Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2SE 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, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank330435325
Rank change year-on-year
Up+105Down-110
Matching permanent IT job ads4142501093
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.482 %0.295 %0.536 %
As % of the Application Development category1.322 %0.848 %1.657 %
Salaries quoted364223957
Average salary£55,000£45,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22 %-10.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£30,000£34,350
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£60,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£37,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
-13.33 %-6.250 %
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 %

J2SE
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2SE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2SE Demand Trend

J2SE
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2SE within the UK.

J2SE Salary Trend

J2SE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2SE over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

J2SE Salary Histogram

J2SE
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE 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
EnglandUp+96408£55,000+22.22 %
LondonUp+91343£60,000+26.31 %
City of LondonUp+11114£70,000+47.36 %
South EastUp+447£32,500-13.33 %
West SussexNew entry-17£30,500-
SurreyUp+1416£30,000-45.45 %
HorshamNew entry-10£31,500-
West MidlandsUp+317£32,500+25.00 %
ScotlandUp+196£35,000+7.69 %
East of EnglandDown-146£32,500-7.14 %
WorcestershireNew entry-5£32,500-
HerefordNew entry-5£32,500-
WorcesterNew entry-5£32,500-
HerefordshireNew entry-5£32,500-
East SussexNew entry-5£45,000-
CambridgeshireDown-104£32,500+8.33 %
CambridgeDown-124£32,500+8.33 %
CamberleyNew entry-4£65,000-
GlasgowNew entry-4£35,000-
South WestUp+33£37,500-18.91 %
OxfordshireDown-23£34,000+44.68 %
MiddlesexNew entry-3£50,000-
HertfordshireDown-12£32,500-32.98 %
GloucestershireDown-22£37,500+10.29 %
AylesburyNew entry-2£34,000-
FifeNew entry-2£30,000-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-2£34,000-
CoventryNew entry-2£36,500-
BristolUp+111£31,500-35.38 %
East MidlandsUp+51£37,500-16.66 %

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1686 (95.28 %)Java
2264 (36.67 %)SQL
3248 (34.44 %)J2EE
4171 (23.75 %)Banking
5164 (22.78 %)Oracle
6150 (20.83 %)Spring
7130 (18.06 %)Degree
8128 (17.78 %)JavaScript
9122 (16.94 %)UNIX
10121 (16.81 %)Linux
11120 (16.67 %)C++
12119 (16.53 %)OO
13114 (15.83 %)Hibernate
14111 (15.42 %)Agile Software Development
15107 (14.86 %)Derivative
16105 (14.58 %)JSP
17103 (14.31 %)Swing
18100 (13.89 %)HTML
1996 (13.33 %)Finance
2090 (12.50 %)C#
2186 (11.94 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2285 (11.81 %)Front Office
2381 (11.25 %)Electronic Trading
2479 (10.97 %)JMS
2479 (10.97 %)XML
2575 (10.42 %)Servlets
2575 (10.42 %)E-Commerce
2673 (10.14 %)CSS
2767 (9.306 %)Multithreading
2864 (8.889 %)Algorithmic Trading

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1248 (34.44 %)J2EE
2150 (20.83 %)Spring
3114 (15.83 %)Hibernate
4105 (14.58 %)JSP
5103 (14.31 %)Swing
6100 (13.89 %)HTML
779 (10.97 %)XML
779 (10.97 %)JMS
875 (10.42 %)Servlets
973 (10.14 %)CSS
1055 (7.639 %)AJAX
1150 (6.944 %)Java SE
1249 (6.806 %)Web Services
1346 (6.389 %).NET
1444 (6.111 %)JDBC
1536 (5.000 %)Struts
1635 (4.861 %)EJB
1733 (4.583 %)Oracle Coherence
1829 (4.028 %)J2ME
1928 (3.889 %)GWT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
147 (6.528 %)Apache
227 (3.750 %)CMS
319 (2.639 %)Rendezvous
415 (2.083 %)TIBCO EMS
513 (1.806 %)Tomcat
611 (1.528 %)WebLogic
78 (1.111 %)MQSeries
83 (0.417 %)ESB
91 (0.139 %)Alfresco
91 (0.139 %)IIS
91 (0.139 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (0.139 %)AquaLogic
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (0.694 %)MS Visio
21 (0.139 %)MS Excel
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.278 %)FENICS FX
21 (0.139 %)Oracle Applications
21 (0.139 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
128 (3.889 %)Internet
213 (1.806 %)HTTP
35 (0.694 %)TCP/IP
41 (0.139 %)VoIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
157 (7.917 %)RDBMS
252 (7.222 %)MySQL
343 (5.972 %)SQL Server
431 (4.306 %)PostgreSQL
511 (1.528 %)Oracle 8/8i
69 (1.250 %)SQL Server 2008
76 (0.833 %)SimpleDB
76 (0.833 %)DB2
83 (0.417 %)Oracle 10g
83 (0.417 %)KDB
83 (0.417 %)SQL Server 2005
92 (0.278 %)Oracle 11g
92 (0.278 %)SQLPlus
92 (0.278 %)Datawarehouse
92 (0.278 %)Informix
101 (0.139 %)SQL Server 2000
101 (0.139 %)SQLite
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
151 (7.083 %)Eclipse
243 (5.972 %)JUnit
334 (4.722 %)Subversion
430 (4.167 %)Maven
523 (3.194 %)Ant
612 (1.667 %)Selenium
710 (1.389 %)Visual Studio
86 (0.833 %)NUnit
94 (0.556 %)Rational Rose
94 (0.556 %)FitNesse
94 (0.556 %)Team Foundation Server
94 (0.556 %)StarTeam
103 (0.417 %)CruiseControl
112 (0.278 %)VSS/SourceSafe
112 (0.278 %)Git (software)
121 (0.139 %)TeamCity
121 (0.139 %)JIRA
121 (0.139 %)JMeter
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1171 (23.75 %)Banking
296 (13.33 %)Finance
385 (11.81 %)Front Office
464 (8.889 %)Investment Banking
555 (7.639 %)Games
623 (3.194 %)Back Office
623 (3.194 %)Education
720 (2.778 %)Online Games
812 (1.667 %)Advertising
98 (1.111 %)Telecoms
107 (0.972 %)Financial Institution
107 (0.972 %)Online Gambling
115 (0.694 %)Marketing
115 (0.694 %)Government
124 (0.556 %)Music
133 (0.417 %)Health
142 (0.278 %)Automotive
142 (0.278 %)Retail
142 (0.278 %)Pensions
142 (0.278 %)Online Betting
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1573 (79.58 %)Developer
2472 (65.56 %)Java Developer
3168 (23.33 %)Senior Developer
4138 (19.17 %)Senior Java Developer
559 (8.194 %)Java Swing Developer
650 (6.944 %)Software Engineer
731 (4.306 %)Java Software Engineer
829 (4.028 %)Team Leader
829 (4.028 %)Java Team Leader
925 (3.472 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1024 (3.333 %)Programmer
1122 (3.056 %)Java Programmer
1219 (2.639 %)J2EE Developer
1219 (2.639 %)Oracle Developer
1318 (2.500 %)Analyst
1416 (2.222 %)Software Developer
1416 (2.222 %)Consultant
1416 (2.222 %)Java Consultant
1416 (2.222 %)J2EE Consultant
1514 (1.944 %)Developer Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1107 (14.86 %)Derivative
286 (11.94 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
367 (9.306 %)Multithreading
448 (6.667 %)Equities
545 (6.250 %)Computer Science
639 (5.417 %)Open Source
737 (5.139 %)Fixed Income
830 (4.167 %)Credit Derivative
928 (3.889 %)Equity Derivative
1025 (3.472 %)Exotic Derivative
1116 (2.222 %)Mathematics
1212 (1.667 %)Social Network
1212 (1.667 %)Blackberry
1310 (1.389 %)Client/Server
1310 (1.389 %)VAX
1310 (1.389 %)iPhone
146 (0.833 %)Credit Risk
155 (0.694 %)Physics
155 (0.694 %)Grid Computing
164 (0.556 %)Interest Rate Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1122 (16.94 %)UNIX
2121 (16.81 %)Linux
362 (8.611 %)Windows
412 (1.667 %)Android
510 (1.389 %)Solaris
68 (1.111 %)Windows Server 2003
77 (0.972 %)Windows Mobile
86 (0.833 %)Windows Server 2008
93 (0.417 %)Red Hat Linux
102 (0.278 %)Windows 2000 Server
111 (0.139 %)AIX
111 (0.139 %)Windows XP
111 (0.139 %)Windows CE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1119 (16.53 %)OO
2111 (15.42 %)Agile Software Development
381 (11.25 %)Electronic Trading
475 (10.42 %)E-Commerce
564 (8.889 %)Algorithmic Trading
653 (7.361 %)UML
734 (4.722 %)Unit Testing
833 (4.583 %)TDD
931 (4.306 %)MVC
1029 (4.028 %)Content Management
1125 (3.472 %)OOD
1223 (3.194 %)Migration
1223 (3.194 %)Software Architecture
1320 (2.778 %)Software Engineering
1419 (2.639 %)Refactoring
1518 (2.500 %)Data Migration
1617 (2.361 %)SOA
1716 (2.222 %)Project Management
1814 (1.944 %)Business Analysis
1814 (1.944 %)Scrum
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1686 (95.28 %)Java
2264 (36.67 %)SQL
3128 (17.78 %)JavaScript
4120 (16.67 %)C++
590 (12.50 %)C#
651 (7.083 %)C
726 (3.611 %)PHP
824 (3.333 %)Shell Script
923 (3.194 %)Python
1016 (2.222 %)ActionScript
1016 (2.222 %)ActionScript 3.0
1113 (1.806 %)VB
1210 (1.389 %)PHP5
139 (1.250 %)T-SQL
148 (1.111 %)Ruby
157 (0.972 %)Erlang
166 (0.833 %)Scala
175 (0.694 %)PL/SQL
175 (0.694 %)Perl
183 (0.417 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1130 (18.06 %)Degree
216 (2.222 %)Security Cleared
314 (1.944 %)SC Cleared
410 (1.389 %)PhD
55 (0.694 %)Sun Certification
61 (0.139 %)DV Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.417 %)DICOM
22 (0.278 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (0.833 %)Xen
24 (0.556 %)MSMQ
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.278 %)AutoSys
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1164 (22.78 %)Oracle
239 (5.417 %)Sybase
334 (4.722 %)Google
425 (3.472 %)DataSynapse
524 (3.333 %)TIBCO
619 (2.639 %)JBoss
712 (1.667 %)Perforce
811 (1.528 %)Calypso
910 (1.389 %)Zend
105 (0.694 %)Sun
114 (0.556 %)Microsoft
114 (0.556 %)Symbian
114 (0.556 %)Apple
123 (0.417 %)Red Hat
123 (0.417 %)Infragistics
123 (0.417 %)DevExpress
123 (0.417 %)IBM
123 (0.417 %)Adobe
132 (0.278 %)Murex
132 (0.278 %)Reuters