The first table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java J2EE Developer
Rank 141 126 132
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 3 24 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.122% 0.958% 1.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.130% 0.995% 1.135%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 23
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £39,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-9.41% +6.25%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2302 2413 3085
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.81% 96.37% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1883 1964 2496
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java/J2EE Developer
East of England

Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Java/J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
1 44 (100.00%) J2EE
2 33 (75.00%) JSP
3 28 (63.64%) SQL
4 24 (54.55%) Oracle
4 24 (54.55%) Struts
5 22 (50.00%) XML
5 22 (50.00%) E-Commerce
5 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (45.45%) CSS
7 19 (43.18%) HTML
7 19 (43.18%) Retail
8 17 (38.64%) WebSphere
8 17 (38.64%) Eclipse
9 16 (36.36%) Hibernate
10 15 (34.09%) MVC
11 14 (31.82%) JDBC
12 13 (29.55%) Servlets
12 13 (29.55%) JUnit
12 13 (29.55%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (29.55%) IBM
12 13 (29.55%) Finance
12 13 (29.55%) Content Management
13 12 (27.27%) Web Development
14 11 (25.00%) XHTML
14 11 (25.00%) EJB
14 11 (25.00%) UNIX
15 10 (22.73%) RAD
15 10 (22.73%) Web Services
15 10 (22.73%) DB2

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (100.00%) J2EE
2 33 (75.00%) JSP
3 24 (54.55%) Struts
4 22 (50.00%) XML
5 20 (45.45%) CSS
6 19 (43.18%) HTML
7 17 (38.64%) WebSphere
8 16 (36.36%) Hibernate
9 14 (31.82%) JDBC
10 13 (29.55%) Servlets
11 11 (25.00%) EJB
11 11 (25.00%) XHTML
12 10 (22.73%) Spring
12 10 (22.73%) Web Services
12 10 (22.73%) JSTL
13 7 (15.91%) Ajax
14 4 (9.091%) jQuery
14 4 (9.091%) Java EE
15 3 (6.818%) DHTML
16 2 (4.545%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 13 (29.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (15.91%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.818%) Apache
4 2 (4.545%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) DB2
2 3 (6.818%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.545%) MySQL
3 2 (4.545%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.273%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.273%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.273%) Big Data
4 1 (2.273%) TOAD
4 1 (2.273%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.273%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (38.64%) Eclipse
2 13 (29.55%) JUnit
3 10 (22.73%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Rational Application Developer
4 1 (2.273%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.273%) NetBeans
4 1 (2.273%) Subversion
4 1 (2.273%) Maven
4 1 (2.273%) Mercurial
General
1 19 (43.18%) Retail
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Games
4 5 (11.36%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.818%) Web 2.0
2 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (2.273%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 15 (34.09%) MVC
3 13 (29.55%) Content Management
4 12 (27.27%) Web Development
5 10 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (22.73%) RAD
6 8 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
7 5 (11.36%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (6.818%) SOA
9 2 (4.545%) TDD
9 2 (4.545%) Unit Testing
10 1 (2.273%) UML
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (63.64%) SQL
3 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.73%) Perl
4 10 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 10 (22.73%) Bash shell
5 3 (6.818%) Groovy
5 3 (6.818%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Sun Certification
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Oracle
2 13 (29.55%) IBM
3 10 (22.73%) Sun
4 4 (9.091%) JBoss
Hertford, South East
Java, J2ee, Developer, Web, Senior, ApplicationI am looking for two talented Senior Developers with a strong Java/J2EE background to work for a rapidly expanding company who specialise...
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013