The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Northern Ireland region.

Java
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank1325
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads326262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland12.80 %27.80 %21.99 %
As % of the Programming Languages category24.43 %56.36 %37.80 %
Number of salaries quoted143729
Average salary£36,250£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.57 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,100£27,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£53,500£47,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
131110164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland52.40 %49.33 %58.16 %
Number of salaries quoted7169105
Average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.14 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£26,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£46,650£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
Java UKJava
UK

Java
Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Northern Ireland Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Northern Ireland Java Salary Histogram

Java
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
County AntrimDown-1229£45,000+28.57 %
Java UKJava
UK

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

138 (46.91 %)J2EE
234 (41.98 %)OO
325 (30.86 %)SQL
423 (28.40 %)Oracle
423 (28.40 %)Linux
521 (25.93 %).NET
521 (25.93 %)Unit Testing
620 (24.69 %)Product Management
620 (24.69 %)Finance
719 (23.46 %)C++
818 (22.22 %)C#
916 (19.75 %)HTML
916 (19.75 %)VoIP
916 (19.75 %)Agile Software Development
1015 (18.52 %)Computer Science
1015 (18.52 %)3GPP
1015 (18.52 %)OOA/OOD
1015 (18.52 %)CSS
1015 (18.52 %)Web Services
1015 (18.52 %)MGCP
1015 (18.52 %)H.323
1114 (17.28 %)XML
1213 (16.05 %)JavaScript
1213 (16.05 %)C
1312 (14.81 %)PL/SQL
1312 (14.81 %)Spring
1312 (14.81 %)Degree
1411 (13.58 %)MySQL
1411 (13.58 %)WebLogic
1411 (13.58 %)Internet

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
138 (46.91 %)J2EE
221 (25.93 %).NET
316 (19.75 %)HTML
415 (18.52 %)CSS
415 (18.52 %)Web Services
514 (17.28 %)XML
612 (14.81 %)Spring
710 (12.35 %)Hibernate
710 (12.35 %)Ajax
88 (9.877 %)JSP
88 (9.877 %)JSF
88 (9.877 %)WebSphere
96 (7.407 %)Struts
96 (7.407 %)JDBC
105 (6.173 %)JMS
114 (4.938 %)Servlets
114 (4.938 %)ASP.NET
114 (4.938 %)Apache Flex
123 (3.704 %)OSGi
123 (3.704 %)SAP PI
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (13.58 %)WebLogic
210 (12.35 %)Oracle Application Server
34 (4.938 %)Tomcat
43 (3.704 %)Apache
52 (2.469 %)SharePoint
61 (1.235 %)Progress Apama
61 (1.235 %)Apache Solr
61 (1.235 %)Oracle 10gAS
61 (1.235 %)WebSphere Process Server
61 (1.235 %)ESB
61 (1.235 %)WebLogic Portal
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (2.469 %)MS Excel
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (3.704 %)SAP IS-U
22 (2.469 %)Oracle BPM
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
116 (19.75 %)VoIP
215 (18.52 %)3GPP
215 (18.52 %)MGCP
215 (18.52 %)H.323
311 (13.58 %)Internet
49 (11.11 %)HTTP
49 (11.11 %)TCP/IP
58 (9.877 %)DNS
58 (9.877 %)HTTPS
58 (9.877 %)SMTP
67 (8.642 %)Network Security
72 (2.469 %)Wireless
81 (1.235 %)NAS
81 (1.235 %)GPRS
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (13.58 %)MySQL
25 (6.173 %)SQL Server
33 (3.704 %)SAP BI
42 (2.469 %)RDBMS
42 (2.469 %)Oracle Reports
42 (2.469 %)Oracle 10g
42 (2.469 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
42 (2.469 %)Oracle 11g
42 (2.469 %)Hadoop
51 (1.235 %)SQL Server 2008
51 (1.235 %)SQLite
51 (1.235 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51 (1.235 %)DB2
51 (1.235 %)ETL
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (6.173 %)JDeveloper
24 (4.938 %)Subversion
32 (2.469 %)Eclipse
32 (2.469 %)Oracle Forms
32 (2.469 %)JUnit
32 (2.469 %)Visual Studio
32 (2.469 %)Maven
41 (1.235 %)JIRA
41 (1.235 %)NetBeans
41 (1.235 %)JMeter
41 (1.235 %)Log4j
41 (1.235 %)Ant
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
120 (24.69 %)Finance
29 (11.11 %)Banking
36 (7.407 %)Manufacturing
45 (6.173 %)Telecoms
54 (4.938 %)Investment Banking
63 (3.704 %)Billing
63 (3.704 %)Games
71 (1.235 %)Retail
71 (1.235 %)Legal
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
154 (66.67 %)Developer
232 (39.51 %)Java Developer
314 (17.28 %)Analyst
314 (17.28 %)Applications Developer
410 (12.35 %)Software Engineer
58 (9.877 %)Security Analyst
58 (9.877 %)Application Security Analyst
66 (7.407 %)C# Developer
75 (6.173 %)Analyst Developer
84 (4.938 %).NET Developer
84 (4.938 %)Senior Software Engineer
84 (4.938 %)Web Developer
84 (4.938 %)Java/J2EE Developer
84 (4.938 %)C# .NET Developer
93 (3.704 %)SAP Analyst
93 (3.704 %)SAP Support
93 (3.704 %)SAP Support Analyst
93 (3.704 %)Support Analyst
93 (3.704 %)Applications Support
93 (3.704 %)J2EE Developer
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
115 (18.52 %)Computer Science
28 (9.877 %)Web 2.0
35 (6.173 %)Mathematics
44 (4.938 %)Physics
53 (3.704 %)Cloud Computing
53 (3.704 %)Blackberry
53 (3.704 %)Fixed Income
62 (2.469 %)Firmware
71 (1.235 %)Embedded Systems
71 (1.235 %)Open Source
71 (1.235 %)Reference Data
71 (1.235 %)Credit Derivative
71 (1.235 %)Derivative
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
123 (28.40 %)Linux
210 (12.35 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
38 (9.877 %)UNIX
47 (8.642 %)Windows
54 (4.938 %)Android
63 (3.704 %)Windows 7
71 (1.235 %)Apple iOS
71 (1.235 %)Solaris
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
134 (41.98 %)OO
221 (25.93 %)Unit Testing
320 (24.69 %)Product Management
416 (19.75 %)Agile Software Development
515 (18.52 %)OOA/OOD
69 (11.11 %)Multithreading
78 (9.877 %)OWASP
78 (9.877 %)Software Architecture
87 (8.642 %)SIEM
87 (8.642 %)ITIL
87 (8.642 %)Business Intelligence
96 (7.407 %)SOA
105 (6.173 %)Software Engineering
114 (4.938 %)E-Commerce
114 (4.938 %)OOP
114 (4.938 %)Security Management
114 (4.938 %)Web Development
123 (3.704 %)Network Management
123 (3.704 %)Vulnerability Management
123 (3.704 %)Electronic Trading
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
125 (30.86 %)SQL
219 (23.46 %)C++
318 (22.22 %)C#
413 (16.05 %)JavaScript
413 (16.05 %)C
512 (14.81 %)PL/SQL
610 (12.35 %)Perl
79 (11.11 %)Shell Script
85 (6.173 %)PHP
93 (3.704 %)ABAP
93 (3.704 %)Python
102 (2.469 %)Bash shell
111 (1.235 %)Ruby
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (14.81 %)Degree
26 (7.407 %)Security Cleared
34 (4.938 %)BC Cleared
34 (4.938 %)CTC Cleared
41 (1.235 %)HNC
41 (1.235 %)HND
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (6.173 %)QA
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (1.235 %)Xen
11 (1.235 %)NFS
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (1.235 %)Munin
11 (1.235 %)Nagios
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (28.40 %)Oracle
210 (12.35 %)Red Hat
36 (7.407 %)JBoss
36 (7.407 %)Microsoft
43 (3.704 %)IBM
43 (3.704 %)BEA
43 (3.704 %)Apple
43 (3.704 %)SAP
52 (2.469 %)Progress
52 (2.469 %)Adobe
52 (2.469 %)Twitter
61 (1.235 %)Facebook
61 (1.235 %)Google