Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Home Counties region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Home Counties region.

 Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank202122
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads28424
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Home Counties8.358 %2.597 %6.400 %
As % of the Application Development category20.74 %19.05 %15.79 %
Salaries quoted2248
Average salary£47,500£60,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.83 %+33.33 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£60,000£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£60,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
Home Counties IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Home Counties
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13521152
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Home Counties40.30 %13.64 %40.53 %
Salaries quoted1172172
Average salary£46,500£38,750£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00 %-13.88 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£28,000£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
J2EE South EastJ2EE
South East

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Home Counties J2EE Demand Trend

J2EE
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Home Counties region.

Home Counties J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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.

169 (98.57 %)Java
255 (78.57 %)Spring
255 (78.57 %)AJAX
351 (72.86 %)Oracle
438 (54.29 %)Web Development
528 (40.00 %)Intranet
627 (38.57 %)JBoss
724 (34.29 %)WebLogic
724 (34.29 %)JSP
724 (34.29 %)XML
822 (31.43 %)Oracle 10g
920 (28.57 %)UNIX
920 (28.57 %)Linux
1018 (25.71 %)WebSphere
1115 (21.43 %)ATG
1214 (20.00 %)Hibernate
1214 (20.00 %)RDBMS
1214 (20.00 %)Red Hat
1214 (20.00 %)Retail
1214 (20.00 %)N-Tier
1214 (20.00 %)SOA
1214 (20.00 %)XSD
1214 (20.00 %)XSLT
1214 (20.00 %)CSS
1214 (20.00 %)SQL Server
1214 (20.00 %)HTML
1214 (20.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
1214 (20.00 %)JavaScript
1214 (20.00 %)Ubuntu
1214 (20.00 %)Oracle 11g

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Home Counties IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
155 (78.57 %)Spring
155 (78.57 %)AJAX
224 (34.29 %)JSP
224 (34.29 %)XML
318 (25.71 %)WebSphere
414 (20.00 %)Hibernate
414 (20.00 %)XSD
414 (20.00 %)XSLT
414 (20.00 %)HTML
414 (20.00 %)CSS
510 (14.29 %)EJB
66 (8.571 %)JDBC
66 (8.571 %)DAO
66 (8.571 %)EJB 3.0
72 (2.857 %)SOAP
72 (2.857 %)Java EE
72 (2.857 %)WSDL
Home Counties IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (34.29 %)WebLogic
214 (20.00 %)WebSphere Application Server
310 (14.29 %)Tomcat
46 (8.571 %)Oracle Application Server
54 (5.714 %)IIS
54 (5.714 %)Apache
62 (2.857 %)GlassFish
71 (1.429 %)ESB
Home Counties IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
128 (40.00 %)Intranet
26 (8.571 %)FTP
32 (2.857 %)TCP/IP
Home Counties IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
122 (31.43 %)Oracle 10g
214 (20.00 %)Oracle 11g
214 (20.00 %)SQL Server
214 (20.00 %)RDBMS
Home Counties IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
114 (20.00 %)Retail
26 (8.571 %)Investment Banking
26 (8.571 %)Banking
34 (5.714 %)Health
34 (5.714 %)Pensions
Home Counties IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
164 (91.43 %)Developer
250 (71.43 %)Java Developer
343 (61.43 %)Java/J2EE Developer
435 (50.00 %)J2EE Developer
435 (50.00 %)Senior Developer
521 (30.00 %)Senior Java Developer
616 (22.86 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
616 (22.86 %)Systems Developer
714 (20.00 %)Senior Systems Developer
714 (20.00 %)Senior J2EE Developer
813 (18.57 %)Architect
912 (17.14 %)Senior Architect
107 (10.00 %)Senior Data Architect
107 (10.00 %)Data Architect
107 (10.00 %)Data Modeller
116 (8.571 %)Java Technical Architect
116 (8.571 %)Java Architect
116 (8.571 %)Technical Leader
116 (8.571 %)Technical Architect
116 (8.571 %)Lead Architect
Home Counties IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
114 (20.00 %)N-Tier
26 (8.571 %)Fixed Income
34 (5.714 %)Open Source
Home Counties IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
120 (28.57 %)UNIX
120 (28.57 %)Linux
214 (20.00 %)Ubuntu
214 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
36 (8.571 %)Windows
42 (2.857 %)Solaris
Home Counties IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
138 (54.29 %)Web Development
214 (20.00 %)SOA
37 (10.00 %)Data Modelling
46 (8.571 %)E-Commerce
46 (8.571 %)MVC
52 (2.857 %)Content Management
Home Counties IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
169 (98.57 %)Java
214 (20.00 %)JavaScript
38 (11.43 %)PL/SQL
38 (11.43 %)SQL
Home Counties IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
151 (72.86 %)Oracle
227 (38.57 %)JBoss
315 (21.43 %)ATG
414 (20.00 %)Red Hat
56 (8.571 %)BEA
56 (8.571 %)Sybase