Hertfordshire Java Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Java skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Gwent Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hoddesdon Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Mold Monmouthshire Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Romsey Ross-shire Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Selby Shaftesbury Sheffield Shropshire Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Usk Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	15	14
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	240	376
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.207 %	0.192 %
As % of the category below	21.88 %	21.34 %
Salaries quoted	206	333
Average minimum salary	£42,407	£35,309
Average salary	£46,581	£38,913
% change on same period last year	+19.70 %
Average maximum salary	£50,756	£42,517
UK excluding London average salary	£39,553	£40,716
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1097	1762
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.948 %	0.899 %
Salaries quoted	970	1498
Average minimum salary	£37,327	£33,838
Average salary	£40,783	£37,197
% change on same period last year	+9.64 %
Average maximum salary	£44,240	£40,555
UK excluding London average salary	£35,639	£35,856
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Java East of England

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Java across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Java
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Java across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
St Albans	+1	17	£37,912	-1.93 %
Watford	-6	15	£44,400	+17.54 %
Stevenage	+3	14	£33,750	-20.27 %
Royston	-4	10	£30,300	-3.59 %
Rickmansworth	+10	8	£52,438	-
Potters Bar	-4	6	£57,500	-4.16 %
Hoddesdon	-	4	£35,250	-
Hitchin	-7	3	£31,000	+36.26 %
Welwyn Garden City	+2	3	-	-
Hertford	-6	2	£32,250	-4.17 %
Bishop's Stortford	-7	1	-	-

Java East of England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Java 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.

1 214 (32.57 %) SQL 2 191 (29.07 %) Oracle 3 182 (27.70 %) .NET 4 172 (26.18 %) C++ 5 169 (25.72 %) J2EE 6 141 (21.46 %) Finance 7 138 (21.00 %) C# 8 135 (20.55 %) XML 9 122 (18.57 %) SQL Server 10 119 (18.11 %) UNIX 11 112 (17.05 %) Degree 12 96 (14.61 %) HTML 13 92 (14.00 %) E-Commerce 14 83 (12.63 %) JavaScript 15 78 (11.87 %) JSP

16 77 (11.72 %) OO 17 74 (11.26 %) ASP.NET 18 73 (11.11 %) CSS 19 70 (10.65 %) Spring 20 68 (10.35 %) C 21 63 (9.589 %) Agile Software Development 22 57 (8.676 %) VB 23 56 (8.524 %) Computer Science 24 54 (8.219 %) Hibernate 24 54 (8.219 %) Servlets 24 54 (8.219 %) Windows 24 54 (8.219 %) AJAX 25 53 (8.067 %) WebLogic 26 50 (7.610 %) WebServices 27 49 (7.458 %) Scrum

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 182 (27.70 %) .NET 2 169 (25.72 %) J2EE 3 135 (20.55 %) XML 4 96 (14.61 %) HTML 5 78 (11.87 %) JSP 6 74 (11.26 %) ASP.NET 7 73 (11.11 %) CSS 8 70 (10.65 %) Spring 9 54 (8.219 %) AJAX 9 54 (8.219 %) Servlets 9 54 (8.219 %) Hibernate 10 50 (7.610 %) WebServices 11 48 (7.306 %) WebSphere 12 32 (4.871 %) Flash 13 25 (3.805 %) JSTL 14 24 (3.653 %) MVC 15 23 (3.501 %) XHTML 15 23 (3.501 %) JSF 16 21 (3.196 %) Struts 16 21 (3.196 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 53 (8.067 %) WebLogic 2 42 (6.393 %) JBoss 3 31 (4.718 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 28 (4.262 %) Tomcat 5 12 (1.826 %) IIS 5 12 (1.826 %) BizTalk Server 6 9 (1.370 %) CMS 7 7 (1.065 %) SharePoint 7 7 (1.065 %) ColdFusion 8 6 (0.913 %) ESB 8 6 (0.913 %) WebLogic Portal 9 5 (0.761 %) Apache 10 3 (0.457 %) MQSeries 10 3 (0.457 %) WPS 11 1 (0.152 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 1 (0.152 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 6 (0.913 %) MS Office 1 6 (0.913 %) MATLAB 2 5 (0.761 %) MS Excel 3 3 (0.457 %) Simulink 4 1 (0.152 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 6 (0.913 %) Retail-J 2 1 (0.152 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 32 (4.871 %) HTTP 2 28 (4.262 %) Internet 3 25 (3.805 %) TCP/IP 4 7 (1.065 %) Intranet 5 5 (0.761 %) VPN 5 5 (0.761 %) DNS 5 5 (0.761 %) SMTP 5 5 (0.761 %) DHCP 5 5 (0.761 %) FTP 6 3 (0.457 %) SAN 7 1 (0.152 %) ATM 7 1 (0.152 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.152 %) SNMP 7 1 (0.152 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 122 (18.57 %) SQL Server 2 28 (4.262 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (3.653 %) DB2 3 24 (3.653 %) RDBMS 4 17 (2.588 %) Oracle Reports 5 11 (1.674 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 11 (1.674 %) Data Mining 5 11 (1.674 %) Text Mining 6 10 (1.522 %) SQL Server 2000 6 10 (1.522 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 10 (1.522 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 7 (1.065 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 6 (0.913 %) Datawarehouse 9 4 (0.609 %) Informix 9 4 (0.609 %) MySQL 9 4 (0.609 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 3 (0.457 %) GIS 11 2 (0.304 %) PostgreSQL 11 2 (0.304 %) SAP BW 11 2 (0.304 %) FileMaker
Development Applications 1 37 (5.632 %) Eclipse 2 31 (4.718 %) JUnit 3 9 (1.370 %) ClearQuest 4 7 (1.065 %) ClearCase 4 7 (1.065 %) JIRA 5 5 (0.761 %) Subversion 6 4 (0.609 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 4 (0.609 %) Rational Rose 7 3 (0.457 %) Rational Robot 7 3 (0.457 %) MSI 7 3 (0.457 %) Dreamweaver 7 3 (0.457 %) WinRunner 7 3 (0.457 %) TestDirector 7 3 (0.457 %) Ant 8 2 (0.304 %) PowerBuilder 8 2 (0.304 %) InstallShield 9 1 (0.152 %) Log4j 9 1 (0.152 %) NUnit 9 1 (0.152 %) JDeveloper 9 1 (0.152 %) IntelliJ	General 1 141 (21.46 %) Finance 2 44 (6.697 %) Retail 3 41 (6.240 %) Telecoms 4 37 (5.632 %) Insurance 5 30 (4.566 %) Pensions 5 30 (4.566 %) Health 6 22 (3.349 %) Games 7 20 (3.044 %) Banking 8 16 (2.435 %) Pharmaceutical 9 15 (2.283 %) Back Office 10 13 (1.979 %) Investment Banking 11 12 (1.826 %) Marketing 11 12 (1.826 %) Education 11 12 (1.826 %) Government 12 11 (1.674 %) Publishing 13 10 (1.522 %) Electronics 14 9 (1.370 %) Chemicals 15 7 (1.065 %) Aerospace 16 6 (0.913 %) Manufacturing 17 5 (0.761 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 222 (33.79 %) Developer 2 125 (19.03 %) Java Developer 3 96 (14.61 %) Architect 4 87 (13.24 %) Programmer 5 83 (12.63 %) Analyst 6 58 (8.828 %) Senior Developer 7 55 (8.371 %) Software Engineer 8 39 (5.936 %) Solutions Architect 9 35 (5.327 %) Applications Support 10 33 (5.023 %) Support Analyst 10 33 (5.023 %) Software Developer 10 33 (5.023 %) Senior Java Developer 11 32 (4.871 %) Graduate 12 30 (4.566 %) Development Manager 13 27 (4.110 %) Analyst Programmer 13 27 (4.110 %) Senior Software Engineer 14 26 (3.957 %) Consultant 15 24 (3.653 %) Senior Analyst 16 23 (3.501 %) Junior 16 23 (3.501 %) Java Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 56 (8.524 %) Computer Science 2 38 (5.784 %) Mathematics 3 14 (2.131 %) Multithreading 4 9 (1.370 %) Client/Server 5 8 (1.218 %) Physics 6 5 (0.761 %) N-Tier 7 4 (0.609 %) Mainframe 8 3 (0.457 %) Web 2.0 9 2 (0.304 %) iSeries 9 2 (0.304 %) AS400 9 2 (0.304 %) EPoS 9 2 (0.304 %) Fat Client 9 2 (0.304 %) W3C 9 2 (0.304 %) Thin Client 10 1 (0.152 %) Chemistry 10 1 (0.152 %) Biology 10 1 (0.152 %) EFT 10 1 (0.152 %) BBC 10 1 (0.152 %) E-Learning 10 1 (0.152 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 119 (18.11 %) UNIX 2 54 (8.219 %) Windows 3 42 (6.393 %) Linux 4 18 (2.740 %) Windows Server 2003 5 12 (1.826 %) AIX 6 8 (1.218 %) Red Hat Linux 7 2 (0.304 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.152 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.152 %) Windows CE 8 1 (0.152 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (0.152 %) HPUX 8 1 (0.152 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.152 %) VxWorks 8 1 (0.152 %) pSOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 92 (14.00 %) E-Commerce 2 77 (11.72 %) OO 3 63 (9.589 %) Agile Software Development 4 49 (7.458 %) Scrum 5 48 (7.306 %) UML 6 39 (5.936 %) SOA 7 31 (4.718 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 29 (4.414 %) Web Development 9 27 (4.110 %) Performance Testing 10 26 (3.957 %) E-business 11 21 (3.196 %) OOA/OOD 11 21 (3.196 %) Content Management 12 20 (3.044 %) Logistics 12 20 (3.044 %) CRM 12 20 (3.044 %) Configuration Management 12 20 (3.044 %) OOD 13 19 (2.892 %) RUP 14 17 (2.588 %) Project Management 15 16 (2.435 %) Zachman Framework 15 16 (2.435 %) TOGAF
Programming Languages 1 214 (32.57 %) SQL 2 172 (26.18 %) C++ 3 138 (21.00 %) C# 4 83 (12.63 %) JavaScript 5 68 (10.35 %) C 6 57 (8.676 %) VB 7 37 (5.632 %) PL/SQL 8 22 (3.349 %) Perl 9 21 (3.196 %) ABAP 10 19 (2.892 %) PHP 11 18 (2.740 %) VBA 12 15 (2.283 %) ActionScript 12 15 (2.283 %) VB.NET 13 14 (2.131 %) RPG 14 13 (1.979 %) Ada 15 11 (1.674 %) Shell Script 16 9 (1.370 %) VB6 16 9 (1.370 %) Python 17 4 (0.609 %) Ruby 17 4 (0.609 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 112 (17.05 %) Degree 2 15 (2.283 %) Security Cleared 3 11 (1.674 %) PhD 4 9 (1.370 %) SAP Certification 5 8 (1.218 %) Sun Certification 6 4 (0.609 %) ISEB 7 1 (0.152 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (0.152 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (1.674 %) QA	System Software 1 13 (1.979 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (0.304 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 16 (2.435 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.152 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 191 (29.07 %) Oracle 2 44 (6.697 %) IBM 3 42 (6.393 %) SAP 4 35 (5.327 %) Microsoft 5 28 (4.262 %) BEA 6 24 (3.653 %) Red Hat 7 14 (2.131 %) JD Edwards 8 13 (1.979 %) BT 9 12 (1.826 %) Adobe 10 11 (1.674 %) Quark 11 10 (1.522 %) ATG 12 7 (1.065 %) Sun 13 6 (0.913 %) Yahoo! 14 5 (0.761 %) Stellent 15 4 (0.609 %) Sybase 15 4 (0.609 %) Remedy 16 3 (0.457 %) Tridion 16 3 (0.457 %) Citrix 16 3 (0.457 %) Interwoven 16 3 (0.457 %) FatWire