The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 20 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 97 69 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 33.33% 21.10% 19.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.86% 52.67% 48.15%
Number of salaries quoted 84 50 29
Average salary £85,000 £75,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,300 £57,500 £44,500
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £100,000 £83,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
207 131 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 71.13% 40.06% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 156 101 60
Average salary £77,500 £72,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.89% +20.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £57,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
London

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 70 (40.00%) Banking
2 59 (33.71%) Finance
3 57 (32.57%) SQL
4 56 (32.00%) Front Office
5 49 (28.00%) OO
6 43 (24.57%) Oracle
7 42 (24.00%) Investment Banking
8 41 (23.43%) C#
9 40 (22.86%) UNIX
10 37 (21.14%) Degree
11 36 (20.57%) Linux
12 33 (18.86%) JavaScript
13 30 (17.14%) SQL Server
13 30 (17.14%) Multithreading
14 27 (15.43%) DataSynapse
15 26 (14.86%) C++
16 25 (14.29%) Windows
16 25 (14.29%) ETL
17 23 (13.14%) Back Office
17 23 (13.14%) Technical Architecture
17 23 (13.14%) Stress Testing
17 23 (13.14%) Basel III
18 22 (12.57%) Spring
18 22 (12.57%) Equities
18 22 (12.57%) Sybase
19 21 (12.00%) Hadoop
19 21 (12.00%) Clojure
20 20 (11.43%) Middleware
21 18 (10.29%) Credit Risk
21 18 (10.29%) GemFire

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 22 (12.57%) Spring
2 20 (11.43%) Middleware
3 15 (8.571%) XML
4 13 (7.429%) HTML
4 13 (7.429%) WebSphere
5 9 (5.143%) XSLT
6 8 (4.571%) J2EE
7 6 (3.429%) J2SE
8 5 (2.857%) .NET
8 5 (2.857%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.286%) CSS
9 4 (2.286%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.714%) JMS
10 3 (1.714%) Swing
10 3 (1.714%) JSP
10 3 (1.714%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.714%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (1.714%) WPF
10 3 (1.714%) Guice
10 3 (1.714%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 18 (10.29%) GemFire
2 13 (7.429%) IIS
2 13 (7.429%) Apache
3 9 (5.143%) WebLogic
4 7 (4.000%) Mathematica
5 3 (1.714%) TIBCO EMS
5 3 (1.714%) Tuxedo
5 3 (1.714%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.571%) Drupal
6 1 (0.571%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.571%) Liferay
6 1 (0.571%) Documentum
6 1 (0.571%) TeamSite
6 1 (0.571%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.571%) CMS
6 1 (0.571%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.571%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 10 (5.714%) RMDS
2 5 (2.857%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.571%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.571%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.571%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.143%) SAN
1 9 (5.143%) NAS
2 7 (4.000%) HTTP
3 3 (1.714%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.429%) Informix
3 6 (3.429%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.857%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.714%) KDB
6 2 (1.143%) MS Access
6 2 (1.143%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.143%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.143%) Big Data
7 1 (0.571%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.571%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.571%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (4.000%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.857%) Maven
2 5 (2.857%) SAP CE
3 4 (2.286%) LoadRunner
3 4 (2.286%) Subversion
4 3 (1.714%) Ant
4 3 (1.714%) Eclipse RCP
5 2 (1.143%) Selenium
5 2 (1.143%) JUnit
5 2 (1.143%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.571%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.571%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (0.571%) JIRA
6 1 (0.571%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.571%) JBehave
6 1 (0.571%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.571%) Mockito
6 1 (0.571%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.571%) Cucumber
General
1 70 (40.00%) Banking
2 59 (33.71%) Finance
3 56 (32.00%) Front Office
4 42 (24.00%) Investment Banking
5 23 (13.14%) Back Office
6 11 (6.286%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.429%) Publishing
8 3 (1.714%) Games
9 1 (0.571%) Legal
9 1 (0.571%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.571%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (43.43%) Developer
2 51 (29.14%) Java Developer
3 37 (21.14%) Analyst
4 35 (20.00%) Architect
5 23 (13.14%) Lead Architect
6 15 (8.571%) Lead Technical Architect
6 15 (8.571%) Technical Architect
6 15 (8.571%) Support Analyst
7 14 (8.000%) Applications Support
8 13 (7.429%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.286%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.286%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (5.714%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (4.571%) Team Leader
11 8 (4.571%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.000%) Quantitative Analyst
13 5 (2.857%) Infrastructure Architect
13 5 (2.857%) C++ Developer
13 5 (2.857%) Lead Developer
14 4 (2.286%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Equities
2 18 (10.29%) Credit Risk
3 10 (5.714%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (5.143%) Derivative
5 8 (4.571%) Physics
5 8 (4.571%) Computer Science
6 7 (4.000%) Fixed Income
6 7 (4.000%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.857%) Machine Learning
8 4 (2.286%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.143%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.143%) Online Games
9 2 (1.143%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.571%) Open Source
10 1 (0.571%) Social Media
10 1 (0.571%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.571%) Chemistry
10 1 (0.571%) Mathematics
10 1 (0.571%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (0.571%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.86%) UNIX
2 36 (20.57%) Linux
3 25 (14.29%) Windows
4 9 (5.143%) Solaris
5 1 (0.571%) Android
5 1 (0.571%) CentOS
5 1 (0.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.571%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.571%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.00%) OO
2 30 (17.14%) Multithreading
3 25 (14.29%) ETL
4 23 (13.14%) Technical Architecture
4 23 (13.14%) Stress Testing
5 13 (7.429%) Problem Management
6 11 (6.286%) Electronic Trading
6 11 (6.286%) TDD
7 10 (5.714%) ITIL
7 10 (5.714%) Benchmarking
8 9 (5.143%) Performance Management
8 9 (5.143%) Algorithmic Trading
8 9 (5.143%) Complex Event Processing
8 9 (5.143%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (4.571%) Analytics
10 7 (4.000%) Validation
11 6 (3.429%) E-Commerce
11 6 (3.429%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (3.429%) Performance Testing
12 5 (2.857%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.57%) SQL
2 41 (23.43%) C#
3 33 (18.86%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.86%) C++
5 21 (12.00%) Clojure
6 17 (9.714%) Python
7 15 (8.571%) Perl
8 9 (5.143%) C
9 8 (4.571%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.429%) PHP
10 6 (3.429%) Scala
11 5 (2.857%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.286%) Korn
13 3 (1.714%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.714%) VBA
14 1 (0.571%) COBOL
14 1 (0.571%) Haskell
14 1 (0.571%) Erlang
14 1 (0.571%) OCaml
14 1 (0.571%) F#
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) Degree
2 1 (0.571%) Sun Certification
2 1 (0.571%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.14%) Basel III
2 5 (2.857%) SLA
3 3 (1.714%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.571%) Dollar Universe
1 1 (0.571%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (24.57%) Oracle
2 27 (15.43%) DataSynapse
3 22 (12.57%) Sybase
4 10 (5.714%) EMC
5 9 (5.143%) NetApp
5 9 (5.143%) Cisco
5 9 (5.143%) 29West
6 6 (3.429%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.857%) SAP
7 5 (2.857%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.286%) SunGard
8 4 (2.286%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.143%) Informatica
9 2 (1.143%) Perforce
10 1 (0.571%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.571%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.571%) Caplin
10 1 (0.571%) Mantas
10 1 (0.571%) Actimize
10 1 (0.571%) Omniture