The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 14 14 24
Rank change year-on-year
0 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 21 9 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 15.00% 8.411% 4.380%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 13.43% 5.660%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 6
Average salary £20,000 £45,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-55.55% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
105 67 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 75.00% 62.62% 77.37%
Number of salaries quoted 89 63 102
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £35,000 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
Oxfordshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Abingdon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Abingdon Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Abingdon Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Abingdon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Abingdon Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 29 (80.56%) SQL Server
2 27 (75.00%) Degree
3 24 (66.67%) .NET
4 22 (61.11%) VB
4 22 (61.11%) XML
4 22 (61.11%) OOP
4 22 (61.11%) OO
4 22 (61.11%) Microsoft
4 22 (61.11%) MS Project
4 22 (61.11%) MS Office
4 22 (61.11%) Oracle
4 22 (61.11%) VB6
4 22 (61.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
5 13 (36.11%) SQL
6 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (30.56%) Selenium
8 10 (27.78%) JDBC
9 9 (25.00%) Hibernate
9 9 (25.00%) JUnit
9 9 (25.00%) JPA
9 9 (25.00%) QA
9 9 (25.00%) Subversion
9 9 (25.00%) Automated Testing
9 9 (25.00%) TestNG
9 9 (25.00%) Git (software)
9 9 (25.00%) Mercurial
10 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (16.67%) Scala

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 24 (66.67%) .NET
2 22 (61.11%) XML
3 10 (27.78%) JDBC
4 9 (25.00%) JPA
4 9 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 4 (11.11%) ZK
5 4 (11.11%) J2EE
6 2 (5.556%) Middleware
Applications
1 22 (61.11%) MS Project
1 22 (61.11%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (80.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.778%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Selenium
2 9 (25.00%) JUnit
2 9 (25.00%) Subversion
2 9 (25.00%) TestNG
2 9 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 9 (25.00%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.556%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.556%) Concordion
3 2 (5.556%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (2.778%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (91.67%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Analyst
3 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Analyst Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Trainee Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Trainee
5 4 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (8.333%) J2EE Software Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Server Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior QA Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) Senior QA Test Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Senior QA Tester
8 1 (2.778%) QA Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Senior QA Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) QA Test Manager
8 1 (2.778%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Junior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.778%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.778%) Android
1 1 (2.778%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.778%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) OOP
1 22 (61.11%) OO
2 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (11.11%) Web Application Development
6 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.556%) Scrum
7 2 (5.556%) Test Scripting
8 1 (2.778%) Automation Testing
8 1 (2.778%) Project Planning
8 1 (2.778%) Manual Testing
8 1 (2.778%) Kanban
8 1 (2.778%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) VB
1 22 (61.11%) VB6
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Scala
4 4 (11.11%) Bash shell
4 4 (11.11%) Erlang
4 4 (11.11%) Groovy
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.556%) C#
6 1 (2.778%) C++
6 1 (2.778%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 27 (75.00%) Degree
2 22 (61.11%) SC Cleared
2 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) Oracle
1 22 (61.11%) Microsoft