The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank - 645 623
Permanent jobs citing SCJP 0 4 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London - 0.007% 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.031% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 4
Average salary - £36,750 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.08%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Qualifications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
11080 12981 13432
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 25.18% 23.83% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8995 11185 11128
Average salary £50,000 £48,000 £49,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
SCJP
England

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SCJP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London SCJP Jobs Demand Trend

SCJP
Salary Trend

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

London SCJP Salary Trend

SCJP
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SCJP 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 SCJP.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Swing
1 3 (100.00%) AWT
1 3 (100.00%) Sun
1 3 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 3 (100.00%) JMX
1 3 (100.00%) Log4j
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Regular Expression

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SCJP 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 SCJP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) Swing
1 3 (100.00%) AWT
1 3 (100.00%) JMX
1 3 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Log4j
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ScrumMaster
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Sun