The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Software 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Developer
Rank 229 214 217
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 14 33 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.195% 0.465% 0.248%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.204% 0.485% 0.259%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 17
Average salary £33,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-16.25% +14.28%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6864 6805 6559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.53% 95.87% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5816 6001 5810
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Software Developer
England

Java Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Java Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

North West Java Software Developer Salary Trend

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Software Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Java Software Developer Salary Histogram

Java Software Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Developer within the North West 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
Manchester -14 12 £33,500 -12.98%
Cheshire 0 3 £35,000 -6.66%
Java Software Developer
England

Java Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (67.21%) J2EE
3 30 (49.18%) Degree
4 29 (47.54%) OO
5 22 (36.07%) Spring
6 20 (32.79%) JSP
6 20 (32.79%) Unit Testing
7 18 (29.51%) Oracle
8 17 (27.87%) JUnit
8 17 (27.87%) Hibernate
8 17 (27.87%) Scrum
9 15 (24.59%) Ajax
9 15 (24.59%) UML
9 15 (24.59%) JMS
10 12 (19.67%) Swing
10 12 (19.67%) EJB
10 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
10 12 (19.67%) SQL
10 12 (19.67%) TDD
11 11 (18.03%) Retail
12 10 (16.39%) Web Services
13 9 (14.75%) HND
13 9 (14.75%) UNIX
13 9 (14.75%) Oracle 10g
13 9 (14.75%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (14.75%) JIRA
13 9 (14.75%) Use Case
13 9 (14.75%) jQuery
13 9 (14.75%) EJB 3.0
13 9 (14.75%) BDD

Java Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 41 (67.21%) J2EE
2 22 (36.07%) Spring
3 20 (32.79%) JSP
4 17 (27.87%) Hibernate
5 15 (24.59%) Ajax
5 15 (24.59%) JMS
6 12 (19.67%) Swing
6 12 (19.67%) EJB
7 10 (16.39%) Web Services
8 9 (14.75%) jQuery
8 9 (14.75%) EJB 3.0
9 8 (13.11%) HTML
9 8 (13.11%) XML
10 6 (9.836%) jBPM
11 5 (8.197%) JSF
12 3 (4.918%) CSS
13 2 (3.279%) Ruby on Rails
13 2 (3.279%) OSGi
13 2 (3.279%) Servlets
13 2 (3.279%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.279%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.639%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.557%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.75%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.639%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) JUnit
2 9 (14.75%) JIRA
3 3 (4.918%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (18.03%) Retail
2 7 (11.48%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.279%) Finance
4 1 (1.639%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Grid Computing
2 6 (9.836%) Ontologies
3 2 (3.279%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) OO
2 20 (32.79%) Unit Testing
3 17 (27.87%) Scrum
4 15 (24.59%) UML
5 12 (19.67%) TDD
6 9 (14.75%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (14.75%) Use Case
6 9 (14.75%) BDD
7 7 (11.48%) Workflow
7 7 (11.48%) Pair Programming
8 6 (9.836%) Bioinformatics
9 5 (8.197%) E-Commerce
9 5 (8.197%) MVC
10 4 (6.557%) Extreme Programming
10 4 (6.557%) OOD
11 3 (4.918%) Web Development
12 2 (3.279%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (3.279%) Time Management
12 2 (3.279%) Information Security
13 1 (1.639%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (19.67%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Python
4 6 (9.836%) R
4 6 (9.836%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.836%) MATLAB
5 2 (3.279%) Ruby
5 2 (3.279%) PHP
5 2 (3.279%) C
5 2 (3.279%) C#
5 2 (3.279%) C++
5 2 (3.279%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) HND
3 6 (9.836%) PhD
4 2 (3.279%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Oracle
2 1 (1.639%) JBoss