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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 19 6 9
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 35 115 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 9.777% 22.55% 20.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.36% 35.83% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27 89 49
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £31,400
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
214 321 195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 59.78% 62.94% 60.37%
Number of salaries quoted 185 278 156
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
Merseyside

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Liverpool Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Liverpool Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

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

Liverpool Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 47 (51.09%) Oracle
2 42 (45.65%) Degree
3 35 (38.04%) SQL
3 35 (38.04%) .NET
4 32 (34.78%) SQL Server
5 30 (32.61%) Computer Science
6 26 (28.26%) Resource Management
7 24 (26.09%) Scrum
7 24 (26.09%) ERP
8 23 (25.00%) Windows
9 22 (23.91%) Linux
9 22 (23.91%) Manufacturing
9 22 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
10 20 (21.74%) Finance
10 20 (21.74%) Baan
10 20 (21.74%) Business Analysis
11 19 (20.65%) TDD
11 19 (20.65%) SAP
12 18 (19.57%) UNIX
12 18 (19.57%) Project Management
13 17 (18.48%) Spring
14 16 (17.39%) Dynamics AX
14 16 (17.39%) Open Source
14 16 (17.39%) Solaris
14 16 (17.39%) J2EE
15 15 (16.30%) CSS
15 15 (16.30%) DB2
15 15 (16.30%) AIX
15 15 (16.30%) HPUX
15 15 (16.30%) Informix

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 35 (38.04%) .NET
2 17 (18.48%) Spring
3 16 (17.39%) J2EE
4 15 (16.30%) CSS
5 14 (15.22%) Hibernate
6 13 (14.13%) jQuery
7 12 (13.04%) HTML
8 11 (11.96%) EJB
8 11 (11.96%) EJB 3.0
9 9 (9.783%) HTML5
9 9 (9.783%) Web Services
9 9 (9.783%) Swing
10 8 (8.696%) Middleware
11 7 (7.609%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (6.522%) LAMP
12 6 (6.522%) JMS
13 4 (4.348%) WSDL
13 4 (4.348%) Flash
13 4 (4.348%) ASP.NET
13 4 (4.348%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.87%) Apache
2 9 (9.783%) WebLogic
3 8 (8.696%) ESB
4 7 (7.609%) Oracle Service Bus
4 7 (7.609%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (6.522%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.174%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.174%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (8.696%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.261%) 3ds Max
2 3 (3.261%) ZBrush
3 2 (2.174%) MS Office
3 2 (2.174%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.087%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.087%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.261%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.087%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.087%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.522%) Internet
2 5 (5.435%) HTTP
3 2 (2.174%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.087%) VPN
4 1 (1.087%) DNS
4 1 (1.087%) SSL
4 1 (1.087%) SNMP
4 1 (1.087%) Firewall
4 1 (1.087%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 15 (16.30%) DB2
2 15 (16.30%) Informix
3 13 (14.13%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (6.522%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (5.435%) MySQL
5 5 (5.435%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (4.348%) Pentaho
6 4 (4.348%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (9.783%) JIRA
2 7 (7.609%) Hudson
3 6 (6.522%) Behat
3 6 (6.522%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.522%) WebDriver
3 6 (6.522%) Cucumber
3 6 (6.522%) Selenium
3 6 (6.522%) FitNesse
3 6 (6.522%) JMeter
4 4 (4.348%) JUnit
5 3 (3.261%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.261%) Subversion
5 3 (3.261%) Maven
6 2 (2.174%) Ant
7 1 (1.087%) Xcode
7 1 (1.087%) CruiseControl
7 1 (1.087%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.087%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (1.087%) MyEclipse
7 1 (1.087%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (23.91%) Manufacturing
2 20 (21.74%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Retail
4 3 (3.261%) Back Office
4 3 (3.261%) Games
5 2 (2.174%) Electronics
6 1 (1.087%) Law
6 1 (1.087%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (43.48%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) Java Developer
3 21 (22.83%) Analyst
4 15 (16.30%) Business Analyst
5 14 (15.22%) Software Engineer
6 13 (14.13%) Senior Developer
7 12 (13.04%) Software Developer
8 10 (10.87%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 9 (9.783%) Java Software Developer
10 8 (8.696%) Programmer
10 8 (8.696%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (7.609%) Oracle Developer
11 7 (7.609%) Software Manager
12 6 (6.522%) Quality Manager
12 6 (6.522%) QA Manager
12 6 (6.522%) Analyst Programmer
13 5 (5.435%) Senior Software Developer
13 5 (5.435%) Senior Java Software Developer
13 5 (5.435%) Middleware Developer
14 4 (4.348%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.61%) Computer Science
2 16 (17.39%) Open Source
3 12 (13.04%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.609%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.435%) Social Network
5 5 (5.435%) Mathematics
6 4 (4.348%) Social Media
7 3 (3.261%) Physics
7 3 (3.261%) Streaming Video
7 3 (3.261%) PMI
8 2 (2.174%) Blackberry
8 2 (2.174%) SaaS
9 1 (1.087%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.087%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.00%) Windows
2 22 (23.91%) Linux
3 18 (19.57%) UNIX
4 16 (17.39%) Solaris
5 15 (16.30%) AIX
5 15 (16.30%) HPUX
6 12 (13.04%) Android
7 9 (9.783%) Apple iOS
8 3 (3.261%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.174%) Windows Mobile
9 2 (2.174%) Windows Phone 8
9 2 (2.174%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) Resource Management
2 24 (26.09%) ERP
2 24 (26.09%) Scrum
3 22 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
4 20 (21.74%) Business Analysis
5 19 (20.65%) TDD
6 18 (19.57%) Project Management
7 15 (16.30%) Process Management
7 15 (16.30%) Strategic Planning
8 12 (13.04%) OO
9 11 (11.96%) Web Development
10 10 (10.87%) Unit Testing
10 10 (10.87%) E-Commerce
11 9 (9.783%) SOA
11 9 (9.783%) Use Case
11 9 (9.783%) BDD
12 8 (8.696%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (7.609%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (7.609%) Test Scripting
13 7 (7.609%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.04%) SQL
2 14 (15.22%) C++
2 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.04%) PHP
4 11 (11.96%) C#
4 11 (11.96%) Python
5 9 (9.783%) Ruby
6 7 (7.609%) Groovy
7 5 (5.435%) Objective-C
7 5 (5.435%) C
7 5 (5.435%) Perl
7 5 (5.435%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.348%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.261%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.174%) VB
10 2 (2.174%) VB6
11 1 (1.087%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.087%) Prolog
11 1 (1.087%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (45.65%) Degree
2 11 (11.96%) HND
3 6 (6.522%) ISEB
3 6 (6.522%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.261%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (1.087%) SLA
Vendors
1 47 (51.09%) Oracle
2 20 (21.74%) Baan
3 19 (20.65%) SAP
4 15 (16.30%) IBM
4 15 (16.30%) Sun
4 15 (16.30%) JD Edwards
5 5 (5.435%) Apple
5 5 (5.435%) Infor
6 4 (4.348%) Adobe
7 3 (3.261%) Siebel
7 3 (3.261%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.261%) Zend
8 2 (2.174%) JBoss
9 1 (1.087%) HP
9 1 (1.087%) Epicor
9 1 (1.087%) Sage
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