The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands 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 23 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 53 63 56
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 132 120 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 4.302% 3.594% 3.896%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.528% 3.788% 4.055%
Number of salaries quoted 122 114 136
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,750 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £39,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2915 3168 3477
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 95.01% 94.88% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2502 2825 2995
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
England

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East Midlands Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +18 50 £35,000 +12.90%
Leicestershire +8 37 £46,000 +22.66%
Derbyshire -1 26 £32,250 -7.85%
Northamptonshire -17 11 £37,500 +25.00%
Lincolnshire -17 4 £32,500 +8.33%
Software Developer
England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 202 (80.80%) .NET
2 191 (76.40%) C#
3 158 (63.20%) SQL Server
4 115 (46.00%) SQL
5 112 (44.80%) ASP.NET
6 83 (33.20%) JavaScript
7 80 (32.00%) jQuery
8 70 (28.00%) Windows
9 69 (27.60%) HTML
9 69 (27.60%) MVC
10 67 (26.80%) Microsoft
11 64 (25.60%) XML
12 56 (22.40%) OO
13 55 (22.00%) C++
13 55 (22.00%) CSS
14 54 (21.60%) Degree
15 53 (21.20%) Computer Science
15 53 (21.20%) Agile Software Development
16 50 (20.00%) Visual Studio
16 50 (20.00%) VB.NET
17 48 (19.20%) Java
18 45 (18.00%) WCF
19 43 (17.20%) Ajax
19 43 (17.20%) TDD
20 41 (16.40%) MS Excel
21 37 (14.80%) Web Development
22 33 (13.20%) .NET Framework
22 33 (13.20%) Oracle
23 32 (12.80%) ASP.NET MVC
24 30 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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
1 202 (80.80%) .NET
2 112 (44.80%) ASP.NET
3 80 (32.00%) jQuery
4 69 (27.60%) HTML
5 64 (25.60%) XML
6 55 (22.00%) CSS
7 45 (18.00%) WCF
8 43 (17.20%) Ajax
9 33 (13.20%) .NET Framework
10 32 (12.80%) ASP.NET MVC
11 28 (11.20%) WinForms
12 26 (10.40%) WPF
13 25 (10.00%) Web Services
14 23 (9.200%) Silverlight
15 22 (8.800%) LINQ
16 20 (8.000%) HTML5
17 17 (6.800%) JSON
18 11 (4.400%) XHTML
19 9 (3.600%) SOAP
19 9 (3.600%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (1.600%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.600%) Apache
1 4 (1.600%) SharePoint
1 4 (1.600%) CMS
1 4 (1.600%) WordPress
2 3 (1.200%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.800%) IIS
4 1 (0.400%) Liferay
4 1 (0.400%) Mule
4 1 (0.400%) ESB
4 1 (0.400%) Papyrus
4 1 (0.400%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.400%) SAS
4 1 (0.400%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.400%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 41 (16.40%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.000%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.200%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.400%) Maya
4 1 (0.400%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.400%) MS Office
4 1 (0.400%) Blender
Business Applications
1 1 (0.400%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.800%) LDAP
2 5 (2.000%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.200%) Wireless
3 3 (1.200%) FTP
4 2 (0.800%) HTTP
4 2 (0.800%) Internet
5 1 (0.400%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.400%) VoIP
5 1 (0.400%) SNMP
5 1 (0.400%) SSL
5 1 (0.400%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (63.20%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 18 (7.200%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (6.800%) MySQL
5 15 (6.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.800%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.000%) DB2
8 4 (1.600%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.800%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.800%) OLAP
9 2 (0.800%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.800%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.800%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.400%) QlikView
10 1 (0.400%) GIS
10 1 (0.400%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.400%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.400%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.400%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 20 (8.000%) Subversion
3 5 (2.000%) Selenium
3 5 (2.000%) FitNesse
3 5 (2.000%) Git (software)
3 5 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.000%) JUnit
4 4 (1.600%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.600%) PHPUnit
4 4 (1.600%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.600%) JIRA
4 4 (1.600%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.200%) Dreamweaver
6 2 (0.800%) PhoneGap
6 2 (0.800%) Xcode
7 1 (0.400%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.400%) Maven
7 1 (0.400%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.400%) Ant
7 1 (0.400%) MSTest
General
1 19 (7.600%) Finance
2 9 (3.600%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (2.000%) Marketing
4 4 (1.600%) Automotive
5 3 (1.200%) Advertising
5 3 (1.200%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.800%) Billing
6 2 (0.800%) Military
7 1 (0.400%) Games
7 1 (0.400%) Banking
7 1 (0.400%) Electronics
7 1 (0.400%) Law
7 1 (0.400%) Legal
7 1 (0.400%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.20%) Computer Science
2 20 (8.000%) Mathematics
3 17 (6.800%) PKI
3 17 (6.800%) Smartcard
3 17 (6.800%) Blackberry
4 11 (4.400%) N-Tier
5 7 (2.800%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.000%) 3D Graphics
7 4 (1.600%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.600%) Visualisation
8 3 (1.200%) FMCG
8 3 (1.200%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.800%) SaaS
9 2 (0.800%) iPad
9 2 (0.800%) NHS
9 2 (0.800%) LIMS
9 2 (0.800%) PDA
9 2 (0.800%) Physics
9 2 (0.800%) iPhone
9 2 (0.800%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.00%) Windows
2 28 (11.20%) Android
3 23 (9.200%) Apple iOS
4 19 (7.600%) Linux
5 17 (6.800%) BlackBerry OS
6 13 (5.200%) Windows Mobile
7 9 (3.600%) UNIX
8 1 (0.400%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.400%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.60%) MVC
2 56 (22.40%) OO
3 53 (21.20%) Agile Software Development
4 43 (17.20%) TDD
5 37 (14.80%) Web Development
6 29 (11.60%) OOP
7 28 (11.20%) Software Engineering
8 21 (8.400%) OOD
9 20 (8.000%) Scrum
10 17 (6.800%) Information Security
10 17 (6.800%) Cyber Security
11 15 (6.000%) Validation
12 14 (5.600%) Change Control
13 12 (4.800%) Waterfall
14 7 (2.800%) Business Analysis
14 7 (2.800%) CRM
15 6 (2.400%) Business Intelligence
15 6 (2.400%) Configuration Management
15 6 (2.400%) Unit Testing
16 5 (2.000%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 191 (76.40%) C#
2 115 (46.00%) SQL
3 83 (33.20%) JavaScript
4 55 (22.00%) C++
5 50 (20.00%) VB.NET
6 48 (19.20%) Java
7 28 (11.20%) C
8 21 (8.400%) PHP
9 19 (7.600%) VB
10 18 (7.200%) T-SQL
11 13 (5.200%) Delphi
12 11 (4.400%) Pascal
13 8 (3.200%) Fortran
14 7 (2.800%) VB6
14 7 (2.800%) Python
14 7 (2.800%) VBA
15 4 (1.600%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.600%) Perl
16 3 (1.200%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.200%) XAML
Qualifications
1 54 (21.60%) Degree
2 3 (1.200%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.800%) PhD
4 1 (0.400%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.600%) HIPAA
1 14 (5.600%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (0.800%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.800%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (0.400%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.400%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 67 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.20%) Oracle
3 8 (3.200%) Zend
4 5 (2.000%) Apple
5 4 (1.600%) Adobe
6 2 (0.800%) Citrix
7 1 (0.400%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.400%) Capita
7 1 (0.400%) Progress
7 1 (0.400%) Red Gate
7 1 (0.400%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.400%) Twitter
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
You will be working on VB.Net Desktop applications with a SQL Server back end, with the possibility of some C# experience in future projects, so exposure to...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £21000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Retford, Nottinghamshire
They require a candidate with a strong degree in a computer related subject, and experience in C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server and MVC ... C# ASP.Net (MVC) SQL...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £18000 - £20000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
They are looking for a Developers who has a strong degree and experience developing applications in C# / VB.Net, SQL Server, Visual Studio in Windows and Linux environments.....
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £22000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
In order to be considered for this Software Developer - C# / .Net / WPF / Agile role you will have a solid background in windows programming and strong mathematical abilities... Skills...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Currently opportunities exist within (but are not limited to) the areas of; ASP.NET developers... Desktop/mobile application developers. Desirable additional skills; Sql Server and/or Oracle. Biztalk...
Sports Direct
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 26 April 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
They are looking for a Developer who has a strong degree and experience developing applications using HTML(5), XML, JavaScript and Java... HTML(5) XML. JavaScript. Java... SQL.....
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £18000 - £20000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Software Developer - C# / SQL Server - Jon this UK market leader in a pivotal role in the department... You will develop huge C# applications and integrate with management information...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
You must have excellent communication skills - & technical skills should consist of knowledge of PHP, LAMP, Java, HTML 5, CSS 3, JQuery, JavaScript, Perl, Apache, C#, OOP, MySQL & have...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Java development... Working knowledge of Struts and Spring. JDBC and strong SQL (or Oracle or DB2) Experience of test driven development... KEYWORDS: Java | J2EE | Manager | Senior | Lead | Software |...
Harnham
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013