The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing SCJP 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Qualifications
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1410 1246 1142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.85% 24.00% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1049 1033 946
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SCJP
England

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire SCJP Jobs Demand Trend

SCJP
Salary Trend

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

Yorkshire SCJP Salary Trend

SCJP
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing SCJP 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 SCJP.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) Java EE
1 6 (100.00%) SCJA
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 4 (66.67%) Spring MVC
3 4 (66.67%) RIA
3 4 (66.67%) YUI
3 4 (66.67%) JPA
3 4 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) Publishing
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing SCJP 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 SCJP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) Java EE
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) Spring MVC
3 4 (66.67%) YUI
3 4 (66.67%) JPA
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SCJA