Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkJava 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank524126
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Down-15
Matching permanent IT job ads2932433011062
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.724 %4.284 %5.474 %
As % of the Application Development category10.23 %12.52 %17.18 %
Salaries quoted251236619213
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£31,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
286743457164377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.42 %34.20 %31.86 %
Salaries quoted248923022554762
Average salary£37,500£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.350 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE Demand Trend

J2EE
Salary Trend

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

J2EE Salary Trend

J2EE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

J2EE Salary Histogram

J2EE
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-92755£45,000-
LondonDown-61488£52,500-
South EastNo change0468£47,000+10.58 %
City of LondonDown-23362£55,000-2.22 %
East of EnglandDown-4202£38,750-3.12 %
South WestDown-16176£32,500-13.33 %
BerkshireDown-7156£48,000+6.66 %
North WestDown-17136£41,500+3.75 %
HertfordshireUp+24103£42,500-9.57 %
West MidlandsDown-2997£40,000-3.61 %
East MidlandsUp+4383£45,000+28.57 %
ManchesterDown-2181£45,000+23.28 %
YorkshireDown-880£40,000+14.28 %
SurreyDown-1178£47,500+18.75 %
ScotlandDown-2575£40,000-15.78 %
WiltshireDown-264£32,500+8.33 %
BristolDown-257£30,000-21.05 %
BirminghamDown-654£42,500-5.55 %
Home CountiesUp+453£47,500-13.63 %
CambridgeshireDown-3549£30,500-23.75 %
LeicestershireUp+4148£45,000+26.76 %
HampshireDown-1646£35,300-5.86 %
ReadingDown-845£50,000+11.11 %
OxfordshireUp+643£40,000+3.22 %
West YorkshireUp+1942£40,000+11.11 %
CambridgeDown-3042£31,250-21.87 %
LeedsUp+2841£37,500-6.25 %
EdinburghUp+1041£30,000-14.28 %
WalesDown-1031£32,500+8.33 %
CheshireDown-2731£35,000-17.64 %

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

15089 (88.20 %)Java
21922 (33.31 %)Oracle
31793 (31.07 %)Spring
41418 (24.58 %)Hibernate
51375 (23.83 %)SQL
61312 (22.74 %)XML
71132 (19.62 %)Finance
81067 (18.49 %)JSP
9926 (16.05 %)UML
10925 (16.03 %)Degree
11905 (15.68 %).NET
12888 (15.39 %)HTML
13881 (15.27 %)JavaScript
14844 (14.63 %)UNIX
15818 (14.18 %)OO
16731 (12.67 %)AJAX
17720 (12.48 %)Struts
18708 (12.27 %)WebLogic
19705 (12.22 %)SQL Server
20688 (11.92 %)Linux
21678 (11.75 %)Agile Software Development
22670 (11.61 %)JBoss
23658 (11.40 %)Banking
24617 (10.69 %)Web Services
25598 (10.36 %)EJB
26587 (10.17 %)C#
27581 (10.07 %)WebSphere
28574 (9.948 %)CSS
29556 (9.636 %)E-Commerce
30548 (9.497 %)Servlets

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11793 (31.07 %)Spring
21418 (24.58 %)Hibernate
31312 (22.74 %)XML
41067 (18.49 %)JSP
5905 (15.68 %).NET
6888 (15.39 %)HTML
7731 (12.67 %)AJAX
8720 (12.48 %)Struts
9617 (10.69 %)Web Services
10598 (10.36 %)EJB
11581 (10.07 %)WebSphere
12574 (9.948 %)CSS
13548 (9.497 %)Servlets
14438 (7.591 %)JDBC
15378 (6.551 %)JMS
16298 (5.165 %)JSF
17289 (5.009 %)Middleware
18284 (4.922 %)XSLT
19267 (4.627 %)Java EE
20260 (4.506 %)MVC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1708 (12.27 %)WebLogic
2496 (8.596 %)Tomcat
3404 (7.002 %)Apache
4219 (3.795 %)CMS
5137 (2.374 %)WebSphere Application Server
693 (1.612 %)IIS
772 (1.248 %)ESB
865 (1.127 %)WebLogic Portal
960 (1.040 %)SharePoint
1055 (0.953 %)NetWeaver
1153 (0.919 %)MQSeries
1242 (0.728 %)GlassFish
1340 (0.693 %)WebSphere Portal
1340 (0.693 %)Alfresco
1438 (0.659 %)Documentum
1535 (0.607 %)Oracle Workflow
1631 (0.537 %)WebSphere MQ
1631 (0.537 %)TeamSite
1726 (0.451 %)Jetty
1825 (0.433 %)Oracle Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1111 (1.924 %)MS Visio
256 (0.971 %)MS Excel
318 (0.312 %)Photoshop
414 (0.243 %)MS Office
59 (0.156 %)CA Clarity
67 (0.121 %)Adobe Illustrator
75 (0.087 %)Fireworks
83 (0.052 %)MATLAB
91 (0.017 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
125 (0.433 %)Oracle EBS
223 (0.399 %)Oracle Applications
318 (0.312 %)Oracle EBS R12
417 (0.295 %)Oracle 11i
516 (0.277 %)Oracle HRMS
612 (0.208 %)SAP ERP
711 (0.191 %)ION MarketView
711 (0.191 %)Maximo
88 (0.139 %)Adaptiv
97 (0.121 %)SAP SRM
97 (0.121 %)Staffware
106 (0.104 %)BusinessWorks
115 (0.087 %)SAP IS-U
115 (0.087 %)SAP Oil and Gas
124 (0.069 %)RMDS
124 (0.069 %)Summit
124 (0.069 %)TIBCO iProcess
133 (0.052 %)Oracle iStore
133 (0.052 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
133 (0.052 %)AWD
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1252 (4.367 %)Internet
2129 (2.236 %)HTTP
375 (1.300 %)Intranet
473 (1.265 %)TCP/IP
554 (0.936 %)SSL
644 (0.763 %)SMS
732 (0.555 %)LDAP
829 (0.503 %)SAN
922 (0.381 %)Firewall
1017 (0.295 %)Broadband
1116 (0.277 %)SSH
1215 (0.260 %)SNMP
1314 (0.243 %)DNS
1412 (0.208 %)LAN
159 (0.156 %)VoIP
159 (0.156 %)WAN
168 (0.139 %)FTP
168 (0.139 %)HTTPS
176 (0.104 %)DHCP
176 (0.104 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1705 (12.22 %)SQL Server
2372 (6.447 %)MySQL
3341 (5.910 %)RDBMS
4199 (3.449 %)Oracle 10g
5151 (2.617 %)DB2
686 (1.490 %)Oracle 8/8i
785 (1.473 %)SQL Server 2005
868 (1.179 %)Oracle Reports
954 (0.936 %)Oracle 9i
1046 (0.797 %)ETL
1145 (0.780 %)Oracle 11g
1243 (0.745 %)Datawarehouse
1341 (0.711 %)PostgreSQL
1436 (0.624 %)TOAD
1528 (0.485 %)SQL Server 2000
1625 (0.433 %)SQL Server 2008
1722 (0.381 %)BusinessObjects
1722 (0.381 %)SAP BW
1817 (0.295 %)DB2 UDB
1817 (0.295 %)Oracle Discoverer
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1527 (9.133 %)JUnit
2389 (6.742 %)Eclipse
3304 (5.269 %)Ant
4289 (5.009 %)Maven
5209 (3.622 %)Subversion
680 (1.386 %)Oracle Forms
772 (1.248 %)Selenium
849 (0.849 %)ClearCase
946 (0.797 %)JDeveloper
1044 (0.763 %)CheckStyle
1138 (0.659 %)Dreamweaver
1237 (0.641 %)Log4j
1333 (0.572 %)LSMW
1333 (0.572 %)Visual Studio
1427 (0.468 %)CruiseControl
1524 (0.416 %)LoadRunner
1618 (0.312 %)ERwin
1717 (0.295 %)Oracle APEX
1816 (0.277 %)QuickTest Pro
1816 (0.277 %)JIRA
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11132 (19.62 %)Finance
2658 (11.40 %)Banking
3308 (5.338 %)Investment Banking
4256 (4.437 %)Front Office
5251 (4.350 %)Pensions
6220 (3.813 %)Retail
7209 (3.622 %)Health
8199 (3.449 %)Government
9166 (2.877 %)Insurance
10143 (2.478 %)Telecoms
11118 (2.045 %)Education
12107 (1.854 %)Games
13101 (1.750 %)Back Office
1493 (1.612 %)Financial Institution
1587 (1.508 %)Publishing
1652 (0.901 %)Marketing
1743 (0.745 %)Online Games
1830 (0.520 %)Multimedia
1929 (0.503 %)Legal
2026 (0.451 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13314 (57.44 %)Developer
22460 (42.63 %)Java Developer
31048 (18.16 %)Java/J2EE Developer
4857 (14.85 %)J2EE Developer
5805 (13.95 %)Architect
6673 (11.66 %)Senior Developer
7483 (8.371 %)Senior Java Developer
8347 (6.014 %)Analyst
9319 (5.529 %)Software Engineer
10310 (5.373 %)Consultant
11287 (4.974 %)Technical Architect
12234 (4.055 %)Programmer
13219 (3.795 %)Web Developer
14197 (3.414 %)Software Developer
15154 (2.669 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
16148 (2.565 %)Java Architect
17147 (2.548 %)Team Leader
18141 (2.444 %)Java Programmer
19140 (2.426 %)Senior J2EE Developer
20133 (2.305 %)Solutions Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1336 (5.823 %)Computer Science
2258 (4.471 %)Open Source
3182 (3.154 %)Derivative
4144 (2.496 %)Mathematics
5131 (2.270 %)Client/Server
6121 (2.097 %)Multithreading
7112 (1.941 %)Fixed Income
8101 (1.750 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
989 (1.542 %)Equities
1077 (1.334 %)N-Tier
1174 (1.282 %)Web 2.0
1269 (1.196 %)Equity Derivative
1337 (0.641 %)iPhone
1434 (0.589 %)Physics
1528 (0.485 %)FMCG
1626 (0.451 %)Credit Derivative
1725 (0.433 %)SaaS
1725 (0.433 %)Spread Betting
1725 (0.433 %)Clustering
1824 (0.416 %)AS400
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1844 (14.63 %)UNIX
2688 (11.92 %)Linux
3425 (7.366 %)Windows
4237 (4.107 %)Solaris
579 (1.369 %)AIX
666 (1.144 %)Red Hat Linux
755 (0.953 %)Windows Server 2003
838 (0.659 %)HPUX
936 (0.624 %)Windows XP
1031 (0.537 %)Ubuntu
1125 (0.433 %)Windows NT
1218 (0.312 %)Android
1317 (0.295 %)Windows Server 2008
1413 (0.225 %)Windows 2000
1511 (0.191 %)CentOS
1610 (0.173 %)SUSE
179 (0.156 %)Debian
187 (0.121 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
187 (0.121 %)Windows Mobile
196 (0.104 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1926 (16.05 %)UML
2818 (14.18 %)OO
3678 (11.75 %)Agile Software Development
4556 (9.636 %)E-Commerce
5520 (9.012 %)SOA
6473 (8.198 %)Scrum
7293 (5.078 %)Web Development
8289 (5.009 %)TDD
9212 (3.674 %)RUP
10199 (3.449 %)Unit Testing
11179 (3.102 %)Software Engineering
12178 (3.085 %)Project Management
13155 (2.686 %)Content Management
14150 (2.600 %)OOD
15144 (2.496 %)OOA/OOD
15144 (2.496 %)CRM
16139 (2.409 %)DSDM
17134 (2.322 %)Data Modelling
18129 (2.236 %)Workflow
19117 (2.028 %)OOP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15089 (88.20 %)Java
21375 (23.83 %)SQL
3881 (15.27 %)JavaScript
4587 (10.17 %)C#
5488 (8.458 %)C++
6267 (4.627 %)PL/SQL
7247 (4.281 %)C
8209 (3.622 %)PHP
9191 (3.310 %)Perl
10120 (2.080 %)VB.NET
11115 (1.993 %)Shell Script
1280 (1.386 %)Ruby
1376 (1.317 %)Python
1455 (0.953 %)ABAP
1455 (0.953 %)VB
1455 (0.953 %)T-SQL
1538 (0.659 %)VBScript
1634 (0.589 %)SAPscript
1733 (0.572 %)Bash shell
1733 (0.572 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1925 (16.03 %)Degree
2373 (6.464 %)Security Cleared
3140 (2.426 %)SC Cleared
491 (1.577 %)DV Cleared
558 (1.005 %)Sun Certification
647 (0.815 %)PhD
729 (0.503 %)PMI Certification
825 (0.433 %)ISEB
920 (0.347 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1019 (0.329 %)PMP
1112 (0.208 %)Microsoft Certification
1211 (0.191 %)SCJP
139 (0.156 %)MBA
148 (0.139 %)SCJA
156 (0.104 %)RHCE
156 (0.104 %)ITIL Certification
165 (0.087 %)IBM Certification
174 (0.069 %)ISEB Practitioner
183 (0.052 %)CTC Cleared
183 (0.052 %)MCTS
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1148 (2.565 %)QA
214 (0.243 %)SLA
32 (0.035 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
32 (0.035 %)ISO9001
32 (0.035 %)WAI
41 (0.017 %)ISO8583
41 (0.017 %)MiFID
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
189 (1.542 %)AquaLogic
214 (0.243 %)Active Directory
312 (0.208 %)Xen
49 (0.156 %)VMware Infrastructure
55 (0.087 %)Oracle RAC
55 (0.087 %)MSMQ
64 (0.069 %)NFS
64 (0.069 %)Hadoop
73 (0.052 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
82 (0.035 %)Oracle RMAN
82 (0.035 %)VMware ESX
82 (0.035 %)OpenSSO
91 (0.017 %)Sendmail
91 (0.017 %)VMware Workstation
91 (0.017 %)NetBackup
91 (0.017 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
123 (0.399 %)Tivoli
214 (0.243 %)Nagios
311 (0.191 %)MOM
410 (0.173 %)Netcool
410 (0.173 %)OpenView
59 (0.156 %)Zenoss
66 (0.104 %)Unicenter
66 (0.104 %)CA Wily
75 (0.087 %)TIBCO InConcert
75 (0.087 %)TIBCO Hawk
84 (0.069 %)BMC PATROL
84 (0.069 %)Munin
93 (0.052 %)EMC NetWorker
93 (0.052 %)OVOW
93 (0.052 %)CiscoWorks
93 (0.052 %)AutoSys
93 (0.052 %)CA SiteMinder
93 (0.052 %)Legato
102 (0.035 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
102 (0.035 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11922 (33.31 %)Oracle
2670 (11.61 %)JBoss
3274 (4.749 %)Sybase
4197 (3.414 %)Microsoft
5194 (3.362 %)IBM
6177 (3.068 %)TIBCO
7157 (2.721 %)SAP
8114 (1.976 %)Sun
996 (1.664 %)ATG
1088 (1.525 %)Red Hat
1174 (1.282 %)Adobe
1273 (1.265 %)BEA
1360 (1.040 %)FatWire
1452 (0.901 %)HP
1547 (0.815 %)BroadVision
1645 (0.780 %)Interwoven
1739 (0.676 %)Vignette
1833 (0.572 %)Google
1928 (0.485 %)Perforce
1928 (0.485 %)VMware