The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java EE 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 47 28 47
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +19
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 3 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.838% 4.938% 0.424%
As % of the Application Development category 1.775% 8.989% 0.694%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 1
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% -8.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
169 89 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 47.21% 54.94% 61.02%
Number of salaries quoted 97 78 140
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
Cheshire

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Chester Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Java EE 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 EE.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) JSF
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Axis
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-RPC
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) JSF
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Axis
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-RPC
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle