The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 124 121 105
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -16
Permanent jobs citing JPA 22 13 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.838% 0.616% 0.553%
As % of the Application Development category 2.070% 1.254% 1.175%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 8
Average salary £43,500 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £37,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.62% +6.66%
All Application Development
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1063 1037 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 40.48% 49.15% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 855 945 766
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JPA
West Yorkshire

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Salary Trend

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

Leeds JPA Salary Trend

JPA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JPA across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds JPA Salary Histogram

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (91.84%) Spring
3 37 (75.51%) JavaScript
4 35 (71.43%) Hibernate
5 31 (63.27%) jQuery
6 27 (55.10%) J2EE
7 25 (51.02%) JMS
8 21 (42.86%) Web Services
8 21 (42.86%) MVC
9 20 (40.82%) XML
10 19 (38.78%) MySQL
10 19 (38.78%) Ajax
11 18 (36.73%) Oracle
11 18 (36.73%) SQL
11 18 (36.73%) JBoss
11 18 (36.73%) Tomcat
12 17 (34.69%) Maven
13 16 (32.65%) Spring MVC
14 15 (30.61%) Apache Wicket
15 14 (28.57%) JBehave
15 14 (28.57%) BDD
15 14 (28.57%) Spring Integration
15 14 (28.57%) TDD
15 14 (28.57%) Retail
15 14 (28.57%) Selenium
15 14 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
15 14 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
15 14 (28.57%) SOAP
15 14 (28.57%) JAXB
15 14 (28.57%) UNIX

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (91.84%) Spring
2 35 (71.43%) Hibernate
3 31 (63.27%) jQuery
4 27 (55.10%) J2EE
5 25 (51.02%) JMS
6 21 (42.86%) Web Services
7 20 (40.82%) XML
8 19 (38.78%) Ajax
9 16 (32.65%) Spring MVC
10 15 (30.61%) Apache Wicket
11 14 (28.57%) Spring Integration
11 14 (28.57%) SOAP
11 14 (28.57%) JAXB
12 7 (14.29%) Java EE
13 6 (12.24%) JSF
13 6 (12.24%) JSP
14 5 (10.20%) Middleware
14 5 (10.20%) WebSphere
15 4 (8.163%) CSS
15 4 (8.163%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 18 (36.73%) Tomcat
2 9 (18.37%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.041%) HTTP
1 1 (2.041%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Maven
2 14 (28.57%) JBehave
2 14 (28.57%) Selenium
2 14 (28.57%) JUnit
3 5 (10.20%) QALoad
4 3 (6.122%) Ant
General
1 14 (28.57%) Retail
2 10 (20.41%) Marketing
3 1 (2.041%) Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (79.59%) Java Developer
1 39 (79.59%) Developer
2 21 (42.86%) J2EE Developer
2 21 (42.86%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Consultant
4 5 (10.20%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (8.163%) Team Leader
5 4 (8.163%) Java Team Leader
6 1 (2.041%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.041%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.57%) UNIX
1 14 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) MVC
2 14 (28.57%) BDD
2 14 (28.57%) TDD
2 14 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
2 14 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (22.45%) OO
3 11 (22.45%) Scrum
4 10 (20.41%) Mobile Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Web Application Development
5 5 (10.20%) Load Testing
6 3 (6.122%) Information Management
6 3 (6.122%) Problem Management
6 3 (6.122%) Manual Testing
7 1 (2.041%) Logistics
7 1 (2.041%) Software Engineering
7 1 (2.041%) OOD
7 1 (2.041%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (75.51%) JavaScript
3 18 (36.73%) SQL
4 3 (6.122%) Perl
4 3 (6.122%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.122%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Oracle
1 18 (36.73%) JBoss
2 5 (10.20%) BEA
2 5 (10.20%) IBM
3 3 (6.122%) Remedy
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