England Java Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	6
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	20990	34195
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	11.08 %	14.00 %
As % of the category below	25.11 %	31.63 %
Salaries quoted	17509	27229
Average minimum salary	£42,735	£45,248
Average salary	£47,302	£50,214
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Average maximum salary	£51,869	£55,179
UK excluding London average salary	£39,182	£39,582
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	83578	108117
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.12 %	44.27 %
Salaries quoted	71126	87660
Average minimum salary	£37,418	£39,349
Average salary	£41,066	£43,189
% change on same period last year	-4.91 %
Average maximum salary	£44,714	£47,028
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Java UK

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Java
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-2	11236	£54,916	-4.46 %
South East	-2	3874	£42,110	-0.08 %
South West	-2	1313	£36,005	+0.05 %
East of England	-4	1304	£39,379	+4.46 %
North West	-3	1062	£37,207	-8.94 %
Yorkshire	-4	1004	£36,624	-1.64 %
West Midlands	-4	734	£35,712	+1.31 %
East Midlands	-7	324	£34,870	+1.94 %
Midlands	+7	80	£51,883	+14.56 %
North East	-15	77	£32,886	-12.29 %
Humberside	-	5	£32,250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Java 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.

1 15986 (34.70 %) J2EE 2 13337 (28.95 %) SQL 3 12503 (27.14 %) Oracle 4 11453 (24.86 %) Finance 5 11063 (24.02 %) XML 6 10274 (22.30 %) C++ 7 9319 (20.23 %) UNIX 8 8703 (18.89 %) .NET 9 7990 (17.34 %) C# 10 7516 (16.32 %) OO 11 7203 (15.64 %) Degree 12 6841 (14.85 %) Banking 13 6591 (14.31 %) Spring 14 6260 (13.59 %) Linux 15 6151 (13.35 %) SQL Server

16 5894 (12.79 %) HTML 17 5703 (12.38 %) JSP 18 5581 (12.12 %) Hibernate 19 5314 (11.54 %) JavaScript 20 5022 (10.90 %) Windows 21 4681 (10.16 %) UML 22 4332 (9.404 %) Front Office 23 4279 (9.289 %) Derivative 24 3836 (8.327 %) WebServices 25 3731 (8.099 %) C 26 3667 (7.960 %) WebSphere 27 3232 (7.016 %) WebLogic 28 3198 (6.942 %) CSS 29 3163 (6.866 %) Struts 30 2922 (6.343 %) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15986 (34.70 %) J2EE 2 11063 (24.02 %) XML 3 8703 (18.89 %) .NET 4 6591 (14.31 %) Spring 5 5894 (12.79 %) HTML 6 5703 (12.38 %) JSP 7 5581 (12.12 %) Hibernate 8 3836 (8.327 %) WebServices 9 3667 (7.960 %) WebSphere 10 3198 (6.942 %) CSS 11 3163 (6.866 %) Struts 12 2882 (6.256 %) EJB 13 2865 (6.219 %) AJAX 14 2766 (6.004 %) Servlets 15 2264 (4.915 %) JDBC 16 2197 (4.769 %) JMS 17 2108 (4.576 %) ASP.NET 18 2011 (4.365 %) Swing 19 1862 (4.042 %) J2SE 20 1614 (3.504 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 3232 (7.016 %) WebLogic 2 2790 (6.057 %) Tomcat 3 2667 (5.790 %) JBoss 4 2624 (5.696 %) Apache 5 741 (1.609 %) IIS 5 741 (1.609 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 639 (1.387 %) CMS 7 573 (1.244 %) MQSeries 8 487 (1.057 %) SharePoint 9 325 (0.706 %) BizTalk Server 10 287 (0.623 %) ColdFusion 11 285 (0.619 %) Oracle Application Server 12 278 (0.603 %) WebLogic Portal 13 256 (0.556 %) ESB 14 246 (0.534 %) NetWeaver 15 236 (0.512 %) WebSphere MQ 16 213 (0.462 %) Oracle Workflow 17 189 (0.410 %) Documentum 18 166 (0.360 %) MS Exchange 19 156 (0.339 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1234 (2.679 %) MS Excel 2 515 (1.118 %) MS Visio 3 454 (0.986 %) MS Office 4 392 (0.851 %) Photoshop 5 199 (0.432 %) MATLAB 6 141 (0.306 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 113 (0.245 %) MS Project 8 79 (0.171 %) Spreadsheet 9 43 (0.093 %) MS PowerPoint 10 38 (0.082 %) Fireworks 11 33 (0.072 %) S-PLUS 12 32 (0.069 %) PrintSoft PReS 13 30 (0.065 %) CA Clarity 14 28 (0.061 %) DOC1 15 21 (0.046 %) Simulink 16 20 (0.043 %) FreeHand 17 14 (0.030 %) 3ds Max 18 13 (0.028 %) SPSS 19 10 (0.022 %) Maya 20 8 (0.017 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 285 (0.619 %) Oracle Applications 2 114 (0.247 %) Oracle 11i 3 92 (0.200 %) Oracle EBS 4 78 (0.169 %) Navision 5 76 (0.165 %) SAP CRM 6 66 (0.143 %) Oracle Financials 7 65 (0.141 %) Movex 7 65 (0.141 %) Summit 8 60 (0.130 %) Endur 9 54 (0.117 %) SAP Retail 10 53 (0.115 %) SAP HR 10 53 (0.115 %) Great Plains 11 49 (0.106 %) RMDS 12 40 (0.087 %) Dynamics CRM 13 36 (0.078 %) FLEXCUBE 14 28 (0.061 %) Misys Midas 14 28 (0.061 %) SAP Payroll 15 27 (0.059 %) Microsoft CRM 16 24 (0.052 %) SAP R/3 16 24 (0.052 %) Misys Equation
Communications & Networking 1 2359 (5.121 %) Internet 2 848 (1.841 %) TCP/IP 3 714 (1.550 %) HTTP 4 477 (1.035 %) Intranet 5 455 (0.988 %) Firewall 6 405 (0.879 %) LDAP 7 223 (0.484 %) DNS 8 201 (0.436 %) Wireless 9 165 (0.358 %) SSL 10 155 (0.336 %) SAN 10 155 (0.336 %) GSM 11 151 (0.328 %) Broadband 12 149 (0.323 %) LAN 13 142 (0.308 %) WAN 14 140 (0.304 %) GPRS 15 135 (0.293 %) SMS 16 134 (0.291 %) UMTS 17 123 (0.267 %) HTTPS 18 122 (0.265 %) VPN 19 116 (0.252 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6151 (13.35 %) SQL Server 2 2860 (6.208 %) RDBMS 3 2437 (5.290 %) MySQL 4 1382 (3.000 %) DB2 5 1327 (2.881 %) Oracle 10g 6 773 (1.678 %) Oracle 9i 7 711 (1.543 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 666 (1.446 %) SQL Server 2005 9 553 (1.200 %) SQL Server 2000 10 489 (1.062 %) Datawarehouse 11 483 (1.048 %) Oracle Reports 12 363 (0.788 %) SQL Server 7 13 280 (0.608 %) ETL 14 276 (0.599 %) BusinessObjects 15 245 (0.532 %) GIS 16 181 (0.393 %) Crystal Reports 17 148 (0.321 %) PostgreSQL 18 142 (0.308 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 138 (0.300 %) TOAD 19 138 (0.300 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 2390 (5.188 %) Eclipse 2 1931 (4.192 %) Ant 3 1912 (4.151 %) JUnit 4 1027 (2.229 %) Subversion 5 732 (1.589 %) Flash 6 460 (0.999 %) Oracle Forms 7 435 (0.944 %) Visual Studio 8 307 (0.666 %) ClearCase 9 295 (0.640 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 218 (0.473 %) JDeveloper 11 207 (0.449 %) QuickTest Pro 12 203 (0.441 %) CruiseControl 13 197 (0.428 %) TestDirector 14 196 (0.425 %) JIRA 15 184 (0.399 %) Rational Rose 16 158 (0.343 %) Dreamweaver 17 157 (0.341 %) Selenium 18 153 (0.332 %) PowerBuilder 19 147 (0.319 %) NUnit 20 144 (0.313 %) LoadRunner	General 1 11453 (24.86 %) Finance 2 6841 (14.85 %) Banking 3 4332 (9.404 %) Front Office 4 2922 (6.343 %) Investment Banking 5 1765 (3.831 %) Telecoms 6 1575 (3.419 %) Pensions 7 1544 (3.352 %) Retail 8 1390 (3.017 %) Education 9 1380 (2.996 %) Health 10 1297 (2.816 %) Insurance 11 1033 (2.242 %) Games 12 931 (2.021 %) Government 13 790 (1.715 %) Marketing 14 678 (1.472 %) Back Office 15 562 (1.220 %) Financial Institution 16 505 (1.096 %) Publishing 17 253 (0.549 %) Music 18 221 (0.480 %) Billing 19 220 (0.478 %) Online Games 20 214 (0.465 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 26010 (56.46 %) Developer 2 14912 (32.37 %) Java Developer 3 4477 (9.719 %) Analyst 4 4326 (9.391 %) Senior Developer 5 3932 (8.536 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 3402 (7.385 %) Architect 7 3366 (7.307 %) J2EE Developer 8 2869 (6.228 %) Senior Java Developer 9 2501 (5.429 %) Software Engineer 10 2352 (5.106 %) Consultant 11 2057 (4.465 %) Software Developer 12 1950 (4.233 %) Programmer 13 1765 (3.831 %) Web Developer 14 1643 (3.567 %) Team Leader 15 1511 (3.280 %) C# Developer 16 1491 (3.237 %) C++ Developer 17 1368 (2.970 %) Project Manager 18 1294 (2.809 %) Graduate 19 1179 (2.559 %) .NET Developer 20 1147 (2.490 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 4279 (9.289 %) Derivative 2 2354 (5.110 %) Computer Science 3 1722 (3.738 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1710 (3.712 %) Equities 5 1377 (2.989 %) Fixed Income 6 1266 (2.748 %) Equity Derivative 7 1182 (2.566 %) Mathematics 8 1031 (2.238 %) Multithreading 9 778 (1.689 %) Credit Derivative 10 660 (1.433 %) Client/Server 11 520 (1.129 %) N-Tier 12 421 (0.914 %) Physics 13 361 (0.784 %) Interest Rate Derivative 14 355 (0.771 %) Web 2.0 15 345 (0.749 %) AS400 16 311 (0.675 %) W3C 17 288 (0.625 %) Mainframe 18 247 (0.536 %) Grid Computing 19 238 (0.517 %) Management Information System 20 222 (0.482 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 9319 (20.23 %) UNIX 2 6260 (13.59 %) Linux 3 5022 (10.90 %) Windows 4 1847 (4.009 %) Solaris 5 532 (1.155 %) Windows NT 6 338 (0.734 %) AIX 7 292 (0.634 %) Windows 2000 8 242 (0.525 %) Windows XP 9 156 (0.339 %) HPUX 10 128 (0.278 %) Windows Server 2003 11 117 (0.254 %) Windows Mobile 12 76 (0.165 %) Debian 13 73 (0.158 %) Symbian OS 14 52 (0.113 %) SUSE 15 47 (0.102 %) FreeBSD 16 44 (0.096 %) VMS 17 36 (0.078 %) Fedora 18 35 (0.076 %) Embedded Linux 19 34 (0.074 %) MVS 20 30 (0.065 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 7516 (16.32 %) OO 2 4681 (10.16 %) UML 3 2899 (6.293 %) Agile Software Development 4 2755 (5.981 %) E-Commerce 5 1978 (4.294 %) Project Management 6 1715 (3.723 %) SOA 7 1679 (3.645 %) Web Development 8 1380 (2.996 %) RUP 9 1239 (2.690 %) Software Engineering 10 1150 (2.496 %) OOD 11 1138 (2.470 %) Scrum 12 1081 (2.347 %) Security Cleared 13 1062 (2.305 %) Risk Management 14 1022 (2.219 %) OOA/OOD 15 941 (2.043 %) Unit Testing 16 918 (1.993 %) TDD 17 841 (1.826 %) Content Management 18 826 (1.793 %) Workflow 19 813 (1.765 %) PRINCE2 20 812 (1.763 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 13337 (28.95 %) SQL 2 10274 (22.30 %) C++ 3 7990 (17.34 %) C# 4 5314 (11.54 %) JavaScript 5 3731 (8.099 %) C 6 2911 (6.319 %) Perl 7 2570 (5.579 %) VB 8 2363 (5.130 %) PL/SQL 9 2138 (4.641 %) PHP 10 1395 (3.028 %) VB.NET 11 1194 (2.592 %) Shell Script 12 1100 (2.388 %) Python 13 868 (1.884 %) VBA 14 830 (1.802 %) Ruby 15 653 (1.418 %) DHTML 16 507 (1.101 %) Delphi 17 454 (0.986 %) Transact-SQL 18 429 (0.931 %) ActionScript 19 417 (0.905 %) VB6 20 336 (0.729 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 7203 (15.64 %) Degree 2 447 (0.970 %) ISEB 3 415 (0.901 %) PhD 4 323 (0.701 %) Sun Certification 5 262 (0.569 %) Microsoft Certification 6 190 (0.412 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 144 (0.313 %) Oracle Certification 8 95 (0.206 %) MCSE 9 94 (0.204 %) MCSD 10 92 (0.200 %) OCP 11 85 (0.185 %) HND 12 84 (0.182 %) MCP 13 65 (0.141 %) PMI Certification 14 62 (0.135 %) MCAD 15 52 (0.113 %) PMP 16 47 (0.102 %) ITIL Certification 17 41 (0.089 %) CISSP 17 41 (0.089 %) Cisco Certification 18 36 (0.078 %) IBM Certification 19 31 (0.067 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1303 (2.829 %) QA 2 171 (0.371 %) SLA 3 167 (0.363 %) WAI 4 48 (0.104 %) ISO9001 5 36 (0.078 %) Basel II 6 27 (0.059 %) COBIT 6 27 (0.059 %) ISO8583 6 27 (0.059 %) DICOM 7 22 (0.048 %) HL7 8 17 (0.037 %) WCAG 9 14 (0.030 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 12 (0.026 %) MiFID 10 12 (0.026 %) TickIT 11 4 (0.009 %) BS7799 12 1 (0.002 %) GxP 12 1 (0.002 %) ISO17799 12 1 (0.002 %) GAMP 12 1 (0.002 %) ISO9000 12 1 (0.002 %) SNOMED CT 12 1 (0.002 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 189 (0.410 %) Oracle RAC 2 177 (0.384 %) Active Directory 3 152 (0.330 %) AquaLogic 4 66 (0.143 %) Oracle RMAN 5 53 (0.115 %) MSMQ 6 39 (0.085 %) NFS 7 35 (0.076 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 24 (0.052 %) Squid 9 22 (0.048 %) MetaFrame 10 16 (0.035 %) Backup Exec 10 16 (0.035 %) Nmap 11 15 (0.033 %) Orbix 11 15 (0.033 %) Samba 12 14 (0.030 %) Xen 13 6 (0.013 %) VMware ESX 13 6 (0.013 %) NetBackup 14 5 (0.011 %) Artix 14 5 (0.011 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 15 4 (0.009 %) NDS 16 3 (0.007 %) WebInspect
Systems Management 1 71 (0.154 %) MOM 1 71 (0.154 %) AutoSys 2 51 (0.111 %) Nagios 3 48 (0.104 %) OpenView 4 47 (0.102 %) Tivoli 5 30 (0.065 %) CONTROL-M 6 20 (0.043 %) MIIS 6 20 (0.043 %) CA SiteMinder 7 19 (0.041 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 19 (0.041 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 19 (0.041 %) Nessus 8 15 (0.033 %) Unicenter 9 11 (0.024 %) BMC PATROL 10 10 (0.022 %) Netcool 10 10 (0.022 %) CiscoWorks 10 10 (0.022 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 5 (0.011 %) Legato 11 5 (0.011 %) SCOM 12 4 (0.009 %) Netcool/Proviso 12 4 (0.009 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 12503 (27.14 %) Oracle 2 2813 (6.106 %) Sybase 3 2524 (5.479 %) Microsoft 4 1537 (3.337 %) IBM 5 878 (1.906 %) TIBCO 6 832 (1.806 %) SAP 7 823 (1.787 %) Sun 8 811 (1.761 %) BEA 9 542 (1.177 %) Red Hat 10 279 (0.606 %) Vignette 11 276 (0.599 %) Business Objects 12 266 (0.577 %) Google 13 265 (0.575 %) Adobe 14 259 (0.562 %) Symbian 15 238 (0.517 %) Reuters 16 204 (0.443 %) Lotus 17 197 (0.428 %) Calypso 18 185 (0.402 %) HP 19 176 (0.382 %) ATG 19 176 (0.382 %) Perforce