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Yesterday I blogged about The Average wage for Java Developers and the page where I got this information also had some interesting statistics regarding what other skills job adverts had when the word Java was mentioned. The original source of that data can be found here.
Below is are the IT skills that are mentioned in the same advert as Java
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
I was slightly surprised J2EE was the top IT skill, I don't really know why but I was sure so many adverts would use that word as it seems slightly on it's way out. The database stuff like SQL and Oracle is very high as you would expect. JSP is quite low down the list and I thought this would be something to do with Ajax but that isn't on the list at all. Disappointingly OO is down to number 10, below Degree. It's interesting that other programming languages feature quite highly.
This set of data also interested me
Java Related IT Skills - By Category Over the last 6 months permanent IT job ads across the UK citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of IT job ads and their proportion against the total number of ads sampled citing Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category. Application Development 1 31498 (38.50 %) J2EE 2 21368 (26.12 %) XML 3 13380 (16.35 %) .NET 4 11514 (14.07 %) JSP 5 9895 (12.09 %) HTML 6 8217 (10.04 %) WebSphere 7 6583 (8.05 %) Struts 8 6295 (7.69 %) EJB 9 6068 (7.42 %) Servlets 10 5182 (6.33 %) WebServices 11 4998 (6.11 %) Hibernate 12 4447 (5.44 %) JDBC 13 4150 (5.07 %) JMS 14 3981 (4.87 %) Swing 15 3931 (4.80 %) XSLT 16 3445 (4.21 %) SOAP 17 3329 (4.07 %) CSS 18 3254 (3.98 %) ASP.NET 19 2878 (3.52 %) Middleware 20 2788 (3.41 %) Spring Framework Application Platforms 1 6423 (7.85 %) WebLogic 2 5021 (6.14 %) Tomcat 3 4257 (5.20 %) JBoss 4 3865 (4.72 %) Apache 5 1539 (1.88 %) WebSphere Appl... 6 1316 (1.61 %) IIS 7 1284 (1.57 %) MQSeries 8 878 (1.07 %) CMS 9 635 (0.78 %) WebLogic Portal 10 617 (0.75 %) WebSphere MQ 11 572 (0.70 %) Documentum 12 431 (0.53 %) ColdFusion 13 391 (0.48 %) SharePoint 14 380 (0.46 %) BizTalk Server 15 357 (0.44 %) NetWeaver 16 340 (0.42 %) Lotus Notes 17 316 (0.39 %) Oracle Workflow 18 309 (0.38 %) Oracle Applica... 19 216 (0.26 %) ATG Dynamo 20 201 (0.25 %) Lotus Domino
it shows that Weblogic is the most popular Application platform (well the most popular mentioned) although Websphere is number 6 application development which would indicate it was perhaps more popular. I was interested that .NET featured so highly with Struts and Servlets still high up there.
Finally it has a section on what development applications. I was very surprised that Junit was above Ant. This data must be a bit old I am thinking because Eclipse is mentioned but there is no sign of NetBeans. Subversion seems to be the most popular version control although CVS isn't mentioned whilst Visual SourceSafe is.
Where are all the Java developers working, mainly in Finance and Banking (if the figures are to be believed)
So in the end what can you make of it all, Don't trust statistics.
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
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