The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Java Developer
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank372929
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads627569875230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK5.204 %5.698 %5.478 %
As % of the Job Titles category5.494 %6.047 %5.871 %
Number of salaries quoted563662114579
Average salary£45,000£47,500£54,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26 %-12.03 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£80,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Java Developer
Demand Trend

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

Java Developer Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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-86006£47,500-5.00 %
LondonDown-13417£52,500-12.50 %
South EastDown-11935£45,000+2.27 %
City of LondonDown-7917£57,500-11.53 %
East of EnglandUp+10419£41,500+10.66 %
South WestUp+4397£38,500+11.59 %
North WestDown-8359£37,500-
SurreyUp+6281£45,000-2.17 %
BerkshireUp+4254£45,000+5.88 %
CambridgeshireUp+11194£40,750+16.42 %
YorkshireDown-2191£37,500+7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-15166£45,000+12.50 %
ScotlandDown-5163£39,000+4.00 %
HampshireDown-4160£40,000-
ManchesterDown-14159£35,500+1.42 %
West YorkshireNo change0144£37,000+5.71 %
ReadingUp+35119£45,000-5.26 %
HertfordshireUp+18119£45,000-
BristolUp+12118£37,500+7.14 %
East MidlandsDown-31117£37,250-0.66 %
CambridgeUp+9111£42,500+21.42 %
GloucestershireUp+8111£38,500+2.66 %
CheshireDown-14105£37,500-1.96 %
LeedsDown-4103£40,000+14.28 %
WarwickshireUp+298£45,000+12.50 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1382£45,000-
East SussexUp+1881£33,750-15.62 %
BrightonUp+1278£30,000-25.00 %
WiltshireDown-1072£40,000+21.21 %
MerseysideUp+1366£40,000+6.66 %

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

112262 (100.00 %)Java
26007 (48.99 %)Spring
35161 (42.09 %)J2EE
44516 (36.83 %)Hibernate
54216 (34.38 %)SQL
63155 (25.73 %)Oracle
73040 (24.79 %)XML
82999 (24.46 %)Finance
92955 (24.10 %)JavaScript
102794 (22.79 %)Agile Software Development
112565 (20.92 %)Degree
122367 (19.30 %)HTML
132240 (18.27 %)OO
142159 (17.61 %)Linux
152116 (17.26 %)Web Services
162107 (17.18 %)JSP
171970 (16.07 %)CSS
181869 (15.24 %)TDD
191849 (15.08 %)Tomcat
201818 (14.83 %)JUnit
201818 (14.83 %)Multithreading
211775 (14.48 %)UNIX
221638 (13.36 %)Struts
231592 (12.98 %)JBoss
241482 (12.09 %)Java EE
251456 (11.87 %)Eclipse
261453 (11.85 %)Maven
271414 (11.53 %)JMS
281392 (11.35 %)Banking
291356 (11.06 %)JDBC

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16007 (48.99 %)Spring
25161 (42.09 %)J2EE
34516 (36.83 %)Hibernate
43040 (24.79 %)XML
52367 (19.30 %)HTML
62116 (17.26 %)Web Services
72107 (17.18 %)JSP
81970 (16.07 %)CSS
91638 (13.36 %)Struts
101482 (12.09 %)Java EE
111414 (11.53 %)JMS
121356 (11.06 %)JDBC
131216 (9.917 %)Servlets
141206 (9.835 %)Ajax
151034 (8.433 %)EJB
161006 (8.204 %)Swing
17916 (7.470 %)SOAP
18882 (7.193 %)J2SE
19828 (6.753 %)Spring MVC
20825 (6.728 %)jQuery
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11849 (15.08 %)Tomcat
21208 (9.852 %)Apache
3719 (5.864 %)WebLogic
4252 (2.055 %)ESB
5249 (2.031 %)CMS
6232 (1.892 %)GlassFish
7208 (1.696 %)WebSphere Application Server
8202 (1.647 %)Jetty
9134 (1.093 %)Apache Solr
10133 (1.085 %)Oracle Coherence
11129 (1.052 %)ActiveMQ
1287 (0.710 %)MQSeries
1383 (0.677 %)WebSphere MQ
1466 (0.538 %)Alfresco
1564 (0.522 %)RabbitMQ
1657 (0.465 %)Mule
1756 (0.457 %)Rendezvous
1843 (0.351 %)SharePoint
1942 (0.343 %)Liferay
2038 (0.310 %)TIBCO EMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1100 (0.816 %)MS Excel
290 (0.734 %)MS Visio
346 (0.375 %)MATLAB
437 (0.302 %)Mingle
534 (0.277 %)MS Office
619 (0.155 %)Google Apps
77 (0.057 %)Photoshop
84 (0.033 %)MS Project
84 (0.033 %)Fireworks
84 (0.033 %)MS PowerPoint
84 (0.033 %)SketchUp
92 (0.016 %)SPSS
101 (0.008 %)Doxygen
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
155 (0.449 %)Oracle BPM
230 (0.245 %)RMDS
319 (0.155 %)Summit
417 (0.139 %)Oracle Applications
513 (0.106 %)Tridion
610 (0.082 %)Loan IQ
79 (0.073 %)Staffware
88 (0.065 %)BusinessWorks
96 (0.049 %)Misys Opics
105 (0.041 %)Maximo
105 (0.041 %)Oracle 11i
114 (0.033 %)Advent Geneva
122 (0.016 %)Apache OFBiz
122 (0.016 %)Murex MxG2000
122 (0.016 %)TIBCO iProcess
131 (0.008 %)Oracle Financials
131 (0.008 %)WebTrends
131 (0.008 %)Oracle EBS
131 (0.008 %)Oracle ERP
131 (0.008 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1483 (3.939 %)Internet
2308 (2.512 %)HTTP
3128 (1.044 %)TCP/IP
446 (0.375 %)AMQP
539 (0.318 %)Broadband
638 (0.310 %)LDAP
638 (0.310 %)VoIP
732 (0.261 %)SSL
822 (0.179 %)LAN
920 (0.163 %)Intranet
1018 (0.147 %)WAN
1116 (0.130 %)DNS
1214 (0.114 %)MGCP
1214 (0.114 %)3GPP
1214 (0.114 %)H.323
1312 (0.098 %)ATM
1411 (0.090 %)FTP
159 (0.073 %)Ethernet
159 (0.073 %)Asterisk PBX
168 (0.065 %)GSM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11255 (10.23 %)MySQL
2882 (7.193 %)SQL Server
3585 (4.771 %)RDBMS
4250 (2.039 %)NoSQL
5247 (2.014 %)PostgreSQL
6200 (1.631 %)DB2
7179 (1.460 %)Hadoop
8149 (1.215 %)Oracle 10g
9148 (1.207 %)Oracle 8/8i
10107 (0.873 %)MongoDB
11101 (0.824 %)Data Mining
1278 (0.636 %)Apache Cassandra
1375 (0.612 %)KDB
1470 (0.571 %)Oracle 11g
1559 (0.481 %)GIS
1653 (0.432 %)ETL
1748 (0.391 %)OLAP
1842 (0.343 %)Data Warehouse
1842 (0.343 %)HBase
1940 (0.326 %)SQL Server 2005
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11818 (14.83 %)JUnit
21456 (11.87 %)Eclipse
31453 (11.85 %)Maven
41185 (9.664 %)Ant
51087 (8.865 %)Subversion
6358 (2.920 %)Hudson
7269 (2.194 %)Git (software)
8261 (2.129 %)Selenium
9247 (2.014 %)JIRA
10135 (1.101 %)Mockito
11111 (0.905 %)IntelliJ
12107 (0.873 %)jMock
12107 (0.873 %)Cucumber
1394 (0.767 %)TestNG
1474 (0.603 %)Eclipse RCP
1572 (0.587 %)Log4j
1671 (0.579 %)TeamCity
1769 (0.563 %)Bugzilla
1864 (0.522 %)ClearCase
1956 (0.457 %)NetBeans
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12999 (24.46 %)Finance
21392 (11.35 %)Banking
3753 (6.141 %)Front Office
4728 (5.937 %)Games
5617 (5.032 %)Investment Banking
6377 (3.075 %)Telecoms
7319 (2.602 %)Retail
8210 (1.713 %)Financial Institution
9176 (1.435 %)Marketing
10149 (1.215 %)Back Office
11147 (1.199 %)Advertising
12133 (1.085 %)Publishing
1370 (0.571 %)Music
1458 (0.473 %)Multimedia
1547 (0.383 %)Law
1639 (0.318 %)Legal
1738 (0.310 %)Online Betting
1836 (0.294 %)Manufacturing
1930 (0.245 %)Automotive
2029 (0.237 %)Music Industry
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11263 (10.30 %)Computer Science
2847 (6.908 %)Open Source
3693 (5.652 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4494 (4.029 %)Derivative
5479 (3.906 %)Mathematics
6402 (3.278 %)Hedge funds
7290 (2.365 %)Equities
8279 (2.275 %)Fixed Income
9254 (2.071 %)Online Games
10245 (1.998 %)Social Media
11181 (1.476 %)N-Tier
12173 (1.411 %)Digital Media
13156 (1.272 %)Physics
14141 (1.150 %)Spread Betting
15132 (1.076 %)Equity Derivative
16128 (1.044 %)iPhone
17101 (0.824 %)Credit Risk
1896 (0.783 %)Visualisation
1995 (0.775 %)Cloud Computing
2092 (0.750 %)SaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12159 (17.61 %)Linux
21775 (14.48 %)UNIX
3662 (5.399 %)Windows
4274 (2.235 %)Android
5217 (1.770 %)Solaris
677 (0.628 %)Apple iOS
772 (0.587 %)CentOS
852 (0.424 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
951 (0.416 %)AIX
1033 (0.269 %)Windows Mobile
1128 (0.228 %)Ubuntu
1226 (0.212 %)Windows Server 2008
1324 (0.196 %)Mac OS X
1418 (0.147 %)Mac OS
1517 (0.139 %)Windows Server 2003
1614 (0.114 %)HPUX
1614 (0.114 %)Windows Phone 7
1614 (0.114 %)BlackBerry OS
1713 (0.106 %)VxWorks
1713 (0.106 %)LynxOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12794 (22.79 %)Agile Software Development
22240 (18.27 %)OO
31869 (15.24 %)TDD
41818 (14.83 %)Multithreading
51282 (10.46 %)Scrum
61254 (10.23 %)MVC
71190 (9.705 %)E-Commerce
81109 (9.044 %)UML
9807 (6.581 %)SOA
10725 (5.913 %)Unit Testing
11638 (5.203 %)Web Development
12630 (5.138 %)Continuous Integration
13469 (3.825 %)Software Engineering
14383 (3.123 %)OOP
15379 (3.091 %)Project Management
16367 (2.993 %)OOD
17332 (2.708 %)Algorithmic Trading
18299 (2.438 %)Pair Programming
19286 (2.332 %)Electronic Trading
20251 (2.047 %)RUP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112262 (100.00 %)Java
24216 (34.38 %)SQL
32955 (24.10 %)JavaScript
41042 (8.498 %)C++
5976 (7.960 %)C#
6712 (5.807 %)PL/SQL
7617 (5.032 %)Python
8471 (3.841 %)Perl
9439 (3.580 %)Ruby
10417 (3.401 %)C
11389 (3.172 %)Scala
12331 (2.699 %)Groovy
13296 (2.414 %)PHP
14287 (2.341 %)Shell Script
15236 (1.925 %)XPath
16165 (1.346 %)Bash shell
1788 (0.718 %)ActionScript
1879 (0.644 %)T-SQL
1975 (0.612 %)XQuery
2072 (0.587 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12565 (20.92 %)Degree
2533 (4.347 %)Security Cleared
3289 (2.357 %)SC Cleared
4165 (1.346 %)Sun Certification
5118 (0.962 %)PhD
695 (0.775 %)DV Cleared
744 (0.359 %)SCJP
839 (0.318 %)SCJA
938 (0.310 %)HND
1020 (0.163 %)Postgraduate
1113 (0.106 %)HNC
126 (0.049 %)PMI Certification
126 (0.049 %)SCJD
135 (0.041 %)Microsoft Certification
144 (0.033 %)Brainbench
153 (0.024 %)Oracle Certification
153 (0.024 %)ISEB
153 (0.024 %)MCP
162 (0.016 %)MBCS
162 (0.016 %)CITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1344 (2.805 %)QA
235 (0.285 %)SLA
333 (0.269 %)ISO 9001
410 (0.082 %)HL7
57 (0.057 %)TickIT
57 (0.057 %)DO-178B
64 (0.033 %)DICOM
73 (0.024 %)PCI DSS
73 (0.024 %)ISO 8583
82 (0.016 %)Basel III
82 (0.016 %)Data Quality
91 (0.008 %)Solvency II
91 (0.008 %)WCAG
91 (0.008 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (0.114 %)VMware Infrastructure
211 (0.090 %)Sendmail
310 (0.082 %)OpenSSO
47 (0.057 %)Squid
56 (0.049 %)Active Directory
56 (0.049 %)Postfix
65 (0.041 %)Samba
74 (0.033 %)Hyper-V
82 (0.016 %)vCloud
82 (0.016 %)Xen
91 (0.008 %)Oracle RAC
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
120 (0.163 %)Nagios
216 (0.130 %)HP Quality Center
216 (0.130 %)Puppet
216 (0.130 %)MOM
37 (0.057 %)Control-M
45 (0.041 %)Tivoli
45 (0.041 %)Netcool
52 (0.016 %)Oracle Identity Manager
52 (0.016 %)Oracle Identity Management
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13155 (25.73 %)Oracle
21592 (12.98 %)JBoss
3316 (2.577 %)Sybase
4310 (2.528 %)IBM
5286 (2.332 %)TIBCO
6211 (1.721 %)Microsoft
7195 (1.590 %)Google
8140 (1.142 %)Red Hat
9133 (1.085 %)Sun
10103 (0.840 %)Endeca
1195 (0.775 %)hybris
1293 (0.758 %)ATG
1370 (0.571 %)FatWire
1467 (0.546 %)BEA
1562 (0.506 %)Facebook
1562 (0.506 %)DataSynapse
1661 (0.497 %)29West
1755 (0.449 %)Adobe
1846 (0.375 %)BroadVision
1944 (0.359 %)Reuters