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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 83 70 89
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +19
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 9 4 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.765% 0.561% 1.046%
As % of the Application Development category 1.965% 1.316% 2.056%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 11
Average salary £40,000 £43,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.04% +24.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
458 304 535
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.91% 42.64% 50.86%
Number of salaries quoted 390 277 501
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Kent Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

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

Kent Java EE Salary Histogram

Java EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Folkestone +10 2 - -
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Java EE 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 EE.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) J2EE
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (75.00%) Spring
3 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (58.33%) JBoss
3 7 (58.33%) Tomcat
3 7 (58.33%) Hibernate
3 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (50.00%) MySQL
4 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Oracle
5 5 (41.67%) HTML
5 5 (41.67%) CMS
5 5 (41.67%) Content Management
6 4 (33.33%) CruiseControl
6 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) JasperReports
6 4 (33.33%) Music
6 4 (33.33%) Degree
6 4 (33.33%) JSTL
6 4 (33.33%) iBATIS
6 4 (33.33%) Publishing
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) SiteMesh
6 4 (33.33%) Apache
6 4 (33.33%) Kerberos
6 4 (33.33%) Sun Certification
6 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (33.33%) PHP

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) J2EE
1 9 (75.00%) Spring
2 7 (58.33%) Hibernate
3 5 (41.67%) HTML
4 4 (33.33%) SiteMesh
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) JSP
4 4 (33.33%) JSTL
4 4 (33.33%) iBATIS
4 4 (33.33%) Spring MVC
4 4 (33.33%) jQuery
4 4 (33.33%) JPA
4 4 (33.33%) SPNEGO
4 4 (33.33%) PowerMock
5 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (25.00%) .NET
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Tomcat
2 5 (41.67%) CMS
3 4 (33.33%) Apache
4 3 (25.00%) GlassFish
4 3 (25.00%) SAS
4 3 (25.00%) CICS
5 2 (16.67%) Alfresco
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) MySQL
3 4 (33.33%) JasperReports
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (25.00%) DB2
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (16.67%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 4 (33.33%) EasyMock
2 4 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 4 (33.33%) Mockito
3 3 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 3 (25.00%) Subversion
3 3 (25.00%) Maven
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Ant
3 3 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (33.33%) Publishing
1 4 (33.33%) Music
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) J2EE Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Content Management
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) MVC
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) AOP
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Document Management
7 1 (8.333%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (25.00%) PL/1
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Sun Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) JBoss
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 4 (33.33%) Sybase
4 3 (25.00%) BMC
4 3 (25.00%) Pega