The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 20 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 39 67 36
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -31
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 52 25 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.901% 1.844% 4.724%
As % of the Application Development category 11.87% 5.319% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 31 21 45
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
438 470 496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 41.28% 34.66% 32.55%
Number of salaries quoted 277 369 367
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Edinburgh J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Edinburgh J2EE Salary Histogram

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 75 (87.21%) Java
2 46 (53.49%) Finance
3 41 (47.67%) XML
4 39 (45.35%) Oracle
5 33 (38.37%) Web Services
6 27 (31.40%) Agile Software Development
6 27 (31.40%) .NET
7 26 (30.23%) UML
8 25 (29.07%) JavaScript
8 25 (29.07%) Software Engineering
9 24 (27.91%) Hibernate
9 24 (27.91%) HTML
9 24 (27.91%) JBoss
10 23 (26.74%) JSF
11 22 (25.58%) Ajax
11 22 (25.58%) WebSphere
12 21 (24.42%) BPMN
13 20 (23.26%) C#
13 20 (23.26%) JUnit
14 19 (22.09%) SQL Server
14 19 (22.09%) Linux
14 19 (22.09%) SOA
15 17 (19.77%) Eclipse
15 17 (19.77%) Apache
15 17 (19.77%) ASP.NET
15 17 (19.77%) CSS
15 17 (19.77%) Spring
15 17 (19.77%) MVC
16 16 (18.60%) SQL Server 2005
17 15 (17.44%) Degree

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 41 (47.67%) XML
2 33 (38.37%) Web Services
3 27 (31.40%) .NET
4 24 (27.91%) HTML
4 24 (27.91%) Hibernate
5 23 (26.74%) JSF
6 22 (25.58%) Ajax
6 22 (25.58%) WebSphere
7 17 (19.77%) Spring
7 17 (19.77%) ASP.NET
7 17 (19.77%) CSS
8 15 (17.44%) Struts
8 15 (17.44%) jQuery
9 14 (16.28%) XSLT
10 13 (15.12%) SOAP
11 12 (13.95%) JSP
12 8 (9.302%) Java EE
12 8 (9.302%) Dojo
13 7 (8.140%) Spring MVC
14 6 (6.977%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 17 (19.77%) Apache
2 14 (16.28%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (8.140%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (6.977%) MQSeries
5 4 (4.651%) ESB
5 4 (4.651%) IIS
5 4 (4.651%) WebSphere Portal
5 4 (4.651%) CMS
6 2 (2.326%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.326%) Mule
6 2 (2.326%) Drupal
6 2 (2.326%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.163%) GlassFish
7 1 (1.163%) WebLogic
7 1 (1.163%) WebSphere Process Server
7 1 (1.163%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (2.326%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (2.326%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.488%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) SQL Server
2 16 (18.60%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (8.140%) DB2
4 3 (3.488%) MySQL
5 2 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.163%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.163%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.163%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.163%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.163%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) JUnit
2 17 (19.77%) Eclipse
3 13 (15.12%) Subversion
4 11 (12.79%) Maven
5 8 (9.302%) Jenkins
6 7 (8.140%) JIRA
6 7 (8.140%) Selenium
7 4 (4.651%) Fiddler
7 4 (4.651%) Log4j
7 4 (4.651%) Canoo WebTest
8 2 (2.326%) Talend Open Studio
9 1 (1.163%) Ant
9 1 (1.163%) JMeter
9 1 (1.163%) HttpUnit
General
1 46 (53.49%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Banking
3 6 (6.977%) Advertising
4 1 (1.163%) Retail
4 1 (1.163%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (67.44%) Developer
2 31 (36.05%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.60%) Senior Developer
4 15 (17.44%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 14 (16.28%) Analyst
6 11 (12.79%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (11.63%) Systems Analyst
8 8 (9.302%) Software Engineer
9 7 (8.140%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (8.140%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.140%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 7 (8.140%) Senior Systems Analyst
9 7 (8.140%) Developer Analyst
10 6 (6.977%) J2EE Developer
11 5 (5.814%) ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (5.814%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.814%) C# Developer
11 5 (5.814%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (5.814%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (4.651%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Computer Science
2 8 (9.302%) Open Source
3 2 (2.326%) W3C
3 2 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.163%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.163%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Linux
2 5 (5.814%) Android
2 5 (5.814%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.163%) Windows
3 1 (1.163%) AIX
3 1 (1.163%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.40%) Agile Software Development
2 26 (30.23%) UML
3 25 (29.07%) Software Engineering
4 21 (24.42%) BPMN
5 19 (22.09%) SOA
6 17 (19.77%) MVC
7 12 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (12.79%) TDD
8 11 (12.79%) Unit Testing
9 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (10.47%) Scrum
10 8 (9.302%) Build Automation
11 7 (8.140%) Business Analysis
11 7 (8.140%) Extreme Programming
11 7 (8.140%) Pair Programming
11 7 (8.140%) CRM
12 6 (6.977%) Content Management
13 4 (4.651%) Information Management
13 4 (4.651%) Change Management
13 4 (4.651%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (87.21%) Java
2 25 (29.07%) JavaScript
3 20 (23.26%) C#
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 12 (13.95%) Perl
6 4 (4.651%) PHP
7 3 (3.488%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.488%) C++
8 2 (2.326%) Objective-C
8 2 (2.326%) Ruby
9 1 (1.163%) Groovy
9 1 (1.163%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.163%) C
9 1 (1.163%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 10 (11.63%) Sun Certification
3 4 (4.651%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.651%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.651%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 39 (45.35%) Oracle
2 24 (27.91%) JBoss
3 12 (13.95%) IBM
4 4 (4.651%) Pega
4 4 (4.651%) Canoo
5 2 (2.326%) Talend
5 2 (2.326%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.326%) webMethods
5 2 (2.326%) Alterian
6 1 (1.163%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.163%) Sybase
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus and benefits
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