The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 105 118 116
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 53 36 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.693% 1.047% 1.163%
As % of the Application Development category 4.015% 2.961% 3.390%
Number of salaries quoted 44 31 34
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £33,950
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £44,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1216 1180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 42.17% 35.36% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 799 987 870
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 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland Java EE Salary Histogram

Java EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 0 21 £37,500 -28.57%
Edinburgh +8 20 £40,000 -5.88%
Moray - 5 £40,000 -
Stirling +1 1 £47,500 -5.00%
Aberdeen 0 1 £37,500 -6.25%
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 80 (98.77%) Java
2 46 (56.79%) Spring
3 39 (48.15%) Hibernate
4 36 (44.44%) JBoss
5 34 (41.98%) SQL
6 32 (39.51%) Oracle
7 31 (38.27%) XML
7 31 (38.27%) TDD
8 28 (34.57%) Maven
9 26 (32.10%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (30.86%) SOA
11 23 (28.40%) JSP
11 23 (28.40%) JavaScript
12 22 (27.16%) Servlets
13 21 (25.93%) SOAP
13 21 (25.93%) WebSphere
14 20 (24.69%) Ajax
14 20 (24.69%) J2EE
14 20 (24.69%) Web Services
14 20 (24.69%) Scrum
15 19 (23.46%) OO
16 18 (22.22%) XSLT
16 18 (22.22%) JSF
17 17 (20.99%) RDBMS
17 17 (20.99%) Subversion
18 15 (18.52%) Web Development
19 14 (17.28%) REST
19 14 (17.28%) Agile Software Development
20 13 (16.05%) Workflow
20 13 (16.05%) Eclipse

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 46 (56.79%) Spring
2 39 (48.15%) Hibernate
3 31 (38.27%) XML
4 23 (28.40%) JSP
5 22 (27.16%) Servlets
6 21 (25.93%) SOAP
6 21 (25.93%) WebSphere
7 20 (24.69%) J2EE
7 20 (24.69%) Web Services
7 20 (24.69%) Ajax
8 18 (22.22%) JSF
8 18 (22.22%) XSLT
9 14 (17.28%) REST
10 12 (14.81%) HTML
10 12 (14.81%) CSS
11 11 (13.58%) jBPM
11 11 (13.58%) Drools
11 11 (13.58%) jQuery
12 10 (12.35%) Middleware
13 9 (11.11%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 13 (16.05%) ESB
2 11 (13.58%) Drupal
3 10 (12.35%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (8.642%) WebLogic
4 7 (8.642%) Confluence
4 7 (8.642%) Tomcat
5 5 (6.173%) Apache
6 2 (2.469%) IIS
6 2 (2.469%) TeamSite
6 2 (2.469%) CMS
6 2 (2.469%) GlassFish
6 2 (2.469%) Jetty
6 2 (2.469%) Mule
7 1 (1.235%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.235%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.469%) Murex MxG2000
1 2 (2.469%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (2.469%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Internet
2 2 (2.469%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) RDBMS
2 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.11%) InterSystems Cache
4 5 (6.173%) MySQL
5 4 (4.938%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (2.469%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.235%) GIS
7 1 (1.235%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 28 (34.57%) Maven
2 17 (20.99%) Subversion
3 13 (16.05%) Eclipse
4 9 (11.11%) JIRA
5 6 (7.407%) Ant
5 6 (7.407%) JUnit
6 4 (4.938%) Git (software)
7 3 (3.704%) Bugzilla
8 2 (2.469%) Talend Open Studio
8 2 (2.469%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.235%) CruiseControl
9 1 (1.235%) PVCS
9 1 (1.235%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (1.235%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (1.235%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (11.11%) Retail
1 9 (11.11%) Marketing
2 7 (8.642%) Finance
3 5 (6.173%) Banking
4 3 (3.704%) Advertising
5 2 (2.469%) Front Office
5 2 (2.469%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.235%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (69.14%) Developer
2 39 (48.15%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.11%) ScrumMaster
4 8 (9.877%) Web Developer
5 7 (8.642%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.642%) Lead Developer
5 7 (8.642%) Lead Java Developer
6 6 (7.407%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (7.407%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 5 (6.173%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.938%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.469%) Graduate
9 2 (2.469%) Consultant
9 2 (2.469%) Systems Designer
9 2 (2.469%) Development Manager
9 2 (2.469%) Java Consultant
9 2 (2.469%) Data Manager
9 2 (2.469%) Senior J2EE Developer
9 2 (2.469%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.469%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.642%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (8.642%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.704%) Mathematics
3 3 (3.704%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.469%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.235%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.235%) Physics
5 1 (1.235%) Open Source
5 1 (1.235%) W3C
5 1 (1.235%) Replication
5 1 (1.235%) Clustering
5 1 (1.235%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.642%) Android
1 7 (8.642%) Apple iOS
2 6 (7.407%) UNIX
2 6 (7.407%) Linux
3 3 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (3.704%) Windows
4 1 (1.235%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) TDD
2 26 (32.10%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (30.86%) SOA
4 20 (24.69%) Scrum
5 19 (23.46%) OO
6 15 (18.52%) Web Development
7 14 (17.28%) Agile Software Development
8 13 (16.05%) Workflow
8 13 (16.05%) BPMN
9 11 (13.58%) UML
10 10 (12.35%) OOD
11 9 (11.11%) Content Management
11 9 (11.11%) Information Architecture
12 7 (8.642%) Software Engineering
12 7 (8.642%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (8.642%) MVC
13 6 (7.407%) Unit Testing
14 5 (6.173%) RUP
14 5 (6.173%) Project Management
14 5 (6.173%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (98.77%) Java
2 34 (41.98%) SQL
3 23 (28.40%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.35%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.877%) C#
5 8 (9.877%) PHP
6 5 (6.173%) C++
7 3 (3.704%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.704%) VBScript
8 2 (2.469%) Objective-C
8 2 (2.469%) Jython
8 2 (2.469%) Perl
8 2 (2.469%) C
9 1 (1.235%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.235%) Groovy
9 1 (1.235%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
1 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.173%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.469%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.235%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.235%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 36 (44.44%) JBoss
2 32 (39.51%) Oracle
3 9 (11.11%) Alterian
4 7 (8.642%) Sybase
5 3 (3.704%) VMware
5 3 (3.704%) IBM
6 2 (2.469%) Adobe
6 2 (2.469%) Murex
6 2 (2.469%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.469%) webMethods
6 2 (2.469%) Reuters
6 2 (2.469%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.469%) Talend
7 1 (1.235%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.235%) HP
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