Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank696
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads214712323733
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London18.40 %14.94 %19.44 %
As % of the Programming Languages category34.03 %27.56 %36.91 %
Salaries quoted187010193065
Average salary£65,000£57,500£60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.04 %-4.160 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£35,000£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£85,000£81,700
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£37,500
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6309447010114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London54.08 %54.19 %52.67 %
Salaries quoted557137288230
Average salary£52,500£50,000£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-4.760 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£80,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Java LondonJava
London

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java across the City of London region.

City of London Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Java 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.

11561 (39.23 %)Finance
21274 (32.02 %)Banking
31073 (26.97 %)C++
41064 (26.74 %)SQL
5860 (21.61 %)Front Office
6853 (21.44 %)C#
7836 (21.01 %)Oracle
8777 (19.53 %)Investment Banking
9762 (19.15 %)UNIX
10757 (19.02 %)Spring
11710 (17.84 %)Derivative
12695 (17.47 %)J2EE
13635 (15.96 %)OO
14590 (14.83 %)Agile Software Development
15577 (14.50 %)Degree
16547 (13.75 %)XML
17544 (13.67 %)Linux
18542 (13.62 %)Hibernate
19512 (12.87 %).NET
20475 (11.94 %)Sybase
21410 (10.30 %)Windows
22385 (9.676 %)Fixed Income
23356 (8.947 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
24335 (8.419 %)SQL Server
25324 (8.143 %)Multithreading
26294 (7.389 %)JavaScript
27289 (7.263 %)Computer Science
28286 (7.188 %)HTML
29284 (7.137 %)Perl
30279 (7.012 %)Equities

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1757 (19.02 %)Spring
2695 (17.47 %)J2EE
3547 (13.75 %)XML
4542 (13.62 %)Hibernate
5512 (12.87 %).NET
6286 (7.188 %)HTML
7231 (5.805 %)JMS
8221 (5.554 %)Web Services
9203 (5.102 %)Swing
10167 (4.197 %)J2SE
11159 (3.996 %)CSS
12152 (3.820 %)AJAX
13144 (3.619 %)JSP
14139 (3.493 %)Adobe Flex
15136 (3.418 %)Struts
15136 (3.418 %)Middleware
16129 (3.242 %)JDBC
17122 (3.066 %)Oracle Coherence
1895 (2.388 %)Java EE
1993 (2.337 %)XSLT
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1134 (3.368 %)WebLogic
2132 (3.317 %)Tomcat
3113 (2.840 %)Apache
489 (2.237 %)MQSeries
549 (1.231 %)CMS
643 (1.081 %)IIS
741 (1.030 %)TIBCO EMS
828 (0.704 %)Rendezvous
927 (0.679 %)WebLogic Portal
1024 (0.603 %)WebSphere MQ
1024 (0.603 %)ESB
1120 (0.503 %)SAS
1218 (0.452 %)SharePoint
1316 (0.402 %)Liferay
1411 (0.276 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1411 (0.276 %)WebSphere Process Server
1510 (0.251 %)ColdFusion
1510 (0.251 %)Progress Apama
169 (0.226 %)WebSphere Application Server
169 (0.226 %)NetWeaver
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
146 (1.156 %)MS Excel
229 (0.729 %)MATLAB
328 (0.704 %)MS Visio
421 (0.528 %)Spreadsheet
517 (0.427 %)MS Office
613 (0.327 %)S-PLUS
710 (0.251 %)Photoshop
86 (0.151 %)MS Project
93 (0.075 %)Fireworks
93 (0.075 %)MS PowerPoint
102 (0.050 %)Stata
102 (0.050 %)Acrobat
102 (0.050 %)RoboHelp
111 (0.025 %)Shockwave
111 (0.025 %)SPSS
111 (0.025 %)Adobe Illustrator
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1108 (2.714 %)RMDS
216 (0.402 %)Oracle BPM
314 (0.352 %)Endur
413 (0.327 %)Oracle Applications
413 (0.327 %)ION MarketView
510 (0.251 %)SolArc RightAngle
67 (0.176 %)Oracle EBS
67 (0.176 %)BusinessWorks
67 (0.176 %)Global One
75 (0.126 %)ZaiNet
75 (0.126 %)Interwoven Scrittura
75 (0.126 %)Loan IQ
75 (0.126 %)Autonomy Scrittura
84 (0.101 %)Dynamics CRM
84 (0.101 %)Microsoft CRM
84 (0.101 %)SAP CRM
93 (0.075 %)Singl.eView
93 (0.075 %)Capstone
93 (0.075 %)Kondor+
93 (0.075 %)Beauchamp
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1102 (2.563 %)TCP/IP
284 (2.111 %)Internet
349 (1.231 %)SAN
434 (0.854 %)HTTP
531 (0.779 %)LDAP
621 (0.528 %)SMTP
718 (0.452 %)DNS
718 (0.452 %)Firewall
718 (0.452 %)Intranet
816 (0.402 %)Network Security
915 (0.377 %)LAN
1014 (0.352 %)VPN
1112 (0.302 %)WAN
1210 (0.251 %)FTP
139 (0.226 %)SMS
148 (0.201 %)SSL
156 (0.151 %)PPP
156 (0.151 %)Cisco ASA
156 (0.151 %)BSS
156 (0.151 %)SSH
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1335 (8.419 %)SQL Server
2181 (4.549 %)RDBMS
3123 (3.091 %)MySQL
465 (1.634 %)DB2
553 (1.332 %)Oracle 8/8i
643 (1.081 %)Oracle 10g
741 (1.030 %)Datawarehouse
833 (0.829 %)TOAD
925 (0.628 %)PostgreSQL
1022 (0.553 %)Reference Data
1120 (0.503 %)SQL Server 2005
1219 (0.478 %)Oracle Reports
1219 (0.478 %)OLAP
1316 (0.402 %)Oracle 9i
1316 (0.402 %)ETL
1415 (0.377 %)Data Mining
1415 (0.377 %)KDB
1514 (0.352 %)Sybase IQ
1612 (0.302 %)DB2 UDB
1612 (0.302 %)Oracle 11g
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1212 (5.328 %)JUnit
2140 (3.518 %)Ant
3120 (3.016 %)Maven
3120 (3.016 %)Eclipse
4114 (2.865 %)Subversion
546 (1.156 %)Selenium
639 (0.980 %)NUnit
734 (0.854 %)FlexUnit
828 (0.704 %)Oracle Forms
924 (0.603 %)Log4j
1023 (0.578 %)FitNesse
1023 (0.578 %)Visual Studio
1023 (0.578 %)QuickTest Pro
1121 (0.528 %)Dreamweaver
1217 (0.427 %)WATIR
1314 (0.352 %)TestNG
1413 (0.327 %)CruiseControl
1512 (0.302 %)jMock
1611 (0.276 %)ClearCase
1611 (0.276 %)IntelliJ
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11561 (39.23 %)Finance
21274 (32.02 %)Banking
3860 (21.61 %)Front Office
4777 (19.53 %)Investment Banking
5152 (3.820 %)Education
6144 (3.619 %)Back Office
7104 (2.614 %)Games
8100 (2.513 %)Government
972 (1.809 %)Pensions
1066 (1.659 %)Financial Institution
1153 (1.332 %)Health
1250 (1.257 %)Telecoms
1343 (1.081 %)Retail
1436 (0.905 %)Insurance
1526 (0.653 %)Online Games
1624 (0.603 %)Marketing
1720 (0.503 %)Publishing
1818 (0.452 %)Music
1914 (0.352 %)Electric
2013 (0.327 %)Multimedia
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12681 (67.38 %)Developer
21720 (43.23 %)Java Developer
3446 (11.21 %)Senior Developer
4329 (8.268 %)Senior Java Developer
5274 (6.886 %)Analyst
6239 (6.007 %)C++ Developer
7235 (5.906 %)Architect
8177 (4.448 %)C# Developer
9122 (3.066 %)Team Leader
9122 (3.066 %)Programmer
10120 (3.016 %)Java/J2EE Developer
11113 (2.840 %)Java Engineer
12110 (2.765 %)Java Architect
13106 (2.664 %)J2EE Developer
14103 (2.589 %)Consultant
14103 (2.589 %)Senior Java Engineer
1592 (2.312 %)Graduate
1592 (2.312 %)Software Engineer
1689 (2.237 %)Project Manager
1787 (2.186 %)Java Team Leader
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1710 (17.84 %)Derivative
2385 (9.676 %)Fixed Income
3356 (8.947 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4324 (8.143 %)Multithreading
5289 (7.263 %)Computer Science
6279 (7.012 %)Equities
7207 (5.202 %)Equity Derivative
8138 (3.468 %)Credit Derivative
9128 (3.217 %)Client/Server
10127 (3.192 %)Mathematics
1175 (1.885 %)Spread Betting
1260 (1.508 %)Open Source
1358 (1.458 %)Credit Risk
1457 (1.433 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1550 (1.257 %)iPhone
1648 (1.206 %)Blackberry
1730 (0.754 %)Social Network
1829 (0.729 %)N-Tier
1829 (0.729 %)Exotic Derivative
1928 (0.704 %)Physics
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1762 (19.15 %)UNIX
2544 (13.67 %)Linux
3410 (10.30 %)Windows
4159 (3.996 %)Solaris
551 (1.282 %)Android
638 (0.955 %)Windows XP
727 (0.679 %)AIX
826 (0.653 %)Windows Server 2003
919 (0.478 %)Windows NT
1017 (0.427 %)Red Hat Linux
1116 (0.402 %)VMS
1212 (0.302 %)Windows 2000
138 (0.201 %)OpenVMS
138 (0.201 %)Windows Mobile
145 (0.126 %)HPUX
145 (0.126 %)CentOS
154 (0.101 %)Ubuntu
154 (0.101 %)Windows Server 2008
163 (0.075 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
172 (0.050 %)Debian
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1635 (15.96 %)OO
2590 (14.83 %)Agile Software Development
3254 (6.384 %)Electronic Trading
4249 (6.258 %)TDD
5241 (6.057 %)E-Commerce
6235 (5.906 %)Algorithmic Trading
7221 (5.554 %)Scrum
8218 (5.479 %)Risk Management
9165 (4.147 %)OOD
10155 (3.895 %)UML
11142 (3.569 %)SOA
12139 (3.493 %)MVC
13136 (3.418 %)Continuous Integration
14131 (3.292 %)Project Management
1592 (2.312 %)Web Development
1685 (2.136 %)Software Engineering
1782 (2.061 %)Business Analysis
1782 (2.061 %)OOP
1867 (1.684 %)Unit Testing
1961 (1.533 %)OOA/OOD
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11073 (26.97 %)C++
21064 (26.74 %)SQL
3853 (21.44 %)C#
4294 (7.389 %)JavaScript
5284 (7.137 %)Perl
6179 (4.499 %)C
7150 (3.770 %)Python
8142 (3.569 %)Shell Script
9128 (3.217 %)PL/SQL
10120 (3.016 %)VBA
11112 (2.815 %)PHP
1283 (2.086 %)T-SQL
1379 (1.985 %)Ruby
1466 (1.659 %)VB
1546 (1.156 %)ActionScript
1629 (0.729 %)VB.NET
1728 (0.704 %)VBScript
1728 (0.704 %)Korn
1826 (0.653 %)XPath
1924 (0.603 %)PHP5
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1577 (14.50 %)Degree
274 (1.860 %)PhD
327 (0.679 %)Security Cleared
422 (0.553 %)ISEB
511 (0.276 %)DV Cleared
610 (0.251 %)Sun Certification
78 (0.201 %)ISEB Practitioner
87 (0.176 %)SC Cleared
94 (0.101 %)PRINCE2 Certification
94 (0.101 %)PMI Certification
94 (0.101 %)Microsoft Certification
103 (0.075 %)MCP
103 (0.075 %)MCAD
103 (0.075 %)MCSD
103 (0.075 %)RHCE
103 (0.075 %)ITIL Certification
103 (0.075 %)MCTS
112 (0.050 %)SCJP
112 (0.050 %)Brainbench
112 (0.050 %)PMP
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1177 (4.448 %)QA
212 (0.302 %)SLA
39 (0.226 %)MiFID
46 (0.151 %)Basel II
55 (0.126 %)COBIT
55 (0.126 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
116 (0.402 %)OpenSSO
211 (0.276 %)VMware Infrastructure
39 (0.226 %)Active Directory
48 (0.201 %)NFS
55 (0.126 %)Oracle RAC
64 (0.101 %)Samba
71 (0.025 %)VMware Workstation
71 (0.025 %)MSMQ
71 (0.025 %)Terminal Services
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
114 (0.352 %)MOM
114 (0.352 %)AutoSys
23 (0.075 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
23 (0.075 %)Nagios
31 (0.025 %)TIBCO Hawk
31 (0.025 %)ZABBIX
31 (0.025 %)Ganglia
31 (0.025 %)HP Quality Center
31 (0.025 %)OpenView
31 (0.025 %)Tivoli
31 (0.025 %)CONTROL-M
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1836 (21.01 %)Oracle
2475 (11.94 %)Sybase
3198 (4.976 %)TIBCO
4104 (2.614 %)Microsoft
583 (2.086 %)IBM
682 (2.061 %)Calypso
779 (1.985 %)JBoss
878 (1.960 %)Reuters
971 (1.784 %)Bloomberg
1067 (1.684 %)Adobe
1139 (0.980 %)Sun
1231 (0.779 %)DataSynapse
1330 (0.754 %)Murex
1330 (0.754 %)OpenLink
1423 (0.578 %)Fidessa
1423 (0.578 %)Terracotta
1521 (0.528 %)ION Trading
1620 (0.503 %)Perforce
1620 (0.503 %)SeeBeyond
1718 (0.452 %)SAP