Cambridgeshire Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romsey Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thetford Totnes Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	22
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	336	294
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.121 %
As % of the category below	8.083 %	7.456 %
Salaries quoted	309	245
Average minimum salary	£31,315	£30,496
Average salary	£35,136	£34,423
% change on same period last year	+2.07 %
Average maximum salary	£38,956	£38,350
UK excluding London average salary	£33,149	£33,143
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4157	3943
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.189 %	1.617 %
Salaries quoted	3520	3300
Average minimum salary	£32,838	£31,870
Average salary	£35,931	£35,125
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Average maximum salary	£39,024	£38,381
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Software Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	-1	275	£35,934	+1.96 %
Peterborough	+9	40	£30,090	+12.31 %
St Neots	-	4	£34,000	-

Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

1 351 (52.00 %) C++ 2 292 (43.26 %) C# 3 274 (40.59 %) .NET 4 227 (33.63 %) Degree 5 197 (29.19 %) Windows 6 158 (23.41 %) Java 7 154 (22.81 %) C 8 148 (21.93 %) SQL Server 9 136 (20.15 %) SQL 10 132 (19.56 %) ASP.NET 11 127 (18.81 %) OO 12 122 (18.07 %) Computer Science 13 117 (17.33 %) Linux 14 106 (15.70 %) UNIX 15 94 (13.93 %) Microsoft

16 93 (13.78 %) Health 17 83 (12.30 %) Mathematics 18 81 (12.00 %) Pensions 19 76 (11.26 %) VB.NET 20 68 (10.07 %) VB 20 68 (10.07 %) JavaScript 21 65 (9.630 %) PHP 22 64 (9.481 %) Perl 23 60 (8.889 %) MFC 24 54 (8.000 %) HTML 25 53 (7.852 %) Visual Studio 25 53 (7.852 %) Python 26 52 (7.704 %) XML 27 44 (6.519 %) MS Excel 27 44 (6.519 %) VB6

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 274 (40.59 %) .NET 2 132 (19.56 %) ASP.NET 3 60 (8.889 %) MFC 4 54 (8.000 %) HTML 5 52 (7.704 %) XML 6 38 (5.630 %) AJAX 7 35 (5.185 %) WinForms 8 30 (4.444 %) STL 8 30 (4.444 %) J2EE 8 30 (4.444 %) .NET Framework 9 26 (3.852 %) CSS 10 18 (2.667 %) ASP 11 14 (2.074 %) Struts 11 14 (2.074 %) WCF 12 13 (1.926 %) OpenGL 13 12 (1.778 %) EJB 14 11 (1.630 %) WebServices 14 11 (1.630 %) JSP 15 10 (1.481 %) Silverlight 16 8 (1.185 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.111 %) Smallworld 2 9 (1.333 %) IIS 2 9 (1.333 %) Apache 2 9 (1.333 %) SharePoint 3 5 (0.741 %) ColdFusion 4 2 (0.296 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.148 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (0.148 %) iPlanet 5 1 (0.148 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.148 %) CMS 5 1 (0.148 %) ColdFusion MX
Applications 1 44 (6.519 %) MS Excel 2 19 (2.815 %) MATLAB 3 13 (1.926 %) 3ds Max 4 10 (1.481 %) Maya 4 10 (1.481 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.444 %) InfoPath 6 2 (0.296 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 2 (0.296 %) Navision 2 1 (0.148 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 37 (5.481 %) Internet 2 23 (3.407 %) Intranet 3 20 (2.963 %) DVB 4 14 (2.074 %) TCP/IP 5 11 (1.630 %) HTTP 5 11 (1.630 %) Wireless 6 10 (1.481 %) Bluetooth 6 10 (1.481 %) VoIP 7 6 (0.889 %) Ethernet 7 6 (0.889 %) Wi-Fi 8 4 (0.593 %) UWB 8 4 (0.593 %) SSL 8 4 (0.593 %) WLAN 9 3 (0.444 %) SMS 9 3 (0.444 %) CTI 10 1 (0.148 %) TETRA 10 1 (0.148 %) ZigBee	Database & Business Intelligence 1 148 (21.93 %) SQL Server 2 25 (3.704 %) GIS 3 20 (2.963 %) SQL Server 2005 4 18 (2.667 %) SQL Server 7 4 18 (2.667 %) MySQL 5 16 (2.370 %) SQL Server 2000 6 12 (1.778 %) MS Access 7 9 (1.333 %) Oracle 9i 7 9 (1.333 %) Crystal Reports 7 9 (1.333 %) Oracle 10g 8 6 (0.889 %) Oracle 11g 9 5 (0.741 %) BusinessObjects 10 3 (0.444 %) Text Mining 10 3 (0.444 %) RDBMS 10 3 (0.444 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 2 (0.296 %) DTS 11 2 (0.296 %) Data Mining 11 2 (0.296 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 1 (0.148 %) Informix 12 1 (0.148 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 53 (7.852 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (0.593 %) MSI 3 3 (0.444 %) InstallShield 3 3 (0.444 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.148 %) LabVIEW 4 1 (0.148 %) Flash	General 1 93 (13.78 %) Health 2 81 (12.00 %) Pensions 3 44 (6.519 %) Finance 4 35 (5.185 %) Insurance 5 23 (3.407 %) Games 6 18 (2.667 %) Electronics 7 17 (2.519 %) Education 8 13 (1.926 %) Multimedia 9 12 (1.778 %) Animation 9 12 (1.778 %) Telecoms 10 11 (1.630 %) 3D Graphics 11 10 (1.481 %) Retail 12 6 (0.889 %) Publishing 12 6 (0.889 %) Construction 13 5 (0.741 %) Pharmaceutical 13 5 (0.741 %) Electric 13 5 (0.741 %) Manufacturing 14 4 (0.593 %) Banking 14 4 (0.593 %) Marketing 15 3 (0.444 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 122 (18.07 %) Computer Science 2 83 (12.30 %) Mathematics 3 31 (4.593 %) Physics 4 18 (2.667 %) IPTV 5 17 (2.519 %) STB 6 8 (1.185 %) Artificial Intelligence 6 8 (1.185 %) Multithreading 7 7 (1.037 %) Tandem 7 7 (1.037 %) SCADA 7 7 (1.037 %) Client/Server 8 6 (0.889 %) N-Tier 9 5 (0.741 %) MPEG 9 5 (0.741 %) DTV 9 5 (0.741 %) Data Integration 9 5 (0.741 %) Applied Mathematics 10 4 (0.593 %) BBC 10 4 (0.593 %) Device Driver 10 4 (0.593 %) iDTV 10 4 (0.593 %) Firmware 11 3 (0.444 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 197 (29.19 %) Windows 2 117 (17.33 %) Linux 3 106 (15.70 %) UNIX 4 19 (2.815 %) Embedded Linux 5 10 (1.481 %) Windows XP 5 10 (1.481 %) Solaris 6 7 (1.037 %) Windows 2000 6 7 (1.037 %) Mac OS X 7 3 (0.444 %) VxWorks 8 1 (0.148 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 127 (18.81 %) OO 2 38 (5.630 %) OOD 3 22 (3.259 %) OOP 4 20 (2.963 %) Software Engineering 5 18 (2.667 %) CAD 6 17 (2.519 %) Agile Software Development 7 14 (2.074 %) OOA/OOD 8 11 (1.630 %) Web Development 9 10 (1.481 %) UML 9 10 (1.481 %) Data Analysis 9 10 (1.481 %) Project Management 9 10 (1.481 %) PLM 10 8 (1.185 %) Content Management 10 8 (1.185 %) Data Modelling 10 8 (1.185 %) RAD 10 8 (1.185 %) RUP 11 7 (1.037 %) E-business 12 6 (0.889 %) Asset Management 12 6 (0.889 %) Supply Chain Management 12 6 (0.889 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 351 (52.00 %) C++ 2 292 (43.26 %) C# 3 158 (23.41 %) Java 4 154 (22.81 %) C 5 136 (20.15 %) SQL 6 76 (11.26 %) VB.NET 7 68 (10.07 %) JavaScript 7 68 (10.07 %) VB 8 65 (9.630 %) PHP 9 64 (9.481 %) Perl 10 53 (7.852 %) Python 11 44 (6.519 %) VB6 12 32 (4.741 %) Embedded C 12 32 (4.741 %) VC++ 13 21 (3.111 %) Magik 14 18 (2.667 %) Transact-SQL 15 13 (1.926 %) PL/SQL 16 9 (1.333 %) Assembly Language 17 6 (0.889 %) Embedded C++ 18 5 (0.741 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 227 (33.63 %) Degree 2 33 (4.889 %) PhD 3 10 (1.481 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (0.444 %) MCAD 4 3 (0.444 %) MCSD 5 2 (0.296 %) Postgraduate 5 2 (0.296 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.333 %) QA 2 3 (0.444 %) GAMP 3 1 (0.148 %) PCI DSS
Systems Management 1 1 (0.148 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 94 (13.93 %) Microsoft 2 40 (5.926 %) Oracle 3 12 (1.778 %) Apple 4 9 (1.333 %) IBM 5 5 (0.741 %) Business Objects 6 3 (0.444 %) Sun 7 2 (0.296 %) Cognos 7 2 (0.296 %) Symbian 7 2 (0.296 %) Sybase 8 1 (0.148 %) PeopleSoft 8 1 (0.148 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.148 %) Dell 8 1 (0.148 %) Perforce 8 1 (0.148 %) Wall Street Systems