The first table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java J2EE Developer
Rank 108 110 84
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 10 2 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.549% 0.123% 0.661%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.580% 0.129% 0.703%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 8
Average salary £40,000 £36,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% -19.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,250 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,250 £41,250 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1723 1549 1280
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.67% 95.15% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1465 1378 1107
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £37,995
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java/J2EE Developer
West Midlands

Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Java/J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 14 (70.00%) Java EE
3 13 (65.00%) Spring
3 13 (65.00%) Hibernate
4 11 (55.00%) Tomcat
4 11 (55.00%) JMS
4 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (45.00%) TDD
5 9 (45.00%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (45.00%) Subversion
5 9 (45.00%) Maven
5 9 (45.00%) JasperReports
5 9 (45.00%) Ajax
5 9 (45.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (45.00%) Multithreading
5 9 (45.00%) Spring MVC
5 9 (45.00%) Selenium
5 9 (45.00%) FitNesse
5 9 (45.00%) Unit Testing
5 9 (45.00%) Apache Continuum
5 9 (45.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (45.00%) TeamCity
5 9 (45.00%) Eclipse
5 9 (45.00%) OO
5 9 (45.00%) JBoss
5 9 (45.00%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (45.00%) MVC
5 9 (45.00%) Firmware
5 9 (45.00%) JMX

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 14 (70.00%) Java EE
3 13 (65.00%) Hibernate
3 13 (65.00%) Spring
4 11 (55.00%) JMS
5 9 (45.00%) JMX
5 9 (45.00%) SOAP
5 9 (45.00%) Ajax
5 9 (45.00%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (45.00%) Spring MVC
6 3 (15.00%) Web Services
6 3 (15.00%) RESTful
6 3 (15.00%) REST
7 2 (10.00%) HTML
7 2 (10.00%) XML
7 2 (10.00%) EJB
7 2 (10.00%) CSS
7 2 (10.00%) JSP
7 2 (10.00%) Servlets
7 2 (10.00%) JAX-WS
Application Platforms
1 11 (55.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle Reports
1 9 (45.00%) JasperReports
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (45.00%) Subversion
1 9 (45.00%) Maven
1 9 (45.00%) Selenium
1 9 (45.00%) FitNesse
1 9 (45.00%) TeamCity
1 9 (45.00%) Apache Continuum
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (45.00%) TDD
2 9 (45.00%) Unit Testing
2 9 (45.00%) Multithreading
2 9 (45.00%) OO
2 9 (45.00%) MVC
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (10.00%) UML
4 2 (10.00%) RUP
5 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.000%) Perl
4 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
1 9 (45.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.000%) BEA
2 1 (5.000%) webMethods
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will be working on bespoke software solutions at the cutting edge of technology.Essential skills: Minimum of 2 years demonstrable experience of designing, developing, testing, deploying and...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent pension + Holiday
Posted: 29 May 2013