The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 40 23 55
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 147 243 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 5.760% 8.423% 4.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.052% 8.766% 4.233%
Number of salaries quoted 139 179 100
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,450 £34,200 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,750 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2429 2772 2906
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.18% 96.08% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2171 2342 2583
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cambridge -15 103 £47,500 +11.76%
Peterborough -7 19 £45,000 -2.17%
Huntingdon -2 9 £37,500 -16.66%
Ely +3 1 £38,000 -10.58%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Senior 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 Developer in their job title.

1 156 (52.00%) .NET
2 121 (40.33%) SQL
3 120 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 114 (38.00%) C#
5 106 (35.33%) Java
6 95 (31.67%) XML
7 90 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
8 88 (29.33%) Degree
8 88 (29.33%) HTML
9 77 (25.67%) SQL Server
9 77 (25.67%) CSS
10 72 (24.00%) Microsoft
11 68 (22.67%) ASP.NET
12 63 (21.00%) PHP
13 61 (20.33%) Linux
14 60 (20.00%) Python
14 60 (20.00%) Ajax
15 55 (18.33%) TDD
16 54 (18.00%) WCF
16 54 (18.00%) C++
17 51 (17.00%) jQuery
18 47 (15.67%) OO
19 44 (14.67%) E-Commerce
19 44 (14.67%) MySQL
20 42 (14.00%) C
21 41 (13.67%) Unit Testing
22 40 (13.33%) Oracle
22 40 (13.33%) Apache
23 39 (13.00%) Web Services
24 37 (12.33%) Finance

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Senior 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 156 (52.00%) .NET
2 95 (31.67%) XML
3 88 (29.33%) HTML
4 77 (25.67%) CSS
5 68 (22.67%) ASP.NET
6 60 (20.00%) Ajax
7 54 (18.00%) WCF
8 51 (17.00%) jQuery
9 39 (13.00%) Web Services
10 35 (11.67%) HTML5
11 25 (8.333%) WPF
12 18 (6.000%) Spring
13 17 (5.667%) Hibernate
14 15 (5.000%) REST
14 15 (5.000%) DCOM
15 14 (4.667%) XSLT
15 14 (4.667%) Symfony
15 14 (4.667%) ASP.NET MVC
16 13 (4.333%) LAMP
16 13 (4.333%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 40 (13.33%) Apache
2 31 (10.33%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.667%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (2.000%) IIS
5 5 (1.667%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (1.333%) MediaWiki
6 4 (1.333%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (1.000%) ColdFusion
7 3 (1.000%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.000%) Drupal
8 2 (0.667%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.333%) CMS
9 1 (0.333%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.333%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.333%) ESB
9 1 (0.333%) Jetty
9 1 (0.333%) WordPress
9 1 (0.333%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.333%) concrete5
Applications
1 31 (10.33%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.333%) Google Apps
2 4 (1.333%) MS Office
3 1 (0.333%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.333%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.333%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.333%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.667%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.667%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.333%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.000%) HTTP
2 16 (5.333%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.667%) Intranet
3 2 (0.667%) Internet
4 1 (0.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (25.67%) SQL Server
2 44 (14.67%) MySQL
3 14 (4.667%) Big Data
3 14 (4.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (4.000%) DB2
4 12 (4.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 12 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (3.333%) Firebird
7 9 (3.000%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.000%) Text Mining
7 9 (3.000%) SQL Server 2012
8 8 (2.667%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (1.333%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.000%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.333%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.333%) OLTP
11 1 (0.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (7.000%) JIRA
1 21 (7.000%) Selenium
2 20 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 19 (6.333%) QuickTest Pro
3 19 (6.333%) Subversion
4 14 (4.667%) Git (software)
4 14 (4.667%) Team Foundation Server
5 9 (3.000%) NUnit
6 8 (2.667%) QUnit
7 7 (2.333%) JUnit
8 5 (1.667%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.667%) SCons
8 5 (1.667%) GoogleTest
8 5 (1.667%) GCC
9 4 (1.333%) Mercurial
9 4 (1.333%) Bugzilla
10 3 (1.000%) Rhino Mocks
10 3 (1.000%) Moq
11 2 (0.667%) AQtime
12 1 (0.333%) ReSharper
General
1 37 (12.33%) Finance
2 14 (4.667%) Retail
3 9 (3.000%) Multimedia
4 8 (2.667%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (0.667%) Advertising
6 1 (0.333%) Electronics
6 1 (0.333%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.333%) Games
6 1 (0.333%) Billing
6 1 (0.333%) Banking
6 1 (0.333%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 19 (6.333%) Cloud Computing
3 18 (6.000%) Open Source
4 16 (5.333%) SaaS
5 15 (5.000%) Blog
6 13 (4.333%) Mobile App
7 12 (4.000%) Mathematics
7 12 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.000%) Visualisation
9 5 (1.667%) EPoS
10 4 (1.333%) Semantic Web
10 4 (1.333%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.000%) iPhone
12 2 (0.667%) Embedded Systems
13 1 (0.333%) Device Driver
13 1 (0.333%) Clustering
13 1 (0.333%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.333%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.333%) Life Science
13 1 (0.333%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 61 (20.33%) Linux
2 25 (8.333%) Android
3 23 (7.667%) Apple iOS
4 19 (6.333%) Windows
5 9 (3.000%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (2.000%) UNIX
7 1 (0.333%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 55 (18.33%) TDD
3 47 (15.67%) OO
4 44 (14.67%) E-Commerce
5 41 (13.67%) Unit Testing
6 32 (10.67%) SOA
7 25 (8.333%) MVC
8 23 (7.667%) Automated Testing
8 23 (7.667%) Scrum
9 22 (7.333%) OOP
10 21 (7.000%) Manual Testing
11 19 (6.333%) Test Scripting
11 19 (6.333%) Software Testing
12 16 (5.333%) OOD
12 16 (5.333%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (5.333%) B2B
12 16 (5.333%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (5.333%) Analytics
13 15 (5.000%) CQRS
13 15 (5.000%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.33%) SQL
2 120 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 114 (38.00%) C#
4 106 (35.33%) Java
5 63 (21.00%) PHP
6 60 (20.00%) Python
7 54 (18.00%) C++
8 42 (14.00%) C
9 27 (9.000%) Perl
10 19 (6.333%) T-SQL
11 15 (5.000%) Objective-C
12 14 (4.667%) Ruby
13 13 (4.333%) PHP5
14 12 (4.000%) PHP4
15 8 (2.667%) C++/CLI
15 8 (2.667%) VB.NET
16 7 (2.333%) VB
17 2 (0.667%) VC++
17 2 (0.667%) XAML
18 1 (0.333%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 88 (29.33%) Degree
2 17 (5.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.333%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.667%) PhD
5 3 (1.000%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.333%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.000%) JTAG
2 4 (1.333%) QA
3 1 (0.333%) SLA
Vendors
1 72 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.33%) Oracle
3 5 (1.667%) Google
4 2 (0.667%) Telerik
4 2 (0.667%) Perforce
5 1 (0.333%) Informatica
5 1 (0.333%) Business Objects
5 1 (0.333%) Cognos
5 1 (0.333%) Zend
5 1 (0.333%) Facebook
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