The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 26 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 Programming Languages category for the Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 11 9 12
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 65 86 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 12.40% 14.01% 12.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.11% 27.74% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 54 81 66
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,325 £21,000 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £86,500 £42,500 £40,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
294 310 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 56.11% 50.49% 63.13%
Number of salaries quoted 251 276 319
Average salary £33,500 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.07% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £21,500 £23,950
10% offered a salary of more than £47,100 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
South Yorkshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Sheffield Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Sheffield Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

Sheffield Java Salary Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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.

1 64 (42.95%) Spring
2 62 (41.61%) JavaScript
3 49 (32.89%) Hibernate
4 46 (30.87%) J2EE
5 45 (30.20%) HTML
5 45 (30.20%) CSS
6 42 (28.19%) TDD
7 41 (27.52%) Web Services
8 40 (26.85%) Scrum
9 37 (24.83%) OO
9 37 (24.83%) MVC
10 36 (24.16%) Spring MVC
11 35 (23.49%) SQL
12 34 (22.82%) MySQL
12 34 (22.82%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (22.15%) Degree
14 29 (19.46%) PHP
15 28 (18.79%) Agile Software Development
16 26 (17.45%) Ajax
16 26 (17.45%) Computer Science
16 26 (17.45%) YUI
17 24 (16.11%) OOP
18 23 (15.44%) Internet
19 21 (14.09%) BDD
20 20 (13.42%) HTML5
21 19 (12.75%) Oracle
21 19 (12.75%) JSP
21 19 (12.75%) Apache
21 19 (12.75%) Unit Testing
22 18 (12.08%) Project Management

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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.

Application Development
1 64 (42.95%) Spring
2 49 (32.89%) Hibernate
3 46 (30.87%) J2EE
4 45 (30.20%) HTML
4 45 (30.20%) CSS
5 41 (27.52%) Web Services
6 36 (24.16%) Spring MVC
7 26 (17.45%) Ajax
7 26 (17.45%) YUI
8 20 (13.42%) HTML5
9 19 (12.75%) JSP
10 16 (10.74%) JSON
10 16 (10.74%) XML
11 15 (10.07%) Spring Web Flow
12 12 (8.054%) FreeMarker
12 12 (8.054%) jQuery
12 12 (8.054%) J2SE
13 11 (7.383%) XHTML
13 11 (7.383%) JPA
13 11 (7.383%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 19 (12.75%) Apache
2 13 (8.725%) Tomcat
3 12 (8.054%) CMS
4 8 (5.369%) Liferay
5 7 (4.698%) Apache Solr
6 5 (3.356%) ESB
7 4 (2.685%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (2.013%) CICS
8 3 (2.013%) GlassFish
9 2 (1.342%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (1.342%) IIS
10 1 (0.671%) SAS
10 1 (0.671%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.671%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.685%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.342%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.356%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.671%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.671%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.671%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.44%) Internet
2 2 (1.342%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.342%) HTTP
2 2 (1.342%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.82%) MySQL
2 6 (4.027%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.013%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.013%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (2.013%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (2.013%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.342%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.342%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (1.342%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.342%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.671%) DB2
5 1 (0.671%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.671%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.671%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.671%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (12.08%) Maven
2 14 (9.396%) JUnit
3 12 (8.054%) Ant
4 5 (3.356%) Xcode
4 5 (3.356%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.685%) Selenium
5 4 (2.685%) Subversion
5 4 (2.685%) Eclipse
5 4 (2.685%) IntelliJ
5 4 (2.685%) NetBeans
6 2 (1.342%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.342%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.671%) JMeter
7 1 (0.671%) Checkstyle
7 1 (0.671%) jMock
7 1 (0.671%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.671%) QUnit
7 1 (0.671%) FindBugs
General
1 10 (6.711%) Legal
2 7 (4.698%) Automotive
3 4 (2.685%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (2.013%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.342%) Publishing
6 1 (0.671%) Games
6 1 (0.671%) Finance
6 1 (0.671%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.671%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 101 (67.79%) Developer
2 75 (50.34%) Java Developer
3 14 (9.396%) JavaScript Developer
3 14 (9.396%) Senior Developer
3 14 (9.396%) Software Engineer
4 13 (8.725%) Analyst
4 13 (8.725%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (8.054%) Lead Java Developer
5 12 (8.054%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 12 (8.054%) Front-End Developer
5 12 (8.054%) Lead Developer
6 9 (6.040%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (4.698%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (4.698%) Development Manager
7 7 (4.698%) Data Integration Specialist
7 7 (4.698%) Integration Specialist
8 6 (4.027%) Mobile Developer
8 6 (4.027%) J2EE Developer
9 5 (3.356%) Applications Developer
9 5 (3.356%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.45%) Computer Science
2 15 (10.07%) RIA
3 10 (6.711%) Data Integration
4 7 (4.698%) iPhone
5 5 (3.356%) Web 2.0
5 5 (3.356%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.685%) Digital Media
6 4 (2.685%) Open Source
6 4 (2.685%) Biotechnology
7 3 (2.013%) W3C
7 3 (2.013%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.342%) iPad
8 2 (1.342%) Telematics
8 2 (1.342%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.671%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.671%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.671%) Visualisation
9 1 (0.671%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.671%) Machine Learning
9 1 (0.671%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.383%) Linux
2 7 (4.698%) Android
2 7 (4.698%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.027%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.027%) Mac OS X
4 5 (3.356%) UNIX
5 2 (1.342%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.342%) Windows
5 2 (1.342%) Solaris
5 2 (1.342%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.342%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.19%) TDD
2 40 (26.85%) Scrum
3 37 (24.83%) MVC
3 37 (24.83%) OO
4 34 (22.82%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (18.79%) Agile Software Development
6 24 (16.11%) OOP
7 21 (14.09%) BDD
8 19 (12.75%) Unit Testing
9 18 (12.08%) Project Management
10 14 (9.396%) Software Engineering
11 12 (8.054%) Web Development
12 10 (6.711%) Pair Programming
12 10 (6.711%) Release Management
13 9 (6.040%) Dependency Injection
14 8 (5.369%) SOA
14 8 (5.369%) UML
15 6 (4.027%) Test Scripting
15 6 (4.027%) PRINCE2
15 6 (4.027%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.61%) JavaScript
2 35 (23.49%) SQL
3 29 (19.46%) PHP
4 13 (8.725%) C++
5 10 (6.711%) Scala
6 7 (4.698%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.356%) Objective-C
7 5 (3.356%) Perl
7 5 (3.356%) C#
8 3 (2.013%) COBOL
9 2 (1.342%) C
9 2 (1.342%) Python
10 1 (0.671%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (22.15%) Degree
2 6 (4.027%) SCJP
2 6 (4.027%) SCJA
3 3 (2.013%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (2.013%) PMP
3 3 (2.013%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.342%) ISEB
4 2 (1.342%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.396%) QA
2 4 (2.685%) GCP
2 4 (2.685%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.671%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.342%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.342%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.671%) SCOM
1 1 (0.671%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (12.75%) Oracle
2 10 (6.711%) BT
3 7 (4.698%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.685%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.342%) Citrix
5 2 (1.342%) VMware
6 1 (0.671%) ATG
6 1 (0.671%) JBoss
6 1 (0.671%) SAP
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