The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java Software Engineer
Rank 821 852 808
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 39 35 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.036% 0.029% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.030% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 37 33 62
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £37,600 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £60,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £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
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
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 Java Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Java Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Java Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer 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 +13 38 £52,500 +10.52%
London +39 16 £60,000 -
South East -9 6 £48,750 +8.93%
North West -13 6 £45,000 -5.26%
Manchester -16 6 £45,000 -5.26%
Altrincham - 5 £45,000 -
East of England - 4 £50,000 -
Surrey +7 3 £55,000 +10.55%
Birmingham - 3 £43,000 -
Gateshead - 3 £44,000 -
Berkshire - 3 £45,000 -
Newbury - 3 £45,000 -
North East - 3 £44,000 -
City of London - 3 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £43,000 -
Tyne and Wear - 3 £44,000 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £50,000 -
Scotland -4 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £65,000 -
Guildford - 1 £52,500 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 £65,000 -

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (64.42%) J2EE
3 56 (53.85%) Spring
4 50 (48.08%) Hibernate
5 41 (39.42%) Web Services
6 35 (33.65%) SOAP
6 35 (33.65%) Agile Software Development
7 32 (30.77%) SQL
8 31 (29.81%) REST
9 30 (28.85%) Tomcat
10 29 (27.88%) OO
11 27 (25.96%) JSP
11 27 (25.96%) Servlets
12 26 (25.00%) XML
12 26 (25.00%) Linux
13 24 (23.08%) Oracle
13 24 (23.08%) Degree
14 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
15 22 (21.15%) UNIX
16 19 (18.27%) Java EE
16 19 (18.27%) Subversion
16 19 (18.27%) CSS
17 18 (17.31%) HTTP
17 18 (17.31%) Open Source
18 17 (16.35%) Struts
19 16 (15.38%) MySQL
19 16 (15.38%) SSL
19 16 (15.38%) Finance
20 14 (13.46%) Jetty
20 14 (13.46%) Maven

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 67 (64.42%) J2EE
2 56 (53.85%) Spring
3 50 (48.08%) Hibernate
4 41 (39.42%) Web Services
5 35 (33.65%) SOAP
6 31 (29.81%) REST
7 27 (25.96%) JSP
7 27 (25.96%) Servlets
8 26 (25.00%) XML
9 19 (18.27%) Java EE
9 19 (18.27%) CSS
10 17 (16.35%) Struts
11 14 (13.46%) HTML
12 10 (9.615%) Spring Integration
12 10 (9.615%) JDBC
13 9 (8.654%) MapReduce
13 9 (8.654%) jQuery
13 9 (8.654%) Apache Flex
14 8 (7.692%) EJB
15 7 (6.731%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 30 (28.85%) Tomcat
2 14 (13.46%) Jetty
3 12 (11.54%) Apache
4 7 (6.731%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.885%) SAS
6 1 (0.962%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.962%) ESB
6 1 (0.962%) AquaLogic
6 1 (0.962%) GlassFish
6 1 (0.962%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (0.962%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.962%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.31%) HTTP
2 16 (15.38%) SSL
3 14 (13.46%) TCP/IP
4 13 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 13 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.962%) SNMP
5 1 (0.962%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) MySQL
2 11 (10.58%) Big Data
3 10 (9.615%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.615%) Hadoop
4 9 (8.654%) Data Mining
5 7 (6.731%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.808%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.923%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.923%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.962%) DB2
8 1 (0.962%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.962%) HBase
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Subversion
2 14 (13.46%) Maven
3 9 (8.654%) JUnit
4 8 (7.692%) Selenium
5 6 (5.769%) Eclipse
6 5 (4.808%) Hudson
6 5 (4.808%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.923%) JProfiler
7 2 (1.923%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.962%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.962%) Ant
8 1 (0.962%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.962%) JIRA
8 1 (0.962%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.962%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.962%) TestNG
8 1 (0.962%) MyEclipse
8 1 (0.962%) Git (software)
8 1 (0.962%) Apache Continuum
8 1 (0.962%) Gerrit
General
1 16 (15.38%) Finance
2 6 (5.769%) Banking
2 6 (5.769%) Retail
3 5 (4.808%) Games
3 5 (4.808%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.962%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.962%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.962%) Advertising
4 1 (0.962%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Open Source
2 13 (12.50%) SaaS
3 8 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 6 (5.769%) Mathematics
5 5 (4.808%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.808%) Online Games
5 5 (4.808%) Derivative
5 5 (4.808%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (3.846%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.885%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.885%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.923%) PaaS
8 2 (1.923%) Social Media
8 2 (1.923%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.923%) Physics
9 1 (0.962%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.962%) Clustering
9 1 (0.962%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.962%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.962%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) Linux
2 22 (21.15%) UNIX
3 2 (1.923%) Android
3 2 (1.923%) Windows
4 1 (0.962%) AIX
4 1 (0.962%) Solaris
4 1 (0.962%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (27.88%) OO
3 13 (12.50%) Multithreading
4 12 (11.54%) TDD
5 10 (9.615%) MVC
6 9 (8.654%) Software Engineering
7 8 (7.692%) OOD
7 8 (7.692%) E-Commerce
8 6 (5.769%) Project Management
8 6 (5.769%) Data Modelling
9 5 (4.808%) Risk Management
9 5 (4.808%) Unit Testing
9 5 (4.808%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (4.808%) Agile Project Management
10 4 (3.846%) Scrum
11 3 (2.885%) Waterfall
12 2 (1.923%) Web Application Development
12 2 (1.923%) Business Analysis
12 2 (1.923%) Logistics
12 2 (1.923%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (30.77%) SQL
3 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.808%) PHP
5 4 (3.846%) Python
6 3 (2.885%) C
6 3 (2.885%) Groovy
7 2 (1.923%) Scala
7 2 (1.923%) Ruby
8 1 (0.962%) Perl
8 1 (0.962%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.962%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.962%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.962%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.962%) XPath
8 1 (0.962%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (1.923%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.962%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.962%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (23.08%) Oracle
2 14 (13.46%) JBoss
3 13 (12.50%) Cisco
4 6 (5.769%) TIBCO
5 5 (4.808%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.846%) Google
7 3 (2.885%) Teradata
7 3 (2.885%) Aprimo
7 3 (2.885%) Facebook
7 3 (2.885%) Twitter
8 2 (1.923%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (1.923%) BEA
9 1 (0.962%) IBM
9 1 (0.962%) Chordiant
9 1 (0.962%) Metastorm
9 1 (0.962%) Adobe
9 1 (0.962%) HP
9 1 (0.962%) Pega
London
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