The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeenshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Aberdeenshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeenshire 50.00% 25.00% 27.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 50.00% 27.78% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 3
Average salary £34,750 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.12% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Aberdeenshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6 18 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeenshire 100.00% 90.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 11
Average salary £40,500 £37,250 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.72% -12.35%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Scotland

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Developer across the Aberdeenshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Aberdeenshire Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeenshire Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Aberdeenshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Aberdeenshire Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Delphi
2 2 (50.00%) WinForms
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeenshire region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) WinForms
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Delphi
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft