The first table below looks at the demand for SCJA in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJA 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 Qualifications for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA)
Rank 194 183 169
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -14
Permanent jobs citing SCJA 10 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.203% 0.066% 0.073%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.699% 0.268% 0.255%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 3
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1431 1118 1178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 29.01% 24.77% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1155 939 950
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,885 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SCJA
England

SCJA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SCJA Jobs Demand Trend

SCJA
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands SCJA Salary Trend

SCJA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCJA 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
Coventry -6 10 £37,500 +15.38%
SCJA
England

SCJA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (100.00%) Java
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE
1 17 (100.00%) Struts
1 17 (100.00%) Apache
1 17 (100.00%) Sun
1 17 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 17 (100.00%) SCJP
1 17 (100.00%) SCJD
1 17 (100.00%) Spring
2 16 (94.12%) EJB
2 16 (94.12%) SCWCD
2 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.882%) Linux
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) SQL

SCJA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE
1 17 (100.00%) Struts
1 17 (100.00%) Spring
2 16 (94.12%) EJB
3 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (5.882%) Software Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 17 (100.00%) SCJP
1 17 (100.00%) SCJD
2 16 (94.12%) SCWCD
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Sun
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle