The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java Developer
Rank 124 96 94
Rank change year-on-year
-28 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 8 39 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.372% 1.720% 1.146%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.392% 1.809% 1.222%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 18
Average salary £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £49,100 £47,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £53,250
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-3.15% +5.55%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2039 2156 1800
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.93% 95.10% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1654 1851 1452
Average salary £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.35% -
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%
Senior Java Developer
Berkshire

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Reading Senior Java Developer Salary Trend

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (75.56%) Finance
3 33 (73.33%) J2EE
4 30 (66.67%) SQL
5 28 (62.22%) Integration Testing
6 24 (53.33%) Spring
7 23 (51.11%) Financial Institution
8 13 (28.89%) Linux
9 12 (26.67%) Oracle
9 12 (26.67%) CSS
9 12 (26.67%) Hibernate
10 10 (22.22%) E-Commerce
11 9 (20.00%) Multithreading
12 8 (17.78%) LDAP
12 8 (17.78%) Web Services
12 8 (17.78%) Ant
12 8 (17.78%) HTML
12 8 (17.78%) Ajax
13 7 (15.56%) XHTML
13 7 (15.56%) jQuery
14 6 (13.33%) Performance Testing
14 6 (13.33%) Velocity
14 6 (13.33%) JSON
14 6 (13.33%) Jetty
14 6 (13.33%) OWASP
14 6 (13.33%) Open Source
14 6 (13.33%) Bash shell
14 6 (13.33%) UNIX
14 6 (13.33%) Tomcat
14 6 (13.33%) Struts

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (73.33%) J2EE
2 24 (53.33%) Spring
3 12 (26.67%) CSS
3 12 (26.67%) Hibernate
4 8 (17.78%) Web Services
4 8 (17.78%) HTML
4 8 (17.78%) Ajax
5 7 (15.56%) XHTML
5 7 (15.56%) jQuery
6 6 (13.33%) Velocity
6 6 (13.33%) JSON
6 6 (13.33%) Struts
6 6 (13.33%) JDBC
7 5 (11.11%) Java EE
8 4 (8.889%) Struts2
9 3 (6.667%) WSDL
9 3 (6.667%) JMS
9 3 (6.667%) SOAP
9 3 (6.667%) XML
9 3 (6.667%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Jetty
1 6 (13.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (6.667%) Apache
2 3 (6.667%) WebLogic
2 3 (6.667%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.222%) PowerExchange
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.222%) PowerCenter
2 1 (2.222%) MySQL
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Ant
2 6 (13.33%) JUnit
2 6 (13.33%) Eclipse
3 3 (6.667%) Subversion
4 1 (2.222%) Maven
General
1 34 (75.56%) Finance
2 23 (51.11%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Open Source
2 1 (2.222%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Integration Testing
2 10 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 9 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 6 (13.33%) Performance Testing
4 6 (13.33%) OWASP
5 4 (8.889%) Web Development
5 4 (8.889%) OO
5 4 (8.889%) SOA
6 3 (6.667%) TDD
6 3 (6.667%) UML
6 3 (6.667%) OOA/OOD
6 3 (6.667%) Waterfall
6 3 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (6.667%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.444%) V-Model
7 2 (4.444%) E-business
8 1 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) Bash shell
3 6 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 5 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.889%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.222%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (8.889%) JBoss
3 2 (4.444%) Capita
4 1 (2.222%) Informatica
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: 20 May 2013