The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 20 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 733 846 721
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 42.27% 42.28% 34.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 44.78% 43.43% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 698 707 694
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1637 1948 1995
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 94.41% 97.35% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1470 1668 1825
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,650 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Developer
Cambridgeshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cambridge Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 753 (54.80%) C#
2 694 (50.51%) .NET
3 518 (37.70%) SQL Server
4 466 (33.92%) ASP.NET
5 446 (32.46%) JavaScript
6 400 (29.11%) SQL
7 391 (28.46%) HTML
8 367 (26.71%) CSS
9 350 (25.47%) Degree
10 346 (25.18%) Java
11 279 (20.31%) XML
12 277 (20.16%) Microsoft
13 259 (18.85%) C++
14 250 (18.20%) Oracle
15 231 (16.81%) Linux
16 206 (14.99%) TDD
17 203 (14.77%) jQuery
18 201 (14.63%) Web Services
19 180 (13.10%) MySQL
20 176 (12.81%) Agile Software Development
21 166 (12.08%) Python
22 163 (11.86%) PHP
23 160 (11.64%) Windows
24 159 (11.57%) MS Excel
25 157 (11.43%) Computer Science
25 157 (11.43%) WCF
26 148 (10.77%) Ajax
27 145 (10.55%) C
28 137 (9.971%) MVC
29 134 (9.753%) OO

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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
1 694 (50.51%) .NET
2 466 (33.92%) ASP.NET
3 391 (28.46%) HTML
4 367 (26.71%) CSS
5 279 (20.31%) XML
6 203 (14.77%) jQuery
7 201 (14.63%) Web Services
8 157 (11.43%) WCF
9 148 (10.77%) Ajax
10 106 (7.715%) WPF
11 88 (6.405%) WinForms
12 76 (5.531%) SOAP
12 76 (5.531%) ASP.NET MVC
13 75 (5.459%) HTML5
14 64 (4.658%) .NET Framework
15 63 (4.585%) XSLT
16 58 (4.221%) Spring
17 47 (3.421%) CSS3
18 46 (3.348%) ADO.NET
19 43 (3.130%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 129 (9.389%) SharePoint
2 118 (8.588%) Apache
3 44 (3.202%) SharePoint 2010
4 40 (2.911%) Tomcat
5 24 (1.747%) CMS
6 20 (1.456%) BizTalk Server
7 18 (1.310%) IIS
8 16 (1.164%) Oracle Workflow
9 15 (1.092%) SharePoint Server
9 15 (1.092%) Windows Azure
10 14 (1.019%) OpenEdge
11 12 (0.873%) Drupal
12 10 (0.728%) ColdFusion
13 9 (0.655%) ESB
13 9 (0.655%) SharePoint 2013
14 8 (0.582%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.509%) MediaWiki
16 6 (0.437%) concrete5
16 6 (0.437%) WebLogic
16 6 (0.437%) nginx
Applications
1 159 (11.57%) MS Excel
2 32 (2.329%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.509%) MS Office
3 7 (0.509%) Google Apps
4 3 (0.218%) Fireworks
5 2 (0.146%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.146%) GIMP
6 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 50 (3.639%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.801%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (0.582%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.509%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.437%) Oracle Applications
5 6 (0.437%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.291%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.218%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.146%) SalesLogix
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.313%) HTTP
2 35 (2.547%) Internet
3 10 (0.728%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.582%) Intranet
5 3 (0.218%) RTSP
5 3 (0.218%) IGMP
5 3 (0.218%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.218%) SSL
5 3 (0.218%) X.509
6 2 (0.146%) SMS
7 1 (0.073%) WLAN
7 1 (0.073%) GPRS
7 1 (0.073%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.073%) 3G
7 1 (0.073%) Wireless
7 1 (0.073%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (37.70%) SQL Server
2 180 (13.10%) MySQL
3 122 (8.879%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 113 (8.224%) SQL Server 2008
5 100 (7.278%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 83 (6.041%) SQL Server 2005
7 69 (5.022%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 51 (3.712%) SQL Server 2012
9 47 (3.421%) Oracle 10g
10 43 (3.130%) MS Access
11 31 (2.256%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (1.892%) RDBMS
13 25 (1.820%) Big Data
14 24 (1.747%) NoSQL
14 24 (1.747%) Firebird
15 23 (1.674%) Oracle 8/8i
16 21 (1.528%) Couchbase
16 21 (1.528%) Crystal Reports
17 19 (1.383%) OLTP
17 19 (1.383%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 120 (8.734%) Subversion
2 84 (6.114%) Visual Studio
3 81 (5.895%) NUnit
4 55 (4.003%) Rhino Mocks
4 55 (4.003%) Moq
5 43 (3.130%) Git (software)
6 28 (2.038%) Team Foundation Server
6 28 (2.038%) JIRA
7 27 (1.965%) MSTest
8 21 (1.528%) Selenium
8 21 (1.528%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.237%) QuickTest Pro
10 15 (1.092%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (1.092%) QUnit
11 14 (1.019%) JUnit
12 12 (0.873%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.728%) GCC
14 9 (0.655%) Firebug
14 9 (0.655%) Bugzilla
15 8 (0.582%) SCons
General
1 130 (9.461%) Finance
2 26 (1.892%) Music Industry
3 24 (1.747%) Manufacturing
4 19 (1.383%) Electronics
5 11 (0.801%) Multimedia
5 11 (0.801%) Advertising
5 11 (0.801%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (0.728%) Retail
7 9 (0.655%) Publishing
8 7 (0.509%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.437%) Automotive
9 6 (0.437%) Billing
10 5 (0.364%) Marketing
10 5 (0.364%) Games
11 3 (0.218%) Legal
12 2 (0.146%) Military
13 1 (0.073%) Banking
13 1 (0.073%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.073%) French Language
13 1 (0.073%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.43%) Computer Science
2 84 (6.114%) Mobile App
3 65 (4.731%) Mathematics
4 35 (2.547%) Physics
5 34 (2.475%) SaaS
6 33 (2.402%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (2.183%) Open Source
8 26 (1.892%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.820%) Inversion of Control
10 20 (1.456%) Blackberry
11 19 (1.383%) Blog
12 18 (1.310%) iPhone
13 17 (1.237%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.092%) Semantic Web
15 13 (0.946%) Mobile Payment
16 12 (0.873%) Visualisation
16 12 (0.873%) Handset
17 11 (0.801%) Client/Server
18 9 (0.655%) iPad
19 7 (0.509%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 231 (16.81%) Linux
2 160 (11.64%) Windows
3 84 (6.114%) Android
4 71 (5.167%) UNIX
4 71 (5.167%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.383%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (1.019%) CentOS
7 10 (0.728%) openSUSE
8 8 (0.582%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.437%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.364%) Windows Phone
11 4 (0.291%) Solaris
12 3 (0.218%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.218%) BlackBerry OS
13 2 (0.146%) Fedora
13 2 (0.146%) Debian
13 2 (0.146%) Windows Mobile
13 2 (0.146%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Phone 8
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (14.99%) TDD
2 176 (12.81%) Agile Software Development
3 137 (9.971%) MVC
4 134 (9.753%) OO
5 117 (8.515%) Scrum
6 106 (7.715%) Business Intelligence
7 94 (6.841%) Web Development
8 77 (5.604%) OOD
9 65 (4.731%) Web Application Development
10 62 (4.512%) Continuous Integration
11 60 (4.367%) CRM
12 52 (3.785%) Kanban
13 51 (3.712%) Unit Testing
14 44 (3.202%) OOP
15 40 (2.911%) Automated Testing
15 40 (2.911%) ERP
16 39 (2.838%) Software Engineering
17 38 (2.766%) Software Testing
18 37 (2.693%) BDD
19 36 (2.620%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 753 (54.80%) C#
2 446 (32.46%) JavaScript
3 400 (29.11%) SQL
4 346 (25.18%) Java
5 259 (18.85%) C++
6 166 (12.08%) Python
7 163 (11.86%) PHP
8 145 (10.55%) C
9 129 (9.389%) VB.NET
9 129 (9.389%) T-SQL
10 126 (9.170%) Perl
11 59 (4.294%) VB
12 55 (4.003%) Ruby
13 39 (2.838%) Objective-C
14 29 (2.111%) VBA
14 29 (2.111%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.092%) Embedded C
15 15 (1.092%) Tcl
16 12 (0.873%) VBScript
17 10 (0.728%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 350 (25.47%) Degree
2 118 (8.588%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (3.712%) MCTS
3 51 (3.712%) MCP
3 51 (3.712%) MCAD
3 51 (3.712%) MCSD
4 29 (2.111%) PhD
5 14 (1.019%) Postgraduate
6 8 (0.582%) ISEB
6 8 (0.582%) ISTQB
7 6 (0.437%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.364%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.092%) QA
2 14 (1.019%) SLA
3 12 (0.873%) JTAG
4 2 (0.146%) WAI
System Software
1 4 (0.291%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.218%) OpenSSO
3 1 (0.073%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 8 (0.582%) SCOM
2 6 (0.437%) Nagios
3 2 (0.146%) Puppet
Vendors
1 277 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 250 (18.20%) Oracle
3 50 (3.639%) Business Objects
4 34 (2.475%) Adobe
5 19 (1.383%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.310%) Zend
7 15 (1.092%) Google
8 10 (0.728%) Perforce
9 9 (0.655%) Twitter
10 8 (0.582%) QNX
11 6 (0.437%) Facebook
11 6 (0.437%) Infobright
11 6 (0.437%) Nokia
11 6 (0.437%) Apple
11 6 (0.437%) BEA
12 5 (0.364%) Sage
13 4 (0.291%) VMware
13 4 (0.291%) Sybase
13 4 (0.291%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.218%) SAP
Cambridge, East Anglia
Our client a software company based in Cambridge are currently looking to recruit a talented C# ASP.net software developer to join their current team of 10 C#...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The successful C# ASP.NET developer will be involved in full life cycle development including coding, testing, delivery and support; assistance with requirements gathering and software design and...
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk, Cambridge, Colchester, London,...
ASP.NET Web Developer / Programmer, C#, .NET, MVC, SQL Server, £25-40,000 (dependent on experience) plus benefits, Ipswich.Key Skills:- ASP.NET Web Development experience.- One or...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £25-40,000 + Bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Web Developer comfortable coding in JavaScript needed in Cambridge... To further develop these high-tech applications a web developer skilled with JavaScript, HTML and CSS is required... Essential:...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £37500 per annum + Great Base+Prospects
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Skills, experience and qualificationsQualifications:Candidate should be educated to degree level - desirableExperience:* Minimum of 2 years' experience developing multi layered web applications within acommercial environment - essential.* Development within...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30,000-£50,000 + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: c35k + bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: up to 45k + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
TRG
Salary: £35000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Great + Career Prospects
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + penison, healthcare, holiday
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35k + Bens
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
TRG
Salary: 35000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 2 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £28000 to £45000 per annum - Exceptional Benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salt
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Gregory James
Salary: Fantastic Salary and Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£40k + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013