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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

 Senior Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank211844
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+26
Matching permanent IT job ads163537
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire5.634 %8.642 %3.932 %
As % of the Job Titles category5.714 %9.044 %4.084 %
Salaries quoted153226
Average salary£47,500£37,000£43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.37 %-15.42 %
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£38,000
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %-
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
280387906
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire98.59 %95.56 %96.28 %
Salaries quoted255343765
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£23,000£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£52,500£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Senior Developer East of EnglandSenior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Senior Developer Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
BedfordDown-66£43,500+17.56 %
Senior Developer East of EnglandSenior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

142 (84.00 %)SQL
236 (72.00 %).NET
335 (70.00 %)C#
434 (68.00 %)SQL Server
434 (68.00 %)WinForms
533 (66.00 %)WPF
632 (64.00 %)ASP.NET
730 (60.00 %)Silverlight
826 (52.00 %)Windows
925 (50.00 %)SQL Server 2005
1024 (48.00 %)Education
1123 (46.00 %)WCF
1222 (44.00 %)Construction
1317 (34.00 %)Migration
1413 (26.00 %)JavaScript
1512 (24.00 %)CSS
1610 (20.00 %)Unit Testing
179 (18.00 %)PL/SQL
179 (18.00 %)Informatica
188 (16.00 %)Retail
188 (16.00 %)Health
188 (16.00 %)Finance
188 (16.00 %)Business Objects
188 (16.00 %)Oracle
188 (16.00 %)XHTML
188 (16.00 %)UNIX
188 (16.00 %)BusinessObjects
188 (16.00 %).NET Framework
197 (14.00 %)SharePoint
197 (14.00 %)T-SQL

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
136 (72.00 %).NET
234 (68.00 %)WinForms
333 (66.00 %)WPF
432 (64.00 %)ASP.NET
530 (60.00 %)Silverlight
623 (46.00 %)WCF
712 (24.00 %)CSS
88 (16.00 %)XHTML
88 (16.00 %).NET Framework
97 (14.00 %)ADO.NET
106 (12.00 %)AJAX
115 (10.00 %)jQuery
124 (8.000 %)Fusebox
124 (8.000 %)XML
131 (2.000 %)LAMP
131 (2.000 %)HTML
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (14.00 %)SharePoint
25 (10.00 %)IIS
34 (8.000 %)ColdFusion
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (10.00 %)LDAP
15 (10.00 %)DNS
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
134 (68.00 %)SQL Server
225 (50.00 %)SQL Server 2005
38 (16.00 %)BusinessObjects
44 (8.000 %)SQL Server 2000
44 (8.000 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
44 (8.000 %)SQL Server Integration Services
44 (8.000 %)SQL Server 2008
52 (4.000 %)RDBMS
61 (2.000 %)Datawarehouse
61 (2.000 %)ETL
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (8.000 %)NUnit
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
124 (48.00 %)Education
222 (44.00 %)Construction
38 (16.00 %)Finance
38 (16.00 %)Health
38 (16.00 %)Retail
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (2.000 %)Web 2.0
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
126 (52.00 %)Windows
28 (16.00 %)UNIX
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
117 (34.00 %)Migration
210 (20.00 %)Unit Testing
35 (10.00 %)Network Load Balancing
44 (8.000 %)MVC
51 (2.000 %)Web Development
51 (2.000 %)OOP
51 (2.000 %)OO
51 (2.000 %)Project Management
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
142 (84.00 %)SQL
235 (70.00 %)C#
313 (26.00 %)JavaScript
49 (18.00 %)PL/SQL
57 (14.00 %)T-SQL
61 (2.000 %)PHP5
61 (2.000 %)PHP
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16 (12.00 %)MCAD
16 (12.00 %)MCSD
16 (12.00 %)Microsoft Certification
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (2.000 %)VMware Infrastructure
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19 (18.00 %)Informatica
28 (16.00 %)Oracle
28 (16.00 %)Business Objects
33 (6.000 %)Microsoft
41 (2.000 %)BT
41 (2.000 %)VMware