The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Engineer
Rank 644 652 593
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 225 236 304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.207% 0.196% 0.237%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.219% 0.206% 0.252%
Number of salaries quoted 198 212 281
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,200 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Java Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Java Software Engineer Salary Trend

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Java Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Java Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +16 210 £42,500 - 25
London +52 90 £57,500 +4.54% 19
South East +14 51 £40,000 +6.66%
City of London +13 24 £56,250 -10.00% 4
West Midlands +6 20 £36,500 -
Berkshire +26 18 £40,000 +3.89%
Yorkshire +11 18 £35,000 -12.50% 1
West Yorkshire -5 14 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Leeds -6 14 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Buckinghamshire +3 13 £35,000 +7.69%
Milton Keynes -15 13 £35,000 +7.69%
East of England -5 12 £46,250 +15.62% 3
Reading - 12 £40,000 -
Hampshire +10 11 £40,000 -
North West 0 10 £32,750 -31.05%
Manchester -11 10 £32,500 -35.00%
Warwickshire +12 9 £32,500 -7.14%
Scotland +6 9 £41,250 -25.00% 1
South West -19 9 £33,500 -16.25% 2
Rugby - 9 £32,500 -
North Yorkshire +10 8 £29,000 -35.55%
Cambridgeshire +8 7 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Southampton +7 7 £40,000 -
Cambridge +5 7 £45,000 -14.28% 3
Hertfordshire +5 5 £50,000 +53.84%
Edinburgh +4 5 £42,500 +11.84% 1
Harrogate +3 5 - -
Stockport - 5 £32,500 -
South Wales - 5 £35,000 - 1
Ealing - 5 £49,000 -

Java Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 571 (100.00%) Java
2 284 (49.74%) Spring
3 259 (45.36%) J2EE
4 216 (37.83%) SQL
5 175 (30.65%) Hibernate
6 168 (29.42%) Agile Software Development
7 164 (28.72%) Degree
8 139 (24.34%) OO
9 130 (22.77%) Oracle
10 124 (21.72%) Web Services
11 116 (20.32%) Java EE
12 113 (19.79%) XML
12 113 (19.79%) Linux
13 103 (18.04%) Computer Science
14 97 (16.99%) TDD
15 93 (16.29%) Finance
15 93 (16.29%) JavaScript
16 85 (14.89%) CSS
17 80 (14.01%) UNIX
18 79 (13.84%) Scrum
19 78 (13.66%) JSP
20 77 (13.49%) HTML
20 77 (13.49%) Tomcat
21 72 (12.61%) JBoss
22 70 (12.26%) Software Engineering
23 68 (11.91%) SOAP
24 65 (11.38%) E-Commerce
25 62 (10.86%) .NET
26 61 (10.68%) JUnit
26 61 (10.68%) Eclipse

Java Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 284 (49.74%) Spring
2 259 (45.36%) J2EE
3 175 (30.65%) Hibernate
4 124 (21.72%) Web Services
5 116 (20.32%) Java EE
6 113 (19.79%) XML
7 85 (14.89%) CSS
8 78 (13.66%) JSP
9 77 (13.49%) HTML
10 68 (11.91%) SOAP
11 62 (10.86%) .NET
12 55 (9.632%) WebSphere
13 52 (9.107%) JMS
14 48 (8.406%) REST
15 45 (7.881%) Swing
15 45 (7.881%) jQuery
16 40 (7.005%) Struts
16 40 (7.005%) Servlets
16 40 (7.005%) JDBC
17 34 (5.954%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 77 (13.49%) Tomcat
2 53 (9.282%) Apache
3 26 (4.553%) WebLogic
4 13 (2.277%) GlassFish
5 12 (2.102%) CICS
6 9 (1.576%) Amazon AWS
7 8 (1.401%) ESB
7 8 (1.401%) Jetty
8 6 (1.051%) GemFire
9 5 (0.876%) ElasticSearch
9 5 (0.876%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.876%) Magento
10 4 (0.701%) Mule
10 4 (0.701%) Apache Pig
11 3 (0.525%) CMS
11 3 (0.525%) SAS
11 3 (0.525%) Adobe CQ
11 3 (0.525%) LiveCycle
12 2 (0.350%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.175%) AquaLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.701%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.350%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.701%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.175%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.830%) HTTP
2 21 (3.678%) Internet
3 15 (2.627%) SSL
4 9 (1.576%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.401%) HTTPS
5 8 (1.401%) Firewall
6 6 (1.051%) Broadband
7 5 (0.876%) Intranet
8 4 (0.701%) SNMP
9 2 (0.350%) NAS
10 1 (0.175%) SSH
10 1 (0.175%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.231%) SQL Server
1 47 (8.231%) RDBMS
2 37 (6.480%) MySQL
3 28 (4.904%) NoSQL
4 26 (4.553%) Hadoop
4 26 (4.553%) Big Data
5 17 (2.977%) DB2
6 12 (2.102%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.926%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.051%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (1.051%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.876%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (0.876%) Redis
9 5 (0.876%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.701%) CouchDB
11 3 (0.525%) GIS
11 3 (0.525%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (0.525%) HBase
12 2 (0.350%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.175%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 61 (10.68%) JUnit
1 61 (10.68%) Eclipse
2 44 (7.706%) Subversion
3 36 (6.305%) Maven
4 19 (3.327%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.802%) Selenium
5 16 (2.802%) Git (software)
5 16 (2.802%) Ant
6 15 (2.627%) Eclipse RCP
7 10 (1.751%) TestNG
8 8 (1.401%) WebDriver
8 8 (1.401%) DbUnit
8 8 (1.401%) EasyMock
8 8 (1.401%) dbdeploy
9 6 (1.051%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.051%) Hudson
10 3 (0.525%) NUnit
11 2 (0.350%) JIRA
11 2 (0.350%) JProfiler
11 2 (0.350%) Mercurial
General
1 93 (16.29%) Finance
2 24 (4.203%) Telecoms
3 21 (3.678%) Games
4 19 (3.327%) Retail
5 18 (3.152%) Banking
6 16 (2.802%) Front Office
7 12 (2.102%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.525%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.350%) Marketing
10 1 (0.175%) Legal
10 1 (0.175%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.175%) Advertising
10 1 (0.175%) Publishing
10 1 (0.175%) Online Betting
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.04%) Computer Science
2 58 (10.16%) Open Source
3 39 (6.830%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (4.378%) Mathematics
5 16 (2.802%) Online Games
5 16 (2.802%) Fixed Income
6 13 (2.277%) Derivative
6 13 (2.277%) Digital Media
7 12 (2.102%) Mainframe
7 12 (2.102%) W3C
8 10 (1.751%) N-Tier
9 9 (1.576%) Physics
10 8 (1.401%) SaaS
11 7 (1.226%) Equities
11 7 (1.226%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.051%) Video on Demand
12 6 (1.051%) Social Media
12 6 (1.051%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 5 (0.876%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (0.876%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 113 (19.79%) Linux
2 80 (14.01%) UNIX
3 39 (6.830%) Windows
4 11 (1.926%) Android
5 9 (1.576%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.401%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.876%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.350%) AIX
8 2 (0.350%) Solaris
9 1 (0.175%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (29.42%) Agile Software Development
2 139 (24.34%) OO
3 97 (16.99%) TDD
4 79 (13.84%) Scrum
5 70 (12.26%) Software Engineering
6 65 (11.38%) E-Commerce
7 54 (9.457%) Unit Testing
8 50 (8.757%) Multithreading
9 38 (6.655%) MVC
10 33 (5.779%) BDD
11 27 (4.729%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (4.553%) Problem Management
12 26 (4.553%) UML
13 22 (3.853%) Data Modelling
14 21 (3.678%) OOD
15 20 (3.503%) OOA/OOD
16 19 (3.327%) Project Management
16 19 (3.327%) Kanban
17 17 (2.977%) Web Application Development
18 15 (2.627%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 571 (100.00%) Java
2 216 (37.83%) SQL
3 93 (16.29%) JavaScript
4 52 (9.107%) C#
5 47 (8.231%) Scala
6 35 (6.130%) C++
7 26 (4.553%) Python
8 21 (3.678%) Perl
9 17 (2.977%) Clojure
10 14 (2.452%) PHP
11 13 (2.277%) C
12 12 (2.102%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.102%) COBOL
13 10 (1.751%) Erlang
13 10 (1.751%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.751%) Ruby
14 9 (1.576%) Haskell
15 7 (1.226%) Groovy
16 6 (1.051%) VB
17 5 (0.876%) VB6
Qualifications
1 164 (28.72%) Degree
2 10 (1.751%) PhD
3 3 (0.525%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.175%) Sun Certification
4 1 (0.175%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.180%) QA
2 5 (0.876%) SLA
3 1 (0.175%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 12 (2.102%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.175%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (0.701%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (22.77%) Oracle
2 72 (12.61%) JBoss
3 31 (5.429%) TIBCO
4 23 (4.028%) Google
5 15 (2.627%) BEA
6 13 (2.277%) VMware
7 12 (2.102%) Twitter
8 10 (1.751%) hybris
8 10 (1.751%) Microsoft
9 9 (1.576%) ATG
10 7 (1.226%) Cisco
10 7 (1.226%) Facebook
11 6 (1.051%) Sybase
12 5 (0.876%) DataSynapse
12 5 (0.876%) Adobe
13 4 (0.701%) GigaSpaces
14 3 (0.525%) Teradata
14 3 (0.525%) IBM
14 3 (0.525%) Apple
14 3 (0.525%) Aprimo
London
A leading blue-chip financial services client based in Canary Wharf is seeking a talented Java Developer with SSO experience to work on their complex platforms... Developing SSO...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 18 June 2013
London, South East
This is a strategic role within the technical architecture team and a great opportunity to join a highly successful and world renowned brand. Role/ Responsibilities: • Responsible for designing,...
Creation Recruitment
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
South West London
Job Role: Java Developer / Java JEE Software EngineerLocation: London, South West LondonSalary: £45k to £75k + bonus + benefitsJava Developer / Java JEE Software Engineer / Programmer (multiple hires). Global household name...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £75k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Job Role: Java DeveloperLocation: London, CitySalary: £50k to £65k + bonus + benefitsJava Developer / Java Software Engineer (Agile UNIX C++). Global financial trading site is seeking a passionate Java technologist...
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £65k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Job Role: Java DeveloperLocation: London, CentralSalary: £55k to £70k + bonus + benefitsJava Developer / Java Software Engineer x 2 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Agile, Scrum). Global leader in online social...
Client Server
Salary: £55k to £70k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cwmbran, Gwent
Computer Recruiter Ltd
Salary: To £38K + up to 10% Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £55k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
City of London
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £50k + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 55,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Novate IT
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum Plus pension, holidays
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £65k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
Central London / West End
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £110000 per annum + bonus and equity
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + benefits+bonuses
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, UK
Jagex
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013