The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 45 22 21
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 4 17 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 1.594% 8.416% 10.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.633% 8.629% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 17
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% +26.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,750 £30,700 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,750 £42,500 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
245 197 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 97.61% 97.52% 99.39%
Number of salaries quoted 239 187 158
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Bedfordshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Bedford Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (80.00%) MSTest
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Wiki
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) WPF
2 4 (80.00%) WF
2 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 4 (80.00%) PowerBuilder
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (80.00%) CRM
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Telerik
2 4 (80.00%) VB6
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) WinForms

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) WPF
2 4 (80.00%) WF
2 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) WinForms
2 4 (80.00%) ASP
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (80.00%) MSTest
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 4 (80.00%) PowerBuilder
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) CRM
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) VB6
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) VBScript
2 4 (80.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Telerik
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
Bedford, Bedfordshire
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Salary: From £38,000 to £45,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013