The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior J2EE Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior J2EE Developer
Rank 815 726 683
Rank change year-on-year
-89 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior J2EE Developer 47 173 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.043% 0.143% 0.159%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.151% 0.169%
Number of salaries quoted 46 171 189
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% -2.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £37,500 £39,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,900 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +5.55%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
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 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Senior J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior J2EE Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior J2EE Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior J2EE Developer within the UK.

Senior J2EE Developer Salary Trend

Senior J2EE Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior J2EE Developer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior J2EE Developer Salary Histogram

Senior J2EE Developer
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 -98 47 £52,500 +10.52%
London +1 32 £52,500 +10.52%
City of London -11 14 £50,500 +6.31%
South East -27 8 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire -16 6 £55,000 +10.00%
Milton Keynes -23 6 £55,000 +10.00%
North West -10 3 £47,500 +5.55%
Warwickshire -4 2 £37,500 -16.66%
Berkshire -8 2 £48,500 -11.81%
Reading -8 2 £48,500 -11.81%
Leamington Spa -13 2 £37,500 -16.66%
Manchester -20 2 £47,500 +5.55%
West Midlands -29 2 £37,500 -16.66%
East of England +3 1 £50,000 -
Cheshire -3 1 £42,500 -5.55%
Yorkshire -4 1 £47,500 +5.55%
Chester -17 1 £42,500 -5.55%
South Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £50,000 -

Senior J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior J2EE 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 Senior J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 156 (100.00%) J2EE
2 154 (98.72%) Java
3 96 (61.54%) Hibernate
4 94 (60.26%) Spring
5 67 (42.95%) JavaScript
6 61 (39.10%) CSS
7 57 (36.54%) OO
8 56 (35.90%) SQL
9 55 (35.26%) JSP
9 55 (35.26%) XML
10 45 (28.85%) JBoss
11 44 (28.21%) JPA
12 43 (27.56%) JUnit
13 42 (26.92%) Servlets
14 41 (26.28%) UML
14 41 (26.28%) Maven
15 40 (25.64%) MySQL
16 39 (25.00%) Oracle
16 39 (25.00%) Struts
17 37 (23.72%) HTML
17 37 (23.72%) Ajax
18 36 (23.08%) Web Services
19 35 (22.44%) TDD
20 31 (19.87%) Ant
20 31 (19.87%) Java EE
21 30 (19.23%) EJB
21 30 (19.23%) SQL Server
21 30 (19.23%) JMS
22 29 (18.59%) Agile Software Development
22 29 (18.59%) Open Source

Senior J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior J2EE 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 Senior J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 156 (100.00%) J2EE
2 96 (61.54%) Hibernate
3 94 (60.26%) Spring
4 61 (39.10%) CSS
5 55 (35.26%) JSP
5 55 (35.26%) XML
6 44 (28.21%) JPA
7 42 (26.92%) Servlets
8 39 (25.00%) Struts
9 37 (23.72%) HTML
9 37 (23.72%) Ajax
10 36 (23.08%) Web Services
11 31 (19.87%) Java EE
12 30 (19.23%) EJB
12 30 (19.23%) JMS
13 27 (17.31%) jQuery
14 26 (16.67%) JDBC
15 25 (16.03%) SOAP
16 23 (14.74%) WebSphere
17 20 (12.82%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 26 (16.67%) Apache
2 24 (15.38%) WebLogic
3 23 (14.74%) Tomcat
4 5 (3.205%) GlassFish
4 5 (3.205%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (2.564%) IIS
5 4 (2.564%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.282%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.282%) MQSeries
6 2 (1.282%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.282%) SAP Portal
6 2 (1.282%) ESB
6 2 (1.282%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.641%) Jetty
7 1 (0.641%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.641%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (0.641%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.923%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.282%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.82%) HTTP
1 20 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.564%) Internet
2 4 (2.564%) SNMP
3 2 (1.282%) LDAP
3 2 (1.282%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.64%) MySQL
2 30 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.051%) Data Mining
5 9 (5.769%) Hadoop
5 9 (5.769%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.769%) Big Data
6 6 (3.846%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.564%) DB2
8 1 (0.641%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 43 (27.56%) JUnit
2 41 (26.28%) Maven
3 31 (19.87%) Ant
4 8 (5.128%) Selenium
5 6 (3.846%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.846%) Git (software)
6 2 (1.282%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (1.282%) Xcode
6 2 (1.282%) Hudson
6 2 (1.282%) TestNG
6 2 (1.282%) MyEclipse
7 1 (0.641%) Subversion
General
1 23 (14.74%) Finance
2 15 (9.615%) Games
3 12 (7.692%) Banking
4 11 (7.051%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.769%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.846%) Retail
7 3 (1.923%) Interactive Media
8 2 (1.282%) Publishing
9 1 (0.641%) Marketing
9 1 (0.641%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.59%) Open Source
2 13 (8.333%) SaaS
3 8 (5.128%) Computer Science
4 7 (4.487%) Mobile Games
5 6 (3.846%) iPhone
5 6 (3.846%) Mobile Payment
6 5 (3.205%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.205%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.564%) Video on Demand
8 3 (1.923%) Online Games
8 3 (1.923%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.282%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.282%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.641%) Web 2.0
10 1 (0.641%) Inversion of Control
10 1 (0.641%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.38%) Linux
2 21 (13.46%) UNIX
3 11 (7.051%) Android
4 8 (5.128%) Windows
5 3 (1.923%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.282%) Solaris
6 2 (1.282%) Windows Phone
6 2 (1.282%) Windows Phone 7
6 2 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.54%) OO
2 41 (26.28%) UML
3 35 (22.44%) TDD
4 29 (18.59%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (12.82%) OOA/OOD
6 19 (12.18%) Scrum
7 18 (11.54%) E-Commerce
8 17 (10.90%) Use Case
8 17 (10.90%) Software Architecture
9 16 (10.26%) SOA
10 14 (8.974%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (8.333%) MVC
12 11 (7.051%) BDD
13 9 (5.769%) Workflow
14 8 (5.128%) OOD
14 8 (5.128%) Dependency Injection
15 7 (4.487%) Web Development
15 7 (4.487%) Data Modelling
16 6 (3.846%) Unit Testing
17 4 (2.564%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 154 (98.72%) Java
2 67 (42.95%) JavaScript
3 56 (35.90%) SQL
4 13 (8.333%) Ruby
5 5 (3.205%) JPQL
6 4 (2.564%) PHP
7 3 (1.923%) Scala
7 3 (1.923%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.923%) Perl
7 3 (1.923%) C++
7 3 (1.923%) VB
8 2 (1.282%) Python
8 2 (1.282%) C#
8 2 (1.282%) Groovy
8 2 (1.282%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.641%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (17.31%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.564%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.641%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (28.85%) JBoss
2 39 (25.00%) Oracle
3 11 (7.051%) IBM
4 7 (4.487%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.205%) Google
5 5 (3.205%) SAP
6 4 (2.564%) VMware
7 3 (1.923%) BEA
7 3 (1.923%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.282%) Sybase
8 2 (1.282%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (1.282%) Adobe
9 1 (0.641%) hybris
9 1 (0.641%) Venda
9 1 (0.641%) Demandware
9 1 (0.641%) ATG
9 1 (0.641%) Remedy
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Health, benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £45000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + benefits
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Salary: 50,000 to £60,000
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