The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java EE 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 116 131 109
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 16 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.760% 0.089% 0.269%
As % of the Application Development category 2.548% 0.210% 0.694%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 5
Average salary £70,000 £67,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% +125.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
628 953 720
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 29.82% 42.19% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 552 867 628
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
Berkshire

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

Reading Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

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

Reading Java EE Salary Histogram

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Java EE 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 EE.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (65.91%) Spring
3 24 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (47.73%) OO
5 20 (45.45%) Degree
6 19 (43.18%) J2EE
7 18 (40.91%) MySQL
8 16 (36.36%) UML
9 14 (31.82%) Oracle
10 12 (27.27%) Tomcat
10 12 (27.27%) Telecoms
10 12 (27.27%) SOA
10 12 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (25.00%) Java SE
11 11 (25.00%) Hibernate
12 10 (22.73%) Scrum
12 10 (22.73%) ATG
12 10 (22.73%) E-Commerce
12 10 (22.73%) SOAP
12 10 (22.73%) hybris
12 10 (22.73%) Magento
12 10 (22.73%) REST
12 10 (22.73%) TDD
12 10 (22.73%) Subversion
12 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing
13 9 (20.45%) GWT
13 9 (20.45%) Google
13 9 (20.45%) Maven
13 9 (20.45%) Android
13 9 (20.45%) J2ME

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Java EE 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 EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (65.91%) Spring
2 19 (43.18%) J2EE
3 11 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 11 (25.00%) Java SE
4 10 (22.73%) REST
4 10 (22.73%) SOAP
5 9 (20.45%) J2ME
5 9 (20.45%) GWT
6 8 (18.18%) WebSphere
7 6 (13.64%) JRules
8 5 (11.36%) Web Services
8 5 (11.36%) CSS
9 4 (9.091%) XML
10 3 (6.818%) Struts
10 3 (6.818%) JSP
10 3 (6.818%) HTML
10 3 (6.818%) .NET
10 3 (6.818%) JMS
10 3 (6.818%) WSRP
10 3 (6.818%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 10 (22.73%) Magento
3 3 (6.818%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (6.818%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.545%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.273%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.273%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) HTTP
1 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) MySQL
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.545%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.545%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.545%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.545%) Big Data
4 1 (2.273%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Subversion
2 9 (20.45%) Maven
3 8 (18.18%) Ant
4 7 (15.91%) JUnit
5 3 (6.818%) JIRA
5 3 (6.818%) JMeter
6 2 (4.545%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (4.545%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.273%) JProfiler
7 1 (2.273%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.273%) Selenium
7 1 (2.273%) ClearCase
7 1 (2.273%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.273%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.273%) ClearQuest
General
1 12 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.545%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Architect
2 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Consultant
4 9 (20.45%) Java Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Junior
7 3 (6.818%) Graduate
7 3 (6.818%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Junior Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Junior Software Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Designer
8 2 (4.545%) Java Consultant
8 2 (4.545%) Applications Consultant
8 2 (4.545%) Security Consultant
9 1 (2.273%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Digital Media
2 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
3 3 (6.818%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.273%) DataPower
4 1 (2.273%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Android
2 3 (6.818%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (47.73%) OO
3 16 (36.36%) UML
4 12 (27.27%) SOA
4 12 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing
5 10 (22.73%) E-Commerce
5 10 (22.73%) TDD
5 10 (22.73%) Scrum
6 9 (20.45%) OOD
7 8 (18.18%) Refactoring
8 7 (15.91%) Waterfall
8 7 (15.91%) Information Management
9 6 (13.64%) RUP
9 6 (13.64%) V-Model
10 4 (9.091%) Business Analysis
10 4 (9.091%) Multithreading
11 3 (6.818%) MVC
11 3 (6.818%) TOGAF
12 2 (4.545%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (4.545%) Scala
4 2 (4.545%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (6.818%) ISEB
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Oracle
2 10 (22.73%) ATG
2 10 (22.73%) hybris
3 9 (20.45%) Google
4 8 (18.18%) IBM
5 7 (15.91%) JBoss
5 7 (15.91%) Demandware
6 6 (13.64%) ILOG
Reading, Berkshire
Due to continuous growth a position is vacant for a Senior Java EE Developer to join the Engineering department... Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate coding skills...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 55K
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Knowledge of Object Oriented Design (OOD) Knowledge of modelling techniques, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and documenting software design using UML Knowledge of formal development methodologies such as Agile,...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Java Solution Designer with strong Java EE technologies, design patterns, and standards (JEE Certification desirable), OO / UML skills, and high level / solution design ideally for telecoms ICT systems,...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
Posted: 13 May 2013