The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 79 76 77
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 5 14 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.467% 1.028% 1.530%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.486% 1.076% 1.604%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 15
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 1301 1496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.08% 95.52% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 952 1084
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Developer
Scotland

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Applications Developer Salary Trend

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
4 6 (50.00%) T-SQL
5 5 (41.67%) HTML
5 5 (41.67%) CSS
5 5 (41.67%) Degree
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) MCTS
6 4 (33.33%) MCPD
6 4 (33.33%) Web Development
6 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) jQuery
6 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (25.00%) Java
7 3 (25.00%) Oracle
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
7 3 (25.00%) Ajax
7 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (16.67%) TDD
8 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
8 2 (16.67%) WCF
8 2 (16.67%) HTML5
8 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (16.67%) Eclipse

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (41.67%) HTML
3 5 (41.67%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) Ajax
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (16.67%) WCF
6 2 (16.67%) HTML5
6 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (16.67%) XHTML
6 2 (16.67%) XML
7 1 (8.333%) ASP
7 1 (8.333%) Web Services
7 1 (8.333%) WinForms
7 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (8.333%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) Big Data
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) N-Tier
2 1 (8.333%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.333%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Web Development
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (8.333%) MVC
4 1 (8.333%) Change Control
4 1 (8.333%) Big Data Analytics
4 1 (8.333%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) MCTS
2 4 (33.33%) MCPD
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Samba
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
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