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This section looks at the demand for the 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 jobs that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSoftware Developer
Location
3 months to 24 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank5041
Rank change on same period last yearDown-9
Matching permanent IT job ads520569
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.274 %0.233 %
As % of the category below4.306 %4.448 %
Salaries quoted472485
Average minimum salary£31,274£30,117
Average salary£35,035£33,565
% change on same period last year+4.38 %
Average maximum salary£38,797£37,013
UK excluding London average salary£33,149£33,143
% change on same period last year+0.01 %
East of England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads1207712792
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled6.360 %5.247 %
Salaries quoted1010210876
Average minimum salary£34,837£34,741
Average salary£37,946£37,697
% change on same period last year+0.65 %
Average maximum salary£41,055£40,654
UK excluding London average salary£38,194£39,492
% change on same period last year-3.28 %
Software Developer EnglandSoftware Developer
England

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

East of England Software Developer Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

East of England Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

East of England Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CambridgeshireDown-1336£35,136+2.07 %
SuffolkUp+1356£33,093+33.90 %
HertfordshireDown-4455£37,787+6.13 %
BedfordshireDown-2628£38,464+2.98 %
EssexDown-3527£34,210+11.92 %
NorfolkUp+1025£26,833+15.04 %
Software Developer EnglandSoftware Developer
England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1570 (52.53 %).NET
2524 (48.29 %)C#
3451 (41.57 %)C++
4364 (33.55 %)SQL Server
5317 (29.22 %)ASP.NET
6307 (28.29 %)SQL
7302 (27.83 %)Degree
8245 (22.58 %)Windows
9243 (22.40 %)Java
10226 (20.83 %)Microsoft
11208 (19.17 %)C
12195 (17.97 %)XML
13187 (17.24 %)OO
14186 (17.14 %)VB.NET
15155 (14.29 %)Computer Science
16152 (14.01 %)VB
17147 (13.55 %)JavaScript
18136 (12.53 %)Linux
19124 (11.43 %)UNIX
20112 (10.32 %)Health
21111 (10.23 %)PHP
22108 (9.954 %)HTML
23107 (9.862 %)Pensions
24105 (9.677 %)Visual Studio
25103 (9.493 %)Oracle
26102 (9.401 %).NET Framework
2794 (8.664 %)VB6
2893 (8.571 %)AJAX
2988 (8.111 %)Mathematics
2988 (8.111 %)Perl

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1570 (52.53 %).NET
2317 (29.22 %)ASP.NET
3195 (17.97 %)XML
4108 (9.954 %)HTML
5102 (9.401 %).NET Framework
693 (8.571 %)AJAX
783 (7.650 %)WebServices
872 (6.636 %)MFC
968 (6.267 %)ASP
968 (6.267 %)CSS
1058 (5.346 %)J2EE
1157 (5.253 %)WinForms
1238 (3.502 %)SOAP
1337 (3.410 %)XSLT
1430 (2.765 %)STL
1528 (2.581 %)ADO.NET
1617 (1.567 %)Struts
1716 (1.475 %)WCF
1815 (1.382 %)XML Schema
1913 (1.198 %)OpenGL
East of England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
129 (2.673 %)IIS
225 (2.304 %)SharePoint
323 (2.120 %)BizTalk Server
421 (1.935 %)Smallworld
517 (1.567 %)Apache
69 (0.829 %)CICS
76 (0.553 %)ColdFusion
83 (0.276 %)WPS
91 (0.092 %)CMS
91 (0.092 %)Commerce Server
91 (0.092 %)iPlanet
91 (0.092 %)JRun
91 (0.092 %)MS Exchange
91 (0.092 %)SAS
91 (0.092 %)JBoss
91 (0.092 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (0.092 %)ColdFusion MX
East of England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
180 (7.373 %)MS Excel
222 (2.028 %)MS Visio
321 (1.935 %)MS Office
420 (1.843 %)MATLAB
513 (1.198 %)3ds Max
610 (0.922 %)Maya
78 (0.737 %)MS PowerPoint
85 (0.461 %)Photoshop
93 (0.276 %)InfoPath
102 (0.184 %)S-PLUS
East of England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (0.184 %)Navision
21 (0.092 %)Dynamics AX
21 (0.092 %)GoldMine
East of England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
154 (4.977 %)Internet
229 (2.673 %)Intranet
328 (2.581 %)TCP/IP
420 (1.843 %)DVB
516 (1.475 %)VoIP
612 (1.106 %)HTTP
711 (1.014 %)CTI
711 (1.014 %)Wireless
810 (0.922 %)C7
810 (0.922 %)SS7
810 (0.922 %)INAP
810 (0.922 %)SNMP
810 (0.922 %)Bluetooth
810 (0.922 %)3GPP
96 (0.553 %)Wi-Fi
96 (0.553 %)Ethernet
104 (0.369 %)SSL
104 (0.369 %)WLAN
104 (0.369 %)UWB
104 (0.369 %)TETRA
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1364 (33.55 %)SQL Server
279 (7.281 %)SQL Server 2005
360 (5.530 %)SQL Server 2000
444 (4.055 %)MySQL
525 (2.304 %)GIS
622 (2.028 %)Crystal Reports
721 (1.935 %)SQL Server 7
820 (1.843 %)Oracle 10g
914 (1.290 %)MS Access
1013 (1.198 %)Oracle Reports
119 (0.829 %)Oracle 9i
119 (0.829 %)DTS
119 (0.829 %)DB2
119 (0.829 %)RDBMS
126 (0.553 %)SQL Server Integration Services
126 (0.553 %)Oracle 11g
135 (0.461 %)BusinessObjects
143 (0.276 %)Text Mining
143 (0.276 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
152 (0.184 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
East of England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1105 (9.677 %)Visual Studio
213 (1.198 %)VSS/SourceSafe
312 (1.106 %)Oracle Forms
411 (1.014 %)Visual Studio Team System
54 (0.369 %)NUnit
54 (0.369 %)MSI
54 (0.369 %)InstallShield
63 (0.276 %)C++Builder
63 (0.276 %)Flash
72 (0.184 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
72 (0.184 %)Dreamweaver
81 (0.092 %)LabVIEW
81 (0.092 %)Ant
East of England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1112 (10.32 %)Health
2107 (9.862 %)Pensions
377 (7.097 %)Finance
442 (3.871 %)Insurance
532 (2.949 %)Telecoms
626 (2.396 %)Games
725 (2.304 %)Marketing
821 (1.935 %)Education
920 (1.843 %)Electronics
1019 (1.751 %)Construction
1019 (1.751 %)Retail
1115 (1.382 %)Multimedia
1213 (1.198 %)Billing
1312 (1.106 %)Animation
1312 (1.106 %)Government
1411 (1.014 %)Publishing
1411 (1.014 %)3D Graphics
157 (0.645 %)Pharmaceutical
165 (0.461 %)Manufacturing
165 (0.461 %)Electric
East of England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1155 (14.29 %)Computer Science
288 (8.111 %)Mathematics
331 (2.857 %)Physics
418 (1.659 %)IPTV
517 (1.567 %)Web 2.0
517 (1.567 %)STB
615 (1.382 %)Client/Server
712 (1.106 %)Multithreading
810 (0.922 %)IVR
99 (0.829 %)Artificial Intelligence
99 (0.829 %)N-Tier
99 (0.829 %)Mainframe
99 (0.829 %)IBM Mainframe
107 (0.645 %)Tandem
107 (0.645 %)Data Protection Act
107 (0.645 %)SCADA
116 (0.553 %)AS400
125 (0.461 %)MPEG
125 (0.461 %)E-Learning
125 (0.461 %)Applied Mathematics
East of England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1245 (22.58 %)Windows
2136 (12.53 %)Linux
3124 (11.43 %)UNIX
423 (2.120 %)Windows 2000
519 (1.751 %)Embedded Linux
610 (0.922 %)VxWorks
610 (0.922 %)Solaris
610 (0.922 %)Windows XP
77 (0.645 %)Mac OS X
82 (0.184 %)MVS
82 (0.184 %)Windows NT
82 (0.184 %)Windows Mobile
91 (0.092 %)Windows Server 2003
East of England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1187 (17.24 %)OO
256 (5.161 %)OOD
343 (3.963 %)UML
343 (3.963 %)Project Management
438 (3.502 %)Software Engineering
532 (2.949 %)OOA/OOD
630 (2.765 %)OOP
728 (2.581 %)Web Development
821 (1.935 %)Agile Software Development
821 (1.935 %)E-Commerce
919 (1.751 %)E-business
919 (1.751 %)Unit Testing
1018 (1.659 %)CAD
1116 (1.475 %)Web Design
1116 (1.475 %)Requirements Analysis
1116 (1.475 %)Change Management
1215 (1.382 %)Scrum
1313 (1.198 %)Business Intelligence
1412 (1.106 %)RAD
1412 (1.106 %)User Acceptance Testing
East of England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1524 (48.29 %)C#
2451 (41.57 %)C++
3307 (28.29 %)SQL
4243 (22.40 %)Java
5208 (19.17 %)C
6186 (17.14 %)VB.NET
7152 (14.01 %)VB
8147 (13.55 %)JavaScript
9111 (10.23 %)PHP
1094 (8.664 %)VB6
1188 (8.111 %)Perl
1253 (4.885 %)Python
1341 (3.779 %)PL/SQL
1440 (3.687 %)Transact-SQL
1538 (3.502 %)VC++
1632 (2.949 %)Embedded C
1721 (1.935 %)Magik
1820 (1.843 %)Delphi
1820 (1.843 %)DHTML
1916 (1.475 %)Ruby
East of England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1302 (27.83 %)Degree
236 (3.318 %)PhD
320 (1.843 %)Microsoft Certification
412 (1.106 %)MCSD
56 (0.553 %)ICAEW
64 (0.369 %)MCAD
64 (0.369 %)HND
72 (0.184 %)Postgraduate
72 (0.184 %)Sun Certification
81 (0.092 %)MCP
81 (0.092 %)HNC
East of England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (1.106 %)QA
26 (0.553 %)ISO9000
33 (0.276 %)WAI
33 (0.276 %)GAMP
41 (0.092 %)PCI DSS
East of England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12 (0.184 %)Terminal Services
21 (0.092 %)Active Directory
East of England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (0.092 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
East of England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1226 (20.83 %)Microsoft
2103 (9.493 %)Oracle
318 (1.659 %)IBM
412 (1.106 %)Apple
56 (0.553 %)Remedy
65 (0.461 %)Business Objects
74 (0.369 %)Cognos
83 (0.276 %)Sybase
83 (0.276 %)Borland
83 (0.276 %)Sun
92 (0.184 %)Symbian
92 (0.184 %)Adobe
101 (0.092 %)Cisco
101 (0.092 %)PeopleSoft
101 (0.092 %)Dell
101 (0.092 %)ILOG
101 (0.092 %)Stellent
101 (0.092 %)Perforce
101 (0.092 %)GUPTA
101 (0.092 %)Wall Street Systems
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