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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 13 49
Rank change year-on-year -42 +36 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 28 394 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 1.80% 34.59% 3.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.23% 61.47% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 27 0 22
10th Percentile £29,625 - £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 - £61,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.64%
75th Percentile £74,986 - £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £83,375
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -

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 229 641 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.69% 56.28% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 164 62 204
10th Percentile £33,475 £31,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,688 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,683 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -13.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,207 £54,793 £65,603
90th Percentile £74,996 £61,250 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Lancashire over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Lancashire

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 27 August 2026. 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 -1 17 £69,305 -
Blackburn -13 3 £48,500 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (7.14%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) PySpark
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Contactless
1 4 (14.29%) EMV
1 4 (14.29%) Java Card
1 4 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) Coaching
2 12 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) Cryptography
7 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.29%) Key Management
7 4 (14.29%) Personalization
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
8 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (10.71%) Refactoring
8 3 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C#
1 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) C++
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C
4 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Argo
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) HP