The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development category for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 34 26 27
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +1
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 9 14 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 3.704% 6.667% 5.236%
As % of the Application Development category 8.738% 15.38% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 0
Average salary £40,250 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 91 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 42.39% 43.33% 35.60%
Number of salaries quoted 76 43 47
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2EE
County Antrim

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Belfast region.

Belfast J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Belfast J2EE Salary Histogram

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 22 (95.65%) Java
2 18 (78.26%) Spring
3 17 (73.91%) SQL
4 12 (52.17%) UNIX
5 10 (43.48%) C
5 10 (43.48%) MVC
6 9 (39.13%) Telecoms
6 9 (39.13%) Spring MVC
7 8 (34.78%) Oracle
8 5 (21.74%) Degree
9 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
10 3 (13.04%) OO
10 3 (13.04%) JSP
10 3 (13.04%) HTML
11 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
11 2 (8.696%) Selenium
11 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
11 2 (8.696%) HTML5
11 2 (8.696%) CSS3
11 2 (8.696%) C++
11 2 (8.696%) .NET
11 2 (8.696%) JavaScript
11 2 (8.696%) WebLogic
11 2 (8.696%) CSS
11 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
11 2 (8.696%) Linux
11 2 (8.696%) Web Services
11 2 (8.696%) XML
11 2 (8.696%) JMS

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (78.26%) Spring
2 9 (39.13%) Spring MVC
3 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
3 3 (13.04%) JSP
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
4 2 (8.696%) HTML5
4 2 (8.696%) CSS3
4 2 (8.696%) .NET
4 2 (8.696%) CSS
4 2 (8.696%) Web Services
4 2 (8.696%) XML
4 2 (8.696%) JMS
4 2 (8.696%) WebSphere
5 1 (4.348%) Ajax
5 1 (4.348%) Swing
5 1 (4.348%) JAXB
5 1 (4.348%) XSLT
5 1 (4.348%) Servlets
5 1 (4.348%) WebSockets
5 1 (4.348%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.348%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) VoIP
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.348%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.348%) Redis
2 1 (4.348%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.348%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.348%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Selenium
2 1 (4.348%) Maven
2 1 (4.348%) JUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (39.13%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.696%) Finance
3 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.04%) J2EE Software Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Junior Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Junior
5 1 (4.348%) Graduate
5 1 (4.348%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Graduate Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) UNIX
2 2 (8.696%) Linux
3 1 (4.348%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.348%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) MVC
2 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (13.04%) OO
4 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
4 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
4 2 (8.696%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) Scrum
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) OOD
5 1 (4.348%) SOA
5 1 (4.348%) UML
5 1 (4.348%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (4.348%) User Stories
5 1 (4.348%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (4.348%) Computer Architecture
5 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Java
2 17 (73.91%) SQL
3 10 (43.48%) C
4 2 (8.696%) C++
4 2 (8.696%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.696%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.348%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.348%) PHP
5 1 (4.348%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) HL7
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 1 (4.348%) JBoss
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.348%) Sybase
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The work will be highly technical and challenging and therefore experience with some of the following key skills are required: - Java, - C++ - C# - SQL - J2EE - Matlab - HTMLThe ideal...
Real Time Recruitment
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 7 May 2013