The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 240 234 196
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -38
Permanent jobs citing JPA 8 17 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.112% 0.241% 0.656%
As % of the Application Development category 0.227% 0.490% 1.454%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 42
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £41,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +10.00%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3519 3468 3094
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.35% 49.18% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3130 3136 2840
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JPA
England

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing JPA across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Salary Trend

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

North West JPA Salary Trend

JPA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cheshire 0 7 £37,500 +22.95%
Manchester - 1 £40,000 -
JPA
England

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (64.52%) J2EE
3 19 (61.29%) HTML
4 18 (58.06%) Spring
5 17 (54.84%) JUnit
6 16 (51.61%) JavaScript
6 16 (51.61%) Eclipse
7 15 (48.39%) Oracle
8 14 (45.16%) Java EE
8 14 (45.16%) Hibernate
8 14 (45.16%) MVC
9 13 (41.94%) Servlets
9 13 (41.94%) jQuery
10 12 (38.71%) SQL
10 12 (38.71%) Ajax
11 11 (35.48%) Web Services
12 10 (32.26%) EJB
12 10 (32.26%) TDD
13 9 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (29.03%) Endeca
13 9 (29.03%) XML
13 9 (29.03%) Guice
13 9 (29.03%) Open Source
13 9 (29.03%) Mobile App
14 8 (25.81%) EJB 3.0
14 8 (25.81%) Git (software)
15 7 (22.58%) Maven
15 7 (22.58%) JIRA
15 7 (22.58%) SOAP
15 7 (22.58%) JSP

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (64.52%) J2EE
2 19 (61.29%) HTML
3 18 (58.06%) Spring
4 14 (45.16%) Hibernate
4 14 (45.16%) Java EE
5 13 (41.94%) jQuery
5 13 (41.94%) Servlets
6 12 (38.71%) Ajax
7 11 (35.48%) Web Services
8 10 (32.26%) EJB
9 9 (29.03%) XML
9 9 (29.03%) Guice
10 8 (25.81%) EJB 3.0
11 7 (22.58%) SOAP
11 7 (22.58%) JSP
12 4 (12.90%) Struts
12 4 (12.90%) CSS
12 4 (12.90%) JDBC
12 4 (12.90%) J2SE
12 4 (12.90%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) WebLogic
2 4 (12.90%) Tomcat
3 3 (9.677%) Apache
4 1 (3.226%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) JUnit
2 16 (51.61%) Eclipse
3 8 (25.81%) Git (software)
4 7 (22.58%) Maven
4 7 (22.58%) JIRA
5 5 (16.13%) NetBeans
6 4 (12.90%) Subversion
6 4 (12.90%) Mockito
7 3 (9.677%) Ant
8 1 (3.226%) GitHub
General
1 4 (12.90%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (12.90%) Back Office
2 3 (9.677%) Automotive
2 3 (9.677%) Publishing
2 3 (9.677%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Developer
2 27 (87.10%) Java Developer
3 10 (32.26%) Senior Developer
4 9 (29.03%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (9.677%) J2EE Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Team Leader
7 2 (6.452%) Java Team Leader
8 1 (3.226%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Senior Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Open Source
1 9 (29.03%) Mobile App
2 4 (12.90%) EPoS
2 4 (12.90%) Smartcard
2 4 (12.90%) LIMS
2 4 (12.90%) Life Science
3 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) UNIX
1 2 (6.452%) Linux
2 1 (3.226%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) MVC
2 10 (32.26%) TDD
3 9 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (12.90%) Workflow
4 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
4 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
4 4 (12.90%) Project Management
5 2 (6.452%) OO
5 2 (6.452%) Scrum
6 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.226%) Complex Event Processing
6 1 (3.226%) Memory Management
6 1 (3.226%) BDD
6 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.226%) UML
6 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (3.226%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (51.61%) JavaScript
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 3 (9.677%) Perl
4 3 (9.677%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.226%) Scala
5 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Oracle
2 9 (29.03%) Endeca
3 1 (3.226%) JBoss
Chester, Cheshire
Java J2EE Developer (Spring MVC,JSP, HTML)... Deploying the company’s software products onto clients systems and ongoing support & maintenance of software products implemented at clients The key...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,00 + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Collaborate with Project Managers and technical directors to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013