The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 24 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 214 198 186
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -12
Permanent jobs citing JPA 2 17 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% 0.307% 0.497%
As % of the Application Development category 0.081% 0.670% 1.232%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 26
Average salary £38,250 £35,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.28% +12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,650 £34,000 £27,750
10% offered a salary of more than £38,850 £42,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,250
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +4.57%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2462 2536 2436
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.93% 45.82% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2233 2273 2175
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JPA
England

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Dorset - 2 £38,250 -
JPA
England

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Java EE
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) JMS
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) J2SE
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) EJB
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) JDBC
4 1 (20.00%) JSP
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) PhD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Java EE
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) J2SE
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ZK
3 1 (20.00%) Ext JS
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
1 1 (20.00%) Smartcard
1 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) Erlang
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (20.00%) Clojure
4 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PhD
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Sun