Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 8 February 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 Programming Languages category.

LinkJava
Location
3 months to
8 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8128
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads103091046325073
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK13.13 %10.29 %12.62 %
As % of the Programming Languages category26.89 %22.12 %27.93 %
Salaries quoted8689888920308
Average salary£47,500£40,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-11.11 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.350 %-1.330 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
383364729689778
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.81 %46.52 %45.19 %
Salaries quoted330464093074559
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

Java
Demand Trend

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

Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java over the 3 months to 8 February 2010 within the UK.

Java Salary Histogram

Java
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 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+29965£47,500+14.45 %
LondonUp+56299£60,000+17.64 %
City of LondonUp+62018£62,500+13.63 %
South EastDown-41255£42,500+6.25 %
East of EnglandUp+2640£34,000-15.00 %
South WestUp+1597£32,500-9.72 %
BerkshireDown-4366£45,000+2.27 %
North WestDown-4348£35,000-
YorkshireUp+3343£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeshireDown-3300£30,000-20.00 %
West MidlandsUp+2296£36,950+5.57 %
SurreyDown-3275£45,000+15.38 %
CambridgeDown-3247£30,000-20.00 %
ManchesterDown-2223£35,000-
WiltshireUp+5221£31,500-10.00 %
HampshireUp+9196£35,000-6.66 %
ScotlandDown-3180£33,500-11.25 %
West YorkshireUp+20178£40,000+14.28 %
East MidlandsUp+8167£40,000+14.28 %
HertfordshireUp+2160£37,500-8.53 %
BristolDown-1151£29,000-19.44 %
LeedsUp+29146£35,000-
OxfordshireDown-3127£34,000+13.33 %
BirminghamDown-1102£42,500+21.42 %
Docklands, LondonUp+696£70,000-
ReadingDown-496£45,000+12.50 %
SomersetDown-293£39,000+5.40 %
EdinburghUp+374£30,000-9.09 %
South YorkshireUp+473£33,500+3.07 %
LeicestershireUp+2869£42,500+10.38 %

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Java 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 Java.

15274 (26.72 %)SQL
25104 (25.86 %)J2EE
34838 (24.51 %)C++
44612 (23.37 %)Finance
54610 (23.36 %)Oracle
64171 (21.14 %)C#
73640 (18.44 %)XML
83589 (18.19 %)UNIX
93447 (17.47 %)Spring
103431 (17.39 %).NET
113349 (16.97 %)Degree
123237 (16.40 %)Banking
132977 (15.08 %)Linux
142960 (15.00 %)OO
152658 (13.47 %)JavaScript
162594 (13.14 %)HTML
172521 (12.77 %)Hibernate
182210 (11.20 %)SQL Server
192123 (10.76 %)Agile Software Development
202052 (10.40 %)Windows
211940 (9.830 %)JSP
221891 (9.582 %)Front Office
231824 (9.242 %)C
241816 (9.202 %)Derivative
251700 (8.614 %)CSS
261613 (8.173 %)AJAX
271559 (7.900 %)UML
281510 (7.651 %)Investment Banking
291501 (7.606 %)Web Services
301379 (6.988 %)Computer Science

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Java 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 Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15104 (25.86 %)J2EE
23640 (18.44 %)XML
33447 (17.47 %)Spring
43431 (17.39 %).NET
52594 (13.14 %)HTML
62521 (12.77 %)Hibernate
71940 (9.830 %)JSP
81700 (8.614 %)CSS
91613 (8.173 %)AJAX
101501 (7.606 %)Web Services
111092 (5.533 %)Struts
12974 (4.935 %)WebSphere
13888 (4.500 %)Servlets
14838 (4.246 %)JDBC
15815 (4.130 %)Swing
16805 (4.079 %)JMS
17752 (3.810 %)EJB
18735 (3.724 %)ASP.NET
19692 (3.506 %)Middleware
20656 (3.324 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11226 (6.212 %)Tomcat
21086 (5.503 %)Apache
3901 (4.565 %)WebLogic
4415 (2.103 %)CMS
5243 (1.231 %)MQSeries
6241 (1.221 %)IIS
7203 (1.029 %)SharePoint
8160 (0.811 %)WebSphere Application Server
9158 (0.801 %)WebSphere MQ
10134 (0.679 %)ESB
11120 (0.608 %)Rendezvous
12101 (0.512 %)ColdFusion
12101 (0.512 %)SAS
1395 (0.481 %)Oracle Workflow
1487 (0.441 %)TIBCO EMS
1581 (0.410 %)ArcGIS
1680 (0.405 %)GlassFish
1779 (0.400 %)NetWeaver
1871 (0.360 %)Alfresco
1969 (0.350 %)Oracle HTTP Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1383 (1.941 %)MS Excel
2249 (1.262 %)MS Visio
3139 (0.704 %)MS Office
4100 (0.507 %)MATLAB
566 (0.334 %)Photoshop
636 (0.182 %)Spreadsheet
732 (0.162 %)S-PLUS
828 (0.142 %)MS Project
923 (0.117 %)MS PowerPoint
1022 (0.111 %)DOC1
1120 (0.101 %)Adobe Illustrator
1217 (0.086 %)Acrobat
1313 (0.066 %)SPSS
1412 (0.061 %)FrameMaker
1412 (0.061 %)Fireworks
1511 (0.056 %)CA Clarity
166 (0.030 %)Stata
174 (0.020 %)PrintSoft PReS
174 (0.020 %)Shockwave
183 (0.015 %)Simulink
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1136 (0.689 %)RMDS
265 (0.329 %)Oracle EBS
363 (0.319 %)Oracle Applications
448 (0.243 %)Endur
534 (0.172 %)Summit
633 (0.167 %)Oracle EBS R12
732 (0.162 %)Oracle 11i
831 (0.157 %)Google Analytics
926 (0.132 %)Dynamics CRM
926 (0.132 %)BusinessWorks
1024 (0.122 %)SAP CRM
1121 (0.106 %)Oracle HRMS
1121 (0.106 %)TIBCO iProcess
1218 (0.091 %)Maximo
1315 (0.076 %)SAP R/3
1315 (0.076 %)ION MarketView
1414 (0.071 %)SAP ERP
1512 (0.061 %)SolArc RightAngle
1512 (0.061 %)Front Arena
1512 (0.061 %)Loan IQ
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1850 (4.307 %)Internet
2362 (1.834 %)TCP/IP
3339 (1.718 %)HTTP
4159 (0.806 %)Intranet
5148 (0.750 %)Firewall
6147 (0.745 %)SAN
7104 (0.527 %)LDAP
890 (0.456 %)DNS
981 (0.410 %)SMTP
1078 (0.395 %)SMS
1175 (0.380 %)SSL
1268 (0.345 %)Wireless
1342 (0.213 %)Broadband
1441 (0.208 %)FTP
1539 (0.198 %)WAN
1638 (0.193 %)BSS
1737 (0.187 %)LAN
1836 (0.182 %)VPN
1932 (0.162 %)SNMP
2027 (0.137 %)DVB
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12210 (11.20 %)SQL Server
21298 (6.577 %)MySQL
31068 (5.412 %)RDBMS
4388 (1.966 %)Oracle 10g
5344 (1.743 %)DB2
6253 (1.282 %)Datawarehouse
7241 (1.221 %)SQL Server 2005
8236 (1.196 %)ETL
9216 (1.095 %)Oracle 8/8i
10193 (0.978 %)GIS
11190 (0.963 %)Oracle Reports
12157 (0.796 %)Oracle 11g
13152 (0.770 %)BusinessObjects
14149 (0.755 %)PostgreSQL
15117 (0.593 %)SQL Server 2008
1691 (0.461 %)Oracle 9i
1786 (0.436 %)SQL Server 2000
1878 (0.395 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1974 (0.375 %)KDB
2063 (0.319 %)TOAD
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11183 (5.994 %)JUnit
2765 (3.876 %)Eclipse
3710 (3.598 %)Subversion
4684 (3.466 %)Ant
5608 (3.081 %)Maven
6268 (1.358 %)Selenium
7179 (0.907 %)Visual Studio
8178 (0.902 %)Oracle Forms
9160 (0.811 %)QuickTest Pro
10129 (0.654 %)ClearCase
11109 (0.552 %)NUnit
1274 (0.375 %)JDeveloper
1367 (0.339 %)Log4j
1461 (0.309 %)CruiseControl
1558 (0.294 %)JIRA
1558 (0.294 %)JMeter
1654 (0.274 %)Dreamweaver
1751 (0.258 %)LoadRunner
1847 (0.238 %)FitNesse
1946 (0.233 %)jMock
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14612 (23.37 %)Finance
23237 (16.40 %)Banking
31891 (9.582 %)Front Office
41510 (7.651 %)Investment Banking
5908 (4.601 %)Pensions
6632 (3.202 %)Health
7599 (3.035 %)Education
8514 (2.605 %)Retail
9479 (2.427 %)Insurance
10464 (2.351 %)Back Office
11460 (2.331 %)Telecoms
12428 (2.169 %)Games
13356 (1.804 %)Government
14338 (1.713 %)Financial Institution
15230 (1.165 %)Marketing
16216 (1.095 %)Publishing
17114 (0.578 %)Online Games
17114 (0.578 %)Advertising
1891 (0.461 %)Billing
1981 (0.410 %)Multimedia
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111969 (60.65 %)Developer
26803 (34.47 %)Java Developer
32229 (11.29 %)Senior Developer
41436 (7.276 %)Architect
51365 (6.917 %)Analyst
61342 (6.800 %)Senior Java Developer
71094 (5.543 %)Software Engineer
81049 (5.315 %)Java/J2EE Developer
9844 (4.277 %)C# Developer
10843 (4.272 %)Consultant
10843 (4.272 %)Software Developer
11837 (4.241 %)J2EE Developer
12834 (4.226 %)Web Developer
13765 (3.876 %)Graduate
14732 (3.709 %)Programmer
15682 (3.456 %)C++ Developer
16543 (2.751 %)Team Leader
17485 (2.458 %)Applications Support
18437 (2.214 %)Junior
19429 (2.174 %)Project Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11816 (9.202 %)Derivative
21379 (6.988 %)Computer Science
31062 (5.381 %)Fixed Income
4906 (4.591 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5801 (4.059 %)Multithreading
6781 (3.957 %)Mathematics
7730 (3.699 %)Client/Server
8682 (3.456 %)Equities
9631 (3.197 %)Open Source
10603 (3.055 %)Equity Derivative
11324 (1.642 %)Credit Derivative
12299 (1.515 %)Physics
13227 (1.150 %)N-Tier
14226 (1.145 %)Interest Rate Derivative
15220 (1.115 %)iPhone
16216 (1.095 %)Web 2.0
17186 (0.942 %)Blackberry
18145 (0.735 %)Mainframe
19139 (0.704 %)Spread Betting
20132 (0.669 %)Social Network
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13589 (18.19 %)UNIX
22977 (15.08 %)Linux
32052 (10.40 %)Windows
4734 (3.719 %)Solaris
5202 (1.024 %)Android
6192 (0.973 %)Red Hat Linux
7166 (0.841 %)Windows Server 2003
8140 (0.709 %)Windows XP
9133 (0.674 %)AIX
10104 (0.527 %)Windows Mobile
1173 (0.370 %)VMS
1268 (0.345 %)HPUX
1351 (0.258 %)CentOS
1446 (0.233 %)Windows 2000
1545 (0.228 %)Ubuntu
1637 (0.187 %)Windows Server 2008
1735 (0.177 %)Windows NT
1834 (0.172 %)Embedded Linux
1931 (0.157 %)VxWorks
1931 (0.157 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12960 (15.00 %)OO
22123 (10.76 %)Agile Software Development
31559 (7.900 %)UML
41244 (6.304 %)E-Commerce
5952 (4.824 %)Scrum
6925 (4.687 %)SOA
7858 (4.348 %)Web Development
8846 (4.287 %)Project Management
9824 (4.175 %)TDD
10670 (3.395 %)Software Engineering
11607 (3.076 %)Unit Testing
12581 (2.944 %)Risk Management
13492 (2.493 %)Electronic Trading
14445 (2.255 %)Algorithmic Trading
15423 (2.143 %)OOD
16373 (1.890 %)Continuous Integration
17362 (1.834 %)OOP
18347 (1.758 %)Content Management
19324 (1.642 %)RUP
20321 (1.627 %)CRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15274 (26.72 %)SQL
24838 (24.51 %)C++
34171 (21.14 %)C#
42658 (13.47 %)JavaScript
51824 (9.242 %)C
61333 (6.754 %)Perl
71286 (6.516 %)PHP
8765 (3.876 %)Python
9690 (3.496 %)PL/SQL
10533 (2.701 %)VB
11509 (2.579 %)Shell Script
12447 (2.265 %)Ruby
13405 (2.052 %)VB.NET
14337 (1.708 %)VBA
15231 (1.171 %)ActionScript
16197 (0.998 %)T-SQL
17194 (0.983 %)Bash shell
18179 (0.907 %)Delphi
19150 (0.760 %)VBScript
20123 (0.623 %)Objective-C
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13349 (16.97 %)Degree
2600 (3.040 %)Security Cleared
3271 (1.373 %)PhD
4228 (1.155 %)SC Cleared
5115 (0.583 %)DV Cleared
6111 (0.562 %)ISEB
787 (0.441 %)Sun Certification
859 (0.299 %)Microsoft Certification
945 (0.228 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1042 (0.213 %)ITIL Certification
1132 (0.162 %)Postgraduate
1228 (0.142 %)SCJP
1327 (0.137 %)RHCE
1426 (0.132 %)PMI Certification
1524 (0.122 %)SCJA
1623 (0.117 %)HND
1720 (0.101 %)CISSP
1818 (0.091 %)Oracle Certification
1913 (0.066 %)OCP
2012 (0.061 %)PMP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1706 (3.577 %)QA
2119 (0.603 %)SLA
320 (0.101 %)HL7
415 (0.076 %)ISO9001
514 (0.071 %)Basel II
613 (0.066 %)WAI
79 (0.046 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
79 (0.046 %)DICOM
88 (0.041 %)WCAG
88 (0.041 %)MiFID
97 (0.035 %)COBIT
97 (0.035 %)ISO27001
105 (0.025 %)ISO17799
105 (0.025 %)BS7799
114 (0.020 %)PCI DSS
114 (0.020 %)ISO14443
114 (0.020 %)ISO7816
122 (0.010 %)TickIT
131 (0.005 %)ISO12207
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1101 (0.512 %)AquaLogic
293 (0.471 %)Active Directory
381 (0.410 %)MSMQ
438 (0.193 %)VMware Infrastructure
526 (0.132 %)NFS
624 (0.122 %)Oracle RAC
719 (0.096 %)Xen
816 (0.081 %)Hadoop
99 (0.046 %)Backup Exec
106 (0.030 %)Oracle RMAN
106 (0.030 %)Terminal Services
115 (0.025 %)Samba
115 (0.025 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
124 (0.020 %)OpenSSO
124 (0.020 %)NDS
133 (0.015 %)VMware ESX
133 (0.015 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
142 (0.010 %)OpenLDAP
142 (0.010 %)ISA Server
151 (0.005 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
140 (0.203 %)AutoSys
238 (0.193 %)Tivoli
330 (0.152 %)Nagios
415 (0.076 %)MOM
512 (0.061 %)OpenView
611 (0.056 %)Zenoss
710 (0.051 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
89 (0.046 %)Netcool
98 (0.041 %)SCOM
98 (0.041 %)BMC PATROL
107 (0.035 %)Data Guard
107 (0.035 %)HP Quality Center
116 (0.030 %)Norton AntiVirus
116 (0.030 %)TIBCO Hawk
125 (0.025 %)Unicenter
125 (0.025 %)TIBCO InConcert
125 (0.025 %)Netcool/Proviso
134 (0.020 %)CA Wily
134 (0.020 %)MSI
134 (0.020 %)Tivoli Monitoring
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14610 (23.36 %)Oracle
21095 (5.549 %)Sybase
31047 (5.305 %)JBoss
4927 (4.697 %)Microsoft
5506 (2.564 %)TIBCO
6356 (1.804 %)IBM
7276 (1.399 %)SAP
8238 (1.206 %)Adobe
9224 (1.135 %)Sun
10213 (1.079 %)Red Hat
11174 (0.882 %)HP
12172 (0.872 %)Google
13153 (0.775 %)Reuters
14152 (0.770 %)Business Objects
15136 (0.689 %)BEA
16132 (0.669 %)Symbian
17131 (0.664 %)Calypso
18130 (0.659 %)ATG
19107 (0.542 %)Bloomberg
2097 (0.492 %)VMware