Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Java skills within the London 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.

LinkJava
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank96
Rank change on same period last yearDown-3
Matching permanent IT job ads543113201
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled4.694 %6.737 %
As % of the category below25.89 %34.06 %
Salaries quoted445710419
Average minimum salary£48,766£49,370
Average salary£54,022£55,106
% change on same period last year-1.96 %
Average maximum salary£59,278£60,842
UK excluding London average salary£39,553£40,716
% change on same period last year-2.85 %
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
London
Matching permanent IT job ads2097638761
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled18.13 %19.78 %
Salaries quoted1771331087
Average minimum salary£44,704£44,608
Average salary£49,181£49,425
% change on same period last year-0.49 %
Average maximum salary£53,658£54,242
UK excluding London average salary£35,639£35,856
% change on same period last year-0.60 %
Java EnglandJava
England

Java
Demand Trend

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

London Java Demand Trend

Java
Salary Trend

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

London Java Salary Trend

Java
Salary Histogram

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

London Java Salary Histogram

Java
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 London 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-51550£57,359-5.06 %
Docklands, LondonDown-568£65,650+3.36 %
Canary WharfDown-1043£61,156-0.22 %
HammersmithDown-236£42,593+5.55 %
LutonDown-623£42,750-4.16 %
BrentfordUp+2219£42,083-3.47 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+1916£41,900+4.75 %
WimbledonUp+2715£46,067+2.37 %
FelthamNo change014£40,536-1.43 %
UxbridgeDown-2513£45,375+17.57 %
CroydonDown-197£67,500+65.96 %
TwickenhamUp+65£32,900-34.20 %
EalingDown-135£46,500-14.15 %
ClaphamUp+53£43,333+30.32 %
SurbitonUp+113£32,500-22.61 %
HarrowUp+103£42,667+33.33 %
HounslowDown-12£37,500-9.09 %
New MaldenDown-32£34,000-11.85 %
PaddingtonNew entry-1£70,000-
WestminsterNew entry-1£34,000-
GreenwichUp+31£40,000-
Java EnglandJava
England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

15321 (34.69 %)Finance
24972 (32.42 %)J2EE
34326 (28.20 %)SQL
43876 (25.27 %)Oracle
53458 (22.55 %)C++
63390 (22.10 %)XML
73288 (21.44 %)Banking
83277 (21.37 %)UNIX
93007 (19.60 %)C#
102907 (18.95 %).NET
112751 (17.94 %)Spring
122732 (17.81 %)OO
132347 (15.30 %)Front Office
142257 (14.72 %)Degree
152151 (14.02 %)Hibernate
161961 (12.79 %)Linux
171958 (12.77 %)Derivative
181716 (11.19 %)JavaScript
191686 (10.99 %)SQL Server
201652 (10.77 %)HTML
211554 (10.13 %)Investment Banking
221538 (10.03 %)Agile Software Development
231527 (9.956 %)Windows
241464 (9.545 %)WebServices
251463 (9.538 %)JSP
261260 (8.215 %)AJAX
271204 (7.850 %)Perl
281174 (7.654 %)E-Commerce
291164 (7.589 %)Sybase
301148 (7.485 %)UML

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14972 (32.42 %)J2EE
23390 (22.10 %)XML
32907 (18.95 %).NET
42751 (17.94 %)Spring
52151 (14.02 %)Hibernate
61652 (10.77 %)HTML
71464 (9.545 %)WebServices
81463 (9.538 %)JSP
91260 (8.215 %)AJAX
101145 (7.465 %)CSS
111021 (6.657 %)WebSphere
12849 (5.535 %)Struts
13820 (5.346 %)JMS
14743 (4.844 %)Swing
15730 (4.759 %)J2SE
16703 (4.583 %)Servlets
17679 (4.427 %)JDBC
18650 (4.238 %)XHTML
19633 (4.127 %)EJB
20613 (3.997 %)ASP.NET
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11096 (7.146 %)WebLogic
2935 (6.096 %)Tomcat
3879 (5.731 %)Apache
4549 (3.579 %)JBoss
5313 (2.041 %)CMS
6232 (1.513 %)WebSphere Application Server
7209 (1.363 %)MQSeries
8197 (1.284 %)IIS
9156 (1.017 %)SharePoint
10108 (0.704 %)ColdFusion
1191 (0.593 %)BizTalk Server
1278 (0.509 %)Rendezvous
1372 (0.469 %)WebSphere MQ
1470 (0.456 %)ESB
1568 (0.443 %)ATG Dynamo
1664 (0.417 %)NetWeaver
1761 (0.398 %)TIBCO EMS
1854 (0.352 %)Documentum
1952 (0.339 %)MS Exchange
2042 (0.274 %)WPS
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1428 (2.790 %)MS Excel
2191 (1.245 %)MS Visio
3156 (1.017 %)Photoshop
487 (0.567 %)MS Office
557 (0.372 %)MATLAB
647 (0.306 %)Spreadsheet
736 (0.235 %)Adobe Illustrator
829 (0.189 %)MS PowerPoint
829 (0.189 %)MS Project
914 (0.091 %)ArcInfo
914 (0.091 %)CA Clarity
1012 (0.078 %)FreeHand
1110 (0.065 %)Fireworks
126 (0.039 %)Quicktime
126 (0.039 %)PrintSoft PReS
131 (0.007 %)Doxygen
131 (0.007 %)InfoPath
131 (0.007 %)S-PLUS
131 (0.007 %)Maya
131 (0.007 %)3ds Max
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
169 (0.450 %)Endur
249 (0.319 %)RMDS
335 (0.228 %)Summit
431 (0.202 %)Oracle Applications
528 (0.183 %)Misys Midas
623 (0.150 %)Oracle EBS
720 (0.130 %)Oracle EBS R12
815 (0.098 %)Hyperion Planning
914 (0.091 %)BusinessWorks
1012 (0.078 %)Retail-J
1111 (0.072 %)Oracle Financials
1210 (0.065 %)Sophis VALUE
139 (0.059 %)TIBCO iProcess
139 (0.059 %)SAP FI
139 (0.059 %)SAP CRM
146 (0.039 %)Kondor+
146 (0.039 %)SAP CO
155 (0.033 %)SAP FI/CO
164 (0.026 %)SAP HR
164 (0.026 %)Apache OFBiz
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1612 (3.990 %)Internet
2275 (1.793 %)TCP/IP
3224 (1.460 %)HTTP
4137 (0.893 %)Firewall
5106 (0.691 %)Intranet
682 (0.535 %)LDAP
762 (0.404 %)WAN
854 (0.352 %)SAN
953 (0.346 %)DNS
953 (0.346 %)LAN
1052 (0.339 %)Wireless
1137 (0.241 %)VPN
1137 (0.241 %)FTP
1234 (0.222 %)Broadband
1333 (0.215 %)SSL
1430 (0.196 %)Extranet
1430 (0.196 %)SMS
1526 (0.170 %)HTTPS
1625 (0.163 %)VoIP
1625 (0.163 %)SSH
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11686 (10.99 %)SQL Server
2963 (6.279 %)RDBMS
3764 (4.981 %)MySQL
4386 (2.517 %)Oracle 10g
5262 (1.708 %)DB2
6217 (1.415 %)SQL Server 2005
7210 (1.369 %)Datawarehouse
8187 (1.219 %)Oracle 8/8i
9146 (0.952 %)BusinessObjects
10143 (0.932 %)ETL
11132 (0.861 %)Oracle 9i
12128 (0.835 %)PostgreSQL
13121 (0.789 %)SQL Server 2000
14101 (0.658 %)Oracle Reports
1582 (0.535 %)TOAD
1664 (0.417 %)DTS
1762 (0.404 %)OLAP
1856 (0.365 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1856 (0.365 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1856 (0.365 %)Reference Data
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1872 (5.685 %)JUnit
2638 (4.160 %)Ant
3601 (3.918 %)Eclipse
4351 (2.288 %)Subversion
5159 (1.037 %)ClearCase
6127 (0.828 %)Visual Studio
7120 (0.782 %)Selenium
894 (0.613 %)Oracle Forms
986 (0.561 %)NUnit
1080 (0.522 %)CruiseControl
1167 (0.437 %)Log4j
1262 (0.404 %)LoadRunner
1360 (0.391 %)ClearQuest
1459 (0.385 %)QuickTest Pro
1556 (0.365 %)JIRA
1650 (0.326 %)FitNesse
1749 (0.319 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1844 (0.287 %)JMeter
1942 (0.274 %)IntelliJ
2040 (0.261 %)TestDirector
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15321 (34.69 %)Finance
23288 (21.44 %)Banking
32347 (15.30 %)Front Office
41554 (10.13 %)Investment Banking
5523 (3.410 %)Games
6510 (3.325 %)Retail
7488 (3.182 %)Education
8457 (2.980 %)Telecoms
9447 (2.914 %)Insurance
10425 (2.771 %)Back Office
11394 (2.569 %)Health
12298 (1.943 %)Pensions
13270 (1.760 %)Marketing
14240 (1.565 %)Financial Institution
15224 (1.460 %)Government
16170 (1.108 %)Publishing
17148 (0.965 %)Online Games
18117 (0.763 %)Advertising
1959 (0.385 %)Multimedia
2055 (0.359 %)Construction
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
18752 (57.06 %)Developer
25074 (33.08 %)Java Developer
31677 (10.93 %)Senior Developer
41433 (9.343 %)Analyst
51163 (7.582 %)Architect
61148 (7.485 %)Senior Java Developer
71045 (6.813 %)Java/J2EE Developer
8778 (5.072 %)C# Developer
9758 (4.942 %)J2EE Developer
10714 (4.655 %)Consultant
11583 (3.801 %)Project Manager
12524 (3.416 %)Web Developer
13505 (3.292 %)C++ Developer
14438 (2.856 %)Technical Architect
15433 (2.823 %)Team Leader
16428 (2.790 %)Programmer
17404 (2.634 %)Applications Support
18385 (2.510 %)Graduate
19363 (2.367 %)Software Developer
20356 (2.321 %)Support Analyst
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11958 (12.77 %)Derivative
2878 (5.724 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3837 (5.457 %)Fixed Income
4792 (5.164 %)Equities
5696 (4.538 %)Computer Science
6587 (3.827 %)Equity Derivative
7493 (3.214 %)Multithreading
8383 (2.497 %)Mathematics
9381 (2.484 %)Credit Derivative
10250 (1.630 %)Market Risk
11224 (1.460 %)Web 2.0
12213 (1.389 %)Credit Risk
13180 (1.174 %)Interest Rate Derivative
14173 (1.128 %)N-Tier
15144 (0.939 %)Grid Computing
16136 (0.887 %)Client/Server
17129 (0.841 %)Spread Betting
18109 (0.711 %)Physics
1993 (0.606 %)Contract for Difference
2088 (0.574 %)Social Network
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
13277 (21.37 %)UNIX
21961 (12.79 %)Linux
31527 (9.956 %)Windows
4731 (4.766 %)Solaris
5260 (1.695 %)Red Hat Linux
6188 (1.226 %)Windows Server 2003
796 (0.626 %)Windows XP
894 (0.613 %)AIX
975 (0.489 %)Windows 2000
1050 (0.326 %)Windows NT
1148 (0.313 %)Windows 2000 Server
1231 (0.202 %)CentOS
1330 (0.196 %)HPUX
1426 (0.170 %)Debian
1525 (0.163 %)Windows Mobile
1618 (0.117 %)Fedora
1618 (0.117 %)Android
1717 (0.111 %)MVS
1815 (0.098 %)SUSE
1914 (0.091 %)Symbian OS
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12732 (17.81 %)OO
21538 (10.03 %)Agile Software Development
31174 (7.654 %)E-Commerce
41148 (7.485 %)UML
5900 (5.868 %)Project Management
6724 (4.720 %)SOA
7651 (4.244 %)Scrum
8610 (3.977 %)TDD
9547 (3.566 %)Risk Management
10526 (3.429 %)Web Development
11487 (3.175 %)Algorithmic Trading
12386 (2.517 %)OOD
13372 (2.425 %)Electronic Trading
14371 (2.419 %)Unit Testing
15348 (2.269 %)RUP
16313 (2.041 %)Software Engineering
17295 (1.923 %)Content Management
18268 (1.747 %)OOA/OOD
19267 (1.741 %)Data Modelling
20264 (1.721 %)Investment Management
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14326 (28.20 %)SQL
23458 (22.55 %)C++
33007 (19.60 %)C#
41716 (11.19 %)JavaScript
51204 (7.850 %)Perl
6917 (5.979 %)C
7761 (4.962 %)VB
8729 (4.753 %)PL/SQL
9651 (4.244 %)PHP
10521 (3.397 %)Shell Script
11497 (3.240 %)VBA
12476 (3.103 %)Python
13386 (2.517 %)Ruby
14298 (1.943 %)VB.NET
15229 (1.493 %)ActionScript
16225 (1.467 %)Transact-SQL
17118 (0.769 %)Delphi
18117 (0.763 %)VB6
19105 (0.685 %)VBScript
19105 (0.685 %)ABAP
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12257 (14.72 %)Degree
2189 (1.232 %)Security Cleared
3155 (1.011 %)PhD
481 (0.528 %)SC Cleared
572 (0.469 %)ISEB
646 (0.300 %)Sun Certification
735 (0.228 %)Oracle Certification
831 (0.202 %)CISSP
926 (0.170 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1025 (0.163 %)Microsoft Certification
1122 (0.143 %)GIAC
1221 (0.137 %)DV Cleared
1320 (0.130 %)PMP
1419 (0.124 %)PMI Certification
1419 (0.124 %)HND
1516 (0.104 %)MBA
1615 (0.098 %)CEH
1714 (0.091 %)ITIL Certification
1714 (0.091 %)MCSE
1813 (0.085 %)IBM WebSphere Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1411 (2.680 %)QA
241 (0.267 %)SLA
317 (0.111 %)MiFID
412 (0.078 %)WCAG
412 (0.078 %)WAI
59 (0.059 %)ISO9001
68 (0.052 %)Basel II
75 (0.033 %)HL7
84 (0.026 %)HIPAA
93 (0.020 %)COBIT
101 (0.007 %)ISO8583
101 (0.007 %)GxP
101 (0.007 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
155 (0.359 %)Active Directory
240 (0.261 %)AquaLogic
323 (0.150 %)Oracle RAC
419 (0.124 %)VMware Infrastructure
419 (0.124 %)Oracle RMAN
515 (0.098 %)NFS
613 (0.085 %)Squid
78 (0.052 %)SAP ITS
86 (0.039 %)Cronacle
86 (0.039 %)MetaFrame
95 (0.033 %)Terminal Server
95 (0.033 %)Orbix
95 (0.033 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
104 (0.026 %)Xen
104 (0.026 %)Samba
113 (0.020 %)MSMQ
113 (0.020 %)Nmap
113 (0.020 %)WebInspect
113 (0.020 %)Backup Exec
122 (0.013 %)VMware ESX
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
153 (0.346 %)AutoSys
243 (0.280 %)Tivoli
331 (0.202 %)Nagios
427 (0.176 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
522 (0.143 %)MOM
613 (0.085 %)OpenView
711 (0.072 %)Data Guard
87 (0.046 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
87 (0.046 %)OVSD
96 (0.039 %)Unicenter
96 (0.039 %)BMC PATROL
105 (0.033 %)WSUS
114 (0.026 %)CA SiteMinder
114 (0.026 %)CONTROL-M
114 (0.026 %)Legato
114 (0.026 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
123 (0.020 %)EMC NetWorker
123 (0.020 %)Nessus
131 (0.007 %)Novell Identity Manager
131 (0.007 %)DirXML
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
13876 (25.27 %)Oracle
21164 (7.589 %)Sybase
3657 (4.283 %)Microsoft
4423 (2.758 %)TIBCO
5340 (2.217 %)IBM
6282 (1.839 %)Red Hat
7276 (1.799 %)Sun
8218 (1.421 %)BEA
9188 (1.226 %)SAP
10146 (0.952 %)Business Objects
11124 (0.808 %)Reuters
12116 (0.756 %)ATG
13115 (0.750 %)Calypso
14112 (0.730 %)Adobe
15107 (0.698 %)Murex
16101 (0.658 %)OpenLink
1799 (0.645 %)DataSynapse
1898 (0.639 %)Bloomberg
1992 (0.600 %)Cisco
2088 (0.574 %)Perforce