Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Scotland region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank11119
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-2
Matching permanent IT job ads213242686
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland11.44 %11.78 %12.89 %
As % of the Programming Languages category26.30 %24.22 %29.66 %
Salaries quoted135192354
Average salary£36,250£37,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.330 %+7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£26,300£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£49,100£51,500£52,100
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£37,500
Scotland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8109992313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland43.50 %48.61 %43.45 %
Salaries quoted4977511438
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.690 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Java UKJava
UK

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scotland Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland Java Salary Histogram

Java
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
GlasgowUp+487£40,000+6.66 %
EdinburghDown-674£35,000-6.66 %
FifeDown-315£50,000+72.41 %
Dumfries and GallowayNew entry-5£30,000-
StirlingUp+64£35,750+19.16 %
MorayNew entry-4£22,500-
DundeeNew entry-3£26,500-
AberdeenUp+132£36,250+3.57 %
RenfrewshireUp+32£40,000-
West LothianDown-62£42,500-15.84 %
South LanarkshireDown-21£45,000+11.11 %
StrathclydeNew entry-1£35,000-
Java UKJava
UK

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Java 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.

1135 (35.90 %)SQL
2129 (34.31 %)Oracle
3122 (32.45 %).NET
4116 (30.85 %)Finance
5109 (28.99 %)Degree
6105 (27.93 %)XML
799 (26.33 %)C#
893 (24.73 %)UNIX
990 (23.94 %)J2EE
1082 (21.81 %)HTML
1173 (19.41 %)Linux
1265 (17.29 %)OO
1363 (16.76 %)C++
1462 (16.49 %)SQL Server
1462 (16.49 %)RDBMS
1553 (14.10 %)Windows
1645 (11.97 %)Sybase
1744 (11.70 %)JSP
1744 (11.70 %)ASP.NET
1744 (11.70 %)Spring
1842 (11.17 %)C
1940 (10.64 %)Banking
2039 (10.37 %)Computer Science
2138 (10.11 %)Adobe Flex
2138 (10.11 %)Perl
2138 (10.11 %)CSS
2237 (9.840 %)JavaScript
2336 (9.574 %)Apache
2435 (9.309 %)Tomcat
2533 (8.777 %)Software Engineering

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1122 (32.45 %).NET
2105 (27.93 %)XML
390 (23.94 %)J2EE
482 (21.81 %)HTML
544 (11.70 %)ASP.NET
544 (11.70 %)JSP
544 (11.70 %)Spring
638 (10.11 %)Adobe Flex
638 (10.11 %)CSS
732 (8.511 %)Hibernate
829 (7.713 %)AJAX
927 (7.181 %)Web Services
927 (7.181 %)Servlets
1026 (6.915 %)WinForms
1117 (4.521 %)XSLT
1117 (4.521 %)JMS
1216 (4.255 %)Struts
1314 (3.723 %)ODBC
1413 (3.457 %)XHTML
1512 (3.191 %)SOAP
Scotland IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
136 (9.574 %)Apache
235 (9.309 %)Tomcat
38 (2.128 %)ATG Dynamo
47 (1.862 %)IIS
47 (1.862 %)CMS
56 (1.596 %)Oracle Application Server
64 (1.064 %)ESB
73 (0.798 %)TeamSite
73 (0.798 %)WebLogic
73 (0.798 %)SonicMQ
73 (0.798 %)Sonic ESB
81 (0.266 %)AquaLogic
81 (0.266 %)ColdFusion
81 (0.266 %)SharePoint
81 (0.266 %)Documentum
81 (0.266 %)CICS
81 (0.266 %)LiveLink
81 (0.266 %)Morello
81 (0.266 %)GlassFish
81 (0.266 %)Alfresco
Scotland IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (1.862 %)MS Office
26 (1.596 %)MS Excel
35 (1.330 %)MS Visio
43 (0.798 %)Photoshop
51 (0.266 %)FreeHand
51 (0.266 %)Fireworks
51 (0.266 %)MATLAB
51 (0.266 %)Adobe Illustrator
51 (0.266 %)ArcView
Scotland IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.532 %)WebTrends
12 (0.532 %)Oracle Applications
12 (0.532 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.266 %)assyst
Scotland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
123 (6.117 %)Internet
213 (3.457 %)HTTP
35 (1.330 %)Broadband
43 (0.798 %)LDAP
43 (0.798 %)TCP/IP
43 (0.798 %)Intranet
51 (0.266 %)Wireless
51 (0.266 %)SSL
51 (0.266 %)SAN
51 (0.266 %)CTI
51 (0.266 %)Bluetooth
51 (0.266 %)LAN
51 (0.266 %)WAN
Scotland IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
162 (16.49 %)SQL Server
162 (16.49 %)RDBMS
224 (6.383 %)MySQL
319 (5.053 %)DB2
410 (2.660 %)Oracle 8/8i
410 (2.660 %)Oracle 10g
59 (2.394 %)Sybase ASE
66 (1.596 %)Oracle 11g
66 (1.596 %)Oracle 9i
75 (1.330 %)Data Mining
75 (1.330 %)Crystal Reports
75 (1.330 %)Oracle Discoverer
75 (1.330 %)Oracle OWB
83 (0.798 %)SQL Server 2005
83 (0.798 %)Datawarehouse
92 (0.532 %)SQL Server 2000
92 (0.532 %)BusinessObjects
92 (0.532 %)GIS
101 (0.266 %)IDOL
101 (0.266 %)Sybase IQ
Scotland IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
121 (5.585 %)JUnit
215 (3.989 %)LoadRunner
215 (3.989 %)Subversion
312 (3.191 %)Maven
411 (2.926 %)ClearCase
411 (2.926 %)QuickTest Pro
58 (2.128 %)Eclipse
58 (2.128 %)Visual Studio
67 (1.862 %)PowerBuilder
74 (1.064 %)jMock
83 (0.798 %)VSS/SourceSafe
83 (0.798 %)Ant
92 (0.532 %)CruiseControl
92 (0.532 %)JIRA
92 (0.532 %)Selenium
101 (0.266 %)Flex Builder
101 (0.266 %)Git (software)
101 (0.266 %)FlexUnit
101 (0.266 %)JDeveloper
101 (0.266 %)ProC
Scotland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1116 (30.85 %)Finance
240 (10.64 %)Banking
324 (6.383 %)Pensions
421 (5.585 %)Investment Banking
518 (4.787 %)Insurance
611 (2.926 %)Private Banking
710 (2.660 %)Education
88 (2.128 %)Front Office
88 (2.128 %)Back Office
88 (2.128 %)Games
95 (1.330 %)Health
104 (1.064 %)Telecoms
104 (1.064 %)Browser Games
113 (0.798 %)Social Media
113 (0.798 %)Billing
113 (0.798 %)Financial Institution
113 (0.798 %)Marketing
122 (0.532 %)Government
131 (0.266 %)3D Graphics
131 (0.266 %)Construction
Scotland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1229 (60.90 %)Developer
288 (23.40 %)Java Developer
356 (14.89 %)Software Developer
433 (8.777 %)Architect
530 (7.979 %)Analyst
629 (7.713 %)Software Engineer
724 (6.383 %)Technical Architect
822 (5.851 %)Senior Developer
918 (4.787 %)Applications Developer
1017 (4.521 %)Support Analyst
1017 (4.521 %)Applications Support
1017 (4.521 %)Web Developer
1116 (4.255 %)Test Specialist
1215 (3.989 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1215 (3.989 %)Technical Developer
1314 (3.723 %)Java Software Engineer
1412 (3.191 %)J2EE Developer
1412 (3.191 %)Consultant
1511 (2.926 %)C# Developer
1511 (2.926 %)Applications Support Analyst
Scotland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (10.37 %)Computer Science
225 (6.649 %)Mainframe
314 (3.723 %)Derivative
314 (3.723 %)Mathematics
411 (2.926 %)Multithreading
58 (2.128 %)Credit Derivative
66 (1.596 %)N-Tier
66 (1.596 %)Open Source
75 (1.330 %)Smartcard
75 (1.330 %)RIA
75 (1.330 %)Equity Derivative
83 (0.798 %)Physics
83 (0.798 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
83 (0.798 %)Market Risk
92 (0.532 %)Fixed Income
92 (0.532 %)Grid Computing
92 (0.532 %)Clustering
92 (0.532 %)Equities
92 (0.532 %)Economics
101 (0.266 %)CCTV
Scotland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
193 (24.73 %)UNIX
273 (19.41 %)Linux
353 (14.10 %)Windows
410 (2.660 %)Solaris
56 (1.596 %)Red Hat Linux
63 (0.798 %)Windows Server 2003
72 (0.532 %)Windows XP
81 (0.266 %)OpenVMS
81 (0.266 %)Debian
81 (0.266 %)Android
81 (0.266 %)AIX
81 (0.266 %)Windows 2000
81 (0.266 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Scotland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
165 (17.29 %)OO
233 (8.777 %)Software Engineering
330 (7.979 %)E-Commerce
425 (6.649 %)UML
522 (5.851 %)Web Development
621 (5.585 %)Project Management
717 (4.521 %)Data Modelling
717 (4.521 %)Performance Testing
815 (3.989 %)CRM
815 (3.989 %)Asset Management
914 (3.723 %)Change Management
1013 (3.457 %)Content Management
1013 (3.457 %)Test Automation
1112 (3.191 %)Investment Management
1211 (2.926 %)Wealth Management
1211 (2.926 %)Agile Software Development
1310 (2.660 %)Stakeholder Management
1310 (2.660 %)Data Analysis
1310 (2.660 %)OOP
148 (2.128 %)PRINCE2
Scotland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1135 (35.90 %)SQL
299 (26.33 %)C#
363 (16.76 %)C++
442 (11.17 %)C
538 (10.11 %)Perl
637 (9.840 %)JavaScript
729 (7.713 %)VB
821 (5.585 %)PHP
918 (4.787 %)VB.NET
1015 (3.989 %)PL/SQL
1111 (2.926 %)ActionScript
1210 (2.660 %)Shell Script
1210 (2.660 %)VBScript
136 (1.596 %)Bash shell
136 (1.596 %)T-SQL
145 (1.330 %)CFML
154 (1.064 %)VB6
154 (1.064 %)VC++
163 (0.798 %)Ruby
163 (0.798 %)XPath
Scotland IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1109 (28.99 %)Degree
213 (3.457 %)PhD
35 (1.330 %)ISEB
43 (0.798 %)Sun Certification
52 (0.532 %)MCPD
61 (0.266 %)Microsoft Certification
61 (0.266 %)MCP
Scotland IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (3.723 %)QA
23 (0.798 %)SLA
Scotland IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.532 %)Active Directory
12 (0.532 %)VMware Infrastructure
Scotland IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (1.330 %)OpenView
24 (1.064 %)AutoSys
33 (0.798 %)Unicenter
41 (0.266 %)Tivoli
41 (0.266 %)CONTROL-M
41 (0.266 %)Nagios
Scotland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1129 (34.31 %)Oracle
245 (11.97 %)Sybase
332 (8.511 %)HP
423 (6.117 %)JBoss
518 (4.787 %)Microsoft
612 (3.191 %)Adobe
612 (3.191 %)ATG
711 (2.926 %)Cognos
86 (1.596 %)IBM
95 (1.330 %)Red Hat
104 (1.064 %)Quark
104 (1.064 %)CA
104 (1.064 %)Sun
104 (1.064 %)Compuware
113 (0.798 %)Progress
113 (0.798 %)Google
122 (0.532 %)VMware
122 (0.532 %)Alterian
122 (0.532 %)Salesforce.com
122 (0.532 %)Unisys