Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for J2ME skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2ME over the 3 months to 19 March 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, Micro Edition (J2ME)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank538512626
Rank change year-on-year
Down-26Up+114
Matching permanent IT job ads138158376
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.161 %0.186 %0.184 %
As % of the Application Development category0.441 %0.536 %0.570 %
Salaries quoted120149334
Average salary£37,500£38,750£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.220 %+3.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£26,000£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£50,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.690 %-7.140 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
313272948765977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.46 %34.77 %32.33 %
Salaries quoted272762516156137
Average salary£38,000£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %

J2ME
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2ME within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2ME Demand Trend

J2ME
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2ME within the UK.

J2ME Salary Trend

J2ME
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2ME over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

J2ME Salary Histogram

J2ME
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2ME within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 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-26121£38,000-5.00 %
LondonDown-4765£50,000+23.45 %
South EastUp+632£35,000+7.69 %
ScotlandUp+1416£35,000+25.00 %
GlasgowUp+516£35,000-12.50 %
City of LondonDown-6112£51,250+20.58 %
BuckinghamshireNew entry-12£35,000-
High WycombeNew entry-11£35,000-
BerkshireUp+1010£32,500-31.57 %
East of EnglandDown-410£30,000-33.33 %
HampshireUp+319£32,500+30.00 %
North WestUp+119£38,000+26.66 %
ManchesterUp+69£38,000+68.88 %
NorfolkNew entry-9£30,000-
NorwichNew entry-9£30,000-
SalfordDown-14£31,750+41.11 %
BristolUp+153£38,000-
South WestUp+43£38,000-24.00 %
SouthamptonDown-32£29,000+16.00 %
YorkshireNew entry-2£31,500-
SloughNew entry-2£32,500-
WindsorNew entry-2£32,500-
BrightonUp+41£40,000+33.33 %
East SussexDown-11£40,000+28.00 %
CambridgeDown-171£39,000-13.33 %
CambridgeshireDown-171£39,000-13.33 %
West WalesNew entry-1£50,000-
WalesNew entry-1£50,000-
West YorkshireNew entry-1£28,000-
SwanseaNew entry-1£50,000-

J2ME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2ME 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 J2ME.

1207 (67.87 %)Java
2165 (54.10 %)Android
3148 (48.52 %)Blackberry
4132 (43.28 %)iPhone
586 (28.20 %)Windows
684 (27.54 %)Symbian
772 (23.61 %)C++
871 (23.28 %)Objective-C
965 (21.31 %)Windows Mobile
1059 (19.34 %)XML
1156 (18.36 %)Finance
1252 (17.05 %)J2EE
1351 (16.72 %)C
1446 (15.08 %)OO
1446 (15.08 %)Handset
1542 (13.77 %)HTML
1637 (12.13 %)Maven
1735 (11.48 %)Ant
1833 (10.82 %)Java ME
1932 (10.49 %)SQL
2031 (10.16 %)C#
2031 (10.16 %).NET
2031 (10.16 %)MIDP
2129 (9.508 %)Scrum
2129 (9.508 %)J2SE
2228 (9.180 %)Games
2228 (9.180 %)Degree
2327 (8.852 %)Web Services
2426 (8.525 %)SQL Server
2426 (8.525 %)PHP

J2ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2ME 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 J2ME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
159 (19.34 %)XML
252 (17.05 %)J2EE
342 (13.77 %)HTML
433 (10.82 %)Java ME
531 (10.16 %).NET
531 (10.16 %)MIDP
629 (9.508 %)J2SE
727 (8.852 %)Web Services
826 (8.525 %)Cocoa
924 (7.869 %)XHTML
1022 (7.213 %)CSS
1022 (7.213 %)Java EE
1121 (6.885 %)Java SE
1121 (6.885 %)Middleware
1121 (6.885 %)Spring
1219 (6.230 %)AJAX
1318 (5.902 %)JSON
1417 (5.574 %)WAP
1513 (4.262 %)iPhone SDK
1611 (3.607 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
113 (4.262 %)IIS
24 (1.311 %)Oracle Application Server
33 (0.984 %)Apache
42 (0.656 %)Tomcat
42 (0.656 %)SharePoint
42 (0.656 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
42 (0.656 %)Lotus Notes
42 (0.656 %)Lotus Domino
42 (0.656 %)Office Communications Server
51 (0.328 %)WebLogic
51 (0.328 %)ESB
51 (0.328 %)GlassFish
51 (0.328 %)CMS
51 (0.328 %)ActiveMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (0.656 %)Photoshop
12 (0.656 %)MS Excel
12 (0.656 %)Adobe Illustrator
21 (0.328 %)MS Visio
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
123 (7.541 %)Internet
210 (3.279 %)SMS
36 (1.967 %)Wireless
44 (1.311 %)RFID
44 (1.311 %)GSM
53 (0.984 %)TCP/IP
53 (0.984 %)Bluetooth
53 (0.984 %)GPRS
53 (0.984 %)3GPP
53 (0.984 %)HSDPA
53 (0.984 %)3G
61 (0.328 %)SS7
61 (0.328 %)NFC
61 (0.328 %)VoIP
61 (0.328 %)HTTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
126 (8.525 %)SQL Server
224 (7.869 %)MySQL
37 (2.295 %)GIS
46 (1.967 %)RDBMS
52 (0.656 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.656 %)SQL Server 2008
61 (0.328 %)PostgreSQL
61 (0.328 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (0.328 %)OLTP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
137 (12.13 %)Maven
235 (11.48 %)Ant
311 (3.607 %)Eclipse
311 (3.607 %)Subversion
410 (3.279 %)Xcode
53 (0.984 %)ClearCase
53 (0.984 %)Rational Robot
62 (0.656 %)LoadRunner
62 (0.656 %)Selenium
71 (0.328 %)JUnit
71 (0.328 %)Visual Studio
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
156 (18.36 %)Finance
228 (9.180 %)Games
324 (7.869 %)Pensions
421 (6.885 %)Marketing
518 (5.902 %)Banking
616 (5.246 %)Telecoms
714 (4.590 %)Mobile Games
813 (4.262 %)3D Graphics
98 (2.623 %)Education
107 (2.295 %)Publishing
115 (1.639 %)Billing
124 (1.311 %)Animation
132 (0.656 %)Electronics
141 (0.328 %)Financial Institution
141 (0.328 %)Advertising
141 (0.328 %)Retail
141 (0.328 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1241 (79.02 %)Developer
269 (22.62 %)Mobile Developer
358 (19.02 %)Java Developer
436 (11.80 %)iPhone Developer
533 (10.82 %)Applications Developer
622 (7.213 %)Mobile Applications Developer
719 (6.230 %)Software Engineer
817 (5.574 %)Team Leader
915 (4.918 %)Mac Developer
1014 (4.590 %)Lead Developer
1014 (4.590 %)Graduate
1112 (3.934 %)Development Team Leader
1112 (3.934 %)Graduate Developer
1211 (3.607 %)Graduate Java Developer
1310 (3.279 %)Blackberry Developer
149 (2.951 %)Android Developer
149 (2.951 %)Software Developer
156 (1.967 %)Senior Developer
156 (1.967 %).NET Developer
156 (1.967 %)C++ Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1148 (48.52 %)Blackberry
2132 (43.28 %)iPhone
346 (15.08 %)Handset
424 (7.869 %)Client/Server
520 (6.557 %)Derivative
619 (6.230 %)Spread Betting
712 (3.934 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
810 (3.279 %)Multithreading
99 (2.951 %)Data Protection Act
108 (2.623 %)Open Source
108 (2.623 %)Computer Science
116 (1.967 %)Mathematics
125 (1.639 %)Smartcard
125 (1.639 %)Smartphone
133 (0.984 %)Firmware
142 (0.656 %)Cryptography
151 (0.328 %)Web 2.0
151 (0.328 %)STB
151 (0.328 %)Physics
151 (0.328 %)Social Network
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1165 (54.10 %)Android
286 (28.20 %)Windows
365 (21.31 %)Windows Mobile
419 (6.230 %)UNIX
510 (3.279 %)Mac OS
66 (1.967 %)Windows Server 2003
66 (1.967 %)Linux
72 (0.656 %)Solaris
81 (0.328 %)VMS
81 (0.328 %)Windows CE
81 (0.328 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
146 (15.08 %)OO
229 (9.508 %)Scrum
322 (7.213 %)Agile Software Development
417 (5.574 %)UML
510 (3.279 %)OOP
69 (2.951 %)Web Development
69 (2.951 %)Data Protection
77 (2.295 %)Configuration Management
86 (1.967 %)Content Management
86 (1.967 %)Extreme Programming
86 (1.967 %)Software Architecture
86 (1.967 %)WFM
86 (1.967 %)Continuous Integration
95 (1.639 %)3D Rendering
95 (1.639 %)OOD
95 (1.639 %)CRM
103 (0.984 %)E-Commerce
103 (0.984 %)B2B
103 (0.984 %)B2C
112 (0.656 %)DRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1207 (67.87 %)Java
272 (23.61 %)C++
371 (23.28 %)Objective-C
451 (16.72 %)C
532 (10.49 %)SQL
631 (10.16 %)C#
726 (8.525 %)PHP
822 (7.213 %)JavaScript
96 (1.967 %)Ruby
105 (1.639 %)Python
105 (1.639 %)Embedded C
105 (1.639 %)Perl
114 (1.311 %)ActionScript
114 (1.311 %)VC++
123 (0.984 %)VBScript
132 (0.656 %)ActionScript 3.0
141 (0.328 %)Bash shell
141 (0.328 %)PHP5
141 (0.328 %)PHP4
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
128 (9.180 %)Degree
21 (0.328 %)Security Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (2.951 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.656 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.656 %)HP Quality Center
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
184 (27.54 %)Symbian
223 (7.541 %)Apple
318 (5.902 %)Oracle
414 (4.590 %)Google
513 (4.262 %)JD Edwards
68 (2.623 %)Microsoft
74 (1.311 %)Sun
74 (1.311 %)Bloomberg
83 (0.984 %)Perforce
83 (0.984 %)Ericsson
83 (0.984 %)JBoss
92 (0.656 %)Cisco
92 (0.656 %)Nokia
92 (0.656 %)Lotus
92 (0.656 %)HP
92 (0.656 %)VMware
101 (0.328 %)Axiom