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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 239 301 297
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 213 148 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.967% 0.623% 0.554%
As % of the Application Development category 2.522% 1.517% 1.333%
Number of salaries quoted 180 141 101
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £30,550
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £54,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8445 9757 9455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 38.35% 41.06% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7488 8879 8582
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
England

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East 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
Berkshire +62 76 £55,000 -4.34%
Surrey +28 52 £40,000 -11.11%
Hampshire -3 39 £42,500 -13.70%
Oxfordshire -5 13 £50,000 +50.27%
East Sussex -18 13 £38,500 -14.44%
Kent -13 9 £40,000 -8.04%
West Sussex -1 7 £37,500 -
Java EE
England

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 453 (96.59%) Java
2 244 (52.03%) Spring
3 205 (43.71%) Agile Software Development
4 200 (42.64%) Oracle
5 175 (37.31%) Hibernate
6 167 (35.61%) J2EE
7 155 (33.05%) HTML
8 152 (32.41%) JavaScript
9 143 (30.49%) TDD
10 133 (28.36%) MySQL
10 133 (28.36%) SQL
11 125 (26.65%) Scrum
12 120 (25.59%) XML
13 119 (25.37%) OO
14 117 (24.95%) CSS
15 108 (23.03%) Finance
16 103 (21.96%) Web Services
17 96 (20.47%) Tomcat
18 93 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
19 88 (18.76%) UML
20 86 (18.34%) Banking
20 86 (18.34%) Maven
20 86 (18.34%) Degree
21 85 (18.12%) IBM
22 80 (17.06%) JUnit
22 80 (17.06%) Retail
23 74 (15.78%) Struts
24 73 (15.57%) Microsoft
25 70 (14.93%) MS Excel
26 68 (14.50%) MVC

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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
1 244 (52.03%) Spring
2 175 (37.31%) Hibernate
3 167 (35.61%) J2EE
4 155 (33.05%) HTML
5 120 (25.59%) XML
6 117 (24.95%) CSS
7 103 (21.96%) Web Services
8 74 (15.78%) Struts
9 67 (14.29%) JPA
10 60 (12.79%) SOAP
11 59 (12.58%) jQuery
12 56 (11.94%) JSP
13 54 (11.51%) Ajax
14 50 (10.66%) REST
15 48 (10.23%) HTML5
16 43 (9.168%) JDBC
17 40 (8.529%) JSF
18 39 (8.316%) .NET
19 34 (7.249%) JMS
19 34 (7.249%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 96 (20.47%) Tomcat
2 56 (11.94%) WebLogic
3 39 (8.316%) Liferay
4 38 (8.102%) GlassFish
5 32 (6.823%) CMS
6 28 (5.970%) Apache
7 25 (5.330%) Magento
8 23 (4.904%) WebLogic Portal
9 22 (4.691%) Apache Solr
10 13 (2.772%) IIS
11 11 (2.345%) Force.com
12 10 (2.132%) Oracle Service Bus
12 10 (2.132%) WebSphere Application Server
13 9 (1.919%) Amazon AWS
13 9 (1.919%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.919%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (1.706%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (1.706%) AquaLogic
15 6 (1.279%) LiveLink
15 6 (1.279%) SharePoint
Applications
1 70 (14.93%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.213%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.213%) Mingle
2 1 (0.213%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.706%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (1.493%) AquaLogic BPM
3 3 (0.640%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.426%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.316%) Internet
2 5 (1.066%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.853%) HTTP
4 3 (0.640%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.426%) FTP
5 2 (0.426%) Network Security
6 1 (0.213%) LDAP
6 1 (0.213%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (28.36%) MySQL
2 67 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 41 (8.742%) RDBMS
4 39 (8.316%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (6.183%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.478%) TOAD
7 18 (3.838%) DB2
8 12 (2.559%) Hadoop
9 10 (2.132%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.919%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 8 (1.706%) Big Data
11 8 (1.706%) Oracle 10g
12 6 (1.279%) Oracle 8/8i
13 5 (1.066%) JasperReports
14 4 (0.853%) SQL Server 2008
14 4 (0.853%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.853%) MarkLogic
15 3 (0.640%) OLAP
15 3 (0.640%) Pentaho
15 3 (0.640%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 86 (18.34%) Maven
2 80 (17.06%) JUnit
3 57 (12.15%) Subversion
4 48 (10.23%) Ant
5 28 (5.970%) Eclipse
6 21 (4.478%) Spring Roo
7 17 (3.625%) Jenkins
8 13 (2.772%) Visual Studio
8 13 (2.772%) Selenium
9 12 (2.559%) Mockito
10 10 (2.132%) JIRA
11 9 (1.919%) jMock
11 9 (1.919%) ClearCase
12 8 (1.706%) Rhino Mocks
12 8 (1.706%) Moq
12 8 (1.706%) EasyMock
13 7 (1.493%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.279%) TestNG
15 5 (1.066%) JProfiler
15 5 (1.066%) Hudson
General
1 108 (23.03%) Finance
2 86 (18.34%) Banking
3 80 (17.06%) Retail
4 65 (13.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 41 (8.742%) Telecoms
6 9 (1.919%) Publishing
7 7 (1.493%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.853%) Advertising
8 4 (0.853%) Music
9 2 (0.426%) Marketing
9 2 (0.426%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.426%) Electronics
10 1 (0.213%) Legal
10 1 (0.213%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 305 (65.03%) Developer
2 279 (59.49%) Java Developer
3 65 (13.86%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 54 (11.51%) J2EE Developer
5 53 (11.30%) Senior Developer
6 52 (11.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 49 (10.45%) Architect
8 40 (8.529%) Software Engineer
8 40 (8.529%) Front-End Developer
9 39 (8.316%) Consultant
10 24 (5.117%) Analyst
11 23 (4.904%) Programmer
11 23 (4.904%) Java Programmer
12 22 (4.691%) Java Analyst Programmer
12 22 (4.691%) Developer Analyst
12 22 (4.691%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
12 22 (4.691%) Analyst Programmer
13 21 (4.478%) Web Developer
14 20 (4.264%) Graduate
15 19 (4.051%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.51%) Computer Science
2 39 (8.316%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (7.036%) Open Source
4 15 (3.198%) Mobile Banking
4 15 (3.198%) Online Banking
5 12 (2.559%) N-Tier
6 9 (1.919%) Taxonomies
6 9 (1.919%) Ontologies
7 8 (1.706%) Digital Media
7 8 (1.706%) SaaS
8 5 (1.066%) PKI
8 5 (1.066%) Blog
8 5 (1.066%) W3C
8 5 (1.066%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.853%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.853%) Thin Client
9 4 (0.853%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.853%) iPhone
10 3 (0.640%) Data Integration
10 3 (0.640%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.79%) Linux
2 38 (8.102%) UNIX
3 29 (6.183%) Windows
4 28 (5.970%) Android
5 19 (4.051%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.559%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (2.132%) Windows Phone
8 6 (1.279%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.640%) Solaris
9 3 (0.640%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (43.71%) Agile Software Development
2 143 (30.49%) TDD
3 125 (26.65%) Scrum
4 119 (25.37%) OO
5 93 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
6 88 (18.76%) UML
7 68 (14.50%) MVC
8 54 (11.51%) E-Commerce
9 53 (11.30%) SOA
10 46 (9.808%) Web Development
11 44 (9.382%) Waterfall
12 37 (7.889%) Unit Testing
13 35 (7.463%) Information Management
14 31 (6.610%) OOD
15 29 (6.183%) Multithreading
16 26 (5.544%) RUP
17 25 (5.330%) Refactoring
18 21 (4.478%) BDD
18 21 (4.478%) Web Application Development
19 18 (3.838%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 453 (96.59%) Java
2 152 (32.41%) JavaScript
3 133 (28.36%) SQL
4 36 (7.676%) PL/SQL
5 31 (6.610%) Python
6 18 (3.838%) Groovy
7 16 (3.412%) C#
8 13 (2.772%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.772%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.772%) PHP
9 11 (2.345%) Perl
10 10 (2.132%) C++
11 8 (1.706%) XQuery
12 7 (1.493%) VB6
12 7 (1.493%) VB
12 7 (1.493%) Scala
13 5 (1.066%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.066%) VC++
14 4 (0.853%) C
15 3 (0.640%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 86 (18.34%) Degree
2 5 (1.066%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.066%) Sun Certification
3 3 (0.640%) ISEB
4 1 (0.213%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.213%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.919%) Dublin Core
2 7 (1.493%) QA
3 3 (0.640%) SLA
4 1 (0.213%) TickIT
4 1 (0.213%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.213%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 3 (0.640%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 200 (42.64%) Oracle
2 85 (18.12%) IBM
3 73 (15.57%) Microsoft
4 67 (14.29%) Business Objects
5 55 (11.73%) JBoss
6 28 (5.970%) ATG
7 25 (5.330%) hybris
8 19 (4.051%) Demandware
9 16 (3.412%) Salesforce.com
10 12 (2.559%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.345%) ILOG
12 9 (1.919%) Google
13 8 (1.706%) BEA
13 8 (1.706%) Zend
14 4 (0.853%) Sybase
15 3 (0.640%) BMC
15 3 (0.640%) Perforce
15 3 (0.640%) Pega
16 2 (0.426%) Norkom
16 2 (0.426%) SAP
Reading, Berkshire
Due to continuous growth a position is vacant for a Senior Java EE Developer to join the Engineering department... Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate coding skills...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 55K
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Sussex
My client are a national organisation and currently have the fantastic opportunity for a Senior Java Developer, with leadership experience, to join their friendly team. Working within the...
Clearwater People Solutions
Salary: £35000 - 40000 Per Annum benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Surrey, South East
Due to expansion my client is looking for a Java EE Engineer to work on multiple greenfield projects. The successful Java EE Engineer will develop applications that enable...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Surrey, South East
Java Developer J2EE Spring Hibernate Agile Digital Banking - Surrey Nr Weybridge, Kingston, Byfleet, WokingFast growing banking technology start up with an excellent pedigree seek a developer with commercial...
Verticality
Salary: GBP25000 to GBP40000 per annum + Benefits: 5% Pension 25 Days holiday
Posted: 8 May 2013
Leatherhead, Surrey
Key Words: Java, J2EE, JEE, Spring, Agile, Apache, JSF, Tapestry, JBoss, MySQL, Saas, service management, service desk solutions, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX The company are the market leaders...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £45000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Surrey, South East
The Scope: * Java, * JavaEE * JBoss AS Desirable: * JSP * HTML * XML * CSS * JavaScript * JSON * Vaadin and GWT * Java EE Security * CDI *Ajax * Web Sockets * Hibernate * SQL Databases, primarily PostgreSQL *...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
Here are some of the skills used in this division:- Java EE Web applications using Spring, Spring Roo and Oracle ADF Frameworks Oracle Webcentre , Weblogic and Apache with...
Colston Consulting
Salary: £45k per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Technical Lead - Senior Developer (Java and .Net) C#, .Net, Java, JEE, SQL Bracknell, Berkshire £50k to £60k plus excellent benefits An exciting newly created opportunity to work with...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Knowledge of Object Oriented Design (OOD) Knowledge of modelling techniques, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and documenting software design using UML Knowledge of formal development methodologies such as Agile,...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Surrey, South East
Principle Responsibilities: Candidates should be able to work in small focussed Agile project teams following Agile methodologies, including XP, Scrum, Scrumban. In addition candidates will be able to...
Salt
Salary: £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Surrey, South East
Principle Responsibilities: Candidates should be able to work in small focussed Agile project teams following Agile methodologies, including XP, Scrum, Scrumban. In addition candidates will be able to...
Salt
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Soft Skills Attributes: *Dynamic and engaging leadership style *Innovative problem solver *Genuine enthusiasm for technology and sharing ideas with co-workers *Excellent time management skills *Excellent attention to...
RDF Resources
Salary: £75000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Java Solution Designer with strong Java EE technologies, design patterns, and standards (JEE Certification desirable), OO / UML skills, and high level / solution design ideally for telecoms ICT systems,...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
Posted: 13 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Experience Required: *Good experience of Visual C# and Visual C++/MFC *Latest .NET windows client & web based technologies (including Windows Forms, MVC, ASP.NET, WCF, Web Services and...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £43000 - £52000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013