The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 20 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 27 42 18
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -24
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 86 35 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.427% 4.167% 10.64%
As % of the Application Development category 13.78% 8.997% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 35 34 78
Average salary £43,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.75% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £26,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.77% +5.88%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
624 389 381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 53.89% 46.31% 39.73%
Number of salaries quoted 352 322 297
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Glasgow J2EE Salary Histogram

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 163 (91.57%) Java
2 104 (58.43%) Spring
3 88 (49.44%) Oracle
4 83 (46.63%) XML
5 71 (39.89%) SQL
6 56 (31.46%) TDD
7 52 (29.21%) SQL Server
8 50 (28.09%) Degree
9 49 (27.53%) XSLT
10 45 (25.28%) CSS
10 45 (25.28%) Hibernate
11 44 (24.72%) Python
11 44 (24.72%) Banking
12 43 (24.16%) jQuery
12 43 (24.16%) JBoss
13 42 (23.60%) RDBMS
14 41 (23.03%) OO
14 41 (23.03%) JSP
15 40 (22.47%) Agile Software Development
15 40 (22.47%) WebSphere
16 36 (20.22%) JavaScript
17 35 (19.66%) Eclipse
17 35 (19.66%) GWT
18 34 (19.10%) PHP
18 34 (19.10%) JMS
19 33 (18.54%) MySQL
19 33 (18.54%) Continuous Integration
20 32 (17.98%) HTML
21 31 (17.42%) Finance
22 30 (16.85%) UML

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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
1 104 (58.43%) Spring
2 83 (46.63%) XML
3 49 (27.53%) XSLT
4 45 (25.28%) CSS
4 45 (25.28%) Hibernate
5 43 (24.16%) jQuery
6 41 (23.03%) JSP
7 40 (22.47%) WebSphere
8 35 (19.66%) GWT
9 34 (19.10%) JMS
10 32 (17.98%) HTML
11 28 (15.73%) SOAP
12 27 (15.17%) JDBC
13 24 (13.48%) Ajax
14 22 (12.36%) Servlets
15 21 (11.80%) Web Services
16 16 (8.989%) XML Schema
17 15 (8.427%) XHTML
18 13 (7.303%) Struts
18 13 (7.303%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 25 (14.04%) Tomcat
2 20 (11.24%) WebLogic
3 19 (10.67%) Apache
4 6 (3.371%) Lightstreamer
4 6 (3.371%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.809%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.685%) CMS
6 3 (1.685%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.124%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (1.124%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.124%) Mule
8 1 (0.562%) ESB
8 1 (0.562%) Drupal
8 1 (0.562%) Documentum
8 1 (0.562%) FileNet
Applications
1 2 (1.124%) MS Office
1 2 (1.124%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.371%) HTTP
2 1 (0.562%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.21%) SQL Server
2 42 (23.60%) RDBMS
3 33 (18.54%) MySQL
4 20 (11.24%) Oracle 8/8i
5 15 (8.427%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (5.618%) DB2
7 9 (5.056%) MarkLogic
8 8 (4.494%) Oracle 11g
8 8 (4.494%) Data Mining
8 8 (4.494%) Oracle 10g
9 7 (3.933%) QlikView
9 7 (3.933%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (1.124%) DB2 UDB
10 2 (1.124%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.124%) SQLite
10 2 (1.124%) OLAP
10 2 (1.124%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (19.66%) Eclipse
2 29 (16.29%) Subversion
3 27 (15.17%) Maven
4 18 (10.11%) JUnit
5 17 (9.551%) Ant
6 15 (8.427%) JMeter
7 12 (6.742%) Hudson
8 10 (5.618%) QuickTest Pro
8 10 (5.618%) LoadRunner
8 10 (5.618%) XMLSpy
9 8 (4.494%) CruiseControl
10 7 (3.933%) MagicDraw
10 7 (3.933%) ClearCase
11 2 (1.124%) PVCS
11 2 (1.124%) JIRA
11 2 (1.124%) Flash Builder
12 1 (0.562%) NetBeans
General
1 44 (24.72%) Banking
2 31 (17.42%) Finance
3 21 (11.80%) Investment Banking
4 7 (3.933%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.124%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.124%) Legal
Job Titles
1 123 (69.10%) Developer
2 69 (38.76%) Java Developer
3 43 (24.16%) Senior Developer
4 29 (16.29%) J2EE Developer
5 28 (15.73%) Software Developer
6 23 (12.92%) Software Engineer
7 22 (12.36%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 21 (11.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (10.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.742%) Performance Engineer
10 12 (6.742%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 9 (5.056%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (4.494%) Oracle Developer
13 7 (3.933%) Senior Oracle Developer
14 6 (3.371%) Team Leader
14 6 (3.371%) Graduate
14 6 (3.371%) Architect
14 6 (3.371%) Lead Developer
15 5 (2.809%) Java Team Leader
15 5 (2.809%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.17%) Computer Science
2 20 (11.24%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (10.67%) Open Source
4 11 (6.180%) Reference Data
5 7 (3.933%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.933%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.933%) Equities
5 7 (3.933%) Derivative
6 6 (3.371%) Blackberry
6 6 (3.371%) Data Integration
6 6 (3.371%) iPad
6 6 (3.371%) Eucalyptus
7 4 (2.247%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.247%) IPTV
8 3 (1.685%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.124%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.124%) Mathematics
10 1 (0.562%) Clustering
10 1 (0.562%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.61%) UNIX
2 16 (8.989%) Linux
3 13 (7.303%) Windows
4 8 (4.494%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.494%) Solaris
5 2 (1.124%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.46%) TDD
2 41 (23.03%) OO
3 40 (22.47%) Agile Software Development
4 33 (18.54%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (16.85%) UML
6 22 (12.36%) OOD
7 21 (11.80%) Scrum
8 16 (8.989%) SOA
8 16 (8.989%) Data Transformation
9 15 (8.427%) Multithreading
10 13 (7.303%) Waterfall
11 12 (6.742%) ETL
11 12 (6.742%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (6.180%) Software Engineering
12 11 (6.180%) Software Testing
13 10 (5.618%) Performance Testing
13 10 (5.618%) Benchmarking
14 9 (5.056%) DSDM
14 9 (5.056%) Data Modelling
14 9 (5.056%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 163 (91.57%) Java
2 71 (39.89%) SQL
3 44 (24.72%) Python
4 36 (20.22%) JavaScript
5 34 (19.10%) PHP
6 17 (9.551%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.180%) PL/SQL
8 10 (5.618%) C#
9 9 (5.056%) XQuery
10 6 (3.371%) Perl
11 5 (2.809%) Groovy
12 2 (1.124%) C
12 2 (1.124%) Ruby
13 1 (0.562%) XPath
13 1 (0.562%) C++
13 1 (0.562%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (28.09%) Degree
2 3 (1.685%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.124%) Sun Certification
3 2 (1.124%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.303%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.371%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 88 (49.44%) Oracle
2 43 (24.16%) JBoss
3 24 (13.48%) Sybase
4 10 (5.618%) HP
4 10 (5.618%) Citrix
4 10 (5.618%) Informatica
4 10 (5.618%) VMware
4 10 (5.618%) Altova
5 7 (3.933%) Cognos
5 7 (3.933%) Business Objects
6 6 (3.371%) Sencha
6 6 (3.371%) IBM
7 2 (1.124%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.124%) Wall Street Systems
7 2 (1.124%) Sun
8 1 (0.562%) Adobe
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