The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Engineer
Rank 111 107 96
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 10 10 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.571% 0.567% 0.828%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.588% 0.601% 0.888%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 15
Average salary £32,500 £55,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.90% +22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1701 1664 1690
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 97.20% 94.38% 93.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1480 1467 1379
Average salary £37,500 £36,122 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.81% +6.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Software Engineer
South West

Java Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bristol Java Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Bristol Java Software Engineer Salary Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Bristol Java Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Java Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (88.89%) SQL
3 30 (83.33%) Oracle
4 29 (80.56%) Computer Science
5 28 (77.78%) Degree
6 27 (75.00%) Eclipse
6 27 (75.00%) Spring
7 26 (72.22%) Problem Management
7 26 (72.22%) Unit Testing
8 17 (47.22%) JUnit
9 16 (44.44%) J2EE
9 16 (44.44%) Subversion
9 16 (44.44%) iBATIS
9 16 (44.44%) QA
9 16 (44.44%) Drools
10 14 (38.89%) JMS
10 14 (38.89%) WebSphere
10 14 (38.89%) WebLogic
10 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
10 14 (38.89%) JBoss
11 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (30.56%) RDBMS
12 11 (30.56%) BEA
12 11 (30.56%) WebSphere MQ
12 11 (30.56%) Eclipse RCP
13 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (27.78%) GWT
13 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (27.78%) VMware

Java Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (75.00%) Spring
2 16 (44.44%) J2EE
2 16 (44.44%) iBATIS
2 16 (44.44%) Drools
3 14 (38.89%) JMS
3 14 (38.89%) WebSphere
4 10 (27.78%) GWT
5 3 (8.333%) Java EE
6 2 (5.556%) Ajax
6 2 (5.556%) HTML
6 2 (5.556%) CSS
6 2 (5.556%) jQuery
7 1 (2.778%) HTML5
7 1 (2.778%) WebSockets
Application Platforms
1 14 (38.89%) WebLogic
2 11 (30.56%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.778%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 11 (30.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.778%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.778%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 17 (47.22%) JUnit
3 16 (44.44%) Subversion
4 11 (30.56%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 1 (2.778%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 29 (80.56%) Computer Science
2 10 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.333%) Open Source
4 1 (2.778%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) Problem Management
1 26 (72.22%) Unit Testing
2 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (5.556%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.778%) Analytics
5 1 (2.778%) User Stories
5 1 (2.778%) Big Data Analytics
5 1 (2.778%) TDD
5 1 (2.778%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (88.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.556%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (77.78%) Degree
2 2 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 30 (83.33%) Oracle
2 14 (38.89%) JBoss
3 11 (30.56%) BEA
4 10 (27.78%) VMware
4 10 (27.78%) Google
5 1 (2.778%) GigaSpaces