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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank222
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads403522945737
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London34.29 %27.80 %29.79 %
As % of the Job Titles category37.04 %29.97 %31.61 %
Salaries quoted356419304707
Average salary£52,500£50,000£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-9.090 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£82,000£75,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-1.510 %
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10895765518148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London92.59 %92.75 %94.23 %
Salaries quoted9445639914634
Average salary£52,500£50,000£52,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-3.840 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£75,000£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-
Developer LondonDeveloper
London

Developer
Demand Trend

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

City of London Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

City of London Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

12887 (39.01 %)Finance
22833 (38.28 %)C#
32686 (36.29 %)Java
42437 (32.93 %).NET
52221 (30.01 %)SQL
61982 (26.78 %)C++
71858 (25.10 %)SQL Server
81689 (22.82 %)Banking
91426 (19.27 %)Front Office
101298 (17.54 %)Derivative
111206 (16.30 %)OO
121172 (15.84 %)XML
131135 (15.34 %)JavaScript
141060 (14.32 %)ASP.NET
151053 (14.23 %)UNIX
16975 (13.17 %)CSS
17934 (12.62 %)HTML
18916 (12.38 %)Degree
19905 (12.23 %)Investment Banking
20898 (12.13 %)Oracle
21805 (10.88 %)Linux
22759 (10.26 %)Microsoft
23750 (10.13 %)Windows
24738 (9.972 %)AJAX
25734 (9.918 %)Multithreading
26729 (9.850 %)Agile Software Development
27720 (9.728 %)SQL Server 2005
28691 (9.337 %)WPF
29629 (8.499 %)WinForms
30625 (8.445 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12437 (32.93 %).NET
21172 (15.84 %)XML
31060 (14.32 %)ASP.NET
4975 (13.17 %)CSS
5934 (12.62 %)HTML
6738 (9.972 %)AJAX
7691 (9.337 %)WPF
8629 (8.499 %)WinForms
9615 (8.310 %)Spring
10491 (6.634 %)WCF
11480 (6.486 %)J2EE
12446 (6.026 %)Web Services
13415 (5.607 %)STL
14388 (5.243 %)Hibernate
15351 (4.743 %)XHTML
16319 (4.310 %).NET Framework
17310 (4.189 %)jQuery
18269 (3.635 %)Flash
19252 (3.405 %)Boost C++ Libraries
20200 (2.702 %)Silverlight
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1306 (4.135 %)SharePoint
2198 (2.675 %)CMS
3194 (2.621 %)Apache
4178 (2.405 %)SharePoint Server 2007
5117 (1.581 %)BizTalk Server
693 (1.257 %)IIS
789 (1.203 %)Tomcat
873 (0.986 %)Drupal
968 (0.919 %)MQSeries
1063 (0.851 %)WebLogic
1156 (0.757 %)TIBCO EMS
1240 (0.540 %)ColdFusion
1336 (0.486 %)Rendezvous
1431 (0.419 %)WebSphere MQ
1517 (0.230 %)Joomla!
1517 (0.230 %)EPiServer
1615 (0.203 %)ESB
1714 (0.189 %)Immediacy CMS
1714 (0.189 %)Confluence
1813 (0.176 %)WordPress
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1247 (3.337 %)MS Excel
2162 (2.189 %)Photoshop
396 (1.297 %)MATLAB
483 (1.121 %)MS Office
558 (0.784 %)MS Visio
656 (0.757 %)Spreadsheet
754 (0.730 %)Adobe Illustrator
825 (0.338 %)Fireworks
914 (0.189 %)S-PLUS
107 (0.095 %)MS Project
113 (0.041 %)MS PowerPoint
113 (0.041 %)CA Clarity
121 (0.014 %)InfoPath
121 (0.014 %)Adobe Premiere
121 (0.014 %)Adobe After Effects
121 (0.014 %)Paint Shop Pro
121 (0.014 %)Maya
121 (0.014 %)Stata
121 (0.014 %)ImageReady
121 (0.014 %)SPSS
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
198 (1.324 %)RMDS
228 (0.378 %)ION MarketView
316 (0.216 %)Endur
413 (0.176 %)Microsoft CRM
413 (0.176 %)SAP SEM
511 (0.149 %)Dynamics CRM
69 (0.122 %)Hyperion Planning
78 (0.108 %)Summit
78 (0.108 %)Capstone
78 (0.108 %)Front Arena
87 (0.095 %)HFM
87 (0.095 %)BusinessWorks
96 (0.081 %)Oracle EBS
96 (0.081 %)Kondor+
96 (0.081 %)Beauchamp
96 (0.081 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
105 (0.068 %)Oracle iProcurement
105 (0.068 %)Interwoven Scrittura
105 (0.068 %)Autonomy Scrittura
114 (0.054 %)Oracle EBS R12
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1206 (2.783 %)Internet
2156 (2.108 %)TCP/IP
378 (1.054 %)Intranet
444 (0.595 %)HTTP
541 (0.554 %)SAN
625 (0.338 %)Broadband
724 (0.324 %)SMS
816 (0.216 %)Extranet
915 (0.203 %)FTP
1013 (0.176 %)DNS
1110 (0.135 %)SSH
129 (0.122 %)SMTP
129 (0.122 %)LAN
137 (0.095 %)Bluetooth
137 (0.095 %)BSS
146 (0.081 %)AMQP
146 (0.081 %)WAN
146 (0.081 %)PPP
155 (0.068 %)LDAP
164 (0.054 %)3G
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11858 (25.10 %)SQL Server
2720 (9.728 %)SQL Server 2005
3457 (6.175 %)SQL Server 2008
4428 (5.783 %)MySQL
5278 (3.756 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6257 (3.473 %)Datawarehouse
7220 (2.973 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8208 (2.810 %)SQL Server 2000
9197 (2.662 %)RDBMS
10175 (2.365 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11147 (1.986 %)ETL
1282 (1.108 %)OLAP
1381 (1.094 %)DTS
1470 (0.946 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1567 (0.905 %)Oracle 8/8i
1659 (0.797 %)Crystal Reports
1756 (0.757 %)Oracle 10g
1850 (0.676 %)Oracle Reports
1947 (0.635 %)DB2
1947 (0.635 %)BusinessObjects
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1346 (4.675 %)Subversion
2211 (2.851 %)Visual Studio
3201 (2.716 %)NUnit
4165 (2.229 %)JUnit
5139 (1.878 %)Ant
6122 (1.648 %)Rhino Mocks
7108 (1.459 %)Maven
8100 (1.351 %)Eclipse
942 (0.567 %)Dreamweaver
942 (0.567 %)Team Foundation Server
1037 (0.500 %)Oracle Forms
1134 (0.459 %)ClearCase
1228 (0.378 %)CruiseControl
1322 (0.297 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1322 (0.297 %)Log4j
1417 (0.230 %)Selenium
1516 (0.216 %)FlexUnit
1614 (0.189 %)JIRA
1614 (0.189 %)ClearQuest
1712 (0.162 %)RSpec
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12887 (39.01 %)Finance
21689 (22.82 %)Banking
31426 (19.27 %)Front Office
4905 (12.23 %)Investment Banking
5265 (3.581 %)Insurance
6255 (3.445 %)Games
7220 (2.973 %)Back Office
8210 (2.837 %)Education
9154 (2.081 %)Pensions
10148 (2.000 %)Financial Institution
11133 (1.797 %)Marketing
12126 (1.702 %)Government
13115 (1.554 %)Health
1496 (1.297 %)Retail
1590 (1.216 %)Telecoms
1686 (1.162 %)Music
1779 (1.067 %)Publishing
1855 (0.743 %)Online Games
1951 (0.689 %)Legal
2043 (0.581 %)Advertising
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11298 (17.54 %)Derivative
2734 (9.918 %)Multithreading
3625 (8.445 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4612 (8.269 %)Fixed Income
5465 (6.283 %)Computer Science
6429 (5.797 %)Equities
7389 (5.256 %)Equity Derivative
8298 (4.026 %)Client/Server
9205 (2.770 %)Mathematics
10203 (2.743 %)Credit Derivative
11111 (1.500 %)W3C
12109 (1.473 %)iPhone
13108 (1.459 %)Spread Betting
14100 (1.351 %)Tandem
1598 (1.324 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1687 (1.176 %)Credit Risk
1783 (1.121 %)N-Tier
1874 (1.000 %)Social Network
1874 (1.000 %)Open Source
1960 (0.811 %)Web 2.0
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11053 (14.23 %)UNIX
2805 (10.88 %)Linux
3750 (10.13 %)Windows
4157 (2.121 %)Solaris
567 (0.905 %)Android
625 (0.338 %)Windows XP
625 (0.338 %)Windows Server 2003
719 (0.257 %)Windows Mobile
813 (0.176 %)Red Hat Linux
910 (0.135 %)AIX
108 (0.108 %)Mac OS X
117 (0.095 %)Ubuntu
117 (0.095 %)Windows Vista
117 (0.095 %)Windows Server 2008
126 (0.081 %)OpenVMS
134 (0.054 %)FreeBSD
143 (0.041 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
143 (0.041 %)Windows 7
152 (0.027 %)CentOS
161 (0.014 %)Windows 2000 Server
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11206 (16.30 %)OO
2729 (9.850 %)Agile Software Development
3463 (6.256 %)TDD
4446 (6.026 %)E-Commerce
5440 (5.945 %)Scrum
6422 (5.702 %)Risk Management
7420 (5.675 %)MVC
8412 (5.567 %)Electronic Trading
9368 (4.972 %)Algorithmic Trading
10330 (4.459 %)OOD
11242 (3.270 %)UML
12232 (3.135 %)OOP
13224 (3.027 %)Web Development
14219 (2.959 %)Business Intelligence
15168 (2.270 %)OOA/OOD
15168 (2.270 %)Unit Testing
16165 (2.229 %)Continuous Integration
17154 (2.081 %)Software Engineering
18145 (1.959 %)SOA
18145 (1.959 %)Investment Management
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12833 (38.28 %)C#
22686 (36.29 %)Java
32221 (30.01 %)SQL
41982 (26.78 %)C++
51135 (15.34 %)JavaScript
6549 (7.418 %)PHP
7492 (6.648 %)T-SQL
8368 (4.972 %)C
9362 (4.891 %)VBA
10298 (4.026 %)VB.NET
11268 (3.621 %)Perl
12212 (2.864 %)ActionScript
13202 (2.729 %)Python
14192 (2.594 %)VB
15191 (2.581 %)PL/SQL
16145 (1.959 %)Shell Script
17133 (1.797 %)ActionScript 3.0
18132 (1.784 %)PHP5
19106 (1.432 %)Ruby
2059 (0.797 %)ActionScript 2.0
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1916 (12.38 %)Degree
2315 (4.256 %)Microsoft Certification
3292 (3.945 %)MCTS
4291 (3.932 %)MCSD
5285 (3.851 %)MCAD
6284 (3.837 %)MCP
7122 (1.648 %)PhD
834 (0.459 %)Security Cleared
914 (0.189 %)MCPD
1013 (0.176 %)DV Cleared
117 (0.095 %)SC Cleared
117 (0.095 %)Sun Certification
124 (0.054 %)IBM Certification
124 (0.054 %)Oracle Certification
133 (0.041 %)OCP
133 (0.041 %)Brainbench
142 (0.027 %)SCJP
142 (0.027 %)Postgraduate
151 (0.014 %)ECDL
151 (0.014 %)ITIL Certification
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1118 (1.594 %)QA
27 (0.095 %)WCAG
31 (0.014 %)WAI
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (0.135 %)Active Directory
29 (0.122 %)MSMQ
36 (0.081 %)Oracle RAC
45 (0.068 %)NFS
52 (0.027 %)Samba
52 (0.027 %)VMware Infrastructure
61 (0.014 %)Postfix
61 (0.014 %)Oracle RMAN
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
114 (0.189 %)MOM
212 (0.162 %)AutoSys
33 (0.041 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
33 (0.041 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
42 (0.027 %)SCCM
51 (0.014 %)Ganglia
51 (0.014 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.014 %)Tivoli
51 (0.014 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.014 %)Nagios
51 (0.014 %)TIBCO Hawk
51 (0.014 %)MSI
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1898 (12.13 %)Oracle
2759 (10.26 %)Microsoft
3472 (6.378 %)Sybase
4236 (3.189 %)TIBCO
5100 (1.351 %)Adobe
688 (1.189 %)Bloomberg
785 (1.148 %)IBM
877 (1.040 %)Reuters
964 (0.865 %)Zend
1060 (0.811 %)Calypso
1155 (0.743 %)JBoss
1247 (0.635 %)Business Objects
1341 (0.554 %)Murex
1439 (0.527 %)Informatica
1535 (0.473 %)ION Trading
1629 (0.392 %)Sophis
1629 (0.392 %)DataSynapse
1629 (0.392 %)OpenLink
1728 (0.378 %)Perforce
1826 (0.351 %)Sun