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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 394 36 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 34.87% 3.00% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.54% 13.33% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1 20 5
10th Percentile - £37,500 -
25th Percentile - £51,818 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £76,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% +69.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - £80,375 £53,599
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +6.84%

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 630 270 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 55.75% 22.46% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 54 175 90
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,342 £44,869 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +15.79% -2.31%
75th Percentile £57,063 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,600 £77,500 £60,125
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,250
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.93% +4.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 19 September 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
Preston +12 6 - - 3
Chorley +1 5 - -
Darwen - 5 - -
Blackburn - 5 - -
Blackpool - 4 £55,000 - 2
Accrington - 4 - -
Burnley - 3 - -
Rossendale - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Colne - 3 - -
Nelson - 3 - -
Ormskirk - 3 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 2 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 - -
Bacup - 2 - -
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Morecambe - 1 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
Java
North West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 88 (22.34%) AWS
1 88 (22.34%) Azure
2 76 (19.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 305 (77.41%) DNS
1 305 (77.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (4.57%) Bitbucket
1 18 (4.57%) Cucumber
1 18 (4.57%) GitLab
1 18 (4.57%) JIRA
1 18 (4.57%) Maven
1 18 (4.57%) Selenium
1 18 (4.57%) SonarQube
1 18 (4.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 393 (99.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 323 (81.98%) Finance
3 305 (77.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.57%) Banking
5 12 (3.05%) Corporate Banking
5 12 (3.05%) Investment Banking
5 12 (3.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 305 (77.41%) Developer
1 305 (77.41%) Software Developer
2 89 (22.59%) Software Engineer
3 70 (17.77%) Senior
3 70 (17.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (0.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (0.25%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.77%) .NET
1 70 (17.77%) Node.js
2 18 (4.57%) CSS
2 18 (4.57%) HTML
2 18 (4.57%) JPA
2 18 (4.57%) Kafka
2 18 (4.57%) React
2 18 (4.57%) Redux
2 18 (4.57%) Spring
2 18 (4.57%) Spring Boot
3 12 (3.05%) CSS3
3 12 (3.05%) HTML5
3 12 (3.05%) Jest
3 12 (3.05%) REST
3 12 (3.05%) RESTful
3 12 (3.05%) Sass
4 6 (1.52%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 375 (95.18%) Cyberattack
2 70 (17.77%) Linux Command Line
2 70 (17.77%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 375 (95.18%) Linux
2 305 (77.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (99.75%) Agile
2 305 (77.41%) Android Development
2 305 (77.41%) Design Patterns
2 305 (77.41%) Line Management
2 305 (77.41%) Mathematics
2 305 (77.41%) OO
2 305 (77.41%) OOP
3 89 (22.59%) Software Engineering
4 88 (22.34%) Microservices
5 82 (20.81%) Mentoring
5 82 (20.81%) User Experience
6 70 (17.77%) Cloud Security
6 70 (17.77%) Data Engineering
6 70 (17.77%) Machine Learning
6 70 (17.77%) Scrum
6 70 (17.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 18 (4.57%) Front End Development
7 18 (4.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (4.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 18 (4.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 375 (95.18%) C++
1 375 (95.18%) Go
1 375 (95.18%) Python
2 88 (22.34%) JavaScript
3 70 (17.77%) Rust
4 18 (4.57%) SQL
5 12 (3.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 375 (95.18%) DV Cleared
1 375 (95.18%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.77%) AWS Certification
2 70 (17.77%) AWS Certified Developer
2 70 (17.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.57%) QA
2 12 (3.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 323 (81.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 305 (77.41%) Ansible
2 18 (4.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (4.57%) Solace