The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Engineer
Rank 605 635 570
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 242 233 290
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.239% 0.206% 0.246%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.253% 0.217% 0.261%
Number of salaries quoted 214 209 267
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
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 Engineer
UK

Java Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Java Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

England Java Software Engineer Salary Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Java Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the England 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
London +65 95 £55,000 -
South East +17 59 £40,000 +6.66%
West Midlands -1 22 £32,500 -10.95%
North West +4 19 £33,000 -30.52%
Yorkshire 0 17 £35,000 -12.50%
East of England -3 14 £48,750 +35.41%
South West -20 13 £32,500 -18.75%
North East 0 3 £44,000 +14.28%
Java Software Engineer
UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 569 (100.00%) Java
2 285 (50.09%) Spring
3 261 (45.87%) J2EE
4 206 (36.20%) SQL
5 188 (33.04%) Hibernate
6 174 (30.58%) Degree
7 151 (26.54%) OO
8 150 (26.36%) Agile Software Development
9 133 (23.37%) Oracle
10 113 (19.86%) XML
11 109 (19.16%) Web Services
12 108 (18.98%) Java EE
13 107 (18.80%) Linux
14 103 (18.10%) Computer Science
15 89 (15.64%) UNIX
15 89 (15.64%) JavaScript
16 88 (15.47%) TDD
17 82 (14.41%) Finance
18 80 (14.06%) JSP
19 77 (13.53%) Scrum
20 72 (12.65%) E-Commerce
21 70 (12.30%) JUnit
22 68 (11.95%) CSS
23 66 (11.60%) Tomcat
24 64 (11.25%) SOAP
25 63 (11.07%) .NET
25 63 (11.07%) Open Source
26 61 (10.72%) Unit Testing
26 61 (10.72%) Multithreading
26 61 (10.72%) HTML

Java Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 285 (50.09%) Spring
2 261 (45.87%) J2EE
3 188 (33.04%) Hibernate
4 113 (19.86%) XML
5 109 (19.16%) Web Services
6 108 (18.98%) Java EE
7 80 (14.06%) JSP
8 68 (11.95%) CSS
9 64 (11.25%) SOAP
10 63 (11.07%) .NET
11 61 (10.72%) HTML
12 54 (9.490%) JMS
13 52 (9.139%) JDBC
13 52 (9.139%) REST
14 51 (8.963%) WebSphere
15 50 (8.787%) Swing
16 39 (6.854%) jQuery
17 33 (5.800%) Struts
18 32 (5.624%) RESTful
19 31 (5.448%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 66 (11.60%) Tomcat
2 36 (6.327%) Apache
3 24 (4.218%) WebLogic
4 13 (2.285%) Jetty
4 13 (2.285%) GlassFish
5 12 (2.109%) CICS
6 11 (1.933%) WebSphere MQ
7 10 (1.757%) Apache Solr
8 9 (1.582%) Amazon AWS
9 8 (1.406%) ESB
10 6 (1.054%) Apache Pig
10 6 (1.054%) Magento
11 5 (0.879%) GemFire
12 4 (0.703%) ActiveMQ
13 3 (0.527%) Mule
13 3 (0.527%) LiveCycle
13 3 (0.527%) SAS
13 3 (0.527%) CMS
14 2 (0.351%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.351%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 8 (1.406%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.351%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.703%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.176%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.436%) HTTP
2 19 (3.339%) SSL
3 16 (2.812%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.285%) HTTPS
4 13 (2.285%) Internet
4 13 (2.285%) Firewall
5 6 (1.054%) Broadband
6 3 (0.527%) SNMP
6 3 (0.527%) Intranet
6 3 (0.527%) DVB
7 2 (0.351%) NAS
8 1 (0.176%) WEP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.139%) SQL Server
2 41 (7.206%) RDBMS
3 36 (6.327%) MySQL
4 28 (4.921%) Hadoop
4 28 (4.921%) Big Data
5 26 (4.569%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.988%) DB2
7 15 (2.636%) Data Mining
8 8 (1.406%) SQL Server 2008
9 7 (1.230%) SQL Server 2005
10 6 (1.054%) Redis
11 5 (0.879%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.703%) GIS
12 4 (0.703%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.703%) SQL Server 2012
13 3 (0.527%) CouchDB
13 3 (0.527%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.527%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.351%) Oracle 8/8i
14 2 (0.351%) HBase
Development Applications
1 70 (12.30%) JUnit
2 49 (8.612%) Eclipse
3 40 (7.030%) Subversion
4 39 (6.854%) Maven
5 23 (4.042%) Selenium
6 19 (3.339%) Git (software)
7 18 (3.163%) Jenkins
8 13 (2.285%) TestNG
8 13 (2.285%) Ant
9 11 (1.933%) Eclipse RCP
10 10 (1.757%) DbUnit
10 10 (1.757%) WebDriver
10 10 (1.757%) EasyMock
10 10 (1.757%) dbdeploy
11 7 (1.230%) Hudson
11 7 (1.230%) NUnit
12 5 (0.879%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.527%) Mercurial
13 3 (0.527%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.351%) ClearCase
General
1 82 (14.41%) Finance
2 27 (4.745%) Telecoms
3 23 (4.042%) Games
4 15 (2.636%) Banking
4 15 (2.636%) Retail
4 15 (2.636%) Front Office
5 10 (1.757%) Investment Banking
6 3 (0.527%) Multimedia
7 2 (0.351%) Marketing
8 1 (0.176%) Online Betting
8 1 (0.176%) Music
8 1 (0.176%) Automotive
8 1 (0.176%) Legal
8 1 (0.176%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.10%) Computer Science
2 63 (11.07%) Open Source
3 39 (6.854%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (5.448%) Mathematics
5 16 (2.812%) Fixed Income
5 16 (2.812%) Online Games
6 13 (2.285%) SaaS
7 12 (2.109%) Derivative
7 12 (2.109%) W3C
7 12 (2.109%) Mainframe
7 12 (2.109%) Physics
7 12 (2.109%) Digital Media
8 7 (1.230%) Visualisation
8 7 (1.230%) N-Tier
8 7 (1.230%) Equities
9 6 (1.054%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (1.054%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.054%) Social Media
9 6 (1.054%) RIA
10 5 (0.879%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.80%) Linux
2 89 (15.64%) UNIX
3 36 (6.327%) Windows
4 10 (1.757%) Windows 7
5 7 (1.230%) Windows XP
6 4 (0.703%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.703%) Android
7 2 (0.351%) AIX
7 2 (0.351%) Solaris
8 1 (0.176%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (26.54%) OO
2 150 (26.36%) Agile Software Development
3 88 (15.47%) TDD
4 77 (13.53%) Scrum
5 72 (12.65%) E-Commerce
6 61 (10.72%) Unit Testing
6 61 (10.72%) Multithreading
7 52 (9.139%) Software Engineering
8 42 (7.381%) MVC
9 33 (5.800%) BDD
10 26 (4.569%) UML
10 26 (4.569%) Problem Management
11 24 (4.218%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (4.042%) Data Modelling
12 23 (4.042%) OOD
13 19 (3.339%) OOP
13 19 (3.339%) OOA/OOD
13 19 (3.339%) Project Management
14 18 (3.163%) Kanban
15 15 (2.636%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 569 (100.00%) Java
2 206 (36.20%) SQL
3 89 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 53 (9.315%) C#
5 46 (8.084%) Scala
6 36 (6.327%) C++
7 27 (4.745%) Python
8 20 (3.515%) Clojure
9 19 (3.339%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.812%) VB.NET
11 12 (2.109%) COBOL
11 12 (2.109%) Erlang
12 11 (1.933%) Haskell
12 11 (1.933%) C
13 10 (1.757%) Groovy
14 9 (1.582%) Ruby
15 8 (1.406%) VB
15 8 (1.406%) PHP
16 7 (1.230%) VB6
17 6 (1.054%) Perl
Qualifications
1 174 (30.58%) Degree
2 15 (2.636%) PhD
3 3 (0.527%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.176%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.176%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.909%) QA
2 7 (1.230%) SLA
3 1 (0.176%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (1.757%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.176%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.527%) SCOM
1 3 (0.527%) Puppet
Vendors
1 133 (23.37%) Oracle
2 56 (9.842%) JBoss
3 29 (5.097%) TIBCO
4 20 (3.515%) Google
5 14 (2.460%) Microsoft
6 13 (2.285%) BEA
7 12 (2.109%) Cisco
8 11 (1.933%) Twitter
8 11 (1.933%) hybris
9 10 (1.757%) VMware
9 10 (1.757%) ATG
10 7 (1.230%) Facebook
11 5 (0.879%) DataSynapse
12 4 (0.703%) Adobe
12 4 (0.703%) Sybase
13 3 (0.527%) Aprimo
13 3 (0.527%) IBM
13 3 (0.527%) Apple
13 3 (0.527%) Teradata
14 2 (0.351%) webMethods
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