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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 58 50 56
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 2 35 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.433% 5.147% 2.434%
As % of the Application Development category 0.847% 10.17% 5.446%
Number of salaries quoted 2 28 11
Average salary £43,250 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.88% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
236 344 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 51.08% 50.59% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 206 310 161
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
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%
Java EE
North West

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 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
St Helens - 2 £43,250 -
Java EE
North West

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Java EE 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 Java EE.

1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
3 6 (75.00%) Tomcat
4 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Apache Flex
5 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 4 (50.00%) JBuilder
5 4 (50.00%) JSP
5 4 (50.00%) Oracle
5 4 (50.00%) Eclipse
5 4 (50.00%) NetBeans
6 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) TDD
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (37.50%) Linux
7 2 (25.00%) HTML
7 2 (25.00%) UNIX
7 2 (25.00%) JUnit
7 2 (25.00%) CSS
7 2 (25.00%) JDBC
7 2 (25.00%) Servlets
7 2 (25.00%) Struts
7 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (25.00%) SQL
7 2 (25.00%) Maven
7 2 (25.00%) Ruby
7 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
3 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 4 (50.00%) Apache Flex
4 4 (50.00%) JSP
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) JDBC
5 2 (25.00%) Servlets
5 2 (25.00%) Struts
5 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) JSTL
6 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JBuilder
1 4 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) MyEclipse
3 1 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Android Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) OOP
5 1 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Apple