The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 21 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank 56 46 50
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Permanent jobs citing SCJP 10 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 1.634% 0.840% 0.796%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.435% 2.479% 3.529%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 3
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Qualifications
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
184 121 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 30.07% 33.89% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 168 99 79
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SCJP
West Midlands

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry SCJP Salary Trend

SCJP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 17 (100.00%) Java
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE
1 17 (100.00%) Struts
1 17 (100.00%) Apache
1 17 (100.00%) Sun
1 17 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 17 (100.00%) SCJD
1 17 (100.00%) Spring
1 17 (100.00%) SCJA
2 16 (94.12%) EJB
2 16 (94.12%) SCWCD
2 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.882%) Linux
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) SQL

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 17 (100.00%) J2EE
1 17 (100.00%) Struts
1 17 (100.00%) Spring
2 16 (94.12%) EJB
3 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Software Support Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
1 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 17 (100.00%) SCJD
1 17 (100.00%) SCJA
2 16 (94.12%) SCWCD
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Sun
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle