Developer Jobs in Dorset

Developer
South West > Dorset

The median Developer salary in Dorset is £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 8 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 163 129 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 14.35% 18.25% 34.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.08% 21.61% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 156 124 230
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £53,510 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.56% +1.92% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 1,081 597 746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.16% 84.44% 97.77%
Number of salaries quoted 650 380 594
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% +10.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,625 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Salary Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Dorset.

Salary trend for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Dorset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth -3 101 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Poole -4 26 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Wimborne -1 10 £32,500 +8.33%
Ferndown -2 7 £32,500 -35.00% 1
Weymouth - 1 £47,500 -
Developer
South West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 88 (53.99%) JavaScript
2 73 (44.79%) PHP
3 68 (41.72%) Full Stack Development
4 67 (41.10%) HTML
5 61 (37.42%) CSS
6 55 (33.74%) MySQL
6 55 (33.74%) Laravel
7 44 (26.99%) LAMP
8 43 (26.38%) Agile
8 43 (26.38%) OOP
8 43 (26.38%) Web Development
9 40 (24.54%) React
10 39 (23.93%) .NET
11 37 (22.70%) jQuery
12 35 (21.47%) Vue
13 30 (18.40%) Scrum
13 30 (18.40%) C#
13 30 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (15.34%) Social Skills
14 25 (15.34%) MVC
15 23 (14.11%) Front End Development
16 22 (13.50%) AngularJS
16 22 (13.50%) CRM
17 21 (12.88%) Git
18 20 (12.27%) Azure
18 20 (12.27%) Mentoring
19 19 (11.66%) E-Commerce
20 18 (11.04%) CI/CD
21 17 (10.43%) Design Patterns
22 16 (9.82%) Microsoft

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.20%) WordPress
2 7 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.23%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Magento
2 2 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.27%) Azure
2 15 (9.20%) AWS
3 9 (5.52%) GitHub
4 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.07%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.45%) BigCommerce
6 4 (2.45%) Figma
7 3 (1.84%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.23%) npm
8 2 (1.23%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.23%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.23%) SaaS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (33.74%) MySQL
2 15 (9.20%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.52%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.68%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.45%) Essbase
6 3 (1.84%) Power BI
6 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) Power Query
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (12.88%) Git
2 7 (4.29%) Subversion
3 5 (3.07%) JIRA
4 4 (2.45%) Selenium
5 2 (1.23%) Grunt
5 2 (1.23%) Storybook
5 2 (1.23%) webpack
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (15.34%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.52%) Finance
2 9 (5.52%) Retail
3 6 (3.68%) Games
4 4 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.23%) Marketing
6 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (41.10%) HTML
2 61 (37.42%) CSS
3 55 (33.74%) Laravel
4 44 (26.99%) LAMP
5 40 (24.54%) React
6 39 (23.93%) .NET
7 37 (22.70%) jQuery
8 35 (21.47%) Vue
9 22 (13.50%) AngularJS
10 14 (8.59%) .NET Core
11 12 (7.36%) RESTful
12 11 (6.75%) ASP.NET
13 10 (6.13%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (6.13%) Web Services
14 9 (5.52%) Alpine.js
15 8 (4.91%) GraphQL
16 7 (4.29%) GatsbyJS
16 7 (4.29%) SVG
17 5 (3.07%) Node.js
17 5 (3.07%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.29%) Animation
1 7 (4.29%) Low-Code
1 7 (4.29%) Video Editing
2 6 (3.68%) Client/Server
2 6 (3.68%) IoT
2 6 (3.68%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.45%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.45%) Life Science
4 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.84%) NHS
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (1.84%) Android
2 3 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.72%) Full Stack Development
2 43 (26.38%) Agile
2 43 (26.38%) OOP
2 43 (26.38%) Web Development
3 30 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.40%) Scrum
4 25 (15.34%) MVC
5 23 (14.11%) Front End Development
6 22 (13.50%) CRM
7 20 (12.27%) Mentoring
8 19 (11.66%) E-Commerce
9 18 (11.04%) CI/CD
10 17 (10.43%) Design Patterns
11 16 (9.82%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (9.20%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.59%) Project Management
14 13 (7.98%) Microservices
15 11 (6.75%) SDLC
16 10 (6.13%) DevOps
17 9 (5.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 88 (53.99%) JavaScript
2 73 (44.79%) PHP
3 30 (18.40%) C#
4 15 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.75%) Java
6 8 (4.91%) Python
7 7 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.07%) SQL
9 3 (1.84%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.61%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.61%) Swift
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.23%) Degree
1 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.61%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) QA
2 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) Xamarin
3 6 (3.68%) Google
4 5 (3.07%) Twitter
5 4 (2.45%) Adobe
5 4 (2.45%) Oracle
6 2 (1.23%) Apple
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks