The first table below looks at the demand for Java SE skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java SE over the 3 months to 17 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
Rank 784 705 701
Rank change year-on-year
-79 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 46 158 159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.046% 0.139% 0.136%
As % of the Application Development category 0.112% 0.329% 0.335%
Number of salaries quoted 46 147 150
Average salary £43,750 £50,000 £48,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £35,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £71,250 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £40,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +17.64%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41189 48023 47407
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.84% 42.28% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 36199 42918 42019
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java SE
UK

Java SE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Java SE Jobs Demand Trend

Java SE
Salary Trend

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

England Java SE Salary Trend

Java SE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java SE across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Java SE Salary Histogram

Java SE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java SE within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London -54 27 £50,000 -18.69%
South East +6 13 £27,000 -22.85%
Yorkshire -16 4 £32,500 -10.34%
North West -4 1 £45,000 +23.28%
West Midlands -28 1 £32,500 -27.77%
Java SE
UK

Java SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Java SE 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 SE.

1 154 (99.35%) Java
2 71 (45.81%) Spring
2 71 (45.81%) OO
3 63 (40.65%) Hibernate
4 59 (38.06%) Java EE
5 54 (34.84%) J2EE
6 50 (32.26%) Agile Software Development
7 44 (28.39%) Degree
8 41 (26.45%) Web Services
9 40 (25.81%) Finance
9 40 (25.81%) Unit Testing
10 39 (25.16%) JavaScript
11 34 (21.94%) C++
11 34 (21.94%) XML
12 32 (20.65%) HTML
13 30 (19.35%) TDD
13 30 (19.35%) Scrum
14 28 (18.06%) SQL
15 27 (17.42%) C
15 27 (17.42%) C#
16 26 (16.77%) JBoss
17 25 (16.13%) Oracle
17 25 (16.13%) Multithreading
18 24 (15.48%) Computer Science
18 24 (15.48%) UNIX
18 24 (15.48%) UML
19 23 (14.84%) Linux
20 22 (14.19%) OOD
21 21 (13.55%) Eclipse
21 21 (13.55%) SOAP

Java SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Java SE 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 SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 71 (45.81%) Spring
2 63 (40.65%) Hibernate
3 59 (38.06%) Java EE
4 54 (34.84%) J2EE
5 41 (26.45%) Web Services
6 34 (21.94%) XML
7 32 (20.65%) HTML
8 21 (13.55%) SOAP
9 20 (12.90%) J2SE
9 20 (12.90%) Ajax
10 19 (12.26%) .NET
10 19 (12.26%) CSS
11 17 (10.97%) Struts
12 16 (10.32%) XSLT
12 16 (10.32%) EJB
13 15 (9.677%) WebSphere
13 15 (9.677%) Ext JS
13 15 (9.677%) HTML5
14 14 (9.032%) Swing
15 13 (8.387%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 20 (12.90%) Tomcat
2 10 (6.452%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.806%) Apache
4 3 (1.935%) GemFire
4 3 (1.935%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.935%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.935%) ESB
5 2 (1.290%) Mule
6 1 (0.645%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.645%) GlassFish
6 1 (0.645%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.645%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 12 (7.742%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.290%) MS Project
2 2 (1.290%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.290%) RMDS
2 1 (0.645%) Murex MxG2000
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.742%) GSM
2 11 (7.097%) VoIP
2 11 (7.097%) HTTP
3 9 (5.806%) RTP
4 2 (1.290%) UMTS
5 1 (0.645%) Firewall
5 1 (0.645%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.387%) RDBMS
2 12 (7.742%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.097%) MySQL
4 10 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (5.161%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.516%) Big Data
7 5 (3.226%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.581%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.581%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.935%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.290%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (1.290%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (0.645%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (13.55%) Eclipse
1 21 (13.55%) Maven
2 20 (12.90%) Subversion
3 13 (8.387%) JUnit
4 10 (6.452%) Git (software)
5 8 (5.161%) NetBeans
5 8 (5.161%) Ant
6 6 (3.871%) MyEclipse
6 6 (3.871%) Hudson
7 3 (1.935%) JIRA
7 3 (1.935%) Selenium
7 3 (1.935%) Bugzilla
8 2 (1.290%) jMock
8 2 (1.290%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.645%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.645%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.645%) ClearQuest
General
1 40 (25.81%) Finance
2 17 (10.97%) Banking
3 16 (10.32%) Front Office
4 15 (9.677%) Games
5 8 (5.161%) Legal
6 7 (4.516%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.581%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.290%) Back Office
8 2 (1.290%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.290%) Automotive
8 2 (1.290%) Music
8 2 (1.290%) Retail
9 1 (0.645%) Marketing
9 1 (0.645%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 125 (80.65%) Developer
2 88 (56.77%) Java Developer
3 26 (16.77%) Junior
4 23 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.677%) Junior Developer
6 15 (9.677%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (9.032%) Graduate
8 13 (8.387%) Android Developer
9 11 (7.097%) Java Web Developer
9 11 (7.097%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 11 (7.097%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.097%) Web Developer
10 9 (5.806%) Junior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.806%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (5.161%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.871%) Java Programmer
12 6 (3.871%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.871%) Programmer
13 5 (3.226%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.48%) Computer Science
2 13 (8.387%) Hedge funds
3 12 (7.742%) Web 2.0
4 9 (5.806%) Online Games
4 9 (5.806%) Open Source
5 7 (4.516%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.871%) Handset
6 6 (3.871%) Mathematics
7 5 (3.226%) Equities
7 5 (3.226%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.581%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.935%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.935%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.935%) SaaS
9 3 (1.935%) Physics
10 2 (1.290%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.290%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (1.290%) Smartcard
10 2 (1.290%) Statistics
10 2 (1.290%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.48%) UNIX
2 23 (14.84%) Linux
3 18 (11.61%) Windows
3 18 (11.61%) Android
4 10 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (3.871%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.290%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.645%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.645%) CentOS
7 1 (0.645%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (45.81%) OO
2 50 (32.26%) Agile Software Development
3 40 (25.81%) Unit Testing
4 30 (19.35%) TDD
4 30 (19.35%) Scrum
5 25 (16.13%) Multithreading
6 24 (15.48%) UML
7 22 (14.19%) OOD
8 21 (13.55%) BDD
9 16 (10.32%) Waterfall
10 15 (9.677%) Use Case
10 15 (9.677%) Configuration Management
11 14 (9.032%) SOA
11 14 (9.032%) Release Management
12 13 (8.387%) V-Model
12 13 (8.387%) Software Architecture
12 13 (8.387%) RUP
13 12 (7.742%) Change Management
13 12 (7.742%) Business Analysis
13 12 (7.742%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 154 (99.35%) Java
2 39 (25.16%) JavaScript
3 34 (21.94%) C++
4 28 (18.06%) SQL
5 27 (17.42%) C
5 27 (17.42%) C#
6 16 (10.32%) Python
7 14 (9.032%) Groovy
8 10 (6.452%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.161%) Scala
10 7 (4.516%) Perl
11 6 (3.871%) Ruby
11 6 (3.871%) Embedded C
12 5 (3.226%) PL/SQL
13 4 (2.581%) PHP
14 3 (1.935%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.935%) Clojure
15 2 (1.290%) Embedded C++
15 2 (1.290%) VB
15 2 (1.290%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (28.39%) Degree
2 12 (7.742%) PhD
3 3 (1.935%) OCP
3 3 (1.935%) OCA
3 3 (1.935%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.290%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.645%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.581%) ISO 9001
1 4 (2.581%) SLA
2 2 (1.290%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.645%) Zenoss
1 1 (0.645%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 26 (16.77%) JBoss
2 25 (16.13%) Oracle
3 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.387%) IBM
5 11 (7.097%) ILOG
6 9 (5.806%) Google
7 3 (1.935%) DataSynapse
7 3 (1.935%) Capita
7 3 (1.935%) Reuters
7 3 (1.935%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.935%) Sybase
8 2 (1.290%) Caplin
8 2 (1.290%) Kalahari
9 1 (0.645%) Zend
9 1 (0.645%) Adobe
9 1 (0.645%) Murex
9 1 (0.645%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.645%) Informatica
9 1 (0.645%) Nokia
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
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Think IT Recruitment
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