The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Programming Languages category for the Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 10 5 5
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 56 87 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 10.69% 17.26% 17.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.32% 43.07% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 38 76 87
Average salary £46,250 £45,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% -18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
205 202 345
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 39.12% 40.08% 51.80%
Number of salaries quoted 139 164 273
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
South East

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Middlesex Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Middlesex Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Middlesex Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing Java 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.

1 46 (54.12%) SQL
2 40 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 33 (38.82%) HTML
4 32 (37.65%) C#
4 32 (37.65%) Web Services
5 30 (35.29%) .NET
5 30 (35.29%) Subversion
6 28 (32.94%) Linux
7 24 (28.24%) CSS
8 23 (27.06%) UNIX
8 23 (27.06%) Agile Software Development
9 21 (24.71%) Mathematics
9 21 (24.71%) XML
9 21 (24.71%) SQL Server
9 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
10 20 (23.53%) Oracle
10 20 (23.53%) QA
10 20 (23.53%) Degree
11 19 (22.35%) MS Office
12 18 (21.18%) ASP.NET
12 18 (21.18%) C++
13 16 (18.82%) Visual Studio
13 16 (18.82%) JUnit
13 16 (18.82%) MS Project
13 16 (18.82%) SQLBase
14 15 (17.65%) Statistics
14 15 (17.65%) HTML5
14 15 (17.65%) Apache
15 14 (16.47%) Perl
15 14 (16.47%) Git (software)

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (38.82%) HTML
2 32 (37.65%) Web Services
3 30 (35.29%) .NET
4 24 (28.24%) CSS
5 21 (24.71%) XML
6 18 (21.18%) ASP.NET
7 15 (17.65%) HTML5
8 11 (12.94%) Grails
9 10 (11.76%) CSS3
10 9 (10.59%) Backbone.js
10 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
10 9 (10.59%) Node.js
11 8 (9.412%) Hibernate
12 7 (8.235%) Spring
12 7 (8.235%) J2EE
12 7 (8.235%) jQuery
13 6 (7.059%) JSON
14 5 (5.882%) Spring MVC
15 4 (4.706%) JSP
15 4 (4.706%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 15 (17.65%) Apache
2 8 (9.412%) nginx
3 7 (8.235%) Tomcat
4 5 (5.882%) CMS
5 3 (3.529%) MS Exchange
5 3 (3.529%) Rackspace Cloud
5 3 (3.529%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.353%) ESB
6 2 (2.353%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (2.353%) Sonic ESB
7 1 (1.176%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (22.35%) MS Office
2 16 (18.82%) MS Project
3 1 (1.176%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.353%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) Internet
2 8 (9.412%) DNS
3 6 (7.059%) HTTP
4 5 (5.882%) Broadband
4 5 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.882%) SSH
5 4 (4.706%) SNMP
6 3 (3.529%) SMTP
6 3 (3.529%) FTP
7 2 (2.353%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.176%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.71%) SQL Server
2 16 (18.82%) SQLBase
3 13 (15.29%) MySQL
4 11 (12.94%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (7.059%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (4.706%) Big Data
7 3 (3.529%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.176%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.176%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.176%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (35.29%) Subversion
2 16 (18.82%) JUnit
2 16 (18.82%) Visual Studio
3 14 (16.47%) Git (software)
4 9 (10.59%) Mocha
4 9 (10.59%) QUnit
4 9 (10.59%) Jasmine
5 8 (9.412%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (9.412%) JIRA
6 5 (5.882%) Selenium
6 5 (5.882%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.706%) JMeter
8 3 (3.529%) Maven
8 3 (3.529%) Ant
9 2 (2.353%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.353%) Hudson
10 1 (1.176%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (1.176%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.176%) Mockito
10 1 (1.176%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (8.235%) Finance
2 4 (4.706%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.353%) Electronics
3 2 (2.353%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (62.35%) Developer
2 16 (18.82%) Programmer
3 13 (15.29%) Senior Developer
3 13 (15.29%) Web Developer
4 11 (12.94%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Front-End Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Front-End Web Developer
6 9 (10.59%) .NET Programmer
6 9 (10.59%) SQL Developer
7 8 (9.412%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.412%) VBA Developer
8 7 (8.235%) SQL Programmer
8 7 (8.235%) SQL Server Developer
9 6 (7.059%) Release Manager
9 6 (7.059%) Software Developer
9 6 (7.059%) Consultant
9 6 (7.059%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (7.059%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 5 (5.882%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.882%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) Mathematics
2 15 (17.65%) Statistics
3 6 (7.059%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.882%) Open Source
5 4 (4.706%) Video on Demand
5 4 (4.706%) Digital Media
6 3 (3.529%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.353%) Physics
8 1 (1.176%) GPGPU
8 1 (1.176%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.176%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.176%) DTV
8 1 (1.176%) IPTV
8 1 (1.176%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.176%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.94%) Linux
2 23 (27.06%) UNIX
3 13 (15.29%) Windows
4 8 (9.412%) Solaris
5 5 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.882%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.529%) Fedora
6 3 (3.529%) CentOS
7 2 (2.353%) SUSE
8 1 (1.176%) Android
8 1 (1.176%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.176%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (14.12%) TDD
2 12 (14.12%) Pair Programming
3 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
3 11 (12.94%) Web Development
3 11 (12.94%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (11.76%) BDD
4 10 (11.76%) Multithreading
5 9 (10.59%) ITIL
5 9 (10.59%) OO
5 9 (10.59%) SEO
5 9 (10.59%) Analytics
6 8 (9.412%) Service Management
7 5 (5.882%) Scrum
7 5 (5.882%) Release Management
7 5 (5.882%) MVC
7 5 (5.882%) Test Automation
8 4 (4.706%) Automated Testing
8 4 (4.706%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.12%) SQL
2 40 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 32 (37.65%) C#
4 18 (21.18%) C++
5 14 (16.47%) Perl
6 11 (12.94%) VB
6 11 (12.94%) Groovy
7 10 (11.76%) PHP
8 8 (9.412%) VBA
8 8 (9.412%) Ruby
9 6 (7.059%) Bash shell
9 6 (7.059%) PL/SQL
10 5 (5.882%) C
11 4 (4.706%) sed
11 4 (4.706%) VBScript
11 4 (4.706%) Python
11 4 (4.706%) AWK
12 2 (2.353%) VB6
12 2 (2.353%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.176%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (3.529%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (1.176%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.529%) qmail
1 3 (3.529%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Nagios
2 4 (4.706%) SCOM
2 4 (4.706%) Cacti
2 4 (4.706%) Munin
2 4 (4.706%) HP SIM
3 1 (1.176%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (23.53%) Oracle
3 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.059%) JBoss
5 4 (4.706%) HP
6 3 (3.529%) Rackspace
7 2 (2.353%) Sun
8 1 (1.176%) Intel
8 1 (1.176%) Canoo