The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birkenhead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Birkenhead region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 4 - 4
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 1 0 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birkenhead 25.00% - 53.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% - 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
Average salary £30,000 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Birkenhead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birkenhead 100.00% 14.29% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 12
Average salary £27,500 - £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 - £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
Merseyside

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birkenhead 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 Birkenhead region.

Birkenhead Java Salary Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birkenhead 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 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
2 1 (33.33%) SQLite
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Xcode

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birkenhead 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 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQLite
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle