The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development category for the Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 60 45 69
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +24
Permanent jobs citing JPA 4 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.699% 0.478% 0.520%
As % of the Application Development category 1.633% 1.235% 1.099%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% -13.26%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £41,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +10.00%
All Application Development
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
245 162 273
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 42.83% 38.76% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 226 148 251
Average salary £35,000 £30,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.75% -23.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,632 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JPA
South Wales

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing JPA across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cardiff JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JPA across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff JPA Salary Trend

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) Struts
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 15 (93.75%) Java EE
2 15 (93.75%) SOAP
3 14 (87.50%) Spring Web Flow
3 14 (87.50%) Banking
4 13 (81.25%) Refactoring
4 13 (81.25%) Web Services
4 13 (81.25%) Ant
5 12 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
5 12 (75.00%) Hibernate
6 11 (68.75%) SQL
6 11 (68.75%) UML
7 10 (62.50%) Finance
7 10 (62.50%) Maven
8 8 (50.00%) Scrum
9 7 (43.75%) Financial Institution
10 5 (31.25%) Spring MVC
11 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (25.00%) Project Management
11 4 (25.00%) EJB
12 3 (18.75%) JSP
12 3 (18.75%) Mobile Commerce
12 3 (18.75%) REST
13 1 (6.250%) EJB 3.0
13 1 (6.250%) RESTful
13 1 (6.250%) Servlets

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) Struts
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 15 (93.75%) Java EE
2 15 (93.75%) SOAP
3 14 (87.50%) Spring Web Flow
4 13 (81.25%) Web Services
5 12 (75.00%) Hibernate
6 5 (31.25%) Spring MVC
7 4 (25.00%) EJB
8 3 (18.75%) JSP
8 3 (18.75%) REST
9 1 (6.250%) Servlets
9 1 (6.250%) EJB 3.0
9 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Ant
2 10 (62.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.250%) JUnit
General
1 14 (87.50%) Banking
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 7 (43.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
1 16 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 13 (81.25%) Refactoring
3 11 (68.75%) UML
4 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle