The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2SE over the 3 months to 22 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 63 50 48
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -2
Permanent jobs citing J2SE 2 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.321% 0.275% 0.532%
As % of the Application Development category 0.862% 0.671% 1.961%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £46,000 £36,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.77% -7.09%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -21.05%
All Application Development
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
232 149 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 37.24% 40.93% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 204 139 99
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2SE
West Midlands

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Coventry J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Coventry region.

Coventry J2SE Salary Trend

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) XSLT
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) Struts
2 4 (57.14%) OO
2 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) J2EE
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) JSP
2 4 (57.14%) Servlets
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) JDBC
3 3 (42.86%) Ant
3 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
3 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) XSLT
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) Struts
2 4 (57.14%) J2EE
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) JSP
2 4 (57.14%) Servlets
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) JDBC
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Ant
1 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Hudson
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Solaris
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree