The first table below looks at the demand for Java SE 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 SE over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
Rank 198 179 166
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java SE 1 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% 0.238% 0.123%
As % of the Application Development category 0.049% 0.558% 0.327%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 5
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% +34.32%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £42,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-22.61% +25.37%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2036 1972 1529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.48% 42.73% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1820 1773 1397
Average salary £37,000 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.06% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,985 £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 SE
England

Java SE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Java SE Jobs Demand Trend

Java SE
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Java SE Salary Trend

Java SE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java SE within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warwickshire -3 1 £32,500 -27.77%
Java SE
England

Java SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Java SE 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 SE.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) J2SE
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Swing
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets

Java SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Java SE 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 SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) J2SE
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Swing
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) Struts
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Analyst Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA