The first table below looks at the demand for the J2EE Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
J2EE Software Engineer
Rank 833 836 802
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a J2EE Software Engineer 29 63 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.052% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.055% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 76
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £35,675 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £56,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

J2EE Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE Software Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

J2EE Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE Software Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2EE Software Engineer within the UK.

J2EE Software Engineer Salary Trend

J2EE Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE Software Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

J2EE Software Engineer Salary Histogram

J2EE Software Engineer
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Software Engineer within the UK 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
England -9 28 £45,000 -
London +58 10 £47,500 -20.83%
Yorkshire -8 8 £40,000 -
West Yorkshire -14 8 £40,000 -
Leeds -24 8 £40,000 -
South East +7 5 £45,000 +37.93%
City of London +5 4 £47,500 -13.63%
North West -2 3 £45,000 -5.26%
Manchester -24 3 £45,000 -5.26%
Altrincham - 3 £45,000 -
Berkshire +3 2 £60,000 +90.47%
Slough - 2 £60,000 -
Hampshire - 2 £45,000 -
Farnborough - 2 £45,000 -
East of England 0 1 £50,000 -
South West -21 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Scotland - 1 £42,500 -
Dorset - 1 £40,000 -
Kent - 1 £40,000 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £50,000 -
Edinburgh - 1 £42,500 -
Bournemouth - 1 £40,000 -

J2EE Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited J2EE Software Engineer in their job title 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 with J2EE Software Engineer in their job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Java
1 79 (100.00%) J2EE
2 52 (65.82%) Hibernate
3 48 (60.76%) Spring
4 41 (51.90%) OO
5 37 (46.84%) Agile Software Development
6 34 (43.04%) Java EE
7 33 (41.77%) JSP
8 31 (39.24%) Software Engineering
9 30 (37.97%) SQL
10 25 (31.65%) JBoss
11 24 (30.38%) UML
12 20 (25.32%) Scala
13 19 (24.05%) WebSphere
13 19 (24.05%) XML
14 17 (21.52%) .NET
14 17 (21.52%) TIBCO
14 17 (21.52%) Middleware
14 17 (21.52%) RDBMS
14 17 (21.52%) OOA/OOD
14 17 (21.52%) .NET Framework
14 17 (21.52%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (20.25%) Unit Testing
16 15 (18.99%) JavaScript
16 15 (18.99%) Linux
17 14 (17.72%) HTML
18 12 (15.19%) UNIX
18 12 (15.19%) Computer Science
19 11 (13.92%) MVC
19 11 (13.92%) Oracle

J2EE Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited J2EE Software Engineer in their job title 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 with J2EE Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 79 (100.00%) J2EE
2 52 (65.82%) Hibernate
3 48 (60.76%) Spring
4 34 (43.04%) Java EE
5 33 (41.77%) JSP
6 19 (24.05%) WebSphere
6 19 (24.05%) XML
7 17 (21.52%) .NET
7 17 (21.52%) Middleware
7 17 (21.52%) .NET Framework
8 14 (17.72%) HTML
9 10 (12.66%) CSS
9 10 (12.66%) MapReduce
10 9 (11.39%) Ajax
10 9 (11.39%) Web Services
11 8 (10.13%) jQuery
12 7 (8.861%) Struts
12 7 (8.861%) JMS
12 7 (8.861%) JPA
13 6 (7.595%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 11 (13.92%) Tomcat
2 10 (12.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.797%) LiveCycle
4 2 (2.532%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.532%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.266%) CMS
5 1 (1.266%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.266%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.266%) Confluence
5 1 (1.266%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (1.266%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.861%) HTTP
2 4 (5.063%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.266%) SNMP
3 1 (1.266%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.266%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) RDBMS
2 10 (12.66%) Data Mining
2 10 (12.66%) Hadoop
2 10 (12.66%) Big Data
2 10 (12.66%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.861%) MySQL
5 4 (5.063%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (5.063%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (5.063%) JasperReports
6 3 (3.797%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.266%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.266%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.266%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JUnit
2 7 (8.861%) Subversion
3 5 (6.329%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.063%) Mercurial
4 4 (5.063%) DbUnit
4 4 (5.063%) Mockito
4 4 (5.063%) TestNG
4 4 (5.063%) EasyMock
4 4 (5.063%) Eclipse
4 4 (5.063%) Selenium
4 4 (5.063%) Maven
4 4 (5.063%) CruiseControl
5 3 (3.797%) Git (software)
6 2 (2.532%) JIRA
7 1 (1.266%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.266%) MyEclipse
General
1 4 (5.063%) Music
1 4 (5.063%) Publishing
2 3 (3.797%) Finance
3 2 (2.532%) Retail
4 1 (1.266%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.266%) Automotive
4 1 (1.266%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (15.19%) Computer Science
3 6 (7.595%) Mathematics
4 3 (3.797%) N-Tier
4 3 (3.797%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.532%) Social Media
6 1 (1.266%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.266%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 12 (15.19%) UNIX
3 1 (1.266%) Android
3 1 (1.266%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.90%) OO
2 37 (46.84%) Agile Software Development
3 31 (39.24%) Software Engineering
4 24 (30.38%) UML
5 17 (21.52%) OOA/OOD
6 16 (20.25%) Unit Testing
7 11 (13.92%) MVC
8 8 (10.13%) Scrum
8 8 (10.13%) TDD
9 5 (6.329%) Project Management
9 5 (6.329%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.329%) E-Commerce
9 5 (6.329%) Agile Project Management
10 4 (5.063%) Data Modelling
10 4 (5.063%) Pair Programming
11 3 (3.797%) Workflow
11 3 (3.797%) Extreme Programming
11 3 (3.797%) Document Management
11 3 (3.797%) Automated Testing
11 3 (3.797%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (37.97%) SQL
3 20 (25.32%) Scala
4 15 (18.99%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.861%) PHP
6 6 (7.595%) Groovy
7 3 (3.797%) Erlang
7 3 (3.797%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.797%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.797%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.532%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 4 (5.063%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.266%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (31.65%) JBoss
2 17 (21.52%) TIBCO
3 11 (13.92%) Oracle
4 4 (5.063%) Sybase
4 4 (5.063%) Adobe
5 3 (3.797%) Google
5 3 (3.797%) Facebook
5 3 (3.797%) Twitter
6 2 (2.532%) hybris
6 2 (2.532%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (2.532%) IBM
6 2 (2.532%) ATG
7 1 (1.266%) Atlassian