The first table below looks at the demand for Java 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 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 2603 2993 2969
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 11.64% 12.58% 12.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.48% 25.12% 24.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2281 2617 2620
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11084 11914 12291
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 49.58% 50.09% 51.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9815 10577 11040
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £27,000
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
England

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire -3 626 £47,500 +5.55% 56
Surrey -4 611 £46,000 +2.22% 54
Hampshire -8 386 £40,000 - 48
Oxfordshire +3 241 £40,000 -11.11% 32
West Sussex +4 223 £40,000 - 8
Buckinghamshire +1 201 £37,500 -6.25% 16
East Sussex -6 142 £35,000 -6.66% 8
Kent +31 132 £37,000 -7.50% 14
Middlesex -5 56 £46,250 +2.77%
Sussex -3 14 £42,500 -15.00%
Thames Valley +2 8 £62,500 -26.47%
M4 Corridor +3 2 £56,250 +44.23%
Home Counties 0 1 - -
Java
England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 1544 (29.96%) SQL
2 1395 (27.07%) JavaScript
3 1349 (26.17%) Degree
4 1279 (24.82%) Oracle
5 1223 (23.73%) Spring
6 1188 (23.05%) HTML
7 1182 (22.93%) C#
8 1127 (21.87%) C++
9 1074 (20.84%) .NET
10 1058 (20.53%) J2EE
11 1034 (20.06%) OO
12 1014 (19.67%) XML
13 975 (18.92%) Linux
14 904 (17.54%) CSS
15 858 (16.65%) Windows
15 858 (16.65%) Agile Software Development
16 841 (16.32%) Computer Science
17 838 (16.26%) SQL Server
18 828 (16.07%) Finance
19 821 (15.93%) Hibernate
20 777 (15.08%) UNIX
21 735 (14.26%) Web Services
22 682 (13.23%) MySQL
23 559 (10.85%) PHP
24 549 (10.65%) Microsoft
25 545 (10.57%) Tomcat
26 537 (10.42%) Apache
27 525 (10.19%) Python
28 489 (9.488%) MVC
29 474 (9.197%) TDD

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 1223 (23.73%) Spring
2 1188 (23.05%) HTML
3 1074 (20.84%) .NET
4 1058 (20.53%) J2EE
5 1014 (19.67%) XML
6 904 (17.54%) CSS
7 821 (15.93%) Hibernate
8 735 (14.26%) Web Services
9 448 (8.692%) Ajax
10 426 (8.265%) JSP
11 422 (8.188%) jQuery
12 394 (7.645%) Java EE
13 378 (7.334%) SOAP
14 367 (7.121%) ASP.NET
15 324 (6.286%) Struts
16 320 (6.209%) HTML5
17 242 (4.695%) WebSphere
18 235 (4.560%) Servlets
19 230 (4.463%) XSLT
20 224 (4.346%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 545 (10.57%) Tomcat
2 537 (10.42%) Apache
3 352 (6.830%) WebLogic
4 145 (2.813%) IIS
5 130 (2.522%) CMS
6 81 (1.572%) SharePoint
7 73 (1.416%) Drupal
8 71 (1.378%) GlassFish
9 68 (1.319%) ESB
10 63 (1.222%) WebSphere Application Server
10 63 (1.222%) Apache Solr
11 58 (1.125%) SAS
12 47 (0.912%) Magento
13 44 (0.854%) WebLogic Portal
14 43 (0.834%) Liferay
15 36 (0.698%) Apache Pig
16 32 (0.621%) Force.com
17 30 (0.582%) Jetty
18 29 (0.563%) BizTalk Server
19 28 (0.543%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 329 (6.383%) MS Excel
2 114 (2.212%) MS Office
3 69 (1.339%) MS Project
4 51 (0.990%) Photoshop
4 51 (0.990%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.136%) Fireworks
5 7 (0.136%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.116%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (0.058%) 3ds Max
8 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.039%) Maya
8 2 (0.039%) GIMP
8 2 (0.039%) Google Apps
9 1 (0.019%) Maple
9 1 (0.019%) Mingle
9 1 (0.019%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.019%) Revit
9 1 (0.019%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 54 (1.048%) Oracle BPM
2 24 (0.466%) SAP PSCD
3 23 (0.446%) Dynamics AX
4 21 (0.407%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.233%) Oracle Retail
5 12 (0.233%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.136%) Oracle 11i
6 7 (0.136%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.136%) AquaLogic BPM
7 6 (0.116%) Google Analytics
7 6 (0.116%) SAP CRM
8 5 (0.097%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.097%) SyteLine
8 5 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.078%) Oracle SCM
9 4 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.078%) Lawson
9 4 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.078%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 252 (4.889%) Internet
2 219 (4.249%) TCP/IP
3 175 (3.395%) HTTP
4 90 (1.746%) LDAP
5 71 (1.378%) Firewall
6 64 (1.242%) DNS
7 63 (1.222%) Intranet
8 44 (0.854%) SSL
9 42 (0.815%) SAN
10 32 (0.621%) DHCP
11 30 (0.582%) VPN
12 28 (0.543%) SMTP
13 25 (0.485%) VoIP
14 23 (0.446%) Broadband
14 23 (0.446%) SNMP
15 21 (0.407%) SSH
16 19 (0.369%) Intrusion Detection
16 19 (0.369%) Network Security
16 19 (0.369%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (0.369%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 838 (16.26%) SQL Server
2 682 (13.23%) MySQL
3 168 (3.260%) RDBMS
4 166 (3.221%) Big Data
5 151 (2.930%) PostgreSQL
6 107 (2.076%) DB2
7 106 (2.057%) SQL Server 2008
8 92 (1.785%) Hadoop
9 80 (1.552%) Oracle 10g
10 74 (1.436%) SQL Server 2005
11 72 (1.397%) Oracle 8/8i
12 67 (1.300%) Oracle 11g
13 52 (1.009%) NoSQL
13 52 (1.009%) TOAD
14 45 (0.873%) Data Warehouse
15 42 (0.815%) Oracle Reports
16 41 (0.795%) MongoDB
17 36 (0.698%) Apache Hive
17 36 (0.698%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 35 (0.679%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 313 (6.073%) Eclipse
2 297 (5.763%) Subversion
3 293 (5.685%) Maven
4 274 (5.316%) JUnit
5 207 (4.016%) Ant
6 182 (3.531%) Selenium
7 167 (3.240%) Git (software)
8 135 (2.619%) JIRA
9 105 (2.037%) Visual Studio
10 83 (1.610%) Jenkins
11 67 (1.300%) ClearCase
12 62 (1.203%) WebDriver
13 52 (1.009%) Oracle Forms
14 47 (0.912%) QuickTest Pro
15 45 (0.873%) Hudson
16 31 (0.601%) Team Foundation Server
17 30 (0.582%) TestNG
18 29 (0.563%) ProC
19 27 (0.524%) Bugzilla
20 25 (0.485%) Log4j
General
1 828 (16.07%) Finance
2 330 (6.403%) Telecoms
3 221 (4.288%) Banking
4 199 (3.861%) Retail
5 78 (1.513%) Manufacturing
6 75 (1.455%) Pharmaceutical
7 70 (1.358%) Legal
8 67 (1.300%) Marketing
9 63 (1.222%) Publishing
10 61 (1.184%) Games
11 49 (0.951%) Investment Banking
12 47 (0.912%) Electronics
12 47 (0.912%) Advertising
13 46 (0.893%) Financial Institution
14 41 (0.795%) Multimedia
15 30 (0.582%) Military
16 29 (0.563%) Billing
17 22 (0.427%) German Language
18 20 (0.388%) Front Office
19 18 (0.349%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2870 (55.68%) Developer
2 1496 (29.03%) Java Developer
3 528 (10.24%) Senior Developer
4 458 (8.886%) Software Engineer
5 445 (8.634%) Analyst
6 393 (7.625%) Software Developer
7 362 (7.024%) Architect
8 306 (5.937%) Graduate
9 279 (5.413%) Senior Java Developer
10 259 (5.025%) Web Developer
11 250 (4.851%) Java/J2EE Developer
12 245 (4.754%) Consultant
13 222 (4.307%) Programmer
14 203 (3.939%) Junior
15 194 (3.764%) Graduate Developer
16 166 (3.221%) Junior Developer
17 161 (3.124%) J2EE Developer
18 159 (3.085%) C# Developer
19 124 (2.406%) Applications Developer
20 123 (2.386%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 841 (16.32%) Computer Science
2 380 (7.373%) Mathematics
3 305 (5.918%) Open Source
4 177 (3.434%) Enterprise Software
5 146 (2.833%) Mobile App
6 145 (2.813%) SaaS
7 104 (2.018%) Management Information System
8 102 (1.979%) Digital Media
9 98 (1.901%) Physics
10 92 (1.785%) Client/Server
11 76 (1.475%) N-Tier
12 56 (1.087%) Statistics
13 53 (1.028%) Embedded Systems
14 51 (0.990%) Social Media
15 48 (0.931%) Data Integration
16 45 (0.873%) Clustering
17 44 (0.854%) Cryptography
18 41 (0.795%) iPhone
19 40 (0.776%) Inversion of Control
20 39 (0.757%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 975 (18.92%) Linux
2 858 (16.65%) Windows
3 777 (15.08%) UNIX
4 296 (5.743%) Android
5 212 (4.113%) Apple iOS
6 119 (2.309%) Solaris
7 99 (1.921%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (1.048%) Windows Server 2008
9 47 (0.912%) Debian
9 47 (0.912%) Windows Server 2003
10 46 (0.893%) Windows XP
11 43 (0.834%) Ubuntu
12 37 (0.718%) Windows 7
13 34 (0.660%) Windows Phone
13 34 (0.660%) AIX
14 26 (0.504%) CentOS
15 21 (0.407%) VxWorks
16 19 (0.369%) Windows 2000
16 19 (0.369%) Windows Mobile
17 18 (0.349%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1034 (20.06%) OO
2 858 (16.65%) Agile Software Development
3 489 (9.488%) MVC
4 474 (9.197%) TDD
5 461 (8.945%) Scrum
6 428 (8.304%) E-Commerce
7 398 (7.722%) UML
8 389 (7.548%) Web Development
9 363 (7.043%) Software Engineering
10 311 (6.034%) SOA
11 301 (5.840%) Continuous Integration
12 276 (5.355%) Project Management
13 246 (4.773%) OOP
14 209 (4.055%) Waterfall
15 196 (3.803%) Unit Testing
16 194 (3.764%) OOD
17 154 (2.988%) Multithreading
18 146 (2.833%) Software Architecture
19 142 (2.755%) ITIL
20 134 (2.600%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1544 (29.96%) SQL
2 1395 (27.07%) JavaScript
3 1182 (22.93%) C#
4 1127 (21.87%) C++
5 559 (10.85%) PHP
6 525 (10.19%) Python
7 444 (8.615%) C
8 419 (8.130%) Perl
9 248 (4.812%) PL/SQL
10 209 (4.055%) Ruby
11 164 (3.182%) Shell Script
12 156 (3.027%) T-SQL
13 133 (2.581%) VB.NET
14 126 (2.445%) Objective-C
15 122 (2.367%) VB
16 118 (2.289%) Groovy
17 95 (1.843%) Scala
18 58 (1.125%) VB6
18 58 (1.125%) Bash shell
19 49 (0.951%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1349 (26.17%) Degree
2 273 (5.297%) Security Cleared
3 192 (3.725%) SC Cleared
4 74 (1.436%) ISEB
5 67 (1.300%) PhD
6 43 (0.834%) DV Cleared
7 37 (0.718%) ISTQB
8 32 (0.621%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (0.563%) CTC Cleared
10 27 (0.524%) Sun Certification
11 19 (0.369%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.272%) CSSLP
12 14 (0.272%) GWAPT
13 13 (0.252%) SCJP
13 13 (0.252%) CISSP
13 13 (0.252%) MCSE
14 12 (0.233%) Postgraduate
14 12 (0.233%) CEH
14 12 (0.233%) CISM
15 10 (0.194%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (5.704%) QA
2 82 (1.591%) SLA
3 38 (0.737%) ISO 9001
4 24 (0.466%) DO-178B
5 19 (0.369%) PCI DSS
5 19 (0.369%) GxP
5 19 (0.369%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 15 (0.291%) COBIT
7 7 (0.136%) ISO 9000
7 7 (0.136%) HL7
7 7 (0.136%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.116%) TickIT
9 5 (0.097%) Dublin Core
9 5 (0.097%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.019%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.019%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (1.901%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (0.718%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.679%) vSphere
4 25 (0.485%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (0.446%) VMware ESX
6 12 (0.233%) Novell eDirectory
6 12 (0.233%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 9 (0.175%) Postfix
7 9 (0.175%) Xen
8 8 (0.155%) NFS
9 7 (0.136%) Nmap
9 7 (0.136%) Squid
10 6 (0.116%) Varnish
11 3 (0.058%) OpenSSO
11 3 (0.058%) qmail
12 2 (0.039%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.039%) XenServer
12 2 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.039%) NDS
13 1 (0.019%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 66 (1.281%) Nagios
1 66 (1.281%) Puppet
2 42 (0.815%) HP Quality Center
3 17 (0.330%) AppManager
3 17 (0.330%) Opalis
3 17 (0.330%) SCCM
4 15 (0.291%) MOM
5 13 (0.252%) AppDetective
6 12 (0.233%) ZENworks
6 12 (0.233%) NetBackup
6 12 (0.233%) Ganglia
6 12 (0.233%) Zenoss
7 7 (0.136%) CA Wily
7 7 (0.136%) Oracle Identity Management
8 6 (0.116%) Cacti
9 5 (0.097%) SCOM
9 5 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.078%) Munin
10 4 (0.078%) HP SIM
11 3 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1279 (24.82%) Oracle
2 549 (10.65%) Microsoft
3 359 (6.965%) JBoss
4 165 (3.201%) IBM
5 133 (2.581%) SAP
6 130 (2.522%) VMware
7 106 (2.057%) Red Hat
8 105 (2.037%) Zend
9 98 (1.901%) HP
10 78 (1.513%) hybris
11 75 (1.455%) Salesforce.com
12 74 (1.436%) Business Objects
13 72 (1.397%) Google
14 66 (1.281%) Sun
15 64 (1.242%) Cisco
15 64 (1.242%) ATG
16 54 (1.048%) Sybase
17 39 (0.757%) Adobe
18 37 (0.718%) Perforce
19 32 (0.621%) Siebel
Guildford, Surrey
To apply for this exciting opportunity the java developer will have a strong practical grounding in programming using Java with exposure to J2EE, JSP and other web-based...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum + package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Surrey, West Sussex, Reigate, Crawley, Epsom,...
Java / J2EE Developer -Your role with this market leading software house will involve developing next generation Java / J2EE products, writing and testing high quality software, including analysis of...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to £55,000 + excellent bonus & bens
Posted: 4 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Skills Required: - Java - Java Development tools - Oracle - Maven knowledge - Agile methodology exposure This is a great chance to develop your skill set, learning a variety of new technologies...
set2recruit
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Java, Developer, JavaScript, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JDBC, Hibernate, Developer, programmer, software engineer, software analyst, contract, Brighton, Hove, Sussex) Java Developer - Brighton - Approx... Java Socket Programming experience... Desirable Skills:...
ninesharp
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Surrey
Java Developer with exceptional Spring and Hibernate skills is urgently required to join a massively successful Software House in Surrey... You must have solid knowledge coupled with demonstrable...
Initi8 Recruitment
Posted: 12 June 2013
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
set2recruit
Salary: From £20,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
South East
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £0.00 - £42000.00
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reigate, South East
Jumar Solutions
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 per year depending upon experience
Posted: 31 May 2013
Oxfordshire
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Hampshire
Austin Fraser
Salary: £45000 - £50000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
E-Resourcing
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reigate, South East
OPUS
Salary: GBP40000 to GBP60000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + DOE
Posted: 15 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Vertex Solutions
Salary: £36000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
greywood
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
RICHARD WHEELER ASSOCIATES
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum negot (+ share options)
Posted: 14 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 50,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Verelogic IT Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013