The first table below looks at the demand for JPA 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 JPA 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 84 78 82
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +4
Permanent jobs citing JPA 4 12 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.381% 1.259% 0.334%
As % of the Application Development category 0.915% 3.352% 0.796%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 3
Average salary £47,500 £38,250 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.18% -21.93%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £41,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.87% +10.00%
All Application Development
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
437 358 377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 41.66% 37.57% 42.03%
Number of salaries quoted 405 317 350
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JPA
Wales

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Salary Trend

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

South Wales JPA Salary Trend

JPA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the South Wales 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
Cardiff -15 4 £47,500 +11.76%
JPA
Wales

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) Struts
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 15 (93.75%) Java EE
2 15 (93.75%) SOAP
3 14 (87.50%) Spring Web Flow
3 14 (87.50%) Banking
4 13 (81.25%) Refactoring
4 13 (81.25%) Web Services
4 13 (81.25%) Ant
5 12 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
5 12 (75.00%) Hibernate
6 11 (68.75%) SQL
6 11 (68.75%) UML
7 10 (62.50%) Finance
7 10 (62.50%) Maven
8 8 (50.00%) Scrum
9 7 (43.75%) Financial Institution
10 5 (31.25%) Spring MVC
11 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (25.00%) Project Management
11 4 (25.00%) EJB
12 3 (18.75%) JSP
12 3 (18.75%) Mobile Commerce
12 3 (18.75%) REST
13 1 (6.250%) EJB 3.0
13 1 (6.250%) RESTful
13 1 (6.250%) Servlets

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) Struts
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 15 (93.75%) Java EE
2 15 (93.75%) SOAP
3 14 (87.50%) Spring Web Flow
4 13 (81.25%) Web Services
5 12 (75.00%) Hibernate
6 5 (31.25%) Spring MVC
7 4 (25.00%) EJB
8 3 (18.75%) JSP
8 3 (18.75%) REST
9 1 (6.250%) Servlets
9 1 (6.250%) EJB 3.0
9 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Ant
2 10 (62.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.250%) JUnit
General
1 14 (87.50%) Banking
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 7 (43.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
1 16 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 13 (81.25%) Refactoring
3 11 (68.75%) UML
4 8 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle