The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank - 124 118
Permanent jobs citing SCJP 0 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.199% 0.061%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.762% 0.316%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £43,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.37%
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
389 525 316
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.62% 26.15% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 292 473 257
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,500 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £46,400 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SCJP
North West

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire SCJP Jobs Demand Trend

SCJP
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire SCJP Salary Trend

SCJP
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCJP 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 SCJP.

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%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) SCJA
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

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCJP 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 SCJP. 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%) SCJA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Chordiant
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase