Java Jobs in Lancashire

Java
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 412 54 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 18.29% 3.58% 4.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.61% 15.21% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 18
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,590 £63,313 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £73,805 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +34.19% -1.20%
75th Percentile £59,081 £80,000 £58,438
90th Percentile - £84,375 £58,750
North West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 967 355 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 42.92% 23.54% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 323 281 121
10th Percentile £42,415 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +6.32% +0.53%
75th Percentile £51,240 £65,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £80,000 £60,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Java in Lancashire

Java
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Lancashire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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 -10 12 £57,836 -20.23% 2
Blackburn - 8 £57,836 -
Blackpool -19 6 £57,836 -21.64% 1
Chorley +2 5 - -
Darwen - 5 - -
Accrington - 4 - -
Burnley +11 3 - -
Rossendale - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - - 1
Ormskirk - 3 - -
Lytham St Annes - 3 £57,836 -
Nelson - 3 - -
Colne - 3 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 2 - -
Bacup - 2 - -
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
Morecambe - 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 (1.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.24%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 88 (21.36%) AWS
1 88 (21.36%) Azure
2 76 (18.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 305 (74.03%) DNS
1 305 (74.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (4.61%) GitLab
2 18 (4.37%) Bitbucket
2 18 (4.37%) Cucumber
2 18 (4.37%) JIRA
2 18 (4.37%) Maven
2 18 (4.37%) Selenium
2 18 (4.37%) SonarQube
2 18 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.24%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) JUnit
4 1 (0.24%) NetBeans
General
1 393 (95.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 323 (78.40%) Finance
3 305 (74.03%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.37%) Banking
5 15 (3.64%) Social Skills
6 12 (2.91%) Corporate Banking
6 12 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 12 (2.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 305 (74.03%) Developer
1 305 (74.03%) Software Developer
2 92 (22.33%) Software Engineer
3 72 (17.48%) Senior
3 72 (17.48%) Senior Software Engineer
4 15 (3.64%) Lead
4 15 (3.64%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 15 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Junior
5 1 (0.24%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (16.99%) .NET
1 70 (16.99%) Node.js
2 19 (4.61%) CSS
2 19 (4.61%) HTML
3 18 (4.37%) JPA
3 18 (4.37%) Kafka
3 18 (4.37%) React
3 18 (4.37%) Redux
3 18 (4.37%) Spring
3 18 (4.37%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.91%) CSS3
4 12 (2.91%) HTML5
4 12 (2.91%) Jest
4 12 (2.91%) REST
4 12 (2.91%) RESTful
4 12 (2.91%) Sass
5 6 (1.46%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.24%) JSP
6 1 (0.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 375 (91.02%) Cyberattack
2 70 (16.99%) Linux Command Line
2 70 (16.99%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 377 (91.50%) Linux
2 305 (74.03%) Android
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (99.51%) Agile
2 320 (77.67%) Line Management
3 308 (74.76%) Mathematics
4 307 (74.51%) OO
5 305 (74.03%) Android Development
5 305 (74.03%) Design Patterns
5 305 (74.03%) OOP
6 107 (25.97%) Software Engineering
7 103 (25.00%) Microservices
8 83 (20.15%) Mentoring
9 82 (19.90%) User Experience
10 70 (16.99%) Cloud Security
10 70 (16.99%) Data Engineering
10 70 (16.99%) Machine Learning
10 70 (16.99%) Scrum
10 70 (16.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (8.01%) Containerisation
12 20 (4.85%) CI/CD
12 20 (4.85%) Test Automation
13 19 (4.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 378 (91.75%) Python
2 376 (91.26%) C++
3 375 (91.02%) Go
4 88 (21.36%) JavaScript
5 73 (17.72%) Rust
6 19 (4.61%) SQL
7 15 (3.64%) C
8 12 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.24%) Ada
9 1 (0.24%) C#
Qualifications
1 376 (91.26%) Security Cleared
2 375 (91.02%) DV Cleared
3 70 (16.99%) AWS Certification
3 70 (16.99%) AWS Certified Developer
3 70 (16.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (4.61%) Degree
5 15 (3.64%) HND
6 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.37%) QA
2 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 323 (78.40%) Docker
2 15 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 305 (74.03%) Ansible
2 18 (4.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (4.37%) Solace
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat