The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 145 201 169
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -32
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 73 20 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.398% 0.320% 0.389%
As % of the Application Development category 4.249% 0.813% 1.003%
Number of salaries quoted 56 18 20
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% +27.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £52,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £64,450 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1718 2461 1994
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 32.90% 39.32% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1546 2221 1782
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java EE across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire Java EE Salary Histogram

Java EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +16 18 £70,000 +3.70%
Newbury +20 14 £55,000 -24.13%
Maidenhead +10 4 £52,500 -8.69%
Bracknell - 2 £61,250 -
Crowthorne - 1 £82,500 -
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Java EE 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 EE.

1 179 (96.76%) Java
2 113 (61.08%) Agile Software Development
3 79 (42.70%) Oracle
4 69 (37.30%) Finance
5 68 (36.76%) OO
6 60 (32.43%) Struts
6 60 (32.43%) Spring
7 59 (31.89%) IBM
8 56 (30.27%) Retail
8 56 (30.27%) Degree
9 54 (29.19%) Web Services
10 53 (28.65%) J2EE
11 51 (27.57%) Business Objects
11 51 (27.57%) Microsoft
11 51 (27.57%) MS Excel
11 51 (27.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 51 (27.57%) Banking
12 48 (25.95%) UML
13 47 (25.41%) TDD
14 46 (24.86%) MySQL
15 44 (23.78%) JavaScript
16 40 (21.62%) Tomcat
17 39 (21.08%) E-Commerce
17 39 (21.08%) HTML
18 36 (19.46%) XML
19 35 (18.92%) Computer Science
20 33 (17.84%) Maven
20 33 (17.84%) GlassFish
21 31 (16.76%) Subversion
22 30 (16.22%) Continuous Integration

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Java EE 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 EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 60 (32.43%) Struts
1 60 (32.43%) Spring
2 54 (29.19%) Web Services
3 53 (28.65%) J2EE
4 39 (21.08%) HTML
5 36 (19.46%) XML
6 29 (15.68%) JDBC
7 28 (15.14%) SOAP
8 24 (12.97%) Hibernate
9 22 (11.89%) Java SE
10 14 (7.568%) WebSphere
11 13 (7.027%) JSF
11 13 (7.027%) WSRP
11 13 (7.027%) CSS
12 12 (6.486%) REST
12 12 (6.486%) Apache Flex
13 11 (5.946%) Spring MVC
13 11 (5.946%) Ajax
13 11 (5.946%) JMX
13 11 (5.946%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 40 (21.62%) Tomcat
2 33 (17.84%) GlassFish
3 24 (12.97%) CMS
4 21 (11.35%) Liferay
5 20 (10.81%) WebLogic
6 14 (7.568%) WebLogic Portal
7 13 (7.027%) Magento
8 9 (4.865%) Apache
9 5 (2.703%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (1.081%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.541%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 51 (27.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.541%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.081%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (1.081%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.541%) HTTP
1 1 (0.541%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (24.86%) MySQL
2 21 (11.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.622%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.622%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.081%) Big Data
4 2 (1.081%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.541%) DB2
5 1 (0.541%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (17.84%) Maven
2 31 (16.76%) Subversion
3 28 (15.14%) JUnit
4 24 (12.97%) Ant
5 9 (4.865%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.243%) Selenium
6 6 (3.243%) ClearCase
7 5 (2.703%) JProbe
8 3 (1.622%) JMeter
8 3 (1.622%) JIRA
9 2 (1.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.081%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.541%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.541%) ClearQuest
10 1 (0.541%) JProfiler
10 1 (0.541%) CruiseControl
General
1 69 (37.30%) Finance
2 56 (30.27%) Retail
3 51 (27.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 51 (27.57%) Banking
4 30 (16.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.081%) Marketing
5 2 (1.081%) Electronics
5 2 (1.081%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.541%) Legal
6 1 (0.541%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.541%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 114 (61.62%) Developer
2 105 (56.76%) Java Developer
3 28 (15.14%) Senior Developer
4 27 (14.59%) Senior Java Developer
5 24 (12.97%) Front-End Developer
6 20 (10.81%) Architect
7 18 (9.730%) Software Engineer
8 15 (8.108%) Designer
8 15 (8.108%) Consultant
8 15 (8.108%) Graduate
9 13 (7.027%) Solutions Designer
9 13 (7.027%) Junior
10 9 (4.865%) Junior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.865%) Java Architect
10 9 (4.865%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (4.324%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (4.324%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.784%) Service Manager
13 6 (3.243%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.243%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.92%) Computer Science
2 14 (7.568%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.324%) Digital Media
3 8 (4.324%) SaaS
4 2 (1.081%) PaaS
4 2 (1.081%) Open Source
4 2 (1.081%) DTV
5 1 (0.541%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.541%) DataPower
5 1 (0.541%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.730%) Linux
2 9 (4.865%) Android
3 8 (4.324%) UNIX
4 3 (1.622%) Windows
4 3 (1.622%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (61.08%) Agile Software Development
2 68 (36.76%) OO
3 48 (25.95%) UML
4 47 (25.41%) TDD
5 39 (21.08%) E-Commerce
6 30 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (14.59%) MVC
8 23 (12.43%) Information Management
9 19 (10.27%) SOA
9 19 (10.27%) Unit Testing
10 17 (9.189%) Waterfall
11 16 (8.649%) Refactoring
12 15 (8.108%) V-Model
12 15 (8.108%) RUP
13 13 (7.027%) Business Analysis
13 13 (7.027%) OOD
14 12 (6.486%) Scrum
15 8 (4.324%) Web Development
15 8 (4.324%) Content Management
15 8 (4.324%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (96.76%) Java
2 44 (23.78%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.81%) SQL
4 8 (4.324%) Perl
4 8 (4.324%) PHP
5 3 (1.622%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.622%) C++
6 2 (1.081%) Scala
6 2 (1.081%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.541%) Python
7 1 (0.541%) C#
7 1 (0.541%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (30.27%) Degree
2 3 (1.622%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.243%) QA
Vendors
1 79 (42.70%) Oracle
2 59 (31.89%) IBM
3 51 (27.57%) Business Objects
3 51 (27.57%) Microsoft
4 25 (13.51%) JBoss
5 15 (8.108%) ATG
6 13 (7.027%) hybris
7 9 (4.865%) Google
8 8 (4.324%) Zend
9 7 (3.784%) Demandware
10 6 (3.243%) ILOG
11 2 (1.081%) SAP
Reading, Berkshire
Due to continuous growth a position is vacant for a Senior Java EE Developer to join the Engineering department... Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate coding skills...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 55K
Posted: 20 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Experience supporting large relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL etc). - Strong knowledge of operating systems including Windows Servers & Unix (Linux, Solaris etc). Ideally some shell scripting. - Good knowledge...
Verticality Ltd
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - Pension, BUPA etc
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Technical Lead - Senior Developer (Java and .Net) C#, .Net, Java, JEE, SQL Bracknell, Berkshire £50k to £60k plus excellent benefits An exciting newly created opportunity to work with...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Knowledge of Object Oriented Design (OOD) Knowledge of modelling techniques, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and documenting software design using UML Knowledge of formal development methodologies such as Agile,...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Java Solution Designer with strong Java EE technologies, design patterns, and standards (JEE Certification desirable), OO / UML skills, and high level / solution design ideally for telecoms ICT systems,...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
Posted: 21 May 2013