The Average Salary for Java Developers

Every now and then I like to have a look at what the average wage is for a Java developer, I found quite an interesting site with a lot of statistics on. I am like everyone else and love statistics to look at, although every time I look at these statistics they seem quite high, especially considering they have another section for contract work. here is the link

and below are the more interesting statistics taken from the website link above.

Java

This section looks at the demand for Java skills across the UK with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Java over the last 3 month to 20 November 2006 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 3 Months to 20 November 2006 Same Period Last Year Rank 5 8 Rank Change on Same Period Last Year +3 Matching Permanent IT Job Ads 33296 29274 As % of All UK Permanent IT Job Ads Sampled 15.51 % 14.02 % As % of Category 35.23 % 32.64 % Salaries Quoted 23589 22104 Average Minimum Salary £43,726 £43,695 Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year £48,313 £48,014 +0.62 % Average Maximum Salary £52,900 £52,334 Programming Languages UK Matching Permanent IT Job Ads 94510 89675 As % of All UK Permanent IT Job Ads Sampled 44.02 % 42.95 % Salaries Quoted 67596 69274 Average Minimum Salary £38,633 £38,861 Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year £42,360 £42,423 -0.14 % Average Maximum Salary £46,087 £45,986

Java Average Salaries This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Java within the UK region over the last 3 months to 20 November 2006. RC JA AS SC England +3 31928 £48,628 +0.44 % Scotland -1 696 £34,642 +5.48 % Wales +2 281 £31,472 -17.28 % Northern Ireland -4 43 £35,797 +10.30 % Isle of Man +7 6 £39,200 +35.17 % Channel Islands -15 1 - - RC Rank change on same period last year SC Average salary % change on same period last year JA Matching permanent IT job ads AS Average salary Java Related IT Skills Top 20 Over the last 6 months permanent IT job ads across the UK citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of IT job ads and their proportion against the total number of ads sampled citing Java. 1 31498 (38.50 %) J2EE 2 22217 (27.16 %) SQL 3 21498 (26.28 %) UNIX 4 21368 (26.12 %) XML 5 21023 (25.70 %) Oracle 6 20439 (24.98 %) Finance 7 18660 (22.81 %) C++ 8 18480 (22.59 %) Banking 9 16815 (20.55 %) Degree 10 14833 (18.13 %) OO 11 13380 (16.35 %) .NET 12 13159 (16.08 %) C# 13 11514 (14.07 %) JSP 14 9895 (12.09 %) HTML 15 9510 (11.62 %) Sybase 16 9481 (11.59 %) UML 17 9222 (11.27 %) Linux 18 9125 (11.15 %) SQL Server 19 8823 (10.78 %) Windows 20 8694 (10.63 %) Front Office If you like this blog or and fancy something a bit less technical with some laughing thrown in then check out my other blog Amusing IT Stories. Which is a blog about funny and amusing stories from the IT environment and the office. It is a mix of news, office humour, IT stories, links, cartoons and anything that I find funny