Somerset Java Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	3
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	173	230
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.094 %
As % of the category below	23.67 %	34.43 %
Salaries quoted	163	217
Average minimum salary	£30,926	£30,680
Average salary	£35,948	£34,335
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,969	£37,989
UK excluding London average salary	£39,182	£39,582
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Programming Languages Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	731	668
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.386 %	0.274 %
Salaries quoted	653	605
Average minimum salary	£29,335	£30,125
Average salary	£33,351	£33,230
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum salary	£37,367	£36,335
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Java South West

Java
Demand Trend

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

Java
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bath	-6	104	£33,067	-4.63 %
Street	-8	10	£43,889	+11.81 %
Yeovil	-4	8	£43,813	+21.19 %
Wells	+2	5	£42,000	+5.37 %
Taunton	-6	1	£35,000	+16.66 %
Weston-super-Mare	+13	1	£27,500	-15.38 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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.

1 149 (46.42 %) J2EE 2 114 (35.51 %) C++ 3 97 (30.22 %) C 4 90 (28.04 %) XML 5 88 (27.41 %) Oracle 6 82 (25.55 %) WebLogic 7 74 (23.05 %) HTML 7 74 (23.05 %) UNIX 8 71 (22.12 %) UML 9 69 (21.50 %) Government 10 68 (21.18 %) SQL 11 63 (19.63 %) WebServices 12 60 (18.69 %) SOAP 13 59 (18.38 %) CSS 14 58 (18.07 %) N-Tier

15 52 (16.20 %) OO 16 45 (14.02 %) .NET 17 44 (13.71 %) SQL Server 17 44 (13.71 %) PHP 18 41 (12.77 %) C# 19 39 (12.15 %) SOA 19 39 (12.15 %) Pensions 20 36 (11.21 %) JavaScript 20 36 (11.21 %) JSP 21 30 (9.346 %) XSLT 22 29 (9.034 %) WSDL 23 28 (8.723 %) XHTML 23 28 (8.723 %) ASP.NET 23 28 (8.723 %) Web Development 24 26 (8.100 %) RDBMS

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 1 149 (46.42 %) J2EE 2 90 (28.04 %) XML 3 74 (23.05 %) HTML 4 63 (19.63 %) WebServices 5 60 (18.69 %) SOAP 6 59 (18.38 %) CSS 7 45 (14.02 %) .NET 8 36 (11.21 %) JSP 9 30 (9.346 %) XSLT 10 29 (9.034 %) WSDL 11 28 (8.723 %) XHTML 11 28 (8.723 %) ASP.NET 12 17 (5.296 %) Struts 13 16 (4.984 %) AJAX 14 11 (3.427 %) .NET Framework 15 9 (2.804 %) ASP 16 8 (2.492 %) EJB 16 8 (2.492 %) Servlets 16 8 (2.492 %) Swing 16 8 (2.492 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 82 (25.55 %) WebLogic 2 10 (3.115 %) JBoss 3 9 (2.804 %) ATG Dynamo 4 7 (2.181 %) ESB 5 6 (1.869 %) WebLogic Portal 6 4 (1.246 %) Documentum 6 4 (1.246 %) IIS 7 3 (0.935 %) Apache 7 3 (0.935 %) Tomcat 8 2 (0.623 %) Oracle Spatial 9 1 (0.312 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 5 (1.558 %) MS Visio 2 2 (0.623 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.312 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 10 (3.115 %) HTTP 2 4 (1.246 %) Internet 3 2 (0.623 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (13.71 %) SQL Server 2 26 (8.100 %) RDBMS 3 12 (3.738 %) MySQL 4 7 (2.181 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (1.558 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (1.246 %) GIS 6 4 (1.246 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (0.623 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (0.312 %) Informix 8 1 (0.312 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 1 (0.312 %) SQLPlus 8 1 (0.312 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 10 (3.115 %) JUnit 2 9 (2.804 %) Ant 3 7 (2.181 %) Eclipse 4 5 (1.558 %) TestDirector 4 5 (1.558 %) ClearCase 4 5 (1.558 %) Subversion 4 5 (1.558 %) JIRA 5 4 (1.246 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 3 (0.935 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (0.312 %) jMock 7 1 (0.312 %) WebLogic Workshop 7 1 (0.312 %) WinRunner
General 1 69 (21.50 %) Government 2 39 (12.15 %) Pensions 3 23 (7.165 %) Finance 4 21 (6.542 %) Telecoms 5 16 (4.984 %) Aerospace 5 16 (4.984 %) Health 6 12 (3.738 %) Retail 7 9 (2.804 %) Military 8 8 (2.492 %) Insurance 9 6 (1.869 %) Marketing 10 3 (0.935 %) Games 10 3 (0.935 %) Publishing 10 3 (0.935 %) Education 10 3 (0.935 %) Electronics 11 1 (0.312 %) Front Office 11 1 (0.312 %) 3D Graphics 11 1 (0.312 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 158 (49.22 %) Developer 2 127 (39.56 %) Software Engineer 3 81 (25.23 %) Java Developer 4 44 (13.71 %) Web Developer 5 23 (7.165 %) Software Developer 5 23 (7.165 %) PHP Developer 6 20 (6.231 %) J2EE Developer 6 20 (6.231 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 18 (5.607 %) PHP Web Developer 8 12 (3.738 %) Lead Developer 9 11 (3.427 %) Senior Developer 9 11 (3.427 %) Analyst 9 11 (3.427 %) C++ Software Engineer 9 11 (3.427 %) Java Software Engineer 9 11 (3.427 %) QA Engineer 9 11 (3.427 %) Senior J2EE Developer 9 11 (3.427 %) C Developer 10 10 (3.115 %) Applications Developer 10 10 (3.115 %) C++ Developer 11 9 (2.804 %) C++ Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 58 (18.07 %) N-Tier 2 10 (3.115 %) PKI 3 4 (1.246 %) W3C 4 3 (0.935 %) Grid Computing 5 2 (0.623 %) Fixed Income 5 2 (0.623 %) Derivative 6 1 (0.312 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.312 %) Russian Language 6 1 (0.312 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1 (0.312 %) Equities 6 1 (0.312 %) Credit Derivative 6 1 (0.312 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 74 (23.05 %) UNIX 2 19 (5.919 %) Windows 3 14 (4.361 %) Linux 4 4 (1.246 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (0.935 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.312 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 71 (22.12 %) UML 2 52 (16.20 %) OO 3 39 (12.15 %) SOA 4 28 (8.723 %) Web Development 5 22 (6.854 %) Security Cleared 6 16 (4.984 %) E-Commerce 7 15 (4.673 %) BPEL 8 14 (4.361 %) Scrum 9 12 (3.738 %) Software Engineering 10 10 (3.115 %) Systems Analysis 10 10 (3.115 %) RUP 11 9 (2.804 %) Agile Software Development 12 7 (2.181 %) Content Management 12 7 (2.181 %) Business Analysis 12 7 (2.181 %) System Testing 13 6 (1.869 %) Information Security 14 5 (1.558 %) OOD 14 5 (1.558 %) Risk Analysis 14 5 (1.558 %) Performance Management 15 4 (1.246 %) Compatibility Testing	Programming Languages 1 114 (35.51 %) C++ 2 97 (30.22 %) C 3 68 (21.18 %) SQL 4 44 (13.71 %) PHP 5 41 (12.77 %) C# 6 36 (11.21 %) JavaScript 7 25 (7.788 %) Perl 8 15 (4.673 %) VB 8 15 (4.673 %) VB.NET 9 7 (2.181 %) VBScript 9 7 (2.181 %) VB6 10 6 (1.869 %) PL/SQL 11 4 (1.246 %) Delphi 11 4 (1.246 %) DHTML 11 4 (1.246 %) Python 12 3 (0.935 %) Tcl 13 1 (0.312 %) Shell Script 13 1 (0.312 %) Korn 13 1 (0.312 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 24 (7.477 %) MCSD 1 24 (7.477 %) Microsoft Certification 2 19 (5.919 %) Degree 2 19 (5.919 %) MCAD 3 14 (4.361 %) ISEB 4 5 (1.558 %) MCSE 5 3 (0.935 %) PhD 6 1 (0.312 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (0.312 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (4.050 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (0.623 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 88 (27.41 %) Oracle 2 15 (4.673 %) BEA 3 9 (2.804 %) ATG 4 8 (2.492 %) Sybase 4 8 (2.492 %) Microsoft 5 4 (1.246 %) Symbian 6 2 (0.623 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.312 %) EMC 7 1 (0.312 %) GigaSpaces 7 1 (0.312 %) Red Hat