The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 19 June 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 of England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 36 37 45
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 478 526 455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 5.936% 6.153% 4.593%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.250% 6.350% 4.841%
Number of salaries quoted 451 413 431
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7648 8284 9399
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 94.98% 96.91% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6622 7043 8033
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire 0 202 £37,500 -2.59% 42
Hertfordshire +30 120 £37,500 +7.14% 11
Essex -1 74 £37,500 +7.14% 5
Suffolk +23 60 £32,500 +8.33% 3
Norfolk -8 15 £27,000 -9.24% 1
Bedfordshire -56 6 £30,000 -26.82% 3
Software Developer
England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 528 (64.86%) C#
2 441 (54.18%) .NET
3 337 (41.40%) SQL
4 281 (34.52%) JavaScript
5 279 (34.28%) SQL Server
6 276 (33.91%) Degree
7 264 (32.43%) ASP.NET
8 254 (31.20%) Java
9 238 (29.24%) CSS
10 225 (27.64%) HTML
10 225 (27.64%) C++
11 195 (23.96%) Computer Science
12 189 (23.22%) Microsoft
13 188 (23.10%) XML
14 163 (20.02%) jQuery
15 151 (18.55%) OO
16 135 (16.58%) C
17 134 (16.46%) MS Excel
18 128 (15.72%) Linux
19 127 (15.60%) Windows
20 113 (13.88%) VB.NET
21 107 (13.14%) Ajax
21 107 (13.14%) MVC
21 107 (13.14%) Web Services
22 106 (13.02%) Agile Software Development
23 94 (11.55%) WCF
24 86 (10.57%) Python
25 84 (10.32%) Perl
25 84 (10.32%) HTML5
26 82 (10.07%) WPF

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 441 (54.18%) .NET
2 264 (32.43%) ASP.NET
3 238 (29.24%) CSS
4 225 (27.64%) HTML
5 188 (23.10%) XML
6 163 (20.02%) jQuery
7 107 (13.14%) Ajax
7 107 (13.14%) Web Services
8 94 (11.55%) WCF
9 84 (10.32%) HTML5
10 82 (10.07%) WPF
11 74 (9.091%) WinForms
12 59 (7.248%) SOAP
13 56 (6.880%) .NET Framework
14 54 (6.634%) J2EE
15 51 (6.265%) Spring
16 48 (5.897%) ASP.NET MVC
17 42 (5.160%) REST
18 38 (4.668%) XSLT
19 33 (4.054%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 48 (5.897%) Tomcat
2 34 (4.177%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.457%) IIS
4 10 (1.229%) Apache
5 9 (1.106%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.860%) MediaWiki
7 6 (0.737%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.614%) Windows Azure
8 5 (0.614%) Force.com
8 5 (0.614%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.491%) Drupal
10 3 (0.369%) CMS
11 2 (0.246%) Magento
11 2 (0.246%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.246%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.123%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.123%) MS Exchange
12 1 (0.123%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.123%) Confluence
12 1 (0.123%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 134 (16.46%) MS Excel
2 23 (2.826%) MS Office
3 8 (0.983%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.860%) Google Apps
5 1 (0.123%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 18 (2.211%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.931%) HTTP
2 27 (3.317%) Internet
3 9 (1.106%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.369%) Wireless
4 3 (0.369%) IGMP
4 3 (0.369%) RTSP
5 2 (0.246%) Network Security
5 2 (0.246%) Intranet
5 2 (0.246%) LAN
5 2 (0.246%) LDAP
6 1 (0.123%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (34.28%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.897%) SQL Server 2008
3 47 (5.774%) SQL Server 2005
4 40 (4.914%) MySQL
5 29 (3.563%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (2.826%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (1.597%) Oracle 8/8i
8 12 (1.474%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (1.474%) MS Access
9 11 (1.351%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.351%) Big Data
10 9 (1.106%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.983%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.860%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.737%) Text Mining
13 6 (0.737%) Oracle 10g
13 6 (0.737%) Data Mining
14 5 (0.614%) Oracle 9i
14 5 (0.614%) Oracle 11g
15 4 (0.491%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (9.828%) Visual Studio
2 54 (6.634%) Team Foundation Server
3 36 (4.423%) Selenium
4 29 (3.563%) JIRA
5 27 (3.317%) JUnit
6 26 (3.194%) Eclipse
7 22 (2.703%) MSTest
8 19 (2.334%) WebDriver
9 17 (2.088%) QuickTest Pro
10 15 (1.843%) Subversion
11 9 (1.106%) Git (software)
12 8 (0.983%) Mercurial
12 8 (0.983%) GCC
12 8 (0.983%) SCons
13 7 (0.860%) Bugzilla
13 7 (0.860%) GoogleTest
14 5 (0.614%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 5 (0.614%) NUnit
14 5 (0.614%) Xcode
14 5 (0.614%) WinDbg
General
1 79 (9.705%) Finance
2 46 (5.651%) Manufacturing
3 44 (5.405%) Games
4 19 (2.334%) Electronics
5 17 (2.088%) Retail
6 14 (1.720%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (1.351%) Multimedia
8 5 (0.614%) Publishing
8 5 (0.614%) Telecoms
8 5 (0.614%) Japanese Language
9 4 (0.491%) Automotive
10 3 (0.369%) Legal
10 3 (0.369%) Advertising
10 3 (0.369%) Marketing
11 2 (0.246%) Military
12 1 (0.123%) Banking
12 1 (0.123%) Law
12 1 (0.123%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.123%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 195 (23.96%) Computer Science
2 71 (8.722%) Mathematics
3 40 (4.914%) Mobile App
4 34 (4.177%) Online Games
5 30 (3.686%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.317%) Firmware
7 26 (3.194%) Physics
7 26 (3.194%) Client/Server
8 24 (2.948%) N-Tier
9 18 (2.211%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.106%) Handset
10 9 (1.106%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.983%) SaaS
12 7 (0.860%) Open Source
12 7 (0.860%) Visualisation
13 6 (0.737%) Speech Recognition
13 6 (0.737%) Semantic Web
13 6 (0.737%) Grid Computing
13 6 (0.737%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.614%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 128 (15.72%) Linux
2 127 (15.60%) Windows
3 39 (4.791%) UNIX
4 34 (4.177%) Android
5 26 (3.194%) VxWorks
6 22 (2.703%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (1.474%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.106%) Windows Mobile
9 8 (0.983%) Windows CE
10 5 (0.614%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.369%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.369%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.246%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.246%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.123%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.123%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.123%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (18.55%) OO
2 107 (13.14%) MVC
3 106 (13.02%) Agile Software Development
4 77 (9.459%) TDD
5 74 (9.091%) Scrum
6 65 (7.985%) Software Engineering
7 56 (6.880%) Automated Testing
8 44 (5.405%) CRM
9 43 (5.283%) Software Testing
10 40 (4.914%) OOP
11 31 (3.808%) UML
12 28 (3.440%) Web Development
12 28 (3.440%) Unit Testing
13 27 (3.317%) Test Scripting
14 26 (3.194%) SOA
15 23 (2.826%) Multithreading
16 20 (2.457%) OOD
17 19 (2.334%) E-Commerce
17 19 (2.334%) Manual Testing
17 19 (2.334%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 528 (64.86%) C#
2 337 (41.40%) SQL
3 281 (34.52%) JavaScript
4 254 (31.20%) Java
5 225 (27.64%) C++
6 135 (16.58%) C
7 113 (13.88%) VB.NET
8 86 (10.57%) Python
9 84 (10.32%) Perl
10 47 (5.774%) PHP
11 38 (4.668%) VB
12 33 (4.054%) T-SQL
13 31 (3.808%) Embedded C
13 31 (3.808%) VB6
14 23 (2.826%) Delphi
15 19 (2.334%) ActionScript
15 19 (2.334%) PL/SQL
15 19 (2.334%) ActionScript 3.0
16 18 (2.211%) VBA
17 17 (2.088%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 276 (33.91%) Degree
2 28 (3.440%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (1.351%) PhD
4 10 (1.229%) Postgraduate
5 9 (1.106%) ISEB
6 8 (0.983%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.369%) HND
8 2 (0.246%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.246%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.123%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.423%) QA
2 14 (1.720%) HIPAA
2 14 (1.720%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 12 (1.474%) JTAG
4 2 (0.246%) WCAG
4 2 (0.246%) TickIT
4 2 (0.246%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (0.246%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (0.123%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.369%) Tivoli
2 2 (0.246%) SCOM
2 2 (0.246%) Puppet
2 2 (0.246%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 189 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.880%) Oracle
3 37 (4.545%) JBoss
4 17 (2.088%) QNX
5 8 (0.983%) Google
5 8 (0.983%) SAP
6 7 (0.860%) Salesforce.com
7 4 (0.491%) Telerik
7 4 (0.491%) Sybase
8 3 (0.369%) Perforce
8 3 (0.369%) webMethods
8 3 (0.369%) Facebook
8 3 (0.369%) Sencha
9 2 (0.246%) Tableau
9 2 (0.246%) Thunderhead
9 2 (0.246%) Apple
9 2 (0.246%) Adobe
10 1 (0.123%) Cisco
10 1 (0.123%) IBM
10 1 (0.123%) Epicor
Norwich, Norfolk
Key technical skills include: - Software Development / Design - C# / ASP.NET or .NET - Good understanding of relational databases (Microsoft SQL server) - Object Orientated Design - End to End Solution delivery -...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30k - 50k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
The role will be require the develop web based software using the Microsoft .NET technologies such as C#, ASP.NET & SQL Server... The successful candidate must have extensive...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
This award winning company is looking for outstanding software developers with strong educational backgrounds to work in a friendly and relaxed environment with an exceptional benefits package. The...
JAM
Salary: £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
My client, based in Ipswich, are looking for a Lead Software Developer to join their company and manage a small team of software engineers The role will be...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £42000.00 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
Cambridgeshire
Graduate Software Developer / Programmer (C#/ASP.NET/SQL) - Cambridgeshire - £18,000+ excellent benefits... Computer People are an equal opportunities employer Keywords- Computer Science / C# / ASP.NET / SQL/ Support
Computer People
Salary: £17000.00 - £18000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: c35k + bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Essex
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Great + Career Prospects
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30,000-£50,000 + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + 25 Days, 5% Pension, HC
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Basildon, Essex
Senitor Associates
Salary: £4000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Essex
Asc Recruitment
Salary: From £33,000 to £40,000 per annum + 31 Days Hols + additional bank hol
Posted: 13 June 2013
North London/Hertfordshire, South East
Axica Recruitment
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year + Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Letchworth Garden City, South East
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + including excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + including excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 37k + Bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35k + Bens
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Computer People
Salary: £1.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bedfordshire, South East
greywood
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Cambridgeshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013