Merseyside J2EE Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Greenford Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlborough Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weymouth Whitstable Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	67
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching permanent IT job ads	43	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	12.54 %	3.899 %
Salaries quoted	41	13
Average minimum salary	£39,732	£38,615
Average salary	£42,171	£40,154
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Average maximum salary	£44,610	£41,692
UK excluding London average salary	£43,785	£44,263
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Application Development Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	343	436
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.190 %	0.183 %
Salaries quoted	295	382
Average minimum salary	£31,730	£27,600
Average salary	£33,716	£29,968
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum salary	£35,702	£32,335
UK excluding London average salary	£35,934	£36,795
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
J2EE North West

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2EE across the Merseyside region.

J2EE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

J2EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+19	21	£47,025	+17.07 %
St Helens	+5	2	£39,500	-1.25 %

J2EE North West

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 99 (90.83 %) Java 2 81 (74.31 %) JSP 3 71 (65.14 %) Oracle 4 68 (62.39 %) XML 5 59 (54.13 %) Struts 6 56 (51.38 %) SQL 7 52 (47.71 %) Servlets 8 49 (44.95 %) WebServices 9 48 (44.04 %) Spring 10 43 (39.45 %) RDBMS 11 41 (37.61 %) Ant 12 35 (32.11 %) JavaScript 13 32 (29.36 %) HTML 13 32 (29.36 %) EJB 14 28 (25.69 %) JDeveloper

15 26 (23.85 %) UML 16 25 (22.94 %) SQL Server 17 24 (22.02 %) Tomcat 18 23 (21.10 %) Degree 19 22 (20.18 %) Hibernate 20 20 (18.35 %) Security Cleared 21 16 (14.68 %) JSF 22 15 (13.76 %) JDBC 22 15 (13.76 %) QA 22 15 (13.76 %) SC Cleared 23 12 (11.01 %) CSS 23 12 (11.01 %) UNIX 23 12 (11.01 %) Linux 24 11 (10.09 %) OOD 24 11 (10.09 %) OOA/OOD

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 81 (74.31 %) JSP 2 68 (62.39 %) XML 3 59 (54.13 %) Struts 4 52 (47.71 %) Servlets 5 49 (44.95 %) WebServices 6 48 (44.04 %) Spring 7 32 (29.36 %) HTML 7 32 (29.36 %) EJB 8 22 (20.18 %) Hibernate 9 16 (14.68 %) JSF 10 15 (13.76 %) JDBC 11 12 (11.01 %) CSS 12 10 (9.174 %) .NET 13 9 (8.257 %) XSLT 14 8 (7.339 %) SOAP 14 8 (7.339 %) WebSphere 14 8 (7.339 %) iBATIS 15 5 (4.587 %) Swing 16 4 (3.670 %) XHTML 16 4 (3.670 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 24 (22.02 %) Tomcat 2 10 (9.174 %) WebLogic 3 8 (7.339 %) JBoss 4 6 (5.505 %) Apache 5 3 (2.752 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 2 (1.835 %) iPlanet 6 2 (1.835 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 2 (1.835 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (0.917 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.917 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.752 %) Internet 2 1 (0.917 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (39.45 %) RDBMS 2 25 (22.94 %) SQL Server 3 11 (10.09 %) Oracle 10g 4 10 (9.174 %) Oracle 9i 5 5 (4.587 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (2.752 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 41 (37.61 %) Ant 2 28 (25.69 %) JDeveloper 3 6 (5.505 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 5 (4.587 %) JUnit 5 3 (2.752 %) Eclipse	General 1 6 (5.505 %) Government 2 4 (3.670 %) Multimedia 2 4 (3.670 %) Education 3 3 (2.752 %) Insurance 4 1 (0.917 %) Health 4 1 (0.917 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (0.917 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 79 (72.48 %) Developer 2 76 (69.72 %) Java Developer 3 46 (42.20 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 38 (34.86 %) J2EE Developer 5 36 (33.03 %) Senior Developer 6 33 (30.28 %) Senior Java Developer 7 20 (18.35 %) Senior J2EE Developer 8 18 (16.51 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 9 17 (15.60 %) Java Applications Developer 9 17 (15.60 %) Applications Developer 10 13 (11.93 %) Architect 11 9 (8.257 %) Technical Architect 11 9 (8.257 %) Team Leader 12 8 (7.339 %) JavaScript Developer 13 7 (6.422 %) Java Architect 13 7 (6.422 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 13 7 (6.422 %) Senior Applications Developer 13 7 (6.422 %) J2EE Architect 13 7 (6.422 %) Java Team Leader 14 6 (5.505 %) J2EE Technical Architect	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.752 %) Computer Science 2 1 (0.917 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.917 %) NHS 2 1 (0.917 %) W3C 2 1 (0.917 %) Equities 2 1 (0.917 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (0.917 %) Derivative 2 1 (0.917 %) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems 1 12 (11.01 %) UNIX 1 12 (11.01 %) Linux 2 2 (1.835 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (23.85 %) UML 2 20 (18.35 %) Security Cleared 3 15 (13.76 %) SC Cleared 4 11 (10.09 %) OOA/OOD 4 11 (10.09 %) OO 4 11 (10.09 %) OOD 5 10 (9.174 %) RUP 6 9 (8.257 %) BC Cleared 7 5 (4.587 %) DV Cleared 7 5 (4.587 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (3.670 %) EAI 8 4 (3.670 %) Content Management 9 3 (2.752 %) Technical Architecture 9 3 (2.752 %) SOA 9 3 (2.752 %) E-business 9 3 (2.752 %) TOGAF 10 2 (1.835 %) RAD 10 2 (1.835 %) Unit Testing 10 2 (1.835 %) Data Mapping 11 1 (0.917 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 99 (90.83 %) Java 2 56 (51.38 %) SQL 3 35 (32.11 %) JavaScript 4 9 (8.257 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (2.752 %) Perl 5 3 (2.752 %) Tcl 5 3 (2.752 %) Shell Script 6 2 (1.835 %) C# 7 1 (0.917 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 23 (21.10 %) Degree 2 3 (2.752 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (1.835 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 15 (13.76 %) QA	Vendors 1 71 (65.14 %) Oracle 2 4 (3.670 %) Adobe 2 4 (3.670 %) Macromedia 3 3 (2.752 %) Sun 3 3 (2.752 %) IBM 4 2 (1.835 %) Chordiant 5 1 (0.917 %) BEA