Edinburgh Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Edinburgh 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Honiton Horley Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romsey Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thetford Totnes Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	26
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching permanent IT job ads	49	106
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	3.743 %	5.242 %
Salaries quoted	39	91
Average minimum salary	£30,423	£29,896
Average salary	£33,122	£33,571
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Average maximum salary	£35,821	£37,247
UK excluding London average salary	£33,139	£33,111
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	1309	2022
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.683 %	0.834 %
Salaries quoted	939	1358
Average minimum salary	£31,194	£33,607
Average salary	£34,493	£36,930
% change on same period last year	-6.60 %
Average maximum salary	£37,792	£40,253
UK excluding London average salary	£38,227	£39,513
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Developer Scotland

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Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 84 (66.67 %) C# 2 72 (57.14 %) .NET 3 53 (42.06 %) ASP.NET 4 52 (41.27 %) C++ 5 48 (38.10 %) XML 6 47 (37.30 %) SQL 7 41 (32.54 %) SQL Server 8 36 (28.57 %) Windows 9 33 (26.19 %) Oracle 10 31 (24.60 %) Java 11 30 (23.81 %) Degree 12 28 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 13 25 (19.84 %) ADO.NET 13 25 (19.84 %) Microsoft 14 24 (19.05 %) WinForms

14 24 (19.05 %) C 15 23 (18.25 %) WebServices 16 21 (16.67 %) JavaScript 17 17 (13.49 %) OO 17 17 (13.49 %) Computer Science 18 13 (10.32 %) SQL Server 2005 18 13 (10.32 %) Linux 18 13 (10.32 %) Visual Studio 19 12 (9.524 %) HTML 19 12 (9.524 %) Finance 19 12 (9.524 %) GIS 20 11 (8.730 %) ESRI 20 11 (8.730 %) Subversion 20 11 (8.730 %) VSS/SourceSafe 20 11 (8.730 %) MS Excel

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 72 (57.14 %) .NET 2 53 (42.06 %) ASP.NET 3 48 (38.10 %) XML 4 25 (19.84 %) ADO.NET 5 24 (19.05 %) WinForms 6 23 (18.25 %) WebServices 7 12 (9.524 %) HTML 8 10 (7.937 %) AJAX 9 9 (7.143 %) Swing 9 9 (7.143 %) J2SE 10 7 (5.556 %) CSS 10 7 (5.556 %) J2EE 11 6 (4.762 %) Hibernate 11 6 (4.762 %) WMI 11 6 (4.762 %) Spring 11 6 (4.762 %) .NET Framework 12 5 (3.968 %) WAP 12 5 (3.968 %) J2ME 12 5 (3.968 %) ASP 12 5 (3.968 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.175 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (1.587 %) SharePoint 2 2 (1.587 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (1.587 %) ColdFusion MX 3 1 (0.794 %) WebLogic 3 1 (0.794 %) IIS 3 1 (0.794 %) Apache
Applications 1 11 (8.730 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (2.381 %) AWD 2 1 (0.794 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 6 (4.762 %) Internet 2 2 (1.587 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.794 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (32.54 %) SQL Server 2 13 (10.32 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (9.524 %) GIS 4 10 (7.937 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (3.175 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (2.381 %) RDBMS 7 2 (1.587 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.794 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 13 (10.32 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (8.730 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 11 (8.730 %) Subversion 3 10 (7.937 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 12 (9.524 %) Finance 2 9 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (3.175 %) Advertising 4 3 (2.381 %) Publishing 4 3 (2.381 %) Education 4 3 (2.381 %) Banking 4 3 (2.381 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (1.587 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.587 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.587 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (1.587 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.794 %) Games 6 1 (0.794 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 17 (13.49 %) Computer Science 2 9 (7.143 %) Smartcard 3 4 (3.175 %) Handset 4 1 (0.794 %) Asset Management 4 1 (0.794 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.794 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 36 (28.57 %) Windows 2 13 (10.32 %) Linux 3 10 (7.937 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.794 %) Windows CE 4 1 (0.794 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (13.49 %) OO 2 10 (7.937 %) Software Engineering 3 9 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (4.762 %) Investment Management 5 4 (3.175 %) Data Analysis 6 3 (2.381 %) UML 6 3 (2.381 %) Workflow 7 2 (1.587 %) OOD 7 2 (1.587 %) Web Development 7 2 (1.587 %) System Testing 8 1 (0.794 %) Finite Element Analysis 8 1 (0.794 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (0.794 %) CAD 8 1 (0.794 %) CAE 8 1 (0.794 %) Web Design 8 1 (0.794 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 84 (66.67 %) C# 2 52 (41.27 %) C++ 3 47 (37.30 %) SQL 4 31 (24.60 %) Java 5 28 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 6 24 (19.05 %) C 7 21 (16.67 %) JavaScript 8 10 (7.937 %) Transact-SQL 9 9 (7.143 %) VB 10 6 (4.762 %) VB.NET 11 5 (3.968 %) COBOL 12 4 (3.175 %) VC++ 12 4 (3.175 %) VBScript 13 3 (2.381 %) Delphi 13 3 (2.381 %) DHTML 14 2 (1.587 %) Perl 15 1 (0.794 %) PHP 15 1 (0.794 %) Tcl 15 1 (0.794 %) LotusScript
Qualifications 1 30 (23.81 %) Degree 2 3 (2.381 %) PhD 3 2 (1.587 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.587 %) MCPD 3 2 (1.587 %) MCP 3 2 (1.587 %) MCAD 3 2 (1.587 %) MCSD	System Software 1 1 (0.794 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 33 (26.19 %) Oracle 2 25 (19.84 %) Microsoft 3 11 (8.730 %) ESRI 4 3 (2.381 %) IBM