The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Software Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Developer
Rank 629 550 604
Rank change year-on-year
-79 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 218 328 262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.215% 0.288% 0.227%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.227% 0.304% 0.240%
Number of salaries quoted 190 293 250
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-16.25% +14.28%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95965 107840 108961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.44% 94.79% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 80782 93186 92537
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Software Developer
UK

Java Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Software Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Java Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

England Java Software Developer Salary Trend

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Software Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Java Software Developer Salary Histogram

Java Software Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +25 94 £52,500 +16.66%
South East -53 32 £38,500 -3.75%
East of England -14 29 £41,500 +10.66%
Yorkshire +7 22 £32,500 -27.77%
South West -13 18 £29,500 -26.25%
North West -25 16 £33,500 -10.66%
North East +11 5 £30,000 -25.00%
East Midlands -10 2 £28,750 -17.85%
Java Software Developer
UK

Java Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Java Software Developer in their job title 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 with Java Software Developer in their job title.

1 440 (100.00%) Java
2 229 (52.05%) Degree
3 174 (39.55%) Spring
4 138 (31.36%) Agile Software Development
5 136 (30.91%) J2EE
6 129 (29.32%) OO
7 113 (25.68%) Hibernate
8 112 (25.45%) JavaScript
9 109 (24.77%) Web Services
10 100 (22.73%) SQL
11 91 (20.68%) XML
12 89 (20.23%) Linux
13 87 (19.77%) TDD
14 81 (18.41%) Oracle
15 77 (17.50%) JSP
16 74 (16.82%) Computer Science
17 68 (15.45%) CSS
18 67 (15.23%) Finance
19 66 (15.00%) Unit Testing
20 64 (14.55%) JBoss
21 60 (13.64%) SOAP
21 60 (13.64%) .NET
21 60 (13.64%) C#
22 58 (13.18%) Mathematics
22 58 (13.18%) Ajax
23 57 (12.95%) PhD
24 50 (11.36%) UNIX
25 49 (11.14%) Multithreading
26 48 (10.91%) Java EE
27 47 (10.68%) Scrum

Java Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Java Software Developer in their job title 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 with Java Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 174 (39.55%) Spring
2 136 (30.91%) J2EE
3 113 (25.68%) Hibernate
4 109 (24.77%) Web Services
5 91 (20.68%) XML
6 77 (17.50%) JSP
7 68 (15.45%) CSS
8 60 (13.64%) SOAP
8 60 (13.64%) .NET
9 58 (13.18%) Ajax
10 48 (10.91%) Java EE
11 47 (10.68%) jQuery
12 46 (10.45%) REST
13 42 (9.545%) HTML
14 41 (9.318%) Struts
14 41 (9.318%) XHTML
15 40 (9.091%) JDBC
16 39 (8.864%) JSON
17 34 (7.727%) XSLT
18 30 (6.818%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 43 (9.773%) Tomcat
2 29 (6.591%) Apache
3 11 (2.500%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.136%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (0.909%) GemFire
6 3 (0.682%) LiveCycle
6 3 (0.682%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (0.682%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.682%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.455%) ESB
7 2 (0.455%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.455%) Confluence
7 2 (0.455%) Mule
7 2 (0.455%) Windows Azure
8 1 (0.227%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.227%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.227%) IIS
8 1 (0.227%) CMS
8 1 (0.227%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.227%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 5 (1.136%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.364%) Front Arena
2 5 (1.136%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.227%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.409%) HTTP
2 3 (0.682%) SSL
3 2 (0.455%) Broadband
3 2 (0.455%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.455%) Internet
4 1 (0.227%) LDAP
4 1 (0.227%) DVB
4 1 (0.227%) RTCP
4 1 (0.227%) RTP
4 1 (0.227%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.818%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.136%) MySQL
3 22 (5.000%) Big Data
4 11 (2.500%) Hadoop
5 10 (2.273%) RDBMS
5 10 (2.273%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (1.136%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (1.136%) GIS
7 2 (0.455%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.455%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.455%) Redis
7 2 (0.455%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.227%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.227%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.227%) DB2
8 1 (0.227%) TOAD
8 1 (0.227%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.227%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.227%) JasperReports
8 1 (0.227%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (10.00%) JUnit
2 37 (8.409%) Eclipse
3 14 (3.182%) JIRA
3 14 (3.182%) Maven
4 10 (2.273%) Git (software)
4 10 (2.273%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.045%) Selenium
5 9 (2.045%) Subversion
6 8 (1.818%) Eclipse RCP
6 8 (1.818%) Ant
7 5 (1.136%) JBehave
7 5 (1.136%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.136%) Hudson
7 5 (1.136%) FitNesse
7 5 (1.136%) NUnit
8 4 (0.909%) NetBeans
8 4 (0.909%) TestNG
9 3 (0.682%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.455%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.455%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (15.23%) Finance
2 35 (7.955%) Games
3 30 (6.818%) Retail
4 22 (5.000%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.273%) Financial Institution
6 9 (2.045%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (1.818%) Banking
8 5 (1.136%) Front Office
8 5 (1.136%) Marketing
8 5 (1.136%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.909%) Publishing
10 2 (0.455%) Legal
10 2 (0.455%) Advertising
11 1 (0.227%) Automotive
11 1 (0.227%) Music
11 1 (0.227%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.227%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 74 (16.82%) Computer Science
2 58 (13.18%) Mathematics
3 34 (7.727%) 3D Graphics
4 22 (5.000%) Physics
5 17 (3.864%) CUDA
6 12 (2.727%) Digital Media
6 12 (2.727%) Grid Computing
7 11 (2.500%) Online Games
8 10 (2.273%) Open Source
8 10 (2.273%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.818%) Ontologies
10 6 (1.364%) Clustering
10 6 (1.364%) Speech Recognition
10 6 (1.364%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.364%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.136%) Visualisation
12 4 (0.909%) iSeries
13 2 (0.455%) Statistics
13 2 (0.455%) Semantic Web
14 1 (0.227%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 89 (20.23%) Linux
2 50 (11.36%) UNIX
3 39 (8.864%) Windows
4 8 (1.818%) Android
5 6 (1.364%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.682%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (31.36%) Agile Software Development
2 129 (29.32%) OO
3 87 (19.77%) TDD
4 66 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 49 (11.14%) Multithreading
6 47 (10.68%) Scrum
7 43 (9.773%) UML
8 32 (7.273%) Software Engineering
9 30 (6.818%) OOD
10 22 (5.000%) Use Case
10 22 (5.000%) Data Modelling
11 19 (4.318%) BDD
12 17 (3.864%) E-Commerce
12 17 (3.864%) MVC
13 16 (3.636%) Pair Programming
13 16 (3.636%) OOP
14 15 (3.409%) Statistical Analysis
15 13 (2.955%) Product Management
16 12 (2.727%) Analytics
16 12 (2.727%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 440 (100.00%) Java
2 112 (25.45%) JavaScript
3 100 (22.73%) SQL
4 60 (13.64%) C#
5 43 (9.773%) C++
6 34 (7.727%) Python
7 26 (5.909%) XPath
8 17 (3.864%) Perl
9 16 (3.636%) Scala
10 15 (3.409%) PowerHouse
11 14 (3.182%) Ruby
12 12 (2.727%) Groovy
13 11 (2.500%) PHP
14 8 (1.818%) R
14 8 (1.818%) VB.NET
14 8 (1.818%) MATLAB
15 7 (1.591%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.364%) VB
17 4 (0.909%) C
17 4 (0.909%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 229 (52.05%) Degree
2 57 (12.95%) PhD
3 10 (2.273%) HND
4 2 (0.455%) Sun Certification
4 2 (0.455%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.136%) QA
2 1 (0.227%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (1.136%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (0.682%) SCOM
1 3 (0.682%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (18.41%) Oracle
2 64 (14.55%) JBoss
3 6 (1.364%) Perforce
3 6 (1.364%) Sophis
3 6 (1.364%) BEA
3 6 (1.364%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.364%) Murex
3 6 (1.364%) Calypso
3 6 (1.364%) SunGard
4 5 (1.136%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.909%) DataSynapse
5 4 (0.909%) Twitter
6 3 (0.682%) Adobe
6 3 (0.682%) IBM
6 3 (0.682%) Google
7 1 (0.227%) hybris
7 1 (0.227%) ATG
7 1 (0.227%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.227%) Sun
7 1 (0.227%) GigaSpaces
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Leeds £Excellent + Package This is a fantastic opportunity to join a Java development team in a leading software house; responsible for the development and support of their web-...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: £Excellent + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
With this role comes a fantastic challenge to be part of a major re platforming programme into Java... Ultimately the client is looking for talented Java developers with...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Java Software Developer required from a Graduate/Entry Level position. Looking for someone who has a good understanding of software development and Java... Skills required for this role;...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Competivite Rate - Negoitbale on application
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Skills required: Java; including Spring, JEE Web services experience; SOAP, Restful MySQL, Oracle This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, well known company with big expansion...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Teddington, Middlesex
You must have an excellent understanding of OOD and Java coding skills on Linux and Windows platforms. Ideally experience of agile software development including peer review, exploratory and...
IT Connections
Salary: £25,000 to £35,000
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxfordshire
Tags: Java, GUI, Agile, Eclipse RCP, Python, Linux, Developer, Programmer, Engineer, Science. Roc Search are working with their client, a scientific based organisation in Oxfordshire, to source a...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Teddington, Middlesex
You should have a Computer Science, Maths or Physics based degree (candidates with MSc or PhD will also be considered), ideally a Maths A-Level or equivalent, object...
IT Connections
Salary: £25,000 to £35,000
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Applicants must have strong experience of Java J2EE application development combined with exposure to SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server), web servers (Glassfish, Weblogic, JBOSS or similar)...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Due to continued growth in their client base they are now seeking an additional Java J2EE Software Developer to join their Bristol based team and assist in the...
Novate IT
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Essential Skills:Java, J2EE, JEE, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JSP, Unix/Linux, SQL, XML, HTML... You will be working in a fun family atmosphere, on a number of in...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £25000 - £35000
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
You will work in predominately server side development and is based upon standard J2EE technologies, with applications deployed into Jboss and BEA WebLogic application servers... Skills required Java...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 55,000
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You'll be degree educated and be comfortable working with Java ideally in a web environment, additional skills with C++, CSS, HTML, Javascript would also be really useful.....
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £22500 - £27500 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Central London / West End
Develop solutions using several core technologies like Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, Oracle, SQL, HTML, and XML... Keywords: Java Software Developer/Senior Java Software Developer, UI Java Developer, Java...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Develop solutions using several core technologies like Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, Oracle, SQL, HTML, and XML... Keywords: Java Software Developer Senior Java Software Developer, UI Java Developer, Java...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Beneficial experience: *BSc or MSc Computer Science or related *Strong Java, brownie points for Grails, Scala, Ruby or Python *Full web stack (HTTP, certs, cookies, headers, asset loading,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Bonus and great Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013