The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior 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
Senior Java Developer
Rank 57 42 57
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 4 40 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.895% 5.944% 1.728%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.922% 6.116% 1.782%
Number of salaries quoted 2 31 8
Average salary £44,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,100 £37,500 £38,200
10% offered a salary of more than £46,900 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-3.15% +5.55%
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%
Senior Java Developer
North West

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Java Developer Salary Trend

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 -14 3 £47,500 +18.75%
St Helens - 1 £41,500 -
Senior Java Developer
North West

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) Spring
2 9 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 8 (66.67%) Oracle
3 8 (66.67%) Degree
4 7 (58.33%) EJB 3.0
4 7 (58.33%) EJB
4 7 (58.33%) J2EE
5 5 (41.67%) Oracle 10g
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) Swing
5 5 (41.67%) HND
5 5 (41.67%) UNIX
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (41.67%) BDD
5 5 (41.67%) Use Case
5 5 (41.67%) jQuery
5 5 (41.67%) TDD
5 5 (41.67%) Retail
5 5 (41.67%) JIRA
6 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Groovy
6 4 (33.33%) Open Source
6 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
7 3 (25.00%) SQL
7 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (25.00%) Apache Flex
8 2 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (16.67%) Web Development

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) Spring
2 9 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (58.33%) EJB 3.0
3 7 (58.33%) EJB
3 7 (58.33%) J2EE
4 5 (41.67%) Swing
4 5 (41.67%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) Apache Flex
6 2 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (16.67%) Java EE
6 2 (16.67%) GWT
6 2 (16.67%) Guice
6 2 (16.67%) JMS
6 2 (16.67%) HTML
6 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (16.67%) JSP
6 2 (16.67%) Struts
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 1 (8.333%) JMX
7 1 (8.333%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) ESB
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle 10g
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) NetBeans
2 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (16.67%) JBuilder
2 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) UNIX
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Scrum
1 5 (41.67%) BDD
1 5 (41.67%) Use Case
1 5 (41.67%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (16.67%) AOP
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 2 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Groovy
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) HND
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) JBoss