The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 23 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 96 58 46
Rank change year-on-year
-38 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 116 165 167
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.316% 3.634% 3.955%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.414% 3.790% 4.131%
Number of salaries quoted 110 154 158
Average salary £37,750 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4806 4353 4043
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.97% 95.88% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3989 3821 3443
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Java Developer Salary Trend

Java Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands Java Developer Salary Histogram

Java Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Birmingham +18 37 £40,000 -5.88%
Coventry -1 36 £37,500 +15.38%
Staffordshire +14 14 £34,250 +55.68%
Warwickshire -43 12 £37,500 -16.66%
Shropshire +4 6 - -
Worcestershire +5 2 £26,250 -30.92%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 208 (100.00%) Java
2 101 (48.56%) Spring
3 97 (46.63%) J2EE
4 77 (37.02%) SQL
5 73 (35.10%) Hibernate
6 61 (29.33%) XML
7 53 (25.48%) JavaScript
8 51 (24.52%) Oracle
9 48 (23.08%) Computer Science
10 46 (22.12%) HTML
11 44 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
12 43 (20.67%) Degree
13 42 (20.19%) CSS
13 42 (20.19%) OO
14 41 (19.71%) C#
15 40 (19.23%) Struts
16 37 (17.79%) Maven
17 36 (17.31%) EJB
18 35 (16.83%) SQL Server
18 35 (16.83%) Eclipse
19 34 (16.35%) .NET
20 32 (15.38%) SOAP
21 31 (14.90%) Linux
22 30 (14.42%) jQuery
23 29 (13.94%) C++
24 28 (13.46%) JMS
25 27 (12.98%) XSLT
25 27 (12.98%) Java EE
25 27 (12.98%) TDD
25 27 (12.98%) HTML5

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 101 (48.56%) Spring
2 97 (46.63%) J2EE
3 73 (35.10%) Hibernate
4 61 (29.33%) XML
5 46 (22.12%) HTML
6 42 (20.19%) CSS
7 40 (19.23%) Struts
8 36 (17.31%) EJB
9 34 (16.35%) .NET
10 32 (15.38%) SOAP
11 30 (14.42%) jQuery
12 28 (13.46%) JMS
13 27 (12.98%) XSLT
13 27 (12.98%) Java EE
13 27 (12.98%) HTML5
14 24 (11.54%) JDBC
14 24 (11.54%) JSP
15 22 (10.58%) Servlets
15 22 (10.58%) J2SE
16 17 (8.173%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 26 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 25 (12.02%) Apache
3 14 (6.731%) ActiveMQ
4 11 (5.288%) SharePoint
5 10 (4.808%) NetWeaver
5 10 (4.808%) Alfresco
6 8 (3.846%) SAP Portal
7 4 (1.923%) CMS
7 4 (1.923%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.442%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.962%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.481%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.481%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 5 (2.404%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.962%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.962%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.404%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.615%) SQL Server 2005
3 19 (9.135%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (8.173%) DB2
5 14 (6.731%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.250%) JasperReports
6 13 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (5.769%) MySQL
7 12 (5.769%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.288%) CouchDB
9 10 (4.808%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (0.481%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.481%) Redis
10 1 (0.481%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.481%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 37 (17.79%) Maven
2 35 (16.83%) Eclipse
3 25 (12.02%) Subversion
4 19 (9.135%) JUnit
5 13 (6.250%) Selenium
6 12 (5.769%) TeamCity
6 12 (5.769%) Apache Continuum
6 12 (5.769%) FitNesse
7 11 (5.288%) Ant
8 8 (3.846%) Xcode
8 8 (3.846%) Hudson
9 6 (2.885%) Jenkins
10 5 (2.404%) JIRA
11 3 (1.442%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.442%) EasyMock
11 3 (1.442%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 1 (0.481%) Eclipse RCP
12 1 (0.481%) Git (software)
12 1 (0.481%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (8.173%) Finance
2 7 (3.365%) Retail
3 5 (2.404%) Marketing
4 4 (1.923%) Telecoms
4 4 (1.923%) Legal
5 3 (1.442%) Back Office
5 3 (1.442%) Games
6 2 (0.962%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.481%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.481%) Banking
7 1 (0.481%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.08%) Computer Science
2 26 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.288%) iSeries
3 11 (5.288%) Blackberry
4 10 (4.808%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (4.808%) Social Media
5 9 (4.327%) Firmware
6 6 (2.885%) Grid Computing
6 6 (2.885%) Open Source
6 6 (2.885%) Mathematics
7 5 (2.404%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.923%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.923%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.962%) SaaS
9 2 (0.962%) Derivative
9 2 (0.962%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.481%) Physics
10 1 (0.481%) Ergonomics
10 1 (0.481%) Web 2.0
10 1 (0.481%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.90%) Linux
2 26 (12.50%) Windows
3 21 (10.10%) UNIX
4 11 (5.288%) Android
5 8 (3.846%) Windows Phone 7
5 8 (3.846%) Windows Phone
6 4 (1.923%) Solaris
7 1 (0.481%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (20.19%) OO
3 27 (12.98%) TDD
4 26 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 26 (12.50%) Scrum
5 20 (9.615%) Multithreading
6 19 (9.135%) OOD
7 14 (6.731%) MVC
7 14 (6.731%) Unit Testing
8 12 (5.769%) OOA/OOD
8 12 (5.769%) Web Development
9 11 (5.288%) UML
10 8 (3.846%) Waterfall
11 6 (2.885%) Complex Event Processing
12 5 (2.404%) Product Management
12 5 (2.404%) OWASP
12 5 (2.404%) RAD
13 4 (1.923%) RUP
13 4 (1.923%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (1.923%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 208 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (37.02%) SQL
3 53 (25.48%) JavaScript
4 41 (19.71%) C#
5 29 (13.94%) C++
6 13 (6.250%) Scala
7 11 (5.288%) VB
8 10 (4.808%) Clojure
8 10 (4.808%) Ruby
8 10 (4.808%) Erlang
9 9 (4.327%) C
10 6 (2.885%) ABAP
11 4 (1.923%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.442%) Perl
12 3 (1.442%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.442%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.962%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (20.67%) Degree
2 17 (8.173%) Sun Certification
2 17 (8.173%) SCJA
2 17 (8.173%) SCJP
2 17 (8.173%) SCJD
3 16 (7.692%) SCWCD
4 1 (0.481%) CIW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.404%) QA
Vendors
1 51 (24.52%) Oracle
2 23 (11.06%) SAP
3 20 (9.615%) Sun
4 13 (6.250%) JBoss
5 11 (5.288%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.327%) Sybase
7 5 (2.404%) Pega
7 5 (2.404%) webMethods
8 3 (1.442%) BEA
9 2 (0.962%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.962%) IBM
9 2 (0.962%) Facebook
9 2 (0.962%) Alterian
10 1 (0.481%) Twitter
10 1 (0.481%) Adobe
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Salary: £38k-£42kpa + Bens
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Salary: £50 - £55 per annum
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £43000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
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Salary: £20000 - £50000 per annum
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