The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java Programmer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Java Programmer 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
Senior Java Programmer
Rank 851 851 866
Rank change year-on-year
0 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Programmer 17 34 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.016% 0.028% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.030% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 17 30 12
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% +40.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £42,500 £37,600
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £85,000 £61,450
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
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%

Senior Java Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Java Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Programmer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Java Programmer Salary Trend

Senior Java Programmer
Salary Histogram

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

Senior Java Programmer Salary Histogram

Senior Java Programmer
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Programmer 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 +8 17 £55,000 -4.34%
London +29 16 £55,000 -4.34%
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 -
Coventry - 1 £47,500 -

Senior Java Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (54.55%) Spring
3 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (45.45%) SQL
5 16 (36.36%) XML
6 15 (34.09%) Hibernate
7 14 (31.82%) Open Source
8 13 (29.55%) CSS
9 12 (27.27%) J2EE
9 12 (27.27%) Apache
9 12 (27.27%) jQuery
10 11 (25.00%) Integration Testing
10 11 (25.00%) RESTful
10 11 (25.00%) Spring MVC
10 11 (25.00%) Maven
10 11 (25.00%) TDD
10 11 (25.00%) MVC
10 11 (25.00%) HTML
10 11 (25.00%) JSP
10 11 (25.00%) Ant
11 10 (22.73%) OO
11 10 (22.73%) Apache Flex
11 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing
12 9 (20.45%) Degree
13 8 (18.18%) Finance
13 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 8 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
13 8 (18.18%) XHTML
13 8 (18.18%) SOA
14 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling

Senior Java Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 24 (54.55%) Spring
2 16 (36.36%) XML
3 15 (34.09%) Hibernate
4 13 (29.55%) CSS
5 12 (27.27%) J2EE
5 12 (27.27%) jQuery
6 11 (25.00%) RESTful
6 11 (25.00%) Spring MVC
6 11 (25.00%) HTML
6 11 (25.00%) JSP
7 10 (22.73%) Apache Flex
8 8 (18.18%) XHTML
9 7 (15.91%) JDBC
9 7 (15.91%) FreeMarker
9 7 (15.91%) JPA
9 7 (15.91%) KnockoutJS
10 6 (13.64%) WSDL
11 5 (11.36%) Struts
11 5 (11.36%) JSON
11 5 (11.36%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) Apache
2 5 (11.36%) Tomcat
2 5 (11.36%) Jetty
3 1 (2.273%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (2.273%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) AMQP
2 6 (13.64%) Internet
3 5 (11.36%) LDAP
4 1 (2.273%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.091%) MarkLogic
3 4 (9.091%) MySQL
3 4 (9.091%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.273%) KDB
4 1 (2.273%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Maven
1 11 (25.00%) Ant
2 7 (15.91%) JUnit
3 6 (13.64%) Synon
4 4 (9.091%) Hudson
4 4 (9.091%) Subversion
5 2 (4.545%) Eclipse
5 2 (4.545%) JProfiler
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (9.091%) Games
3 1 (2.273%) Front Office
3 1 (2.273%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Open Source
2 7 (15.91%) Derivative
3 6 (13.64%) iSeries
4 4 (9.091%) Semantic Web
4 4 (9.091%) Online Games
5 2 (4.545%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.273%) Mathematics
6 1 (2.273%) Streaming Video
6 1 (2.273%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.273%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) Android
3 1 (2.273%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 11 (25.00%) TDD
1 11 (25.00%) MVC
2 10 (22.73%) OO
2 10 (22.73%) Unit Testing
3 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 8 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (18.18%) SOA
4 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
4 7 (15.91%) Dependency Injection
4 7 (15.91%) Web Application Development
5 6 (13.64%) Multithreading
6 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
6 5 (11.36%) OWASP
7 4 (9.091%) Code Coverage
8 2 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.273%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (2.273%) Analytics
9 1 (2.273%) Algorithmic Trading
9 1 (2.273%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 20 (45.45%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) Perl
4 7 (15.91%) PHP
5 6 (13.64%) RPG/400
5 6 (13.64%) RPG IV
5 6 (13.64%) Bash shell
5 6 (13.64%) RPG
5 6 (13.64%) VB
5 6 (13.64%) VBA
5 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (4.545%) C#
7 1 (2.273%) Clojure
7 1 (2.273%) Scala
7 1 (2.273%) Korn
7 1 (2.273%) Ruby
7 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.273%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (9.091%) Squid
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) IBM
2 6 (13.64%) JD Edwards
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 4 (9.091%) Mercator
5 1 (2.273%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.273%) Sun
5 1 (2.273%) TIBCO