The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 24 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 46 25 33
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 13 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.479% 8.333% 8.730%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.582% 8.333% 9.322%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 22
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
316 156 236
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.49% 100.00% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 169 134 228
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £46,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
Cheshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 24 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 22 (78.57%) jQuery
3 20 (71.43%) E-Commerce
4 16 (57.14%) .NET
4 16 (57.14%) HTML5
5 15 (53.57%) SQL
5 15 (53.57%) HTML
5 15 (53.57%) CSS
5 15 (53.57%) MVC
6 14 (50.00%) C#
7 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
8 10 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (35.71%) Scrum
8 10 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (32.14%) TDD
9 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
10 8 (28.57%) CSS3
10 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
11 7 (25.00%) Ajax
11 7 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 6 (21.43%) Web Development
12 6 (21.43%) JSON
12 6 (21.43%) MySQL
13 5 (17.86%) Java
13 5 (17.86%) OO
13 5 (17.86%) Python
13 5 (17.86%) XHTML
13 5 (17.86%) E-business
13 5 (17.86%) Spring

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 22 (78.57%) jQuery
2 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 16 (57.14%) HTML5
3 15 (53.57%) HTML
3 15 (53.57%) CSS
4 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
5 10 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (28.57%) CSS3
6 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
7 7 (25.00%) Ajax
7 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 6 (21.43%) JSON
9 5 (17.86%) XHTML
9 5 (17.86%) Spring
9 5 (17.86%) Django
9 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 3 (10.71%) Web Services
10 3 (10.71%) RESTful
11 2 (7.143%) WCF
11 2 (7.143%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.571%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (21.43%) MySQL
4 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
1 1 (3.571%) Ant
1 1 (3.571%) JUnit
General
1 4 (14.29%) Automotive
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Open Source
1 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.143%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Windows CE
1 2 (7.143%) UNIX
1 2 (7.143%) Windows
1 2 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 15 (53.57%) MVC
3 10 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (35.71%) Scrum
4 9 (32.14%) TDD
5 6 (21.43%) Web Development
6 5 (17.86%) OO
6 5 (17.86%) E-business
7 4 (14.29%) Refactoring
8 3 (10.71%) B2B
8 3 (10.71%) Pair Programming
9 2 (7.143%) MVVM
9 2 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
9 2 (7.143%) Unit Testing
9 2 (7.143%) Requirements Management
9 2 (7.143%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 15 (53.57%) SQL
3 14 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) PHP
6 2 (7.143%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.143%) Oracle
3 1 (3.571%) Apple
3 1 (3.571%) hybris
Chester, North West
My Client are a SharePoint consultancy based close to Chester, they are currently looking for a senior developer / technical lead to lead a team of C# developers on...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Chester, North West
The company produces EPoS systems for a range of companies in the Leisure and Hospitality sector in the UK and after the successful launch of their core product.....
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chester, North West
The key responsibilities of the role are:- Design and development of new functionality following Intetech processes and architectural standards Working with the in-house test team Deploying the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £42000 - £49000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Chester, North West
Due to continual massive success the company are looking to continue to grow the team and take on strong java developers who will be training and support where...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
Due to continual massive success the company are looking to continue to grow the team and take on strong java developers who will be training and support where...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Chester, North West
Key Skills: - Java / J2EE- Spring- Agile- Javascript / JQuery- Web Service Desirable Skills: - GIT and JIRA- Struts- Hibernate- Oracle- Eclipse- Tomcat The role itself: * Design and development of new...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
Senior Java Developer -Chester- £40,000 - £45,000 - fantastic benefits package and pension scheme A strong java J2EE developer is required to join a market leader within the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013