The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software 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
Software Developer
Rank 38 12 48
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 13 26 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.846% 16.67% 2.778%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.114% 16.67% 2.966%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 7
Average salary £28,500 £30,250 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.78% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £20,358 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
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%
Software Developer
Cheshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Chester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Chester Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 22 (84.62%) .NET
2 21 (80.77%) Web Services
3 20 (76.92%) JavaScript
4 19 (73.08%) HTML
5 18 (69.23%) C#
6 15 (57.69%) CSS
7 14 (53.85%) ASP.NET
8 12 (46.15%) SQL
9 11 (42.31%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (38.46%) TDD
10 10 (38.46%) Pair Programming
10 10 (38.46%) Scrum
11 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
12 8 (30.77%) Ajax
13 7 (26.92%) jQuery
14 6 (23.08%) PHP
14 6 (23.08%) Windows
15 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
15 5 (19.23%) VB.NET
15 5 (19.23%) MVC
15 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
16 4 (15.38%) Spring
16 4 (15.38%) Java
16 4 (15.38%) OO
16 4 (15.38%) Web Development
16 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
17 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
17 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
17 3 (11.54%) XHTML
17 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 22 (84.62%) .NET
2 21 (80.77%) Web Services
3 19 (73.08%) HTML
4 15 (57.69%) CSS
5 14 (53.85%) ASP.NET
6 8 (30.77%) Ajax
7 7 (26.92%) jQuery
8 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
9 4 (15.38%) Spring
10 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (11.54%) XHTML
10 3 (11.54%) J2EE
11 2 (7.692%) XML
11 2 (7.692%) WCF
11 2 (7.692%) HTML5
11 2 (7.692%) CSS3
12 1 (3.846%) Spring.NET
12 1 (3.846%) SOAP
12 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) HTTP
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.846%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (3.846%) Marketing
1 1 (3.846%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Device Driver
1 2 (7.692%) N-Tier
1 2 (7.692%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.846%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (7.692%) Windows CE
2 2 (7.692%) UNIX
2 2 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (38.46%) TDD
2 10 (38.46%) Pair Programming
2 10 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (19.23%) MVC
4 4 (15.38%) OO
4 4 (15.38%) Web Development
4 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
6 2 (7.692%) MVVM
7 1 (3.846%) Web Application Development
7 1 (3.846%) RAD
7 1 (3.846%) OOP
7 1 (3.846%) Change Management
7 1 (3.846%) Identity Management
7 1 (3.846%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 18 (69.23%) C#
3 12 (46.15%) SQL
4 6 (23.08%) PHP
5 5 (19.23%) VB.NET
6 4 (15.38%) Java
7 3 (11.54%) VBA
8 1 (3.846%) Delphi
8 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.846%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle