The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast 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 17 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 1 11
Rank change year-on-year
0 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 85 79 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 34.55% 38.16% 14.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 40.48% 45.40% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 68 38 15
Average salary £40,250 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £24,700 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
210 174 170
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 85.37% 84.06% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 134 89 80
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £20,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
County Antrim

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Belfast Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 53 (44.17%) SQL
2 51 (42.50%) C#
3 38 (31.67%) .NET
4 35 (29.17%) SQL Server
5 32 (26.67%) XML
6 30 (25.00%) Finance
7 29 (24.17%) Java
8 26 (21.67%) OO
9 25 (20.83%) JavaScript
10 23 (19.17%) C++
10 23 (19.17%) Banking
11 22 (18.33%) CSS
11 22 (18.33%) ASP.NET
11 22 (18.33%) Windows
11 22 (18.33%) Linux
12 21 (17.50%) HTML
13 19 (15.83%) Oracle
13 19 (15.83%) Unit Testing
14 18 (15.00%) jQuery
14 18 (15.00%) UNIX
15 17 (14.17%) Ajax
16 16 (13.33%) Investment Banking
16 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
17 15 (12.50%) Degree
18 14 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
18 14 (11.67%) Multithreading
18 14 (11.67%) WPF
19 13 (10.83%) MS Excel
19 13 (10.83%) HTML5
20 12 (10.00%) WCF

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 38 (31.67%) .NET
2 32 (26.67%) XML
3 22 (18.33%) ASP.NET
3 22 (18.33%) CSS
4 21 (17.50%) HTML
5 18 (15.00%) jQuery
6 17 (14.17%) Ajax
7 14 (11.67%) WPF
8 13 (10.83%) HTML5
9 12 (10.00%) WCF
10 10 (8.333%) CSS3
11 9 (7.500%) .NET Framework
11 9 (7.500%) Web Services
12 7 (5.833%) WinForms
12 7 (5.833%) Spring
12 7 (5.833%) CakePHP
13 6 (5.000%) JSP
14 5 (4.167%) J2EE
14 5 (4.167%) WF
14 5 (4.167%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.333%) IIS
2 4 (3.333%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (2.500%) CMS
4 2 (1.667%) ExpressionEngine
4 2 (1.667%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.667%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.667%) WordPress
4 2 (1.667%) Force.com
4 2 (1.667%) Apache
4 2 (1.667%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.833%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.833%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.833%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (10.83%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.500%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.667%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.833%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (1.667%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.833%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.833%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.833%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.833%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.000%) Network Security
2 3 (2.500%) Broadband
3 2 (1.667%) DNS
3 2 (1.667%) Intranet
3 2 (1.667%) Internet
4 1 (0.833%) VoIP
4 1 (0.833%) HTTP
4 1 (0.833%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.333%) MySQL
3 8 (6.667%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.833%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.333%) GIS
6 4 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.667%) DB2
7 2 (1.667%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.833%) Redis
8 1 (0.833%) Big Data
8 1 (0.833%) OLAP
8 1 (0.833%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.833%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.833%) OLTP
8 1 (0.833%) KDB
Development Applications
1 8 (6.667%) Subversion
1 8 (6.667%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.667%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.667%) JDeveloper
3 2 (1.667%) JIRA
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.833%) Selenium
4 1 (0.833%) Gradle
General
1 30 (25.00%) Finance
2 23 (19.17%) Banking
3 16 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.167%) Front Office
5 2 (1.667%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.667%) Advertising
5 2 (1.667%) Games
5 2 (1.667%) Marketing
5 2 (1.667%) Retail
6 1 (0.833%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.833%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.833%) iPhone
1 7 (5.833%) iPad
2 6 (5.000%) Social Media
2 6 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.167%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.333%) Mobile Computing
4 4 (3.333%) Open Source
5 3 (2.500%) Equities
5 3 (2.500%) STB
5 3 (2.500%) IPTV
5 3 (2.500%) Derivative
6 2 (1.667%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 2 (1.667%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.667%) Wiki
6 2 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.667%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.833%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.833%) Blog
7 1 (0.833%) Social Network
7 1 (0.833%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.33%) Windows
1 22 (18.33%) Linux
2 18 (15.00%) UNIX
3 4 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.667%) Android
4 2 (1.667%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.67%) OO
2 19 (15.83%) Unit Testing
3 14 (11.67%) Multithreading
3 14 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (8.333%) Computer Architecture
5 9 (7.500%) Web Application Development
6 8 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (5.000%) MVC
7 6 (5.000%) Scrum
8 5 (4.167%) Workflow
8 5 (4.167%) Data Modelling
8 5 (4.167%) SOA
8 5 (4.167%) Software Engineering
8 5 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
9 4 (3.333%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (3.333%) Strategic Planning
9 4 (3.333%) ETL
9 4 (3.333%) E-Commerce
9 4 (3.333%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.17%) SQL
2 51 (42.50%) C#
3 29 (24.17%) Java
4 25 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 23 (19.17%) C++
6 11 (9.167%) PHP
7 9 (7.500%) PL/SQL
8 8 (6.667%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.167%) Python
10 4 (3.333%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.333%) Perl
10 4 (3.333%) C
11 3 (2.500%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.667%) JCL
12 2 (1.667%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.667%) Ruby
12 2 (1.667%) COBOL
12 2 (1.667%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.833%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.833%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (2.500%) Postgraduate
3 2 (1.667%) BC Cleared
3 2 (1.667%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (1.667%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.833%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.833%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.833%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (15.83%) Oracle
2 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.667%) Sybase
4 6 (5.000%) Business Objects
5 5 (4.167%) HP
6 4 (3.333%) Actuate
6 4 (3.333%) Informatica
6 4 (3.333%) ESRI
6 4 (3.333%) Ab Initio
6 4 (3.333%) Progress
6 4 (3.333%) UC4
7 2 (1.667%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.667%) DataSynapse
7 2 (1.667%) Infragistics
7 2 (1.667%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.833%) Cognos
8 1 (0.833%) Google
8 1 (0.833%) Syncfusion
8 1 (0.833%) Facebook
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