The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Architect role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Architect
Rank 702 592 575
Rank change year-on-year
-110 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 162 330 307
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.149% 0.269% 0.251%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.158% 0.284% 0.267%
Number of salaries quoted 142 291 281
Average salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +8.69%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
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%

Java Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Java Architect
Salary Trend

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

Java Architect Salary Trend

Java Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Architect over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Java Architect Salary Histogram

Java Architect
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 -116 156 £60,000 -14.28%
London -35 88 £60,000 -22.58%
South East -6 30 £63,000 +0.80%
City of London -2 27 £55,000 -21.42%
Berkshire +8 14 £70,000 +14.75%
West Midlands -15 13 £87,000 +83.15%
Cambridgeshire +10 11 £55,000 +26.43%
East of England -15 11 £55,000 -12.00%
East Midlands - 11 £57,500 -
Cambridge +15 10 £55,000 -12.00%
Reading +8 10 £70,000 -
Northamptonshire - 9 £57,500 -
Telford - 7 £87,000 -
Crawley - 7 £63,000 -
Shropshire - 7 £87,000 -
West Sussex - 7 £63,000 -
Scotland -1 6 £50,500 +12.22%
Docklands, London +10 5 £92,500 +25.00%
Surrey +8 5 £61,250 +9.37%
Edinburgh +3 4 £47,500 -42.42%
Guildford - 4 £62,500 -
Hampshire +6 3 £42,500 -34.61%
Northampton - 3 £57,500 -
Birmingham -11 2 £57,500 -11.53%
North Yorkshire -12 2 - -
Glasgow -18 2 £50,500 -9.00%
Yorkshire -25 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £50,000 -
Basingstoke - 2 £42,500 -
Nottingham - 2 £50,000 -

Java Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Architect 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 Java Architect in their job title.

1 347 (100.00%) Java
2 238 (68.59%) Spring
3 185 (53.31%) J2EE
4 106 (30.55%) MVC
5 103 (29.68%) Oracle
6 95 (27.38%) TDD
7 94 (27.09%) Spring MVC
7 94 (27.09%) Apache
8 93 (26.80%) Hibernate
9 90 (25.94%) HTML
10 82 (23.63%) Web Services
11 80 (23.05%) CSS
12 79 (22.77%) Agile Software Development
13 71 (20.46%) XML
14 68 (19.60%) JSP
14 68 (19.60%) jQuery
15 67 (19.31%) SQL
15 67 (19.31%) SOA
16 66 (19.02%) MySQL
17 64 (18.44%) Struts
18 63 (18.16%) Tomcat
19 61 (17.58%) SQL Server
20 57 (16.43%) Finance
21 55 (15.85%) JMS
22 54 (15.56%) JBoss
23 53 (15.27%) JavaScript
24 50 (14.41%) JSTL
25 45 (12.97%) Banking
26 44 (12.68%) E-Commerce
27 42 (12.10%) XSLT

Java Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Architect 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 Java Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 238 (68.59%) Spring
2 185 (53.31%) J2EE
3 94 (27.09%) Spring MVC
4 93 (26.80%) Hibernate
5 90 (25.94%) HTML
6 82 (23.63%) Web Services
7 80 (23.05%) CSS
8 71 (20.46%) XML
9 68 (19.60%) JSP
9 68 (19.60%) jQuery
10 64 (18.44%) Struts
11 55 (15.85%) JMS
12 50 (14.41%) JSTL
13 42 (12.10%) XSLT
14 41 (11.82%) Ajax
15 39 (11.24%) RESTful
16 32 (9.222%) Java EE
17 29 (8.357%) REST
18 28 (8.069%) JPA
19 26 (7.493%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 94 (27.09%) Apache
2 63 (18.16%) Tomcat
3 33 (9.510%) WebLogic
4 19 (5.476%) Oracle Coherence
5 16 (4.611%) Jetty
5 16 (4.611%) IIS
5 16 (4.611%) CMS
6 13 (3.746%) ESB
7 9 (2.594%) Apache Solr
8 5 (1.441%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (1.441%) Alfresco
8 5 (1.441%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.865%) AquaLogic
9 3 (0.865%) Liferay
10 2 (0.576%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.576%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.288%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.288%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.288%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.288%) GemFire
Applications
1 8 (2.305%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.576%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (3.170%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.288%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.323%) HTTP
2 11 (3.170%) Internet
3 4 (1.153%) SAN
3 4 (1.153%) LDAP
4 2 (0.576%) SNMP
4 2 (0.576%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.288%) FTP
5 1 (0.288%) SSL
5 1 (0.288%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.02%) MySQL
2 61 (17.58%) SQL Server
3 25 (7.205%) MarkLogic
4 9 (2.594%) TOAD
4 9 (2.594%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.305%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.729%) Big Data
7 5 (1.441%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.153%) KDB
8 4 (1.153%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.865%) DB2
10 2 (0.576%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.576%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.576%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.288%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.288%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.288%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.288%) OLAP
11 1 (0.288%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.288%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (6.340%) Maven
2 15 (4.323%) JUnit
2 15 (4.323%) Eclipse
3 8 (2.305%) JIRA
4 7 (2.017%) Subversion
4 7 (2.017%) Selenium
4 7 (2.017%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.441%) JBehave
6 4 (1.153%) Git (software)
7 3 (0.865%) jMock
7 3 (0.865%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.576%) FindBugs
8 2 (0.576%) Hudson
8 2 (0.576%) Ant
8 2 (0.576%) JBuilder
8 2 (0.576%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.576%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.288%) CruiseControl
9 1 (0.288%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 1 (0.288%) IntelliJ
General
1 57 (16.43%) Finance
2 45 (12.97%) Banking
3 36 (10.37%) Publishing
4 14 (4.035%) Telecoms
4 14 (4.035%) Investment Banking
4 14 (4.035%) Advertising
5 12 (3.458%) Front Office
6 11 (3.170%) Games
7 8 (2.305%) Retail
8 1 (0.288%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.288%) Marketing
8 1 (0.288%) Law
8 1 (0.288%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.288%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.205%) Semantic Web
2 23 (6.628%) Digital Media
3 20 (5.764%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.899%) Client/Server
4 17 (4.899%) SaaS
5 16 (4.611%) Open Source
6 12 (3.458%) New Media
6 12 (3.458%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.170%) iPhone
8 10 (2.882%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.594%) Clustering
9 9 (2.594%) Web 2.0
9 9 (2.594%) Blackberry
9 9 (2.594%) iPad
9 9 (2.594%) Mobile Banking
10 8 (2.305%) Derivative
10 8 (2.305%) Computer Science
11 6 (1.729%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.729%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.729%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.09%) Linux
2 22 (6.340%) Android
3 19 (5.476%) UNIX
4 13 (3.746%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.305%) Windows
6 1 (0.288%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.288%) Solaris
6 1 (0.288%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.55%) MVC
2 95 (27.38%) TDD
3 79 (22.77%) Agile Software Development
4 67 (19.31%) SOA
5 44 (12.68%) E-Commerce
6 39 (11.24%) OO
7 38 (10.95%) UML
8 36 (10.37%) Software Architecture
9 33 (9.510%) Scrum
10 29 (8.357%) Technical Architecture
11 22 (6.340%) OOD
11 22 (6.340%) Enterprise Architecture
11 22 (6.340%) Web Development
12 20 (5.764%) Requirements Analysis
13 18 (5.187%) RUP
14 16 (4.611%) Multithreading
14 16 (4.611%) Waterfall
15 15 (4.323%) Content Management
15 15 (4.323%) BDD
16 14 (4.035%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 347 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (19.31%) SQL
3 53 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 28 (8.069%) XQuery
5 13 (3.746%) C++
5 13 (3.746%) PL/SQL
6 9 (2.594%) Objective-C
7 8 (2.305%) PHP
8 6 (1.729%) Python
9 5 (1.441%) Ruby
10 4 (1.153%) Scala
10 4 (1.153%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.153%) XPath
11 3 (0.865%) C#
11 3 (0.865%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.576%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (7.781%) Degree
2 6 (1.729%) CIPD
3 5 (1.441%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.441%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.576%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.288%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.746%) QA
2 1 (0.288%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.288%) TickIT
System Software
1 24 (6.916%) Squid
2 5 (1.441%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.153%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.153%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 103 (29.68%) Oracle
2 54 (15.56%) JBoss
3 15 (4.323%) Sybase
4 14 (4.035%) Google
5 10 (2.882%) TIBCO
5 10 (2.882%) Adobe
6 8 (2.305%) BEA
7 7 (2.017%) DataSynapse
8 6 (1.729%) hybris
8 6 (1.729%) IBM
8 6 (1.729%) ATG
9 4 (1.153%) Hitachi
9 4 (1.153%) VMware
10 2 (0.576%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.576%) Sun
11 1 (0.288%) Wincor Nixdorf
11 1 (0.288%) Zend
11 1 (0.288%) Pega
11 1 (0.288%) Demandware
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