (96.77%) Agile
2 30 (96.77%) Mentoring
2 30 (96.77%) Microservices
2 30 (96.77%) User Experience
3 24 (77.42%) Cloud Security
3 24 (77.42%) Data Engineering
3 24 (77.42%) Machine Learning
3 24 (77.42%) Scrum
3 24 (77.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Front End Development
4 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 6 (19.35%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (19.35%) Responsive Web Design
4 6 (19.35%) Strategic Thinking
4 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) JavaScript
2 24 (77.42%) C++
2 24 (77.42%) Go
2 24 (77.42%) Python
2 24 (77.42%) Rust
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) AWS Certification
1 24 (77.42%) AWS Certified Developer
1 24 (77.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 24 (77.42%) DV Cleared
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Accessibility
1 6 (19.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Solace