The first table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java J2EE Developer
Rank 37 15 41
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 9 21 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.020% 12.65% 6.529%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.214% 12.88% 6.810%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 19
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
280 163 279
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.96% 98.19% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 156 152 266
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £46,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Java/J2EE Developer
Cheshire

Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Chester Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Chester region.

Chester Java/J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 17 (85.00%) Spring
3 16 (80.00%) Oracle
3 16 (80.00%) SQL
4 15 (75.00%) HTML
4 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (75.00%) JSP
4 15 (75.00%) Struts
4 15 (75.00%) XML
4 15 (75.00%) Tomcat
5 14 (70.00%) Eclipse
5 14 (70.00%) Web Services
5 14 (70.00%) PL/SQL
5 14 (70.00%) Ant
5 14 (70.00%) JUnit
5 14 (70.00%) Ajax
5 14 (70.00%) jQuery
6 13 (65.00%) JDBC
7 8 (40.00%) MVC
7 8 (40.00%) IBM
8 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
9 6 (30.00%) Spring MVC
10 5 (25.00%) JPA
10 5 (25.00%) Git (software)
10 5 (25.00%) JIRA
11 3 (15.00%) HTTP
12 2 (10.00%) JBoss
12 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
12 2 (10.00%) Scrum

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 17 (85.00%) Spring
3 15 (75.00%) HTML
3 15 (75.00%) JSP
3 15 (75.00%) Struts
3 15 (75.00%) XML
4 14 (70.00%) Web Services
4 14 (70.00%) Ajax
4 14 (70.00%) jQuery
5 13 (65.00%) JDBC
6 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
7 6 (30.00%) Spring MVC
8 5 (25.00%) JPA
9 1 (5.000%) Stripes Framework
9 1 (5.000%) Servlets
9 1 (5.000%) EJB
9 1 (5.000%) CSS
9 1 (5.000%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 15 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Eclipse
1 14 (70.00%) Ant
1 14 (70.00%) JUnit
2 5 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (10.00%) Scrum
2 2 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
2 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (10.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (5.000%) TDD
3 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (80.00%) SQL
3 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (70.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) JBoss