The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 307 427 495
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.01% 21.07% 23.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.71% 27.62% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 268 370 437
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1194 1546 1615
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 70.03% 76.27% 76.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1103 1324 1479
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
Cambridgeshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridge Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 256 (42.38%) C++
2 229 (37.91%) C#
3 202 (33.44%) Agile Software Development
4 182 (30.13%) Degree
5 168 (27.81%) .NET
6 143 (23.68%) C
7 140 (23.18%) SQL
8 135 (22.35%) Linux
9 134 (22.19%) JavaScript
10 132 (21.85%) Oracle
11 128 (21.19%) UNIX
12 122 (20.20%) HTML
13 120 (19.87%) Computer Science
14 119 (19.70%) TDD
15 117 (19.37%) Perl
16 116 (19.21%) Python
17 108 (17.88%) Apache
18 106 (17.55%) XML
19 105 (17.38%) CSS
20 103 (17.05%) OO
21 101 (16.72%) Windows
22 88 (14.57%) E-Commerce
23 66 (10.93%) Web Services
24 64 (10.60%) Tomcat
25 63 (10.43%) Spring
26 62 (10.26%) Open Source
27 60 (9.934%) Pair Programming
27 60 (9.934%) PHP
27 60 (9.934%) MySQL
28 59 (9.768%) Mathematics

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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
1 168 (27.81%) .NET
2 122 (20.20%) HTML
3 106 (17.55%) XML
4 105 (17.38%) CSS
5 66 (10.93%) Web Services
6 63 (10.43%) Spring
7 54 (8.940%) Ajax
8 45 (7.450%) Hibernate
9 44 (7.285%) J2EE
9 44 (7.285%) jQuery
10 34 (5.629%) ASP.NET
11 29 (4.801%) Spring MVC
12 25 (4.139%) SOAP
12 25 (4.139%) REST
13 24 (3.974%) JDBC
13 24 (3.974%) Middleware
14 19 (3.146%) JMS
14 19 (3.146%) Symfony
15 18 (2.980%) WinForms
16 17 (2.815%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 108 (17.88%) Apache
2 64 (10.60%) Tomcat
3 14 (2.318%) OpenEdge
4 12 (1.987%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.159%) Smallworld
6 6 (0.993%) Amazon AWS
6 6 (0.993%) MediaWiki
6 6 (0.993%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.828%) IIS
8 4 (0.662%) nginx
8 4 (0.662%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.662%) Confluence
8 4 (0.662%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.497%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.497%) CMS
9 3 (0.497%) Zope
9 3 (0.497%) WordPress
10 1 (0.166%) Jetty
Applications
1 18 (2.980%) Photoshop
2 12 (1.987%) MS Office
3 7 (1.159%) MS Excel
4 6 (0.993%) Google Apps
5 3 (0.497%) FrameMaker
6 2 (0.331%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.166%) PaintShop Pro
7 1 (0.166%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 11 (1.821%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (1.656%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.656%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.828%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (0.828%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (0.828%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.828%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 52 (8.609%) Internet
2 37 (6.126%) HTTP
3 12 (1.987%) Intranet
4 11 (1.821%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.828%) WAN
5 5 (0.828%) SSL
6 4 (0.662%) Wireless
6 4 (0.662%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.497%) X.509
8 2 (0.331%) VLAN
8 2 (0.331%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.331%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.331%) NAS
8 2 (0.331%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.331%) DHCP
8 2 (0.331%) DNS
8 2 (0.331%) SMS
8 2 (0.331%) SAN
8 2 (0.331%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.934%) MySQL
2 50 (8.278%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.815%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (2.815%) SQL Server 2005
3 17 (2.815%) Big Data
4 11 (1.821%) Oracle 11g
5 9 (1.490%) Text Mining
5 9 (1.490%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.490%) GIS
6 8 (1.325%) Data Mining
7 7 (1.159%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (0.993%) TOAD
9 5 (0.828%) Oracle 9i
9 5 (0.828%) Oracle 10g
10 4 (0.662%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.662%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.331%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.166%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.166%) Oracle Discoverer
12 1 (0.166%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (9.106%) Subversion
2 36 (5.960%) Git (software)
3 23 (3.808%) Visual Studio
4 19 (3.146%) Eclipse
5 14 (2.318%) JUnit
6 11 (1.821%) Selenium
7 10 (1.656%) JIRA
8 8 (1.325%) SCons
9 7 (1.159%) GCC
10 6 (0.993%) Maven
10 6 (0.993%) Mercurial
10 6 (0.993%) GoogleTest
10 6 (0.993%) Bugzilla
10 6 (0.993%) QuickTest Pro
11 4 (0.662%) MorphX
11 4 (0.662%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.662%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.662%) FishEye
11 4 (0.662%) GitHub
11 4 (0.662%) Xcode
General
1 55 (9.106%) Finance
2 18 (2.980%) Telecoms
3 17 (2.815%) Electronics
4 15 (2.483%) Military
5 13 (2.152%) Games
6 8 (1.325%) Manufacturing
7 6 (0.993%) Automotive
8 5 (0.828%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (0.828%) Advertising
9 4 (0.662%) Publishing
9 4 (0.662%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.497%) Banking
10 3 (0.497%) French Language
10 3 (0.497%) German Language
11 2 (0.331%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.331%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.331%) Law
11 2 (0.331%) Legal
12 1 (0.166%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 343 (56.79%) Developer
2 187 (30.96%) Software Engineer
3 108 (17.88%) Java Developer
4 103 (17.05%) Software Developer
5 61 (10.10%) Senior Developer
6 51 (8.444%) Graduate
7 44 (7.285%) .NET Developer
8 43 (7.119%) C# Developer
9 42 (6.954%) C# .NET Developer
10 40 (6.623%) Lead Software Engineer
11 39 (6.457%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (6.291%) Graduate Developer
13 37 (6.126%) Support Engineer
14 31 (5.132%) Graduate Software Developer
15 27 (4.470%) Programmer
16 26 (4.305%) Applications Developer
17 23 (3.808%) Graduate Software Engineer
18 21 (3.477%) Web Developer
19 20 (3.311%) Analyst
19 20 (3.311%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 120 (19.87%) Computer Science
2 62 (10.26%) Open Source
3 59 (9.768%) Mathematics
4 29 (4.801%) Mobile App
5 27 (4.470%) Blog
6 25 (4.139%) Physics
7 16 (2.649%) Cryptography
8 14 (2.318%) PKI
9 12 (1.987%) Mobile Payment
9 12 (1.987%) Handset
10 11 (1.821%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.821%) Embedded Systems
11 10 (1.656%) Semantic Web
11 10 (1.656%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.656%) SaaS
12 7 (1.159%) Visualisation
13 6 (0.993%) Wiki
13 6 (0.993%) Life Science
13 6 (0.993%) Informatics
13 6 (0.993%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 135 (22.35%) Linux
2 128 (21.19%) UNIX
3 101 (16.72%) Windows
4 48 (7.947%) Android
5 35 (5.795%) Solaris
6 32 (5.298%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.662%) CentOS
8 3 (0.497%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.331%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.331%) Windows Phone
9 2 (0.331%) Windows CE
10 1 (0.166%) Windows Phone 8
10 1 (0.166%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (33.44%) Agile Software Development
2 119 (19.70%) TDD
3 103 (17.05%) OO
4 88 (14.57%) E-Commerce
5 60 (9.934%) Pair Programming
6 46 (7.616%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (7.119%) OOD
8 39 (6.457%) Software Engineering
9 35 (5.795%) Web Development
10 33 (5.464%) MVC
11 31 (5.132%) Unit Testing
12 30 (4.967%) Analytics
13 25 (4.139%) OOP
14 23 (3.808%) Scrum
15 21 (3.477%) Software Testing
16 19 (3.146%) CQRS
17 16 (2.649%) Automated Testing
18 14 (2.318%) Performance Testing
19 13 (2.152%) Test Automation
19 13 (2.152%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 256 (42.38%) C++
2 229 (37.91%) C#
3 143 (23.68%) C
4 140 (23.18%) SQL
5 134 (22.19%) JavaScript
6 117 (19.37%) Perl
7 116 (19.21%) Python
8 60 (9.934%) PHP
9 33 (5.464%) Ruby
10 29 (4.801%) Objective-C
11 22 (3.642%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.815%) VB.NET
12 17 (2.815%) Bash shell
13 8 (1.325%) Haskell
14 7 (1.159%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.159%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.993%) F#
15 6 (0.993%) OCaml
15 6 (0.993%) Magik
16 4 (0.662%) X++
Qualifications
1 182 (30.13%) Degree
2 18 (2.980%) ISEB
3 15 (2.483%) PhD
3 15 (2.483%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.318%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.152%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.490%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.331%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.331%) GIAC
7 2 (0.331%) CISSP
8 1 (0.166%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.795%) QA
2 12 (1.987%) ISO 9000
3 2 (0.331%) TickIT
3 2 (0.331%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (0.993%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (0.993%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.662%) XenServer
3 3 (0.497%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 6 (0.993%) HP Quality Center
1 6 (0.993%) Data Guard
2 4 (0.662%) Puppet
3 1 (0.166%) SCOM
Vendors
1 132 (21.85%) Oracle
2 46 (7.616%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.967%) Sybase
4 12 (1.987%) Adobe
5 9 (1.490%) Google
6 6 (0.993%) VMware
6 6 (0.993%) HP
6 6 (0.993%) BEA
7 5 (0.828%) Macromedia
7 5 (0.828%) Hyperion
7 5 (0.828%) Riverbed
8 4 (0.662%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.662%) Twitter
8 4 (0.662%) Perforce
8 4 (0.662%) webMethods
8 4 (0.662%) Sun
9 3 (0.497%) JBoss
9 3 (0.497%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.331%) Akamai
10 2 (0.331%) Facebook
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Java Developer to £45k -Cambridge... using open source projects, with experience with Java and web technologies... - Java - JavaScript - Rest - Knowledge of Python is highly desirable Location -Cambridge... Keywords -...
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: £30k - 45k per year + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Java, C++, Server-side, SCRUM, JSP, Javascript, HTML, XML, Struts, Software... Key requirements: 2-5 years Java and/or C++, mostly in server-side development Struts and JSP...
Creative Personnel
Salary: £35000 to £39000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
As the successful Software Engineer / Developer, you will have a minimum of a bachelors degree in Computer Science or other numerate subject with a high software engineering content.....
Computer People
Salary: £1.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced, rapidly expanding online games company based in Cambridge and help us...
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
As a highly skilled Java Developer you will be part of a small focused project team which is responsible for innovation and development of new product strategies. The...
TRG
Salary: 40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 9 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 55k + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
TRG
Salary: £40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £70k + stock option plan
Posted: 31 May 2013
Cambridge, South East, United Kingdom, East...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Salary: £29750 - £37525 per annum + plus excellent
Posted: 23 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (CB1), East Anglia
Guru Careers
Salary: £Highly Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
greywood
Salary: £23000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £45000 per annum + Good Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £55k
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: To 40k + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: c35k + bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Computer People
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Anderson Lamb
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum plus package to include options
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Illumina Cambridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + industry leading benefits package!
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
TEKsystems
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits, pension, negotiable
Posted: 16 June 2013