Cheshire Senior Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Cheshire 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Software Developer
Location Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Exeter Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Seaford Sheffield Smethwick South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tamworth Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wokingham Woodbridge York Yorkshire	3 months to 23 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	123
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.286 %	0.478 %
Salaries quoted	9	11
Average minimum salary	£30,944	£36,182
Average salary	£38,750	£39,045
% change on same period last year	-0.75 %
Average maximum salary	£46,556	£41,909
UK excluding London average salary	£37,768	£38,729
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3142	2929
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.653 %	1.202 %
Salaries quoted	2832	2585
Average minimum salary	£32,516	£31,743
Average salary	£35,750	£34,357
% change on same period last year	+4.05 %
Average maximum salary	£38,984	£36,970
UK excluding London average salary	£38,210	£39,482
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
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Senior Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Chester	-	7	£41,357	-
Ellesmere Port	-	1	£30,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (68.75 %) C# 1 11 (68.75 %) SQL Server 2 10 (62.50 %) XML 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL 2 10 (62.50 %) .NET 3 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (43.75 %) WebServices 4 7 (43.75 %) MS Excel 5 6 (37.50 %) IIS 5 6 (37.50 %) C++ 5 6 (37.50 %) DHTML 6 5 (31.25 %) VB 6 5 (31.25 %) Clustering 6 5 (31.25 %) AJAX 7 4 (25.00 %) Degree

7 4 (25.00 %) HTML 7 4 (25.00 %) JavaScript 8 3 (18.75 %) VBScript 8 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 8 3 (18.75 %) ASP 8 3 (18.75 %) XSLT 8 3 (18.75 %) Windows 8 3 (18.75 %) OO 8 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 9 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (12.50 %) OpenGL 9 2 (12.50 %) DirectX 9 2 (12.50 %) CAD 9 2 (12.50 %) DTS 9 2 (12.50 %) Health

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (62.50 %) .NET 1 10 (62.50 %) XML 2 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (43.75 %) WebServices 4 5 (31.25 %) AJAX 5 4 (25.00 %) HTML 6 3 (18.75 %) ASP 6 3 (18.75 %) XSLT 7 2 (12.50 %) ODBC 7 2 (12.50 %) OpenGL 7 2 (12.50 %) DirectX 7 2 (12.50 %) WinForms 7 2 (12.50 %) DCOM 7 2 (12.50 %) CSS 7 2 (12.50 %) MFC 7 2 (12.50 %) ADO 8 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 8 1 (6.250 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) IIS
Applications 1 7 (43.75 %) MS Excel 2 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 3 1 (6.250 %) Photoshop 3 1 (6.250 %) Adobe Director	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) SMTP 1 1 (6.250 %) Intranet 1 1 (6.250 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (68.75 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (12.50 %) DTS 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Access 3 1 (6.250 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (6.250 %) Flash 1 1 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Health 1 2 (12.50 %) Pensions 1 2 (12.50 %) Marketing 2 1 (6.250 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (6.250 %) 3D Graphics 2 1 (6.250 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (6.250 %) Chemicals	Miscellaneous 1 5 (31.25 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) OO 2 2 (12.50 %) CAD 2 2 (12.50 %) Direct Marketing 3 1 (6.250 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (6.250 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 11 (68.75 %) C# 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL 3 6 (37.50 %) C++ 3 6 (37.50 %) DHTML 4 5 (31.25 %) VB 5 4 (25.00 %) JavaScript 6 3 (18.75 %) VBScript 7 2 (12.50 %) Java 7 2 (12.50 %) VB.NET 7 2 (12.50 %) VBA 7 2 (12.50 %) VB6 8 1 (6.250 %) C 8 1 (6.250 %) VC++ 8 1 (6.250 %) ActionScript 8 1 (6.250 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Adobe 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) Symbian