Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 15 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 Programming Languages category for the London region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank596
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads6922401813776
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London18.27 %12.54 %16.48 %
As % of the Programming Languages category35.64 %25.95 %34.23 %
Salaries quoted5709322311036
Average salary£62,500£52,500£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.04 %-4.540 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£80,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£37,500
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
194211548340244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London51.25 %48.31 %48.15 %
Salaries quoted162391275133164
Average salary£50,000£45,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-5.260 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£30,000£31,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£75,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Java EnglandJava
England

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

London Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

London Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

London Java Salary Histogram

Java
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+42117£65,000+13.04 %
Docklands, LondonUp+982£63,750-1.92 %
Canary WharfUp+1143£67,500+12.50 %
CroydonUp+3141£65,000-
WimbledonUp+329£46,500-7.00 %
FelthamUp+119£45,000+5.88 %
HammersmithUp+415£60,000+37.14 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+914£48,750+21.87 %
LutonDown-113£45,000+18.42 %
HounslowNew entry-10£50,500-
UxbridgeUp+89£45,000-
EalingUp+98£35,000+16.66 %
MordenNew entry-2£35,000-
RomfordNew entry-2£37,500-
HarrowUp+11£47,500-5.00 %
TeddingtonNew entry-1£32,500-
WestminsterNew entry-1--
Java EnglandJava
England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

14120 (32.04 %)Finance
23557 (27.66 %)Banking
33422 (26.61 %)SQL
43240 (25.19 %)C++
52889 (22.47 %)C#
62657 (20.66 %)J2EE
72587 (20.12 %)Oracle
82577 (20.04 %)UNIX
92406 (18.71 %)Spring
102052 (15.96 %)Front Office
112044 (15.89 %)Degree
122034 (15.82 %)XML
132026 (15.75 %)Derivative
142016 (15.68 %)OO
152015 (15.67 %)Linux
161889 (14.69 %).NET
171765 (13.72 %)Agile Software Development
181629 (12.67 %)Investment Banking
191538 (11.96 %)Hibernate
201322 (10.28 %)Windows
211288 (10.02 %)JavaScript
221112 (8.647 %)Fixed Income
231095 (8.515 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
241076 (8.367 %)HTML
251066 (8.289 %)Sybase
261043 (8.110 %)SQL Server
27982 (7.636 %)Perl
28932 (7.247 %)Computer Science
29900 (6.998 %)JSP
30852 (6.625 %)E-Commerce

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12657 (20.66 %)J2EE
22406 (18.71 %)Spring
32034 (15.82 %)XML
41889 (14.69 %).NET
51538 (11.96 %)Hibernate
61076 (8.367 %)HTML
7900 (6.998 %)JSP
8833 (6.477 %)Web Services
9826 (6.423 %)CSS
10804 (6.252 %)AJAX
11621 (4.829 %)JMS
12584 (4.541 %)JDBC
13578 (4.495 %)Swing
14575 (4.471 %)Struts
15511 (3.974 %)J2SE
16479 (3.725 %)Servlets
17461 (3.585 %)Middleware
18429 (3.336 %)WebSphere
19390 (3.033 %)MVC
20376 (2.924 %)XSLT
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1807 (6.275 %)Tomcat
2700 (5.443 %)Apache
3462 (3.593 %)WebLogic
4296 (2.302 %)CMS
5188 (1.462 %)MQSeries
6134 (1.042 %)Rendezvous
7122 (0.949 %)IIS
8116 (0.902 %)WebSphere MQ
987 (0.677 %)TIBCO EMS
1078 (0.607 %)ESB
1170 (0.544 %)SharePoint
1268 (0.529 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1361 (0.474 %)WebLogic Portal
1453 (0.412 %)NetWeaver
1453 (0.412 %)WebSphere Application Server
1541 (0.319 %)AquaLogic
1640 (0.311 %)SAS
1731 (0.241 %)ColdFusion
1731 (0.241 %)Jetty
1830 (0.233 %)GlassFish
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1186 (1.446 %)MS Visio
2166 (1.291 %)MS Excel
368 (0.529 %)MATLAB
445 (0.350 %)MS Office
533 (0.257 %)Spreadsheet
629 (0.226 %)S-PLUS
725 (0.194 %)Photoshop
817 (0.132 %)MS PowerPoint
915 (0.117 %)MS Project
1013 (0.101 %)SPSS
114 (0.031 %)Shockwave
123 (0.023 %)Fireworks
123 (0.023 %)Adobe Illustrator
132 (0.016 %)Stata
132 (0.016 %)Adobe Director
132 (0.016 %)Acrobat
132 (0.016 %)RoboHelp
141 (0.008 %)InDesign
141 (0.008 %)GIMP
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1131 (1.019 %)RMDS
234 (0.264 %)Endur
332 (0.249 %)Oracle Applications
429 (0.226 %)Oracle EBS
429 (0.226 %)Summit
523 (0.179 %)BusinessWorks
621 (0.163 %)Oracle BPM
718 (0.140 %)ION MarketView
815 (0.117 %)GL Clearvision
913 (0.101 %)SolArc RightAngle
913 (0.101 %)Loan IQ
1012 (0.093 %)Oracle 11i
1012 (0.093 %)SAP ERP
1110 (0.078 %)TIBCO iProcess
129 (0.070 %)Kondor+
138 (0.062 %)Global One
138 (0.062 %)Staffware
147 (0.054 %)Front Arena
147 (0.054 %)Dynamics CRM
156 (0.047 %)ZaiNet
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1535 (4.160 %)Internet
2278 (2.162 %)TCP/IP
3254 (1.975 %)HTTP
4112 (0.871 %)Firewall
586 (0.669 %)SAN
674 (0.575 %)LDAP
770 (0.544 %)DNS
850 (0.389 %)SMS
948 (0.373 %)Intranet
1045 (0.350 %)SMTP
1139 (0.303 %)WAN
1237 (0.288 %)SSL
1332 (0.249 %)LAN
1431 (0.241 %)SNMP
1527 (0.210 %)VPN
1625 (0.194 %)FTP
1724 (0.187 %)Network Security
1821 (0.163 %)BSS
1919 (0.148 %)VoIP
2018 (0.140 %)3G
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11043 (8.110 %)SQL Server
2800 (6.221 %)RDBMS
3550 (4.277 %)MySQL
4229 (1.781 %)DB2
5219 (1.703 %)Oracle 10g
6141 (1.096 %)ETL
7121 (0.941 %)PostgreSQL
8114 (0.886 %)Oracle 8/8i
9113 (0.879 %)Datawarehouse
1089 (0.692 %)SQL Server 2005
1179 (0.614 %)Oracle Reports
1270 (0.544 %)SQL Server 2008
1366 (0.513 %)KDB
1458 (0.451 %)Oracle 11g
1551 (0.397 %)Oracle 9i
1646 (0.358 %)TOAD
1745 (0.350 %)BusinessObjects
1844 (0.342 %)Reference Data
1943 (0.334 %)Data Mining
2037 (0.288 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1762 (5.925 %)JUnit
2476 (3.701 %)Subversion
3465 (3.616 %)Maven
4448 (3.484 %)Eclipse
5440 (3.421 %)Ant
6239 (1.858 %)Selenium
7116 (0.902 %)QuickTest Pro
8110 (0.855 %)NUnit
978 (0.607 %)Oracle Forms
1070 (0.544 %)ClearCase
1161 (0.474 %)Visual Studio
1255 (0.428 %)JIRA
1354 (0.420 %)jMock
1452 (0.404 %)Log4j
1546 (0.358 %)FitNesse
1644 (0.342 %)CruiseControl
1742 (0.327 %)TestNG
1838 (0.295 %)Dreamweaver
1936 (0.280 %)JMeter
1936 (0.280 %)FlexUnit
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14120 (32.04 %)Finance
23557 (27.66 %)Banking
32052 (15.96 %)Front Office
41629 (12.67 %)Investment Banking
5423 (3.289 %)Pensions
6411 (3.196 %)Back Office
7403 (3.134 %)Games
8379 (2.947 %)Education
9328 (2.551 %)Financial Institution
10297 (2.309 %)Health
11219 (1.703 %)Retail
12200 (1.555 %)Government
13198 (1.540 %)Telecoms
14167 (1.299 %)Insurance
15162 (1.260 %)Publishing
16126 (0.980 %)Online Games
17100 (0.778 %)Marketing
1875 (0.583 %)Advertising
1966 (0.513 %)Music
2053 (0.412 %)Multimedia
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18060 (62.67 %)Developer
25082 (39.52 %)Java Developer
31851 (14.39 %)Senior Developer
41204 (9.362 %)Senior Java Developer
5894 (6.952 %)Architect
6842 (6.547 %)Analyst
7705 (5.482 %)C# Developer
8575 (4.471 %)C++ Developer
9504 (3.919 %)Java/J2EE Developer
10441 (3.429 %)Consultant
11402 (3.126 %)J2EE Developer
12397 (3.087 %)Software Engineer
13359 (2.792 %)Team Leader
14352 (2.737 %)Programmer
15341 (2.652 %)Graduate
16323 (2.512 %)Web Developer
17314 (2.442 %)Java Architect
18293 (2.278 %)Lead Developer
19278 (2.162 %)Project Manager
20277 (2.154 %)Development Manager
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12026 (15.75 %)Derivative
21112 (8.647 %)Fixed Income
31095 (8.515 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4932 (7.247 %)Computer Science
5808 (6.283 %)Multithreading
6757 (5.886 %)Equities
7698 (5.428 %)Equity Derivative
8644 (5.008 %)Client/Server
9451 (3.507 %)Mathematics
10417 (3.243 %)Open Source
11405 (3.149 %)Credit Derivative
12242 (1.882 %)Interest Rate Derivative
13152 (1.182 %)Physics
14144 (1.120 %)N-Tier
15127 (0.988 %)iPhone
16123 (0.956 %)Spread Betting
17122 (0.949 %)Web 2.0
18112 (0.871 %)Blackberry
1999 (0.770 %)Grid Computing
2086 (0.669 %)Credit Risk
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12577 (20.04 %)UNIX
22015 (15.67 %)Linux
31322 (10.28 %)Windows
4458 (3.561 %)Solaris
5133 (1.034 %)Android
6126 (0.980 %)Red Hat Linux
791 (0.708 %)Windows XP
877 (0.599 %)AIX
970 (0.544 %)Windows Server 2003
1063 (0.490 %)VMS
1149 (0.381 %)Windows Mobile
1240 (0.311 %)CentOS
1332 (0.249 %)HPUX
1431 (0.241 %)Windows 2000
1529 (0.226 %)Ubuntu
1626 (0.202 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1724 (0.187 %)Windows NT
1815 (0.117 %)OpenSolaris
1914 (0.109 %)SUSE
2013 (0.101 %)OpenVMS
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12016 (15.68 %)OO
21765 (13.72 %)Agile Software Development
3852 (6.625 %)E-Commerce
4811 (6.306 %)Scrum
5755 (5.871 %)TDD
6629 (4.891 %)Risk Management
7551 (4.285 %)UML
8533 (4.145 %)Electronic Trading
9528 (4.106 %)Algorithmic Trading
10483 (3.756 %)SOA
11464 (3.608 %)Project Management
12460 (3.577 %)Web Development
13391 (3.040 %)Unit Testing
14368 (2.862 %)Continuous Integration
15316 (2.457 %)Software Engineering
16315 (2.449 %)OOD
17232 (1.804 %)Data Modelling
18192 (1.493 %)Business Analysis
19188 (1.462 %)OOP
20173 (1.345 %)Workflow
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13422 (26.61 %)SQL
23240 (25.19 %)C++
32889 (22.47 %)C#
41288 (10.02 %)JavaScript
5982 (7.636 %)Perl
6850 (6.610 %)C
7549 (4.269 %)Python
8500 (3.888 %)PHP
9470 (3.655 %)Shell Script
10398 (3.095 %)PL/SQL
11313 (2.434 %)VBA
12278 (2.162 %)Ruby
13238 (1.851 %)VB
14162 (1.260 %)ActionScript
15156 (1.213 %)VB.NET
16140 (1.089 %)T-SQL
17137 (1.065 %)Bash shell
1888 (0.684 %)VBScript
1987 (0.677 %)ActionScript 3.0
2069 (0.537 %)XPath
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12044 (15.89 %)Degree
2165 (1.283 %)PhD
3149 (1.159 %)Security Cleared
472 (0.560 %)SC Cleared
552 (0.404 %)ISEB
634 (0.264 %)DV Cleared
731 (0.241 %)Microsoft Certification
830 (0.233 %)Sun Certification
927 (0.210 %)Oracle Certification
1016 (0.124 %)OCP
1016 (0.124 %)ITIL Certification
1114 (0.109 %)CISSP
1114 (0.109 %)RHCE
1213 (0.101 %)PMI Certification
1312 (0.093 %)SCJP
1312 (0.093 %)ISEB Practitioner
1411 (0.086 %)SCJA
1510 (0.078 %)SCJD
1510 (0.078 %)CTC Cleared
168 (0.062 %)MBA
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1488 (3.795 %)QA
252 (0.404 %)SLA
311 (0.086 %)Basel II
410 (0.078 %)MiFID
59 (0.070 %)PCI DSS
67 (0.054 %)ISO27001
75 (0.039 %)BS7799
75 (0.039 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
75 (0.039 %)ISO17799
75 (0.039 %)COBIT
81 (0.008 %)HL7
81 (0.008 %)WAI
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
171 (0.552 %)MSMQ
247 (0.365 %)Active Directory
325 (0.194 %)VMware Infrastructure
421 (0.163 %)NFS
520 (0.156 %)Xen
520 (0.156 %)Hadoop
616 (0.124 %)OpenSSO
713 (0.101 %)Oracle RAC
87 (0.054 %)Oracle RMAN
93 (0.023 %)Samba
102 (0.016 %)ISA Server
111 (0.008 %)Postfix
111 (0.008 %)VMware ESX
111 (0.008 %)VMware Workstation
111 (0.008 %)Squid
111 (0.008 %)Terminal Services
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
138 (0.295 %)Nagios
232 (0.249 %)AutoSys
318 (0.140 %)MOM
414 (0.109 %)Zenoss
59 (0.070 %)TIBCO Hawk
68 (0.062 %)TIBCO InConcert
77 (0.054 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
77 (0.054 %)BMC PATROL
85 (0.039 %)Data Guard
85 (0.039 %)OpenView
85 (0.039 %)Tivoli
94 (0.031 %)Unicenter
103 (0.023 %)ZABBIX
103 (0.023 %)HP Quality Center
103 (0.023 %)CA Wily
111 (0.008 %)Ganglia
111 (0.008 %)CONTROL-M
111 (0.008 %)Norton AntiVirus
111 (0.008 %)ServiceCenter
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12587 (20.12 %)Oracle
21066 (8.289 %)Sybase
3491 (3.818 %)TIBCO
4405 (3.149 %)JBoss
5400 (3.110 %)Microsoft
6222 (1.726 %)IBM
7174 (1.353 %)Reuters
8138 (1.073 %)Calypso
9136 (1.058 %)Adobe
10126 (0.980 %)Bloomberg
11124 (0.964 %)Red Hat
12121 (0.941 %)SAP
12121 (0.941 %)Sun
13118 (0.918 %)DataSynapse
14109 (0.848 %)Google
1581 (0.630 %)Perforce
1581 (0.630 %)Murex
1670 (0.544 %)HP
1755 (0.428 %)BEA
1854 (0.420 %)VMware