Merseyside Java/J2EE Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT jobs within the Merseyside region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java/J2EE Developer
Location Altrincham Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Humberside Hungerford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weymouth Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	88
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.544 %	0.101 %
Salaries quoted	28	0
Average minimum salary	£35,536	-
Average salary	£38,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£40,464	-
UK excluding London average salary	£40,570	£39,619
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	1140	988
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.602 %	0.405 %
Salaries quoted	974	817
Average minimum salary	£30,555	£31,086
Average salary	£32,917	£33,661
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Average maximum salary	£35,279	£36,235
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Java/J2EE Developer North West

Java/J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

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

Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

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

Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Java/J2EE Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+9	14	£39,536	-
St Helens	-	2	£39,500	-

Java/J2EE Developer North West

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 51 (100.00 %) Java 1 51 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 38 (74.51 %) XML 3 37 (72.55 %) JSP 4 36 (70.59 %) Struts 4 36 (70.59 %) Oracle 5 26 (50.98 %) WebServices 6 24 (47.06 %) SQL 7 22 (43.14 %) Servlets 8 21 (41.18 %) RDBMS 9 20 (39.22 %) Ant 9 20 (39.22 %) Spring 10 17 (33.33 %) SQL Server 11 16 (31.37 %) EJB 11 16 (31.37 %) HTML

11 16 (31.37 %) JDeveloper 11 16 (31.37 %) Degree 12 15 (29.41 %) JavaScript 13 13 (25.49 %) Tomcat 13 13 (25.49 %) JSF 14 12 (23.53 %) UML 15 11 (21.57 %) SOAP 16 10 (19.61 %) OOA/OOD 16 10 (19.61 %) JDBC 16 10 (19.61 %) UNIX 17 9 (17.65 %) Hibernate 17 9 (17.65 %) QA 18 8 (15.69 %) SC Cleared 18 8 (15.69 %) Security Cleared 18 8 (15.69 %) Linux

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 51 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 38 (74.51 %) XML 3 37 (72.55 %) JSP 4 36 (70.59 %) Struts 5 26 (50.98 %) WebServices 6 22 (43.14 %) Servlets 7 20 (39.22 %) Spring 8 16 (31.37 %) EJB 8 16 (31.37 %) HTML 9 13 (25.49 %) JSF 10 11 (21.57 %) SOAP 11 10 (19.61 %) JDBC 12 9 (17.65 %) Hibernate 13 6 (11.76 %) XSLT 14 4 (7.843 %) CSS 15 3 (5.882 %) .NET 15 3 (5.882 %) MVC 15 3 (5.882 %) iBATIS 15 3 (5.882 %) JPA 15 3 (5.882 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 13 (25.49 %) Tomcat 2 5 (9.804 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.961 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.882 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (41.18 %) RDBMS 2 17 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 2 (3.922 %) DB2 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (3.922 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 20 (39.22 %) Ant 2 16 (31.37 %) JDeveloper 3 3 (5.882 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (5.882 %) Eclipse 4 2 (3.922 %) JIRA 5 1 (1.961 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (5.882 %) Government 2 1 (1.961 %) Health 2 1 (1.961 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (1.961 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.882 %) Web 2.0 1 3 (5.882 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.961 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 10 (19.61 %) UNIX 2 8 (15.69 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (23.53 %) UML 2 10 (19.61 %) OOA/OOD 3 8 (15.69 %) OOD 3 8 (15.69 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (15.69 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (11.76 %) BC Cleared 4 6 (11.76 %) OO 5 5 (9.804 %) RUP 6 4 (7.843 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (5.882 %) E-business 7 3 (5.882 %) Technical Architecture 8 2 (3.922 %) Validation 8 2 (3.922 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (3.922 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (1.961 %) Email Marketing	Programming Languages 1 51 (100.00 %) Java 2 24 (47.06 %) SQL 3 15 (29.41 %) JavaScript 4 3 (5.882 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 16 (31.37 %) Degree 2 1 (1.961 %) HND 2 1 (1.961 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (17.65 %) QA
Vendors 1 36 (70.59 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.922 %) Chordiant 3 1 (1.961 %) IBM 3 1 (1.961 %) Sun