The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 72 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 17 20 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 1.611% 2.051% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.899% 5.420% -
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 0
Average salary £40,000 £34,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All Application Development
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
436 369 378
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 41.33% 37.85% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 402 326 352
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £55,000 £41,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
Wales

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 Wales region.

South Wales Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java EE across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cardiff -9 15 £40,000 +56.86%
Torfaen -4 1 £38,000 +11.76%
Newport - 1 £37,500 -
Java EE
Wales

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 30 (90.91%) Java
2 25 (75.76%) SQL
3 22 (66.67%) Spring
4 19 (57.58%) Hibernate
5 18 (54.55%) Ant
5 18 (54.55%) Web Services
6 17 (51.52%) SOAP
6 17 (51.52%) Maven
7 14 (42.42%) Struts
7 14 (42.42%) JPA
8 13 (39.39%) Spring Web Flow
8 13 (39.39%) MVC
8 13 (39.39%) Banking
9 12 (36.36%) UML
10 11 (33.33%) Oracle
10 11 (33.33%) Refactoring
10 11 (33.33%) Finance
10 11 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
11 10 (30.30%) Scrum
11 10 (30.30%) Eclipse
12 8 (24.24%) OO
12 8 (24.24%) WebLogic
13 7 (21.21%) Apache
13 7 (21.21%) BEA
14 6 (18.18%) Staffware
14 6 (18.18%) Financial Institution
14 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
14 6 (18.18%) TOAD
14 6 (18.18%) UNIX
14 6 (18.18%) JUnit

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 22 (66.67%) Spring
2 19 (57.58%) Hibernate
3 18 (54.55%) Web Services
4 17 (51.52%) SOAP
5 14 (42.42%) Struts
5 14 (42.42%) JPA
6 13 (39.39%) Spring Web Flow
7 5 (15.15%) J2EE
7 5 (15.15%) XML
7 5 (15.15%) Ajax
8 4 (12.12%) RESTful
9 3 (9.091%) REST
9 3 (9.091%) EJB
9 3 (9.091%) Spring MVC
10 2 (6.061%) Swing
10 2 (6.061%) JSP
11 1 (3.030%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 8 (24.24%) WebLogic
2 7 (21.21%) Apache
3 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Staffware
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) TOAD
2 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (54.55%) Ant
2 17 (51.52%) Maven
3 10 (30.30%) Eclipse
4 6 (18.18%) JUnit
5 5 (15.15%) Subversion
6 4 (12.12%) Concordion
6 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
7 2 (6.061%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (39.39%) Banking
2 11 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Financial Institution
4 4 (12.12%) Legal
5 1 (3.030%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 30 (90.91%) Developer
1 30 (90.91%) Java Developer
2 16 (48.48%) Senior Java Developer
2 16 (48.48%) Senior Developer
3 3 (9.091%) Architect
3 3 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
3 3 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (6.061%) Graduate
5 1 (3.030%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
2 5 (15.15%) iPhone
2 5 (15.15%) N-Tier
3 3 (9.091%) Open Source
4 1 (3.030%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) UNIX
2 5 (15.15%) Android
3 2 (6.061%) Linux
4 1 (3.030%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) MVC
2 12 (36.36%) UML
3 11 (33.33%) Refactoring
4 10 (30.30%) Scrum
5 8 (24.24%) OO
6 6 (18.18%) Integration Testing
7 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.12%) Web Application Development
9 3 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.091%) SOA
9 3 (9.091%) Mobile Commerce
9 3 (9.091%) Project Management
9 3 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (6.061%) Software Engineering
11 1 (3.030%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Java
2 25 (75.76%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.061%) Python
4 2 (6.061%) C
5 1 (3.030%) Ruby
5 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Oracle
2 7 (21.21%) BEA
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