The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 advertised for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 44 35 19
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 3 28 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.042% 7.843% 15.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.087% 7.977% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 49
Average salary £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.31% +5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
276 351 416
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 95.83% 98.32% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 217 237 310
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,100 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
Hertfordshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Watford Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Watford Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Watford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Watford Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Java 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 Java Developer in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (85.71%) J2EE
3 17 (80.95%) JSP
3 17 (80.95%) WebSphere
4 16 (76.19%) XML
4 16 (76.19%) E-Commerce
4 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
4 16 (76.19%) CSS
5 15 (71.43%) HTML
5 15 (71.43%) Eclipse
6 14 (66.67%) MVC
6 14 (66.67%) Finance
6 14 (66.67%) SQL
7 13 (61.90%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (61.90%) IBM
7 13 (61.90%) Struts
8 11 (52.38%) Retail
8 11 (52.38%) UNIX
8 11 (52.38%) JDBC
8 11 (52.38%) Oracle
8 11 (52.38%) DB2
8 11 (52.38%) JUnit
9 10 (47.62%) Perl
9 10 (47.62%) RAD
9 10 (47.62%) XHTML
9 10 (47.62%) Sun
9 10 (47.62%) Sun Certification
9 10 (47.62%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 10 (47.62%) Content Management
9 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Java 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 Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (85.71%) J2EE
2 17 (80.95%) JSP
2 17 (80.95%) WebSphere
3 16 (76.19%) XML
3 16 (76.19%) CSS
4 15 (71.43%) HTML
5 13 (61.90%) Struts
6 11 (52.38%) JDBC
7 10 (47.62%) XHTML
7 10 (47.62%) JSTL
8 6 (28.57%) EJB
9 5 (23.81%) Ajax
10 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
10 4 (19.05%) Spring
11 1 (4.762%) DHTML
11 1 (4.762%) Java EE
11 1 (4.762%) .NET
11 1 (4.762%) Servlets
11 1 (4.762%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 13 (61.90%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (9.524%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) DB2
2 2 (9.524%) MySQL
3 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Eclipse
2 11 (52.38%) JUnit
3 10 (47.62%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 10 (47.62%) Rational Application Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Maven
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 11 (52.38%) Retail
3 9 (42.86%) Games
4 2 (9.524%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) E-Commerce
2 14 (66.67%) MVC
3 10 (47.62%) RAD
3 10 (47.62%) Content Management
3 10 (47.62%) Web Development
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.524%) TDD
4 2 (9.524%) Migration
5 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
3 14 (66.67%) SQL
4 10 (47.62%) Bash shell
4 10 (47.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Sun Certification
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) IBM
2 11 (52.38%) Oracle
3 10 (47.62%) Sun