The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Fife region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 6 6 18
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Permanent jobs citing Java 10 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 24.39% 15.28% 1.515%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.26% 30.56% 3.846%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 1
Average salary £36,500 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.38% +10.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
31 36 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 75.61% 50.00% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 27 29 22
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,300 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £150,000 £33,750 £41,200
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
Scotland

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Fife region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Fife Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Fife Java Salary Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 22 (88.00%) HTML
1 22 (88.00%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (84.00%) CSS
3 20 (80.00%) Oracle
3 20 (80.00%) Hibernate
3 20 (80.00%) JSF
4 19 (76.00%) JavaBeans
5 16 (64.00%) Degree
6 15 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
7 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
7 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
8 13 (52.00%) .NET
8 13 (52.00%) Android
8 13 (52.00%) Facelets
9 11 (44.00%) PL/SQL
9 11 (44.00%) JSP
9 11 (44.00%) Servlets
9 11 (44.00%) JPA
9 11 (44.00%) Software Engineering
10 10 (40.00%) Scrum
10 10 (40.00%) SQL
11 8 (32.00%) JUnit
11 8 (32.00%) JBoss
11 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
12 7 (28.00%) Selenium
12 7 (28.00%) Subversion
12 7 (28.00%) Web Services
12 7 (28.00%) UML
12 7 (28.00%) Eclipse

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 22 (88.00%) HTML
2 21 (84.00%) CSS
3 20 (80.00%) Hibernate
3 20 (80.00%) JSF
4 19 (76.00%) JavaBeans
5 13 (52.00%) Facelets
5 13 (52.00%) .NET
6 11 (44.00%) JSP
6 11 (44.00%) Servlets
6 11 (44.00%) JPA
7 7 (28.00%) Web Services
8 6 (24.00%) RESTful
8 6 (24.00%) RichFaces
9 5 (20.00%) JBoss Seam
10 1 (4.000%) XML
10 1 (4.000%) DOM
10 1 (4.000%) SOAP
10 1 (4.000%) J2EE
10 1 (4.000%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.000%) Apache
1 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) JUnit
2 7 (28.00%) Eclipse
2 7 (28.00%) Subversion
2 7 (28.00%) Selenium
3 6 (24.00%) Eclipse RCP
4 5 (20.00%) Ant
4 5 (20.00%) CruiseControl
5 1 (4.000%) Maven
5 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Developer
2 18 (72.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.000%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (8.000%) Agile Java Developer
8 1 (4.000%) Software Development Manager
8 1 (4.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (4.000%) Software Manager
8 1 (4.000%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (4.000%) Project Manager
8 1 (4.000%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Android
2 2 (8.000%) Linux
3 1 (4.000%) UNIX
3 1 (4.000%) Windows
3 1 (4.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
3 11 (44.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (40.00%) Scrum
5 7 (28.00%) UML
6 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.000%) Project Management
6 1 (4.000%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.000%) Web Analytics
6 1 (4.000%) Product Management
6 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.000%) Analytics
6 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (44.00%) PL/SQL
3 10 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.000%) Python
4 1 (4.000%) Ruby
4 1 (4.000%) PHP
4 1 (4.000%) C
4 1 (4.000%) C#
4 1 (4.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Degree
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (32.00%) JBoss
3 4 (16.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.000%) Sun
Inverkeithing, Fife
The applicant will have commercial experience of: - Java - JSP/Servlet/JSF - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - Enterprise Java Beans 3 - Persistence frameworks, ideally Hibernate - Oracle (particularly server side programming, PL/...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013