West Midlands J2EE Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Developer
Location Altrincham Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens St Ives Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weymouth Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	181	180
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	47	53
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	0.589 %	0.635 %
Salaries quoted	44	40
Average minimum salary	£34,957	£34,000
Average salary	£36,859	£37,157
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Average maximum salary	£38,761	£40,314
UK excluding London average salary	£41,820	£39,846
% change on same period last year	+4.95 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7985	8342
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.297 %	3.478 %
Salaries quoted	6829	7245
Average minimum salary	£32,843	£33,758
Average salary	£35,744	£36,540
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum salary	£38,646	£39,322
UK excluding London average salary	£38,072	£39,428
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
J2EE Developer England

J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the West Midlands region.

J2EE Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	-20	17	£39,344	+9.20 %
Worcestershire	+5	14	£32,071	-8.36 %
Coventry	-6	9	£38,111	-
Herefordshire	-	3	£44,500	-
Solihull	-	2	£37,500	-
Warwickshire	-2	2	£32,500	-7.14 %

J2EE Developer England

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 97 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 88 (90.72 %) Java 3 58 (59.79 %) SQL 4 51 (52.58 %) Oracle 5 40 (41.24 %) XML 6 31 (31.96 %) Spring 7 30 (30.93 %) WebSphere 8 25 (25.77 %) JSP 9 24 (24.74 %) UML 10 22 (22.68 %) Servlets 10 22 (22.68 %) Hibernate 11 21 (21.65 %) Struts 12 19 (19.59 %) JavaScript 13 18 (18.56 %) HTML 13 18 (18.56 %) OO

14 17 (17.53 %) MySQL 15 16 (16.49 %) Apache 16 15 (15.46 %) JBoss 16 15 (15.46 %) JDBC 16 15 (15.46 %) GIS 17 13 (13.40 %) ODBC 17 13 (13.40 %) IBM 18 12 (12.37 %) Tomcat 18 12 (12.37 %) CSS 18 12 (12.37 %) WebLogic 18 12 (12.37 %) SQL Server 19 11 (11.34 %) OOA/OOD 20 10 (10.31 %) C 20 10 (10.31 %) EJB 20 10 (10.31 %) Construction

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 97 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 40 (41.24 %) XML 3 31 (31.96 %) Spring 4 30 (30.93 %) WebSphere 5 25 (25.77 %) JSP 6 22 (22.68 %) Servlets 6 22 (22.68 %) Hibernate 7 21 (21.65 %) Struts 8 18 (18.56 %) HTML 9 15 (15.46 %) JDBC 10 13 (13.40 %) ODBC 11 12 (12.37 %) CSS 12 10 (10.31 %) EJB 13 8 (8.247 %) JSF 13 8 (8.247 %) AJAX 14 6 (6.186 %) MVC 14 6 (6.186 %) WebServices 15 5 (5.155 %) JMS 16 4 (4.124 %) XML Schema 17 3 (3.093 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 16 (16.49 %) Apache 2 15 (15.46 %) JBoss 3 12 (12.37 %) WebLogic 3 12 (12.37 %) Tomcat 4 9 (9.278 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 8 (8.247 %) MQSeries 6 2 (2.062 %) WebSphere MQ 7 1 (1.031 %) CMS 7 1 (1.031 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 7 (7.216 %) MS Visio 2 6 (6.186 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.031 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.186 %) LDAP 2 4 (4.124 %) Internet 3 2 (2.062 %) HTTP 3 2 (2.062 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (17.53 %) MySQL 2 15 (15.46 %) GIS 3 12 (12.37 %) SQL Server 4 6 (6.186 %) DB2 5 3 (3.093 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (3.093 %) RDBMS 5 3 (3.093 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (2.062 %) SQLPlus	Development Applications 1 5 (5.155 %) Subversion 2 3 (3.093 %) JUnit 3 2 (2.062 %) Flash 3 2 (2.062 %) ProC 3 2 (2.062 %) Log4j 4 1 (1.031 %) Ant 4 1 (1.031 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (1.031 %) RequisitePro
General 1 10 (10.31 %) Construction 2 9 (9.278 %) Pensions 3 7 (7.216 %) Retail 4 6 (6.186 %) Finance 5 5 (5.155 %) Telecoms 6 4 (4.124 %) Games 7 2 (2.062 %) Education 7 2 (2.062 %) Marketing 8 1 (1.031 %) Insurance 8 1 (1.031 %) Government 8 1 (1.031 %) Advertising 8 1 (1.031 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.186 %) Chip and PIN 2 3 (3.093 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 9 (9.278 %) Linux 2 6 (6.186 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.031 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (24.74 %) UML 2 18 (18.56 %) OO 3 11 (11.34 %) OOA/OOD 4 10 (10.31 %) Web Development 5 7 (7.216 %) Agile Software Development 5 7 (7.216 %) OOP 6 6 (6.186 %) E-Commerce 6 6 (6.186 %) SOA 6 6 (6.186 %) Software Engineering 7 4 (4.124 %) Use Case 8 3 (3.093 %) Scrum 8 3 (3.093 %) Unit Testing 9 2 (2.062 %) Performance Testing 9 2 (2.062 %) Content Management 9 2 (2.062 %) RUP 9 2 (2.062 %) DSDM 10 1 (1.031 %) CMMI 10 1 (1.031 %) Migration 10 1 (1.031 %) EAI 10 1 (1.031 %) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages 1 88 (90.72 %) Java 2 58 (59.79 %) SQL 3 19 (19.59 %) JavaScript 4 10 (10.31 %) C 5 4 (4.124 %) C++ 5 4 (4.124 %) Perl 5 4 (4.124 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (3.093 %) Shell Script 7 2 (2.062 %) DHTML 8 1 (1.031 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 9 (9.278 %) Sun Certification 2 7 (7.216 %) Degree 3 4 (4.124 %) SCJD 4 1 (1.031 %) SCWCD
Systems Management 1 2 (2.062 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 51 (52.58 %) Oracle 2 13 (13.40 %) IBM 3 9 (9.278 %) Sun 4 7 (7.216 %) Microsoft 5 2 (2.062 %) FatWire