The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 23 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 Programming Languages category for the Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 16 26 20
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 10 17 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 4.808% 5.414% 7.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 16.67% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 15
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
30 102 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 14.42% 32.48% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 19 81 53
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
England

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Midlands Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (60.00%) SQL
1 9 (60.00%) Scrum
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 7 (46.67%) Linux
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 5 (33.33%) XML
5 5 (33.33%) Requirements Management
5 5 (33.33%) Velocity
5 5 (33.33%) Degree
6 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (26.67%) Maven
6 4 (26.67%) iSeries
6 4 (26.67%) XSLT
6 4 (26.67%) UNIX
6 4 (26.67%) JDBC
6 4 (26.67%) SOAP
6 4 (26.67%) .NET
6 4 (26.67%) Ant
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle
7 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
7 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 2 (13.33%) Internet
8 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 2 (13.33%) MySQL
8 2 (13.33%) C#
8 2 (13.33%) Retail
8 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 5 (33.33%) XML
1 5 (33.33%) Velocity
2 4 (26.67%) XSLT
2 4 (26.67%) JDBC
2 4 (26.67%) SOAP
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.667%) Spring
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE
3 1 (6.667%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) WSDL
3 1 (6.667%) XML Schema
3 1 (6.667%) JAXB
3 1 (6.667%) Grails
3 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) CICS
2 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) LAN
2 1 (6.667%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Maven
1 4 (26.67%) Ant
2 1 (6.667%) JUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Requirements Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Software Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) iSeries
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.667%) Clustering
3 1 (6.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
4 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 1 (6.667%) Network Design
6 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
6 1 (6.667%) ETL
6 1 (6.667%) B2B
6 1 (6.667%) RUP
6 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.667%) Kanban
6 1 (6.667%) Web Development
6 1 (6.667%) Business Analysis
6 1 (6.667%) TDD
6 1 (6.667%) User Stories
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) COBOL
3 1 (6.667%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
2 1 (6.667%) IBM
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Sun
2 1 (6.667%) Citrix