East of England Senior Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Software Developer role in IT jobs within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Senior Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Software Developer
Location Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Seaford Sheffield Smethwick South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tamworth Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wokingham Woodbridge York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	225	239
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	57	45
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.470 %	0.355 %
Salaries quoted	46	36
Average minimum salary	£33,239	£33,463
Average salary	£36,098	£37,720
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
Average maximum salary	£38,957	£41,976
UK excluding London average salary	£37,613	£38,753
% change on same period last year	-2.94 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	12124	12663
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.330 %	5.224 %
Salaries quoted	10144	10744
Average minimum salary	£34,807	£34,731
Average salary	£37,909	£37,657
% change on same period last year	+0.66 %
Average maximum salary	£41,011	£40,584
UK excluding London average salary	£38,227	£39,513
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Senior Software Developer England

Senior Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Senior Software Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 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
Cambridgeshire	+11	31	£36,800	-0.03 %
Suffolk	+1	11	£27,500	-36.23 %
Hertfordshire	+3	7	£38,929	+8.96 %
Bedfordshire	-9	4	£45,500	+16.66 %
Essex	-6	4	£41,875	+10.19 %

Senior Software Developer England

Senior Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title.

1 68 (54.84 %) C# 2 57 (45.97 %) .NET 3 46 (37.10 %) SQL 4 36 (29.03 %) Java 5 35 (28.23 %) JavaScript 6 30 (24.19 %) ASP.NET 6 30 (24.19 %) Microsoft 7 29 (23.39 %) C++ 7 29 (23.39 %) VB 8 28 (22.58 %) SQL Server 9 26 (20.97 %) Oracle 9 26 (20.97 %) Windows 9 26 (20.97 %) Linux 9 26 (20.97 %) .NET Framework 10 25 (20.16 %) VB6

11 24 (19.35 %) Degree 12 23 (18.55 %) HTML 13 22 (17.74 %) CSS 14 20 (16.13 %) OO 15 19 (15.32 %) XML 15 19 (15.32 %) Web Development 16 17 (13.71 %) C 16 17 (13.71 %) Perl 17 16 (12.90 %) UNIX 18 15 (12.10 %) Project Management 19 14 (11.29 %) AJAX 20 13 (10.48 %) PHP 21 12 (9.677 %) PL/SQL 21 12 (9.677 %) SOAP 21 12 (9.677 %) ASP

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 57 (45.97 %) .NET 2 30 (24.19 %) ASP.NET 3 26 (20.97 %) .NET Framework 4 23 (18.55 %) HTML 5 22 (17.74 %) CSS 6 19 (15.32 %) XML 7 14 (11.29 %) AJAX 8 12 (9.677 %) SOAP 8 12 (9.677 %) ASP 9 11 (8.871 %) WinForms 10 8 (6.452 %) J2EE 11 6 (4.839 %) WebServices 12 5 (4.032 %) EDI 13 2 (1.613 %) Struts 13 2 (1.613 %) MFC 13 2 (1.613 %) ADO.NET 13 2 (1.613 %) JSP 13 2 (1.613 %) Swing 14 1 (0.806 %) Adobe Flex 14 1 (0.806 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.839 %) IIS 2 5 (4.032 %) Apache 3 1 (0.806 %) JRun 3 1 (0.806 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.806 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 7 (5.645 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.613 %) Wireless 2 1 (0.806 %) TETRA 2 1 (0.806 %) VoIP 2 1 (0.806 %) Ethernet 2 1 (0.806 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.806 %) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (22.58 %) SQL Server 2 12 (9.677 %) Oracle 10g 3 11 (8.871 %) Oracle Reports 4 5 (4.032 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (2.419 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (1.613 %) MS Access 6 2 (1.613 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (0.806 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.806 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 12 (9.677 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (2.419 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.806 %) Ant 3 1 (0.806 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.806 %) NUnit
General 1 11 (8.871 %) Construction 2 9 (7.258 %) Games 3 6 (4.839 %) Multimedia 4 3 (2.419 %) Billing 4 3 (2.419 %) Finance 5 2 (1.613 %) Retail 6 1 (0.806 %) Banking 6 1 (0.806 %) Health 6 1 (0.806 %) Electronics 6 1 (0.806 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.806 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.806 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.645 %) Computer Science 2 4 (3.226 %) Mathematics 3 2 (1.613 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.613 %) N-Tier 3 2 (1.613 %) Physics 4 1 (0.806 %) EFT 4 1 (0.806 %) Thin Client 4 1 (0.806 %) IPTV 4 1 (0.806 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.806 %) Applied Mathematics 4 1 (0.806 %) Fat Client 4 1 (0.806 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 26 (20.97 %) Windows 1 26 (20.97 %) Linux 2 16 (12.90 %) UNIX 3 12 (9.677 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (2.419 %) VxWorks 5 2 (1.613 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.806 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (16.13 %) OO 2 19 (15.32 %) Web Development 3 15 (12.10 %) Project Management 4 12 (9.677 %) E-Commerce 5 11 (8.871 %) OOD 6 7 (5.645 %) E-business 7 6 (4.839 %) Data Analysis 7 6 (4.839 %) Supply Chain Management 8 3 (2.419 %) B2B 8 3 (2.419 %) UML 8 3 (2.419 %) OOP 8 3 (2.419 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (1.613 %) Scrum 10 1 (0.806 %) Web Design 10 1 (0.806 %) OOA/OOD 10 1 (0.806 %) ERP 10 1 (0.806 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (0.806 %) Unit Testing 10 1 (0.806 %) Data Architecture 10 1 (0.806 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 68 (54.84 %) C# 2 46 (37.10 %) SQL 3 36 (29.03 %) Java 4 35 (28.23 %) JavaScript 5 29 (23.39 %) C++ 5 29 (23.39 %) VB 6 25 (20.16 %) VB6 7 17 (13.71 %) C 7 17 (13.71 %) Perl 8 13 (10.48 %) PHP 9 12 (9.677 %) PL/SQL 9 12 (9.677 %) Ruby 10 10 (8.065 %) VB.NET 11 4 (3.226 %) Delphi 12 2 (1.613 %) Transact-SQL 13 1 (0.806 %) VC++ 13 1 (0.806 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 24 (19.35 %) Degree 2 4 (3.226 %) PhD 3 3 (2.419 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (1.613 %) MCSD 5 1 (0.806 %) MCP 5 1 (0.806 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.226 %) QA	Vendors 1 30 (24.19 %) Microsoft 2 26 (20.97 %) Oracle 3 5 (4.032 %) Business Objects 4 1 (0.806 %) Sun