The first table below looks at the demand for SCJA in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJA 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 Qualifications for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA)
Rank - 133 117
Permanent jobs citing SCJA 0 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.139% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.561% 0.316%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 1
Average salary - £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
403 535 316
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.90% 24.75% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 302 488 269
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
SCJA
North West

SCJA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire SCJA Jobs Demand Trend

SCJA
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire SCJA Salary Trend

SCJA
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCJA 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 SCJA.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Struts
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) SCJP
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Chordiant
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic

SCJA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCJA 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 SCJA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Struts
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Graduate Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Graduate
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SCJP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Chordiant
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase