West Midlands Senior Java Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Java Developer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Java Developer
Location Alderley Edge Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham Corby Cornwall County Antrim Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Faversham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Kent Leeds Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shefford Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stockport Surrey Swansea Swindon Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	182	189
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	42	38
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.532 %	0.457 %
Salaries quoted	39	36
Average minimum salary	£38,200	£40,262
Average salary	£40,675	£42,190
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Average maximum salary	£43,150	£44,119
UK excluding London average salary	£44,257	£42,086
% change on same period last year	+5.15 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7901	8310
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.295 %	3.492 %
Salaries quoted	6730	7232
Average minimum salary	£32,816	£33,845
Average salary	£35,708	£36,594
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Average maximum salary	£38,601	£39,342
UK excluding London average salary	£38,056	£39,460
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Senior Java Developer England

Senior Java Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+11	26	£39,667	-8.81 %
Warwickshire	+2	9	£41,444	-5.56 %
Solihull	-	1	£35,000	-
Herefordshire	-3	1	£50,000	+42.85 %
Worcestershire	-	1	£49,000	-
Halesowen	-	1	£43,500	-

Senior Java Developer England

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title.

1 99 (100.00 %) Java 2 53 (53.54 %) SQL 2 53 (53.54 %) J2EE 3 42 (42.42 %) Spring 4 40 (40.40 %) Oracle 5 37 (37.37 %) Struts 6 35 (35.35 %) XML 7 32 (32.32 %) Hibernate 8 30 (30.30 %) JSP 8 30 (30.30 %) UNIX 8 30 (30.30 %) UML 9 27 (27.27 %) SOA 10 23 (23.23 %) OO 11 22 (22.22 %) Sun 12 20 (20.20 %) Windows

13 18 (18.18 %) WebServices 14 16 (16.16 %) Internet 14 16 (16.16 %) Agile Software Development 15 15 (15.15 %) WebSphere 15 15 (15.15 %) Sun Certification 16 14 (14.14 %) OOD 17 13 (13.13 %) Swing 17 13 (13.13 %) C++ 18 12 (12.12 %) Servlets 19 11 (11.11 %) Finance 19 11 (11.11 %) CSS 20 10 (10.10 %) JDBC 20 10 (10.10 %) Solaris 20 10 (10.10 %) ODBC 20 10 (10.10 %) HTML

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 53 (53.54 %) J2EE 2 42 (42.42 %) Spring 3 37 (37.37 %) Struts 4 35 (35.35 %) XML 5 32 (32.32 %) Hibernate 6 30 (30.30 %) JSP 7 18 (18.18 %) WebServices 8 15 (15.15 %) WebSphere 9 13 (13.13 %) Swing 10 12 (12.12 %) Servlets 11 11 (11.11 %) CSS 12 10 (10.10 %) JDBC 12 10 (10.10 %) EJB 12 10 (10.10 %) HTML 12 10 (10.10 %) ODBC 12 10 (10.10 %) Acegi Security 13 4 (4.040 %) JMS 13 4 (4.040 %) WAP 14 3 (3.030 %) XSLT 14 3 (3.030 %) AWT	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.081 %) Apache 2 6 (6.061 %) MQSeries 3 5 (5.051 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 5 (5.051 %) WebLogic 3 5 (5.051 %) JBoss 4 4 (4.040 %) WebLogic Portal 5 1 (1.010 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (1.010 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 16 (16.16 %) Internet 2 1 (1.010 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (6.061 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (3.030 %) GIS 3 2 (2.020 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.010 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 7 (7.071 %) JUnit 2 5 (5.051 %) Eclipse 3 3 (3.030 %) Ant 4 2 (2.020 %) CruiseControl 4 2 (2.020 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.010 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (1.010 %) Log4j 5 1 (1.010 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.010 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General 1 11 (11.11 %) Finance 2 7 (7.071 %) Construction 3 5 (5.051 %) Pensions 4 4 (4.040 %) Telecoms 5 3 (3.030 %) Retail 6 1 (1.010 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.010 %) Electric 6 1 (1.010 %) Games	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.040 %) N-Tier 2 3 (3.030 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.010 %) Interactive TV
Operating Systems 1 30 (30.30 %) UNIX 2 20 (20.20 %) Windows 3 10 (10.10 %) Solaris 4 9 (9.091 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (30.30 %) UML 2 27 (27.27 %) SOA 3 23 (23.23 %) OO 4 16 (16.16 %) Agile Software Development 5 14 (14.14 %) OOD 6 9 (9.091 %) Software Engineering 6 9 (9.091 %) Unit Testing 7 8 (8.081 %) Scrum 8 7 (7.071 %) Web Development 9 5 (5.051 %) OOA/OOD 10 4 (4.040 %) Project Management 11 3 (3.030 %) Logistics 11 3 (3.030 %) TDD 11 3 (3.030 %) Extreme Programming 11 3 (3.030 %) DSDM 11 3 (3.030 %) OOP 12 2 (2.020 %) Configuration Management 13 1 (1.010 %) BPEL 13 1 (1.010 %) RAD 13 1 (1.010 %) EAI
Programming Languages 1 99 (100.00 %) Java 2 53 (53.54 %) SQL 3 13 (13.13 %) C++ 4 9 (9.091 %) C 5 6 (6.061 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.010 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (1.010 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 15 (15.15 %) Sun Certification 2 10 (10.10 %) Degree 3 5 (5.051 %) SCJD 4 1 (1.010 %) SCWCD
Vendors 1 40 (40.40 %) Oracle 2 22 (22.22 %) Sun 3 5 (5.051 %) IBM 4 2 (2.020 %) Redback