The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 22 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing Java 11 17 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 8.029% 17.17% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.74% 29.82% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 0
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Programming Languages
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
62 57 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 45.26% 57.58% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 57 42 27
Average salary £32,500 £34,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.79% +15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £21,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £33,000 £39,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java
West Yorkshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Wakefield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Wakefield Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield Java Salary Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region citing Java 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 Java.

1 9 (50.00%) C++
1 9 (50.00%) Web Services
2 8 (44.44%) SOAP
2 8 (44.44%) MySQL
2 8 (44.44%) Eclipse
3 7 (38.89%) UNIX
3 7 (38.89%) Tomcat
4 6 (33.33%) Flash
4 6 (33.33%) XML
4 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) ActionScript
4 6 (33.33%) Games
4 6 (33.33%) Ajax
5 5 (27.78%) Flash Games
5 5 (27.78%) jQuery
5 5 (27.78%) Online Games
5 5 (27.78%) ActionScript 3.0
5 5 (27.78%) Social Gaming
5 5 (27.78%) Facebook
5 5 (27.78%) Facebook Platform
5 5 (27.78%) J2EE
5 5 (27.78%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) Linux
6 4 (22.22%) UML
6 4 (22.22%) Struts
6 4 (22.22%) JDBC
6 4 (22.22%) JSP
6 4 (22.22%) XSD
6 4 (22.22%) JBoss
6 4 (22.22%) SQL

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region citing Java 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 Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (50.00%) Web Services
2 8 (44.44%) SOAP
3 6 (33.33%) Flash
3 6 (33.33%) XML
3 6 (33.33%) Ajax
4 5 (27.78%) jQuery
4 5 (27.78%) J2EE
5 4 (22.22%) Struts
5 4 (22.22%) JDBC
5 4 (22.22%) JSP
5 4 (22.22%) XSD
5 4 (22.22%) Spring
5 4 (22.22%) JSF
5 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
5 4 (22.22%) JMS
5 4 (22.22%) J2SE
5 4 (22.22%) JSON
5 4 (22.22%) iBATIS
5 4 (22.22%) Java SE
5 4 (22.22%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) Tomcat
2 5 (27.78%) Facebook Platform
3 3 (16.67%) Apache
4 2 (11.11%) CMS
5 1 (5.556%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Eclipse
2 4 (22.22%) Ant
2 4 (22.22%) JUnit
2 4 (22.22%) Subversion
2 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 4 (22.22%) Hudson
2 4 (22.22%) MyEclipse
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Flash Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Flash Games Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Games Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Junior Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Web Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Junior
4 4 (22.22%) Junior Games Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Java Web Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Junior Flash Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Tester
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Flash Games
1 5 (27.78%) Online Games
1 5 (27.78%) Social Gaming
2 4 (22.22%) Web 2.0
3 2 (11.11%) Grid Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) UNIX
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Mac OS
4 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (16.67%) openSUSE
4 3 (16.67%) SUSE
5 1 (5.556%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) UML
1 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Agile Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Workflow
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 2 (11.11%) OO
3 2 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
4 1 (5.556%) Refactoring
4 1 (5.556%) Game Development
4 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
4 1 (5.556%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) ActionScript
3 5 (27.78%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) C
4 4 (22.22%) Groovy
5 2 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 2 (11.11%) R
6 1 (5.556%) Objective-C
6 1 (5.556%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 2 (11.11%) PhD
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Facebook
2 4 (22.22%) JBoss
2 4 (22.22%) Google
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