The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2SE over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank - 118 118
Permanent jobs citing J2SE 0 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.799% 0.119%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.512% 0.232%
Number of salaries quoted 0 16 1
Average salary - £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -21.05%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
812 1058 861
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 45.52% 52.85% 51.37%
Number of salaries quoted 667 949 786
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2SE
North West

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire J2SE Salary Trend

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) JSF
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Swing
3 2 (40.00%) PhD
3 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (20.00%) Sun Certification
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) EJB
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) JSF
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Swing
4 1 (20.00%) EJB
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) OSGi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Junior Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle