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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Developer
Rank 210 209 183
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 9 13 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.173% 0.211% 0.519%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.184% 0.223% 0.551%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 25
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £46,900 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £54,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.87% +1.25%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Developer
South East

Senior Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Software Developer Salary Trend

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Berkshire Senior Software Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Reading +2 4 £45,000 -10.00%
Slough -7 3 £60,000 +17.07%
Newbury +9 1 £40,000 -
Bracknell - 1 £45,000 -
Senior Software Developer
South East

Senior Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (54.17%) CSS
3 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (45.83%) SQL
5 10 (41.67%) .NET
6 9 (37.50%) PHP
6 9 (37.50%) HTML
7 8 (33.33%) Java
7 8 (33.33%) C#
7 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET
8 7 (29.17%) Web Services
8 7 (29.17%) OO
8 7 (29.17%) Degree
9 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
9 6 (25.00%) jQuery
9 6 (25.00%) Apache
9 6 (25.00%) J2EE
9 6 (25.00%) Open Source
10 5 (20.83%) Oracle
10 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
10 5 (20.83%) Linux
11 4 (16.67%) XML
11 4 (16.67%) Tomcat
11 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
11 4 (16.67%) SOA
11 4 (16.67%) HTML5
11 4 (16.67%) CSS3
12 3 (12.50%) SaaS
12 3 (12.50%) Ajax

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (54.17%) CSS
2 10 (41.67%) .NET
3 9 (37.50%) HTML
4 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 6 (25.00%) jQuery
6 6 (25.00%) J2EE
7 4 (16.67%) XML
7 4 (16.67%) HTML5
7 4 (16.67%) CSS3
8 3 (12.50%) Ajax
8 3 (12.50%) WCF
8 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (8.333%) Silverlight
9 2 (8.333%) LINQ
9 2 (8.333%) Spring
9 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (4.167%) OSGi
10 1 (4.167%) AppFabric
10 1 (4.167%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) GSM
1 1 (4.167%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.167%) MySQL
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.167%) Maven
2 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (4.167%) Publishing
2 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (25.00%) Open Source
2 3 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.167%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Phone 8
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Phone
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.167%) UNIX
3 1 (4.167%) Android
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (29.17%) OO
3 4 (16.67%) SOA
4 3 (12.50%) B2B
4 3 (12.50%) MVC
4 3 (12.50%) Email Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Web Development
5 2 (8.333%) OOP
5 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.333%) Scrum
6 1 (4.167%) Software Architecture
6 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.167%) Metadata Management
6 1 (4.167%) Migration
6 1 (4.167%) Workflow
6 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.167%) Multithreading
6 1 (4.167%) TDD
6 1 (4.167%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 9 (37.50%) PHP
4 8 (33.33%) Java
4 8 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) PHP5
6 2 (8.333%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.167%) Clojure
7 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.167%) C++
7 1 (4.167%) Python
7 1 (4.167%) Scala
7 1 (4.167%) Haskell
7 1 (4.167%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Sun
2 3 (12.50%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) JBoss
3 2 (8.333%) Zend
4 1 (4.167%) Apple
4 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
Slough, Berkshire
A graduate with a Computer Science degree -Proven experience of designing and developing a greenfield solution -Considerable experience in software development including experience of using C#, Visual Studio...
Neilson Financial Services Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013