The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE 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 of the Application Development category for the Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 82 27 21
Rank change year-on-year
-55 -6
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 5 104 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.497% 7.564% 10.54%
As % of the Application Development category 1.433% 14.96% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 78 91
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Application Development
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
349 695 588
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 34.69% 50.55% 46.96%
Number of salaries quoted 313 567 512
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2EE
East of England

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Essex 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
Brentwood -11 5 £42,500 -37.03%
J2EE
East of England

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 19 (95.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) SQL Server
3 17 (85.00%) JBoss
4 15 (75.00%) Degree
5 13 (65.00%) GlassFish
5 13 (65.00%) Apache
5 13 (65.00%) HTML
5 13 (65.00%) Oracle
5 13 (65.00%) WebLogic
6 12 (60.00%) SOAP
6 12 (60.00%) SQL
6 12 (60.00%) Tomcat
6 12 (60.00%) E-Commerce
6 12 (60.00%) RDBMS
7 11 (55.00%) Windows
7 11 (55.00%) .NET
7 11 (55.00%) IIS
7 11 (55.00%) JSP
7 11 (55.00%) XML
7 11 (55.00%) Firewall
7 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (55.00%) Change Control
8 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 10 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
8 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
8 10 (50.00%) Incident Management
8 10 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
8 10 (50.00%) Finance
8 10 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 9 (45.00%) ESB

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 13 (65.00%) HTML
2 12 (60.00%) SOAP
3 11 (55.00%) .NET
3 11 (55.00%) JSP
3 11 (55.00%) XML
4 5 (25.00%) GWT
5 4 (20.00%) Web Services
6 3 (15.00%) CSS
6 3 (15.00%) Spring
6 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.00%) Ajax
7 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
7 2 (10.00%) Spring MVC
7 2 (10.00%) Apache Flex
7 2 (10.00%) RESTful
7 2 (10.00%) Swing
7 2 (10.00%) JMS
8 1 (5.000%) Struts
8 1 (5.000%) XHTML
8 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 13 (65.00%) GlassFish
1 13 (65.00%) Apache
1 13 (65.00%) WebLogic
2 12 (60.00%) Tomcat
3 11 (55.00%) IIS
4 9 (45.00%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.000%) DNS
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
3 1 (5.000%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (60.00%) RDBMS
3 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
3 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
3 10 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Maven
2 3 (15.00%) Ant
3 2 (10.00%) ClearCase
4 1 (5.000%) Hudson
4 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Electronics
2 2 (10.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
1 10 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 10 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 10 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Development Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE Technical Architect
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
1 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.000%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 11 (55.00%) Change Control
3 10 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) UML
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Six Sigma
5 2 (10.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) OOP
5 2 (10.00%) OO
6 1 (5.000%) ITIL
6 1 (5.000%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.000%) SEO
6 1 (5.000%) OpenUP
6 1 (5.000%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Java
2 12 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) JBoss
2 13 (65.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Adobe