The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2SE over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 146 141 150
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Permanent jobs citing J2SE 7 14 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.222% 0.405% 0.258%
As % of the Application Development category 0.537% 1.172% 0.760%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 9
Average salary £40,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.87% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -19.35%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1304 1195 1184
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 41.44% 34.59% 33.98%
Number of salaries quoted 798 958 875
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
J2SE
UK

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Scotland J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2SE across the Scotland region.

Scotland J2SE Salary Trend

J2SE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2SE across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland J2SE Salary Histogram

J2SE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -16 7 £40,750 +8.66%
J2SE
UK

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (93.75%) Java
3 14 (87.50%) Perl
3 14 (87.50%) JMS
4 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (56.25%) Spring
4 9 (56.25%) Korn
4 9 (56.25%) UNIX
4 9 (56.25%) Linux
4 9 (56.25%) Sybase
4 9 (56.25%) DB2
4 9 (56.25%) JUnit
5 8 (50.00%) OO
6 7 (43.75%) XML
7 5 (31.25%) AWT
7 5 (31.25%) HTTP
7 5 (31.25%) EJB
7 5 (31.25%) Servlets
7 5 (31.25%) Web Services
7 5 (31.25%) J2EE
7 5 (31.25%) MySQL
8 4 (25.00%) JSP
8 4 (25.00%) OOD
8 4 (25.00%) Swing
8 4 (25.00%) Python
8 4 (25.00%) Front Office
8 4 (25.00%) JSON
8 4 (25.00%) Grails
8 4 (25.00%) Groovy
9 3 (18.75%) REST

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (87.50%) JMS
2 9 (56.25%) Spring
3 7 (43.75%) XML
4 5 (31.25%) AWT
4 5 (31.25%) EJB
4 5 (31.25%) Servlets
4 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 5 (31.25%) J2EE
5 4 (25.00%) JSP
5 4 (25.00%) Swing
5 4 (25.00%) JSON
5 4 (25.00%) Grails
6 3 (18.75%) REST
6 3 (18.75%) JSF
6 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
7 2 (12.50%) J2ME
7 2 (12.50%) XML-RPC
7 2 (12.50%) Java EE
8 1 (6.250%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) DB2
2 5 (31.25%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQLite
4 1 (6.250%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.250%) JIRA
2 1 (6.250%) NetBeans
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (25.00%) Front Office
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (18.75%) J2EE Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Development Manager
6 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
6 2 (12.50%) Java Team Leader
6 2 (12.50%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Derivative
1 3 (18.75%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.250%) PDA
2 1 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) UNIX
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (50.00%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) OOD
4 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
4 3 (18.75%) UML
5 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (93.75%) Java
3 14 (87.50%) Perl
4 9 (56.25%) Korn
5 4 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) Groovy
6 2 (12.50%) C
7 1 (6.250%) C++
7 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.250%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Sybase
2 2 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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Salary: £28000 - £57000 per annum + Bonus, Pension & Healthcare
Posted: 21 May 2013