The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 26 23 26
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 163 195 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 8.830% 9.549% 8.424%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.272% 9.929% 8.892%
Number of salaries quoted 153 153 174
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £23,250
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £47,000 £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
1758 1964 2013
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.23% 96.18% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1561 1666 1834
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Cambridgeshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridge Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 175 (63.64%) C#
2 136 (49.45%) C++
3 131 (47.64%) .NET
4 130 (47.27%) Degree
5 108 (39.27%) Computer Science
6 93 (33.82%) ASP.NET
7 92 (33.45%) C
8 91 (33.09%) Java
9 75 (27.27%) SQL Server
10 73 (26.55%) Linux
11 69 (25.09%) SQL
12 66 (24.00%) Perl
13 64 (23.27%) HTML
14 56 (20.36%) Microsoft
15 55 (20.00%) MS Excel
16 50 (18.18%) Python
17 48 (17.45%) XML
18 47 (17.09%) JavaScript
18 47 (17.09%) Mathematics
19 45 (16.36%) CSS
20 43 (15.64%) OO
20 43 (15.64%) Windows
21 41 (14.91%) Finance
22 32 (11.64%) WPF
23 31 (11.27%) Visual Studio
23 31 (11.27%) WinForms
23 31 (11.27%) Automated Testing
24 29 (10.55%) Web Services
25 28 (10.18%) Oracle
25 28 (10.18%) Software Testing

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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
1 131 (47.64%) .NET
2 93 (33.82%) ASP.NET
3 64 (23.27%) HTML
4 48 (17.45%) XML
5 45 (16.36%) CSS
6 32 (11.64%) WPF
7 31 (11.27%) WinForms
8 29 (10.55%) Web Services
9 25 (9.091%) XSLT
10 24 (8.727%) WCF
11 20 (7.273%) Ajax
12 17 (6.182%) jQuery
13 13 (4.727%) MFC
13 13 (4.727%) COM
13 13 (4.727%) DCOM
14 12 (4.364%) SOAP
15 10 (3.636%) Flash
15 10 (3.636%) STL
16 8 (2.909%) RESTful
16 8 (2.909%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 17 (6.182%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.273%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (1.818%) IIS
4 4 (1.455%) MediaWiki
5 3 (1.091%) OpenEdge
6 2 (0.727%) Magento
7 1 (0.364%) Apache
7 1 (0.364%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.364%) MS Exchange
7 1 (0.364%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 55 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.455%) Google Apps
2 4 (1.455%) MS Office
3 2 (0.727%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (3.636%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.909%) Internet
2 4 (1.455%) HTTP
3 3 (1.091%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.727%) RTSP
4 2 (0.727%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (5.818%) MySQL
4 15 (5.455%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (5.091%) SQL Server 2005
5 14 (5.091%) SQL Server 2008
6 11 (4.000%) MS Access
7 10 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.545%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.182%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
10 5 (1.818%) Oracle 9i
10 5 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
10 5 (1.818%) Oracle 11g
11 4 (1.455%) Text Mining
11 4 (1.455%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.091%) Big Data
13 2 (0.727%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.727%) Firebird
Development Applications
1 31 (11.27%) Visual Studio
2 21 (7.636%) JIRA
3 20 (7.273%) Selenium
4 19 (6.909%) QuickTest Pro
5 10 (3.636%) Subversion
6 9 (3.273%) JUnit
7 8 (2.909%) Git (software)
8 5 (1.818%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.818%) GCC
8 5 (1.818%) SCons
9 4 (1.455%) GoogleTest
9 4 (1.455%) Mercurial
9 4 (1.455%) Bugzilla
10 3 (1.091%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.727%) GitHub
11 2 (0.727%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 1 (0.364%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.364%) MSTest
General
1 41 (14.91%) Finance
2 19 (6.909%) Manufacturing
3 16 (5.818%) Electronics
4 11 (4.000%) Multimedia
5 9 (3.273%) Retail
6 3 (1.091%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.091%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.727%) Legal
8 1 (0.364%) Games
8 1 (0.364%) Automotive
8 1 (0.364%) Law
8 1 (0.364%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 108 (39.27%) Computer Science
2 47 (17.09%) Mathematics
3 25 (9.091%) Physics
4 19 (6.909%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (4.000%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.455%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.455%) Visualisation
7 4 (1.455%) Semantic Web
7 4 (1.455%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.091%) Open Source
8 3 (1.091%) Pocket PC
9 2 (0.727%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.364%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.364%) Wiki
10 1 (0.364%) Biology
10 1 (0.364%) STB
10 1 (0.364%) IPTV
10 1 (0.364%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 73 (26.55%) Linux
2 43 (15.64%) Windows
3 22 (8.000%) UNIX
4 11 (4.000%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (2.182%) Android
5 6 (2.182%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.091%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.727%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (15.64%) OO
2 31 (11.27%) Automated Testing
3 28 (10.18%) Software Testing
4 27 (9.818%) Test Scripting
5 24 (8.727%) Scrum
6 21 (7.636%) Manual Testing
7 17 (6.182%) OOD
8 15 (5.455%) Agile Software Development
9 14 (5.091%) OOP
10 13 (4.727%) Multithreading
10 13 (4.727%) Web Development
11 12 (4.364%) Software Engineering
12 11 (4.000%) Software Architecture
13 10 (3.636%) TDD
13 10 (3.636%) CRM
14 9 (3.273%) Workflow
15 6 (2.182%) Systems Analysis
15 6 (2.182%) Project Management
16 5 (1.818%) Test Automation
17 4 (1.455%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 175 (63.64%) C#
2 136 (49.45%) C++
3 92 (33.45%) C
4 91 (33.09%) Java
5 69 (25.09%) SQL
6 66 (24.00%) Perl
7 50 (18.18%) Python
8 47 (17.09%) JavaScript
9 17 (6.182%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.364%) VBA
11 9 (3.273%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.273%) Embedded C
12 8 (2.909%) Objective-C
13 7 (2.545%) Ruby
14 6 (2.182%) PHP
15 4 (1.455%) Bash shell
15 4 (1.455%) VB
16 3 (1.091%) Delphi
16 3 (1.091%) Fortran
16 3 (1.091%) VB6
Qualifications
1 130 (47.27%) Degree
2 20 (7.273%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (2.909%) ISTQB
3 8 (2.909%) ISEB
3 8 (2.909%) PhD
4 3 (1.091%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.364%) QA
2 11 (4.000%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.727%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.18%) Oracle
3 4 (1.455%) Google
3 4 (1.455%) Sybase
4 3 (1.091%) Perforce
4 3 (1.091%) Epicor
4 3 (1.091%) webMethods
5 2 (0.727%) Facebook
6 1 (0.364%) Twitter
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + benefits (flexi-time etc)
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Salary: £1.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Simple Recruitment Services Ltd
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum Excellent Benefits package
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Salary: to £48k DoE + excellent benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013
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Salary: £45000 per annum + Pension + Bonus + Life/Health
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Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
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Salary: to £55k
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Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 to £39000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 1 May 2013
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Salary: £Excellent
Posted: 2 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + 20% performance related bonus
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DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + Flexi-time, pension, health
Posted: 4 May 2013
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ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + full benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum + great benefits
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Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum + bens
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Salary: £22500 - £27500 per annum + Great Benefits
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
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