The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java/J2EE Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java J2EE Developer
Rank 541 546 555
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java/J2EE Developer 43 90 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.098% 0.168% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.105% 0.179% 0.175%
Number of salaries quoted 41 88 87
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,750 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +5.55%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Java/J2EE Developer
England

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the London region.

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +1 14 £46,000 +2.22%
Ealing - 2 £60,000 -
Senior Java/J2EE Developer
England

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 107 (100.00%) Java
1 107 (100.00%) J2EE
2 64 (59.81%) Hibernate
3 62 (57.94%) Spring
4 51 (47.66%) TDD
5 40 (37.38%) SQL
6 32 (29.91%) Oracle
6 32 (29.91%) Linux
7 31 (28.97%) JavaScript
7 31 (28.97%) Agile Software Development
8 30 (28.04%) OO
8 30 (28.04%) JBoss
9 28 (26.17%) CSS
10 24 (22.43%) Web Services
10 24 (22.43%) Finance
10 24 (22.43%) JPA
11 23 (21.50%) Maven
11 23 (21.50%) JUnit
12 22 (20.56%) XML
12 22 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (19.63%) JSP
14 20 (18.69%) MySQL
14 20 (18.69%) UNIX
14 20 (18.69%) E-Commerce
14 20 (18.69%) Java EE
15 19 (17.76%) .NET
15 19 (17.76%) HTML
16 18 (16.82%) Degree
16 18 (16.82%) Ajax
17 17 (15.89%) jQuery

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 107 (100.00%) J2EE
2 64 (59.81%) Hibernate
3 62 (57.94%) Spring
4 28 (26.17%) CSS
5 24 (22.43%) Web Services
5 24 (22.43%) JPA
6 22 (20.56%) XML
7 21 (19.63%) JSP
8 20 (18.69%) Java EE
9 19 (17.76%) .NET
9 19 (17.76%) HTML
10 18 (16.82%) Ajax
11 17 (15.89%) jQuery
11 17 (15.89%) Servlets
12 14 (13.08%) SOAP
13 12 (11.21%) Ruby on Rails
14 9 (8.411%) RESTful
14 9 (8.411%) EJB 3.0
14 9 (8.411%) MapReduce
14 9 (8.411%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.89%) Tomcat
1 17 (15.89%) Apache
2 14 (13.08%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.673%) GlassFish
4 4 (3.738%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.738%) IIS
5 2 (1.869%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.869%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.869%) CMS
6 1 (0.935%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (0.935%) ESB
6 1 (0.935%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (0.935%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.738%) SNMP
2 3 (2.804%) HTTP
3 1 (0.935%) X.500
3 1 (0.935%) Internet
3 1 (0.935%) LDAP
3 1 (0.935%) DNS
3 1 (0.935%) SMTP
3 1 (0.935%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) MySQL
2 14 (13.08%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.28%) Big Data
3 11 (10.28%) Hadoop
4 9 (8.411%) NoSQL
4 9 (8.411%) Data Mining
4 9 (8.411%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.607%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.869%) DB2
7 1 (0.935%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.935%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Maven
1 23 (21.50%) JUnit
2 9 (8.411%) Ant
3 7 (6.542%) Git (software)
3 7 (6.542%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.542%) Selenium
4 5 (4.673%) Eclipse
4 5 (4.673%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.673%) CruiseControl
5 4 (3.738%) Subversion
6 2 (1.869%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.869%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.935%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.935%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.935%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.935%) GitHub
General
1 24 (22.43%) Finance
2 13 (12.15%) Banking
2 13 (12.15%) Games
3 11 (10.28%) Investment Banking
4 8 (7.477%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.804%) Retail
5 3 (2.804%) Interactive Media
6 2 (1.869%) Publishing
7 1 (0.935%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) SaaS
2 10 (9.346%) Open Source
3 7 (6.542%) Computer Science
3 7 (6.542%) Online Games
4 6 (5.607%) iPhone
5 5 (4.673%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.738%) Video on Demand
6 4 (3.738%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.804%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.869%) Social Media
9 1 (0.935%) Mobile Games
9 1 (0.935%) Equities
9 1 (0.935%) Clustering
9 1 (0.935%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.935%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.935%) Data Extraction
9 1 (0.935%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.935%) Blog
9 1 (0.935%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.935%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.91%) Linux
2 20 (18.69%) UNIX
3 7 (6.542%) Android
4 6 (5.607%) Windows
5 1 (0.935%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.66%) TDD
2 31 (28.97%) Agile Software Development
3 30 (28.04%) OO
4 22 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (18.69%) E-Commerce
6 15 (14.02%) SOA
7 14 (13.08%) UML
8 13 (12.15%) Scrum
9 12 (11.21%) MVC
10 11 (10.28%) BDD
10 11 (10.28%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.477%) Workflow
11 8 (7.477%) Dependency Injection
12 5 (4.673%) Pair Programming
12 5 (4.673%) Project Management
12 5 (4.673%) OOD
12 5 (4.673%) Unit Testing
12 5 (4.673%) Web Development
13 4 (3.738%) Content Management
13 4 (3.738%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 107 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (37.38%) SQL
3 31 (28.97%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.15%) Ruby
5 9 (8.411%) PHP
6 6 (5.607%) C#
7 5 (4.673%) JPQL
8 4 (3.738%) Scala
8 4 (3.738%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.804%) Perl
10 2 (1.869%) Korn
10 2 (1.869%) Bash shell
10 2 (1.869%) Python
10 2 (1.869%) XQuery
11 1 (0.935%) Tcl
11 1 (0.935%) Groovy
11 1 (0.935%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 1 (0.935%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.673%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.673%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.935%) NFS
2 1 (0.935%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (3.738%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.935%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (29.91%) Oracle
2 30 (28.04%) JBoss
3 8 (7.477%) Google
4 5 (4.673%) VMware
5 4 (3.738%) Sybase
6 3 (2.804%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.804%) BEA
6 3 (2.804%) Facebook
6 3 (2.804%) Twitter
7 2 (1.869%) IBM
8 1 (0.935%) ATG
8 1 (0.935%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.935%) Cisco
8 1 (0.935%) CA
8 1 (0.935%) SAP
8 1 (0.935%) hybris
8 1 (0.935%) Venda
8 1 (0.935%) F5
8 1 (0.935%) Demandware
London
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Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
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