The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills 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 EE over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 144 93 110
Rank change year-on-year
-51 +17
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 60 99 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.217% 2.193% 1.516%
As % of the Application Development category 2.987% 5.135% 3.949%
Number of salaries quoted 53 93 59
Average salary £40,500 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £42,500 £34,900
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £62,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2009 1928 1570
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.73% 42.71% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1796 1732 1439
Average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Java EE
England

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Java EE Salary Trend

Java EE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java EE across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Midlands Java EE Salary Histogram

Java EE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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 -3 28 £40,000 -5.88%
Shropshire - 5 £65,000 -
Coventry -12 3 £40,000 -15.78%
Warwickshire -39 1 £40,000 -15.78%
Java EE
England

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Java EE 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 EE.

1 64 (72.73%) Java
2 51 (57.95%) Oracle
3 50 (56.82%) Subversion
4 47 (53.41%) J2EE
5 44 (50.00%) Spring
6 37 (42.05%) Agile Software Development
7 30 (34.09%) Tomcat
8 28 (31.82%) Eclipse
8 28 (31.82%) Hibernate
8 28 (31.82%) Windows
9 27 (30.68%) Linux
9 27 (30.68%) Maven
10 25 (28.41%) UNIX
11 24 (27.27%) WebSphere
12 23 (26.14%) Oracle ERP
12 23 (26.14%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 23 (26.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (26.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 23 (26.14%) DB2
12 23 (26.14%) ERP
12 23 (26.14%) IBM
12 23 (26.14%) Red Hat
12 23 (26.14%) WebSphere MQ
13 22 (25.00%) JBoss
14 19 (21.59%) OO
14 19 (21.59%) TDD
15 18 (20.45%) Ajax
15 18 (20.45%) JMS
16 17 (19.32%) Firmware
16 17 (19.32%) JMX

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 47 (53.41%) J2EE
2 44 (50.00%) Spring
3 28 (31.82%) Hibernate
4 24 (27.27%) WebSphere
5 18 (20.45%) Ajax
5 18 (20.45%) JMS
6 17 (19.32%) SOAP
6 17 (19.32%) JMX
6 17 (19.32%) Spring MVC
7 14 (15.91%) XML
8 8 (9.091%) jQuery
9 7 (7.955%) REST
9 7 (7.955%) Web Services
9 7 (7.955%) Servlets
10 6 (6.818%) HTML
10 6 (6.818%) CSS
10 6 (6.818%) JSP
10 6 (6.818%) RESTful
11 2 (2.273%) JPA
11 2 (2.273%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 30 (34.09%) Tomcat
2 23 (26.14%) WebSphere MQ
2 23 (26.14%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 17 (19.32%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (14.77%) WebLogic
5 10 (11.36%) Alfresco
6 8 (9.091%) Apache
Business Applications
1 23 (26.14%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.14%) DB2
2 17 (19.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (19.32%) JasperReports
2 17 (19.32%) SQL Server 2005
2 17 (19.32%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (15.91%) NoSQL
4 10 (11.36%) CouchDB
4 10 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.36%) Jackrabbit
4 10 (11.36%) MySQL
5 9 (10.23%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (7.955%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.273%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 50 (56.82%) Subversion
2 28 (31.82%) Eclipse
3 27 (30.68%) Maven
4 17 (19.32%) Selenium
4 17 (19.32%) FitNesse
4 17 (19.32%) TeamCity
4 17 (19.32%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (2.273%) ProC
5 2 (2.273%) JUnit
5 2 (2.273%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.136%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 2 (2.273%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (45.45%) Developer
2 27 (30.68%) Java Developer
3 23 (26.14%) Analyst
3 23 (26.14%) Administrator
4 14 (15.91%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 14 (15.91%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (9.091%) Tester
7 8 (9.091%) QA Tester
8 7 (7.955%) Architect
9 5 (5.682%) Software Architect
10 3 (3.409%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.273%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.273%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.273%) C Developer
11 2 (2.273%) Senior C Developer
11 2 (2.273%) Senior Software Engineer
12 1 (1.136%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Firmware
2 13 (14.77%) Computer Science
3 10 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (11.36%) Social Media
4 1 (1.136%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.136%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.136%) Physics
4 1 (1.136%) Open Source
4 1 (1.136%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.82%) Windows
2 27 (30.68%) Linux
3 25 (28.41%) UNIX
4 23 (26.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.273%) AIX
5 2 (2.273%) Solaris
6 1 (1.136%) Android
6 1 (1.136%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.136%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.05%) Agile Software Development
2 23 (26.14%) ERP
2 23 (26.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 19 (21.59%) OO
3 19 (21.59%) TDD
4 17 (19.32%) MVC
5 11 (12.50%) Scrum
6 10 (11.36%) Unit Testing
7 9 (10.23%) Multithreading
8 8 (9.091%) Manual Testing
8 8 (9.091%) Automated Testing
9 7 (7.955%) BDD
10 4 (4.545%) Web Application Development
10 4 (4.545%) Customer Engagement
10 4 (4.545%) UML
11 3 (3.409%) OOD
12 2 (2.273%) Software Engineering
13 1 (1.136%) Web Development
13 1 (1.136%) Kanban
13 1 (1.136%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (72.73%) Java
2 12 (13.64%) SQL
3 10 (11.36%) Ruby
3 10 (11.36%) Erlang
3 10 (11.36%) Scala
3 10 (11.36%) Clojure
4 6 (6.818%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.273%) C
5 2 (2.273%) C++
5 2 (2.273%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.136%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 2 (2.273%) OCA
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 51 (57.95%) Oracle
2 23 (26.14%) IBM
2 23 (26.14%) Red Hat
3 22 (25.00%) JBoss
4 2 (2.273%) webMethods
4 2 (2.273%) Pega
5 1 (1.136%) Business Objects
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Our prestigious client is looking for a solid Java J2EE Developer to be based in either Birmingham or London. You will have solid development experience within Java EE...
Jumar
Salary: From £38,000 to £42,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
Our prestigious client is looking for a solid Java J2EE Developer to be based in either Birmingham or London. You will have solid development experience within Java EE...
Jumar Solutions
Salary: £38k-£42kpa + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
To be suitable for these Java / JEE development positions you will need a solid range of skills across areas such as: Java / JEE OO Design Patterns Agile / SCRUM...
ISL
Salary: £35000.00 - £46000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013