The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 84 28 33
Rank change year-on-year
-56 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 6 58 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.562% 6.510% 4.962%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.592% 6.792% 5.186%
Number of salaries quoted 6 50 46
Average salary £30,000 £41,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.82% +26.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £55,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1013 854 887
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.94% 95.85% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 909 746 839
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedfordshire Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Luton -28 1 £50,000 +21.95%
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) C#
3 11 (55.00%) .NET
4 10 (50.00%) Degree
5 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (40.00%) VB
6 8 (40.00%) XML
6 8 (40.00%) VB6
6 8 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
7 7 (35.00%) WCF
7 7 (35.00%) MVC
7 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
7 7 (35.00%) Windows
7 7 (35.00%) CSS
7 7 (35.00%) Web Services
7 7 (35.00%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (30.00%) Oracle
8 6 (30.00%) Visual Studio
8 6 (30.00%) WinForms
8 6 (30.00%) WF
8 6 (30.00%) Silverlight
8 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (30.00%) jQuery
9 5 (25.00%) TDD
9 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
9 5 (25.00%) SOA
9 5 (25.00%) MS Excel

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 8 (40.00%) XML
3 7 (35.00%) WCF
3 7 (35.00%) CSS
3 7 (35.00%) Web Services
4 6 (30.00%) WinForms
4 6 (30.00%) WF
4 6 (30.00%) Silverlight
4 6 (30.00%) jQuery
5 5 (25.00%) HTML
6 4 (20.00%) ASP
6 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 4 (20.00%) WPF
7 3 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (10.00%) NHibernate
9 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
9 1 (5.000%) Ajax
9 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (5.000%) Castle Windsor
9 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (5.000%) Moodle
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (5.000%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (30.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (20.00%) PowerBuilder
3 4 (20.00%) MSTest
3 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (15.00%) NUnit
5 2 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (5.000%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.000%) ReSharper
General
1 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) Wiki
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.000%) Open Source
4 1 (5.000%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (5.000%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (35.00%) MVC
2 5 (25.00%) TDD
2 5 (25.00%) SOA
3 4 (20.00%) CRM
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 4 (20.00%) Kanban
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Web Development
5 2 (10.00%) Use Case
6 1 (5.000%) Revenue Management
6 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.000%) MVVM
6 1 (5.000%) OOP
6 1 (5.000%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) C#
3 8 (40.00%) VB
3 8 (40.00%) VB6
4 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
5 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (20.00%) Java
6 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (20.00%) VBScript
7 2 (10.00%) XAML
7 2 (10.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 2 (10.00%) VBA
7 2 (10.00%) Ruby
8 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
8 1 (5.000%) COBOL
8 1 (5.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) LPIC
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) Telerik
4 1 (5.000%) Dundas
4 1 (5.000%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.000%) Cisco
4 1 (5.000%) IBM
4 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
Bedfordshire, South East
You will be degree educated with a good understanding of web application development and excellent communication skills... Front end development experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript & JQuery. Knowledge of...
greywood
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Experience of Telerik Control, Design patterns, CSS, MVC, .Net, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), MSTest, ASP, BI Tool, Winforms, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), VB6, SSIS, Black light control,...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £23000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013