The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 56 25 35
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 5 68 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.119% 10.10% 6.695%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.152% 10.40% 6.904%
Number of salaries quoted 3 58 27
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,300 £31,900 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £46,300 £50,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
434 654 449
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 97.09% 97.18% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 583 368
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Merseyside Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -28 3 £47,500 +18.75%
St Helens - 1 £41,500 -
Birkenhead - 1 £30,000 -
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Java 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 Java Developer in their job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (77.42%) Spring
3 21 (67.74%) Oracle
4 18 (58.06%) Hibernate
5 16 (51.61%) Degree
6 15 (48.39%) J2EE
7 13 (41.94%) EJB
7 13 (41.94%) EJB 3.0
8 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
8 12 (38.71%) TDD
9 11 (35.48%) Scrum
9 11 (35.48%) Unit Testing
10 10 (32.26%) jQuery
10 10 (32.26%) UNIX
11 9 (29.03%) HND
11 9 (29.03%) Swing
11 9 (29.03%) Oracle 10g
11 9 (29.03%) Retail
11 9 (29.03%) Use Case
11 9 (29.03%) JIRA
11 9 (29.03%) BDD
12 8 (25.81%) CSS
12 8 (25.81%) HTML
13 7 (22.58%) SQL
13 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
13 7 (22.58%) OO
13 7 (22.58%) Eclipse
13 7 (22.58%) Open Source
14 6 (19.35%) Groovy
14 6 (19.35%) Java EE

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 24 (77.42%) Spring
2 18 (58.06%) Hibernate
3 15 (48.39%) J2EE
4 13 (41.94%) EJB
4 13 (41.94%) EJB 3.0
5 10 (32.26%) jQuery
6 9 (29.03%) Swing
7 8 (25.81%) CSS
7 8 (25.81%) HTML
8 6 (19.35%) Java EE
9 5 (16.13%) Struts
9 5 (16.13%) Web Services
9 5 (16.13%) Apache Flex
10 4 (12.90%) Spring Web Flow
10 4 (12.90%) JMS
10 4 (12.90%) JSP
11 2 (6.452%) GWT
11 2 (6.452%) Guice
12 1 (3.226%) Servlets
12 1 (3.226%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) Tomcat
2 4 (12.90%) ESB
3 1 (3.226%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.226%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (12.90%) Pentaho
4 3 (9.677%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 7 (22.58%) Eclipse
3 6 (19.35%) JUnit
4 4 (12.90%) NetBeans
4 4 (12.90%) JBuilder
4 4 (12.90%) Ant
5 3 (9.677%) Maven
6 1 (3.226%) Subversion
General
1 9 (29.03%) Retail
2 1 (3.226%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Open Source
2 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.226%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) UNIX
2 3 (9.677%) Linux
3 2 (6.452%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.452%) Windows
4 1 (3.226%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) TDD
2 11 (35.48%) Scrum
2 11 (35.48%) Unit Testing
3 9 (29.03%) Use Case
3 9 (29.03%) BDD
4 7 (22.58%) OO
5 6 (19.35%) MVC
5 6 (19.35%) E-Commerce
6 4 (12.90%) Web Development
6 4 (12.90%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (12.90%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.90%) AOP
6 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (12.90%) SOA
6 4 (12.90%) ETL
6 4 (12.90%) OOP
7 3 (9.677%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.452%) Multithreading
8 2 (6.452%) Supply Chain Management
9 1 (3.226%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) Groovy
4 5 (16.13%) Ruby
5 4 (12.90%) Python
5 4 (12.90%) PHP
5 4 (12.90%) C#
5 4 (12.90%) C++
6 1 (3.226%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Degree
2 9 (29.03%) HND
3 1 (3.226%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) JBoss
3 3 (9.677%) Zend