The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 93 36 67
Rank change year-on-year
-57 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 39 121 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.852% 5.356% 2.578%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.952% 5.628% 2.757%
Number of salaries quoted 36 117 37
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £32,250 £30,900
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1998 2150 1741
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.87% 95.17% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1633 1856 1398
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
Berkshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Reading Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Java 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 Developer in their job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (66.96%) J2EE
3 51 (44.35%) Spring
4 46 (40.00%) Finance
5 40 (34.78%) SQL
6 38 (33.04%) Hibernate
7 36 (31.30%) CSS
7 36 (31.30%) OO
8 30 (26.09%) Integration Testing
9 29 (25.22%) Oracle
10 28 (24.35%) JavaScript
11 25 (21.74%) HTML
12 24 (20.87%) Web Services
13 23 (20.00%) Struts
13 23 (20.00%) Open Source
14 22 (19.13%) Ant
15 21 (18.26%) Eclipse
15 21 (18.26%) Financial Institution
15 21 (18.26%) Degree
16 20 (17.39%) Scrum
16 20 (17.39%) Tomcat
16 20 (17.39%) JDBC
17 19 (16.52%) JSP
17 19 (16.52%) Ajax
18 18 (15.65%) Servlets
18 18 (15.65%) UML
18 18 (15.65%) JMS
19 17 (14.78%) UNIX
19 17 (14.78%) JBoss
20 16 (13.91%) Apache

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Java 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 77 (66.96%) J2EE
2 51 (44.35%) Spring
3 38 (33.04%) Hibernate
4 36 (31.30%) CSS
5 25 (21.74%) HTML
6 24 (20.87%) Web Services
7 23 (20.00%) Struts
8 20 (17.39%) JDBC
9 19 (16.52%) JSP
9 19 (16.52%) Ajax
10 18 (15.65%) JMS
10 18 (15.65%) Servlets
11 16 (13.91%) XML
11 16 (13.91%) WebSphere
12 13 (11.30%) XSLT
12 13 (11.30%) jQuery
13 12 (10.43%) JPA
13 12 (10.43%) SOAP
13 12 (10.43%) EJB
13 12 (10.43%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 20 (17.39%) Tomcat
2 16 (13.91%) Apache
3 9 (7.826%) Jetty
4 8 (6.957%) WebLogic
5 4 (3.478%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (3.478%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (1.739%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.870%) PowerExchange
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.91%) LDAP
2 1 (0.870%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.826%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.217%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (5.217%) MySQL
3 5 (4.348%) TOAD
4 4 (3.478%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.609%) DB2
6 2 (1.739%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.739%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.739%) Big Data
7 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.870%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 22 (19.13%) Ant
2 21 (18.26%) Eclipse
3 15 (13.04%) JUnit
4 12 (10.43%) Subversion
5 10 (8.696%) Maven
6 7 (6.087%) Jenkins
7 6 (5.217%) Log4j
8 3 (2.609%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (1.739%) JIRA
9 2 (1.739%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.739%) JMeter
10 1 (0.870%) Hudson
10 1 (0.870%) NetBeans
General
1 46 (40.00%) Finance
2 21 (18.26%) Financial Institution
3 11 (9.565%) Retail
4 3 (2.609%) Games
5 1 (0.870%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.00%) Open Source
2 10 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.870%) Social Media
3 1 (0.870%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.870%) Blackberry
3 1 (0.870%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.870%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.78%) UNIX
2 15 (13.04%) Linux
3 2 (1.739%) Android
3 2 (1.739%) Windows
4 1 (0.870%) AIX
4 1 (0.870%) Solaris
4 1 (0.870%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.870%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) OO
2 30 (26.09%) Integration Testing
3 20 (17.39%) Scrum
4 18 (15.65%) UML
5 16 (13.91%) SOA
5 16 (13.91%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (13.04%) E-Commerce
6 15 (13.04%) Unit Testing
7 14 (12.17%) Multithreading
8 12 (10.43%) OOA/OOD
9 10 (8.696%) TDD
10 9 (7.826%) RDF
10 9 (7.826%) OWASP
10 9 (7.826%) Software Architecture
10 9 (7.826%) Use Case
11 8 (6.957%) Performance Testing
11 8 (6.957%) CAD
11 8 (6.957%) Data Modelling
11 8 (6.957%) OOD
12 6 (5.217%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (34.78%) SQL
3 28 (24.35%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.565%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.826%) Bash shell
6 8 (6.957%) Python
6 8 (6.957%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.739%) Scala
8 1 (0.870%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.870%) PHP
8 1 (0.870%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 29 (25.22%) Oracle
2 17 (14.78%) JBoss
3 10 (8.696%) IBM
4 5 (4.348%) ILOG
5 3 (2.609%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.609%) BEA
6 2 (1.739%) Capita
7 1 (0.870%) Google
7 1 (0.870%) Twitter
7 1 (0.870%) Sun
7 1 (0.870%) Informatica
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