The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java J2EE Developer
Rank - 80 64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java/J2EE Developer 0 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 0.588% 0.664%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.607% 0.686%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 3
Average salary - £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-10.52% +5.55%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
448 659 437
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.97% 96.91% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 379 590 353
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/J2EE Developer
North West

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Java/J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) EJB
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) EJB 3.0
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (80.00%) Swing
2 4 (80.00%) HND
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) JSF
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (20.00%) JDBC

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) EJB
2 4 (80.00%) EJB 3.0
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Swing
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) BDD
1 4 (80.00%) Use Case
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) HND
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle