The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2SE 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 Application Development category for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 84 74 78
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Permanent jobs citing J2SE 11 2 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.957% 0.238% 0.926%
As % of the Application Development category 1.760% 0.508% 2.320%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 9
Average salary £40,750 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -21.05%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
625 394 388
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 54.35% 46.90% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 347 327 301
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 £29,000 £28,000 £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%
J2SE
Scotland

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow J2SE Salary Trend

J2SE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2SE across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow J2SE Salary Histogram

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (93.33%) Java
3 13 (86.67%) Perl
3 13 (86.67%) JMS
4 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (53.33%) Spring
4 8 (53.33%) Korn
4 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 8 (53.33%) Linux
4 8 (53.33%) Sybase
4 8 (53.33%) DB2
4 8 (53.33%) JUnit
5 7 (46.67%) OO
5 7 (46.67%) XML
6 5 (33.33%) AWT
6 5 (33.33%) HTTP
6 5 (33.33%) EJB
6 5 (33.33%) Servlets
6 5 (33.33%) Web Services
6 5 (33.33%) J2EE
6 5 (33.33%) MySQL
7 4 (26.67%) JSP
7 4 (26.67%) Swing
7 4 (26.67%) Python
7 4 (26.67%) JSON
7 4 (26.67%) Grails
7 4 (26.67%) Groovy
8 3 (20.00%) REST
8 3 (20.00%) JSF
8 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (86.67%) JMS
2 8 (53.33%) Spring
3 7 (46.67%) XML
4 5 (33.33%) AWT
4 5 (33.33%) J2EE
4 5 (33.33%) EJB
4 5 (33.33%) Servlets
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (26.67%) JSP
5 4 (26.67%) Swing
5 4 (26.67%) JSON
5 4 (26.67%) Grails
6 3 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (20.00%) JSF
6 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (13.33%) XML-RPC
7 2 (13.33%) Java EE
7 2 (13.33%) J2ME
8 1 (6.667%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) DB2
2 5 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQLite
4 1 (6.667%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JUnit
2 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.667%) NetBeans
2 1 (6.667%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Front Office
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Team Leader
6 2 (13.33%) Java Team Leader
6 2 (13.33%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Development Manager
6 2 (13.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Derivative
1 3 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) UNIX
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (46.67%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) OOD
3 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (93.33%) Java
3 13 (86.67%) Perl
4 8 (53.33%) Korn
5 4 (26.67%) Groovy
5 4 (26.67%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) C
7 1 (6.667%) C++
7 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Sybase
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft