Dorset Software Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Dorset 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thetford Tring Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	46
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	62	46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	6.479 %	3.761 %
Salaries quoted	55	38
Average minimum salary	£25,703	£28,520
Average salary	£29,386	£32,410
% change on same period last year	-9.33 %
Average maximum salary	£33,068	£36,300
UK excluding London average salary	£33,264	£33,328
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Job Titles Dorset
Matching permanent IT job ads	957	1223
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.530 %	0.513 %
Salaries quoted	805	1031
Average minimum salary	£32,175	£38,243
Average salary	£35,060	£41,122
% change on same period last year	-14.74 %
Average maximum salary	£37,945	£44,001
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Software Developer South West

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Poole	+30	40	£30,507	+9.44 %
Bournemouth	+9	17	£28,033	-19.07 %

Software Developer South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 80 (60.61 %) .NET 2 70 (53.03 %) C# 3 45 (34.09 %) ASP.NET 4 39 (29.55 %) SQL 5 38 (28.79 %) VB.NET 6 32 (24.24 %) Java 6 32 (24.24 %) Windows 7 31 (23.48 %) C++ 7 31 (23.48 %) HTML 8 28 (21.21 %) OO 9 27 (20.45 %) Microsoft 10 26 (19.70 %) VB 11 18 (13.64 %) C 11 18 (13.64 %) VBA 12 16 (12.12 %) JavaScript

12 16 (12.12 %) Oracle 13 15 (11.36 %) VC++ 14 14 (10.61 %) Degree 15 13 (9.848 %) MS Excel 15 13 (9.848 %) SQL Server 15 13 (9.848 %) J2EE 15 13 (9.848 %) Pensions 16 12 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 16 12 (9.091 %) XML 17 11 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 17 11 (8.333 %) WebSphere 18 10 (7.576 %) VBScript 19 9 (6.818 %) WebLogic 19 9 (6.818 %) COM 19 9 (6.818 %) Project Management

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 80 (60.61 %) .NET 2 45 (34.09 %) ASP.NET 3 31 (23.48 %) HTML 4 13 (9.848 %) J2EE 5 12 (9.091 %) XML 5 12 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 6 11 (8.333 %) WebSphere 7 9 (6.818 %) COM 8 7 (5.303 %) XSL 9 6 (4.545 %) Ruby on Rails 10 5 (3.788 %) Hibernate 10 5 (3.788 %) Spring 10 5 (3.788 %) CSS 10 5 (3.788 %) ASP 11 4 (3.030 %) MFC 11 4 (3.030 %) STL 11 4 (3.030 %) WebServices 12 3 (2.273 %) ATL 13 2 (1.515 %) ADO 13 2 (1.515 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 9 (6.818 %) WebLogic 2 6 (4.545 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.758 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (0.758 %) IIS
Applications 1 13 (9.848 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (3.030 %) Internet 3 2 (1.515 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.758 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (9.848 %) SQL Server 2 4 (3.030 %) TOAD 3 2 (1.515 %) RDBMS 4 1 (0.758 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 11 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.788 %) Ant 3 2 (1.515 %) InstallShield 3 2 (1.515 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.758 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (0.758 %) Eclipse
General 1 13 (9.848 %) Pensions 2 7 (5.303 %) Telecoms 3 5 (3.788 %) Banking 4 4 (3.030 %) Construction 5 3 (2.273 %) Retail 5 3 (2.273 %) Health 6 2 (1.515 %) Education 6 2 (1.515 %) Finance 7 1 (0.758 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.030 %) Client/Server 2 2 (1.515 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.758 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 32 (24.24 %) Windows 2 7 (5.303 %) UNIX 3 6 (4.545 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (21.21 %) OO 2 9 (6.818 %) Project Management 3 7 (5.303 %) Validation 4 6 (4.545 %) Scrum 4 6 (4.545 %) OOD 5 5 (3.788 %) Process Management 5 5 (3.788 %) UML 6 3 (2.273 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (2.273 %) Software Testing 6 3 (2.273 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (0.758 %) System Testing 7 1 (0.758 %) Web Development 7 1 (0.758 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (0.758 %) CRM 7 1 (0.758 %) ERP 7 1 (0.758 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (0.758 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 70 (53.03 %) C# 2 39 (29.55 %) SQL 3 38 (28.79 %) VB.NET 4 32 (24.24 %) Java 5 31 (23.48 %) C++ 6 26 (19.70 %) VB 7 18 (13.64 %) C 7 18 (13.64 %) VBA 8 16 (12.12 %) JavaScript 9 15 (11.36 %) VC++ 10 10 (7.576 %) VBScript 11 6 (4.545 %) Ruby 12 5 (3.788 %) Python 12 5 (3.788 %) Perl 13 4 (3.030 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (1.515 %) VB6 15 1 (0.758 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 14 (10.61 %) Degree 2 1 (0.758 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.273 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.758 %) TickIT	Systems Management 1 1 (0.758 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 27 (20.45 %) Microsoft 2 16 (12.12 %) Oracle 3 5 (3.788 %) Progress 4 4 (3.030 %) Sage 5 1 (0.758 %) SAP 5 1 (0.758 %) Citrix