The first table below looks at the demand for SCJA in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJA over the 3 months to 24 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA)
Rank 151 157 161
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +4
Permanent jobs citing SCJA 12 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.390% 0.090% 0.112%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.577% 0.269% 0.370%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 4
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 £33,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Qualifications
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
761 1116 1080
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 24.76% 33.63% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 650 952 887
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SCJA
England

SCJA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands SCJA Jobs Demand Trend

SCJA
Salary Trend

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

East Midlands SCJA Salary Trend

SCJA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCJA within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northamptonshire +6 10 £37,500 +15.38%
Leicestershire - 10 £37,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £30,750 -
SCJA
England

SCJA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing SCJA 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 SCJA.

1 19 (100.00%) J2EE
1 19 (100.00%) Struts
1 19 (100.00%) Java
1 19 (100.00%) SCJP
1 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 17 (89.47%) SCJD
2 17 (89.47%) Sun
2 17 (89.47%) Sun Certification
2 17 (89.47%) Apache
3 16 (84.21%) EJB
3 16 (84.21%) SCWCD
3 16 (84.21%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) XML
5 2 (10.53%) DB2
5 2 (10.53%) Ant
5 2 (10.53%) JDBC
5 2 (10.53%) JSP
5 2 (10.53%) Servlets
5 2 (10.53%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (10.53%) WSDL
5 2 (10.53%) XML Schema
5 2 (10.53%) DSDM
5 2 (10.53%) JMS
5 2 (10.53%) EAI

SCJA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing SCJA 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 SCJA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (100.00%) J2EE
1 19 (100.00%) Struts
1 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 16 (84.21%) EJB
3 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) JDBC
3 2 (10.53%) JSP
3 2 (10.53%) Servlets
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) WSDL
3 2 (10.53%) XML Schema
3 2 (10.53%) JMS
3 2 (10.53%) ICEfaces
3 2 (10.53%) RichFaces
3 2 (10.53%) JSF
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (89.47%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Ant
1 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
1 2 (10.53%) Bugzilla
1 2 (10.53%) Maven
1 2 (10.53%) CruiseControl
1 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 2 (10.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 17 (89.47%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 17 (89.47%) Java Developer
2 17 (89.47%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Software Support Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
3 2 (10.53%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.53%) DSDM
1 2 (10.53%) EAI
1 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
1 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (10.53%) Product Management
1 2 (10.53%) Analytics
1 2 (10.53%) Refactoring
1 2 (10.53%) Scrum
1 2 (10.53%) TDD
1 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
2 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
2 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) SCJP
2 17 (89.47%) SCJD
2 17 (89.47%) Sun Certification
3 16 (84.21%) SCWCD
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Sun
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle