The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited EJB 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 of the Application Development category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank - 39 48
Permanent jobs citing EJB 0 43 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 6.389% 3.672%
As % of the Application Development category - 12.43% 8.095%
Number of salaries quoted 0 28 16
Average salary - £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
224 346 210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 50.11% 51.41% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 194 311 168
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
EJB
North West

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside EJB Salary Trend

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
1 13 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
2 9 (69.23%) BDD
2 9 (69.23%) Use Case
2 9 (69.23%) jQuery
2 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 9 (69.23%) TDD
2 9 (69.23%) Retail
2 9 (69.23%) Scrum
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle 10g
2 9 (69.23%) J2EE
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 9 (69.23%) HND
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
2 9 (69.23%) Swing
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Web Flow
3 4 (30.77%) Web Development
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Groovy
3 4 (30.77%) Open Source
3 4 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
3 4 (30.77%) MVC
3 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (30.77%) AOP
3 4 (30.77%) Ruby

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
2 9 (69.23%) jQuery
2 9 (69.23%) J2EE
2 9 (69.23%) Swing
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Web Flow
3 4 (30.77%) JMS
3 4 (30.77%) CSS
3 4 (30.77%) Struts
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle 10g
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Ant
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 9 (69.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
1 13 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (69.23%) Java Software Developer
2 9 (69.23%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 9 (69.23%) Software Developer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Developer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (38.46%) Senior Software Developer
4 5 (38.46%) Senior Java Software Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (23.08%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
1 4 (30.77%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) BDD
1 9 (69.23%) Use Case
1 9 (69.23%) TDD
1 9 (69.23%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Web Development
2 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (30.77%) MVC
2 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) AOP
2 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
2 4 (30.77%) SOA
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Groovy
2 4 (30.77%) Ruby
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (69.23%) HND
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) JBoss