The first table below looks at the demand for SCJD in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJD over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Developer (SCJD)
Rank 196 187 167
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -20
Permanent jobs citing SCJD 11 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.222% 0.044% 0.072%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.763% 0.179% 0.252%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 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 £32,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1442 1116 1190
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 29.04% 24.78% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1166 937 959
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £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%
SCJD
England

SCJD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SCJD Jobs Demand Trend

SCJD
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands SCJD Salary Trend

SCJD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCJD within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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 -3 11 £37,500 +15.38%
SCJD
England

SCJD
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing SCJD 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 SCJD.

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%) Spring
1 17 (100.00%) SCJA
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

SCJD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing SCJD 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 SCJD. 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%) SCJA
2 16 (94.12%) SCWCD
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Sun
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle