The first table below looks at the demand for POJO skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited POJO over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
Rank - 896 861
Permanent jobs citing POJO 0 2 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK - 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.004% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 12
Average salary - £56,250 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +70.45%
UK excluding London average salary - £62,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +92.30%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43651 50308 50336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.59% 41.67% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 37945 44694 44510
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,844 £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%

POJO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

POJO Jobs Demand Trend

POJO
Salary Trend

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

POJO Salary Trend

POJO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing POJO 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 POJO.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 2 (66.67%) Struts2
2 2 (66.67%) DAO
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) NHibernate

POJO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing POJO 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 POJO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Struts2
1 2 (66.67%) DAO
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Struts
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) POCO
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle