The first table below looks at the demand for JSR 168 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JSR 168 over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168)
Rank 830 860 853
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -7
Permanent jobs citing JSR 168 30 27 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Application Development category 0.068% 0.053% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 23 12 15
Average salary £62,500 £48,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.20% +12.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £27,750 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +41.17%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44010 50596 48866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.51% 41.75% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 38271 45000 43159
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

JSR 168
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSR 168 Jobs Demand Trend

JSR 168
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK.

JSR 168 Salary Trend

JSR 168
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JSR 168 over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

JSR 168 Salary Histogram

JSR 168
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +9 27 £63,750 +32.81%
London +39 19 £67,500 +125.00%
South East -2 6 £45,600 -34.85%
Berkshire - 6 £45,600 -
Slough - 6 £45,600 -
Yorkshire -10 2 £40,000 -
West Yorkshire -12 2 £40,000 -
Leeds - 2 £40,000 -
Docklands, London - 1 £65,000 -

JSR 168
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168.

1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (86.96%) J2EE
3 38 (82.61%) JavaScript
4 36 (78.26%) HTML
5 35 (76.09%) Spring
6 34 (73.91%) XML
7 31 (67.39%) Liferay
8 28 (60.87%) Web Services
9 27 (58.70%) SQL Server
10 26 (56.52%) CSS
10 26 (56.52%) Apache
10 26 (56.52%) Tomcat
11 23 (50.00%) Oracle
11 23 (50.00%) jQuery
12 22 (47.83%) Open Source
12 22 (47.83%) OOD
12 22 (47.83%) Finance
12 22 (47.83%) Hibernate
13 21 (45.65%) JDBC
13 21 (45.65%) JUnit
13 21 (45.65%) SQL
14 20 (43.48%) Alfresco
15 19 (41.30%) XHTML
16 18 (39.13%) MySQL
16 18 (39.13%) CMS
17 17 (36.96%) MVC
17 17 (36.96%) Struts
18 16 (34.78%) Eclipse
18 16 (34.78%) Financial Institution
18 16 (34.78%) Content Management

JSR 168
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (86.96%) J2EE
2 36 (78.26%) HTML
3 35 (76.09%) Spring
4 34 (73.91%) XML
5 28 (60.87%) Web Services
6 26 (56.52%) CSS
7 23 (50.00%) jQuery
8 22 (47.83%) Hibernate
9 21 (45.65%) JDBC
10 19 (41.30%) XHTML
11 17 (36.96%) Struts
12 14 (30.43%) Ajax
12 14 (30.43%) Velocity
12 14 (30.43%) Flash
12 14 (30.43%) Servlets
12 14 (30.43%) XSLT
12 14 (30.43%) DHTML
13 13 (28.26%) DOM
13 13 (28.26%) XSL
13 13 (28.26%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 31 (67.39%) Liferay
2 26 (56.52%) Apache
2 26 (56.52%) Tomcat
3 20 (43.48%) Alfresco
4 18 (39.13%) CMS
5 14 (30.43%) TeamSite
6 6 (13.04%) Apache Solr
6 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon AWS
8 4 (8.696%) WebLogic
8 4 (8.696%) WebLogic Portal
8 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
8 4 (8.696%) Drupal
8 4 (8.696%) LiveSite
8 4 (8.696%) nginx
9 3 (6.522%) Adobe CQ
10 2 (4.348%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (2.174%) Umbraco
11 1 (2.174%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Photoshop
2 6 (13.04%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) HTTP
2 6 (13.04%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) RTP
2 6 (13.04%) SSL
2 6 (13.04%) SAN
2 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) RTSP
2 6 (13.04%) Network Security
2 6 (13.04%) NAS
3 4 (8.696%) Intranet
3 4 (8.696%) Internet
3 4 (8.696%) Extranet
4 1 (2.174%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) SQL Server
2 18 (39.13%) MySQL
3 12 (26.09%) MongoDB
4 8 (17.39%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (13.04%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (13.04%) RDBMS
5 6 (13.04%) CouchDB
5 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (13.04%) Redis
6 4 (8.696%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.348%) Riak
Development Applications
1 21 (45.65%) JUnit
2 16 (34.78%) Eclipse
3 15 (32.61%) Git (software)
3 15 (32.61%) Maven
4 14 (30.43%) Subversion
5 10 (21.74%) Selenium
5 10 (21.74%) GitHub
5 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
6 8 (17.39%) Ant
6 8 (17.39%) JIRA
7 6 (13.04%) IntelliJ
7 6 (13.04%) Gradle
8 4 (8.696%) PhoneGap
8 4 (8.696%) Hudson
9 2 (4.348%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 22 (47.83%) Finance
2 16 (34.78%) Financial Institution
3 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.522%) Advertising
5 2 (4.348%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) Developer
2 21 (45.65%) Java Developer
3 16 (34.78%) Portal Developer
4 10 (21.74%) CMS Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Agile Java Developer
6 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.696%) Architect
7 4 (8.696%) Applications Architect
8 3 (6.522%) Web Architect
9 2 (4.348%) WebSphere Developer
9 2 (4.348%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) WebSphere Portal Developer
9 2 (4.348%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.348%) Technical Developer
10 1 (2.174%) Administrator
10 1 (2.174%) Systems Administrator
10 1 (2.174%) Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.174%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (2.174%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) Open Source
2 13 (28.26%) W3C
3 11 (23.91%) Computer Science
4 6 (13.04%) Taxonomies
4 6 (13.04%) Ontologies
5 5 (10.87%) IaaS
6 4 (8.696%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (8.696%) Social Media
7 3 (6.522%) Digital Media
7 3 (6.522%) Mobile App
8 2 (4.348%) Mathematics
9 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 12 (26.09%) Ubuntu
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (17.39%) Windows
4 6 (13.04%) Solaris
5 4 (8.696%) Debian
6 2 (4.348%) UNIX
6 2 (4.348%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) OOD
2 17 (36.96%) MVC
3 16 (34.78%) Content Management
4 14 (30.43%) Asset Management
4 14 (30.43%) OO
5 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (28.26%) Web Development
5 13 (28.26%) Software Architecture
6 10 (21.74%) Scrum
6 10 (21.74%) E-Commerce
7 8 (17.39%) OOP
7 8 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (15.22%) TDD
9 6 (13.04%) SOA
9 6 (13.04%) DRM
9 6 (13.04%) Pair Programming
9 6 (13.04%) Extreme Programming
9 6 (13.04%) Quality Management
9 6 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (82.61%) JavaScript
3 21 (45.65%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) Perl
4 6 (13.04%) Groovy
4 6 (13.04%) Scala
5 4 (8.696%) PHP
5 4 (8.696%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Samba
2 2 (4.348%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) OpenView
1 6 (13.04%) Nagios
1 6 (13.04%) ZABBIX
1 6 (13.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Oracle
2 11 (23.91%) Adobe
3 9 (19.57%) JBoss
4 6 (13.04%) Cognizant
4 6 (13.04%) GigaSpaces
5 4 (8.696%) Google
5 4 (8.696%) RedDot
5 4 (8.696%) Sencha
6 2 (4.348%) IBM
6 2 (4.348%) Rackspace
6 2 (4.348%) Akamai
6 2 (4.348%) RightScale
7 1 (2.174%) Twitter
7 1 (2.174%) Vignette
7 1 (2.174%) Interwoven
7 1 (2.174%) FatWire
London
Liferay Portal Developer, London, Enterprise Java, Spring... Good knowledge of front end web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS etc), databases and middleware will also be required... Technology Skills & Experience: *...
JM
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013