Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Essex region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank111
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads191316838
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex28.25 %30.18 %38.35 %
As % of the Job Titles category30.46 %32.51 %40.41 %
Salaries quoted164300764
Average salary£37,500£32,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£40,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-1.510 %
Essex IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6279722074
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex92.75 %92.84 %94.92 %
Salaries quoted4968561825
Average salary£36,334£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.810 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£23,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£60,000£51,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Developer East of EnglandDeveloper
East of England

Developer
Demand Trend

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

Essex Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Essex Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Essex Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ColchesterUp+281£35,000+7.69 %
ChelmsfordDown-219£40,000+70.21 %
HarlowUp+115£42,500+21.42 %
BasildonDown-44£35,000-12.50 %
Saffron WaldenNew entry-4£30,000-
Southend-on-SeaNo change03£28,500-12.30 %
HockleyNew entry-3£35,000-
BrentwoodDown-42£45,000+16.12 %
RayleighNew entry-2£26,500-
ChigwellNew entry-2£43,500-
BraintreeUp+31£35,000+55.55 %
MaldonNo change01£21,500-8.51 %
Developer East of EnglandDeveloper
East of England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1263 (59.91 %).NET
2252 (57.40 %)C#
3210 (47.84 %)SQL Server
4190 (43.28 %)HTML
5178 (40.55 %)CSS
6162 (36.90 %)JavaScript
6162 (36.90 %)ASP.NET
7147 (33.49 %)SQL
8127 (28.93 %)Web Services
9122 (27.79 %)PHP
10114 (25.97 %)Web Development
11110 (25.06 %)AJAX
12106 (24.15 %)XML
1373 (16.63 %)OO
1472 (16.40 %)Visual Studio
1570 (15.95 %)Java
1667 (15.26 %)VB.NET
1763 (14.35 %)Team Foundation Server
1861 (13.90 %)MS Visio
1960 (13.67 %)Microsoft
2056 (12.76 %)RDBMS
2155 (12.53 %)Migration
2254 (12.30 %)CRM
2353 (12.07 %)DHTML
2353 (12.07 %)SOA
2353 (12.07 %)Salesforce.com
2353 (12.07 %)Force.com
2353 (12.07 %)Visualforce
2353 (12.07 %)Apex Code
2447 (10.71 %)MySQL

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Essex IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1263 (59.91 %).NET
2190 (43.28 %)HTML
3178 (40.55 %)CSS
4162 (36.90 %)ASP.NET
5127 (28.93 %)Web Services
6110 (25.06 %)AJAX
7106 (24.15 %)XML
853 (12.07 %)DHTML
853 (12.07 %)Visualforce
945 (10.25 %)Flash
1027 (6.150 %)J2EE
1122 (5.011 %)XHTML
1122 (5.011 %)WCF
1221 (4.784 %)Silverlight
1319 (4.328 %)WPF
1319 (4.328 %)EJB
1416 (3.645 %)jQuery
1515 (3.417 %)ASP
1613 (2.961 %)Adobe Flex
1712 (2.733 %)JMS
Essex IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
153 (12.07 %)Force.com
232 (7.289 %)IIS
314 (3.189 %)Apache
410 (2.278 %)ColdFusion
58 (1.822 %)SharePoint
64 (0.911 %)SharePoint Server 2007
73 (0.683 %)Joomla!
73 (0.683 %)CMS
82 (0.456 %)BizTalk Server
82 (0.456 %)Drupal
91 (0.228 %)Liferay
91 (0.228 %)ExpressionEngine
91 (0.228 %)ESB
91 (0.228 %)SAS
91 (0.228 %)Tomcat
Essex IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
161 (13.90 %)MS Visio
234 (7.745 %)MS Excel
314 (3.189 %)Fireworks
43 (0.683 %)Photoshop
43 (0.683 %)PrintSoft PReS
51 (0.228 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.228 %)MS Office
51 (0.228 %)Adobe Illustrator
Essex IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.911 %)Remedy ITSM
14 (0.911 %)Remedy AR System
22 (0.456 %)Microsoft CRM
22 (0.456 %)Oracle Applications
31 (0.228 %)Dynamics NAV
31 (0.228 %)Navision
31 (0.228 %)Google Analytics
Essex IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
113 (2.961 %)Internet
28 (1.822 %)Asterisk PBX
36 (1.367 %)SMS
43 (0.683 %)HTTP
43 (0.683 %)SSL
51 (0.228 %)DNS
51 (0.228 %)Extranet
Essex IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1210 (47.84 %)SQL Server
256 (12.76 %)RDBMS
347 (10.71 %)MySQL
446 (10.48 %)SQL Server 2005
522 (5.011 %)SQL Server 2008
610 (2.278 %)SQL Server Integration Services
610 (2.278 %)SQL Server 2000
610 (2.278 %)Oracle Reports
77 (1.595 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
86 (1.367 %)Datawarehouse
86 (1.367 %)QlikView
95 (1.139 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
95 (1.139 %)ETL
95 (1.139 %)MS Access
95 (1.139 %)OLAP
95 (1.139 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
104 (0.911 %)Oracle Discoverer
104 (0.911 %)DTS
104 (0.911 %)Oracle 10g
111 (0.228 %)PostgreSQL
Essex IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
172 (16.40 %)Visual Studio
263 (14.35 %)Team Foundation Server
39 (2.050 %)JUnit
39 (2.050 %)Oracle Forms
39 (2.050 %)Eclipse
47 (1.595 %)CheckStyle
55 (1.139 %)Oracle APEX
63 (0.683 %)NUnit
63 (0.683 %)Subversion
72 (0.456 %)Dreamweaver
81 (0.228 %)Maven
81 (0.228 %)TestNG
Essex IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
136 (8.200 %)Finance
235 (7.973 %)Advertising
235 (7.973 %)Marketing
314 (3.189 %)Insurance
412 (2.733 %)Graphic Design
511 (2.506 %)Banking
511 (2.506 %)Retail
69 (2.050 %)Pensions
78 (1.822 %)Health
78 (1.822 %)Automotive
85 (1.139 %)Education
94 (0.911 %)Social Media
103 (0.683 %)Online Games
103 (0.683 %)Online Betting
103 (0.683 %)Construction
103 (0.683 %)Electronics
103 (0.683 %)Games
112 (0.456 %)Government
121 (0.228 %)Telecoms
121 (0.228 %)Aerospace
Essex IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (2.961 %)Computer Science
26 (1.367 %)Open Source
26 (1.367 %)Blackberry
34 (0.911 %)W3C
43 (0.683 %)Equities
52 (0.456 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
52 (0.456 %)Derivative
52 (0.456 %)Mathematics
52 (0.456 %)Physics
61 (0.228 %)French Language
61 (0.228 %)Dependency Injection
61 (0.228 %)EPoS
61 (0.228 %)Chip and PIN
61 (0.228 %)N-Tier
61 (0.228 %)Tandem
61 (0.228 %)Economics
61 (0.228 %)Web 2.0
Essex IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
131 (7.062 %)Linux
211 (2.506 %)Windows
31 (0.228 %)UNIX
Essex IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1114 (25.97 %)Web Development
273 (16.63 %)OO
355 (12.53 %)Migration
454 (12.30 %)CRM
553 (12.07 %)SOA
636 (8.200 %)E-Commerce
721 (4.784 %)Business Intelligence
820 (4.556 %)Online Marketing
919 (4.328 %)MVC
1017 (3.872 %)Scrum
1017 (3.872 %)TDD
1116 (3.645 %)Image Processing
1213 (2.961 %)Extreme Programming
1213 (2.961 %)OOP
1311 (2.506 %)Pay per click
146 (1.367 %)Software Engineering
146 (1.367 %)SEO
146 (1.367 %)User Acceptance Testing
155 (1.139 %)Project Management
155 (1.139 %)Service Management
Essex IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1252 (57.40 %)C#
2162 (36.90 %)JavaScript
3147 (33.49 %)SQL
4122 (27.79 %)PHP
570 (15.95 %)Java
667 (15.26 %)VB.NET
753 (12.07 %)Apex Code
823 (5.239 %)C++
917 (3.872 %)ActionScript
1016 (3.645 %)ActionScript 3.0
1111 (2.506 %)VBScript
1111 (2.506 %)Delphi
1111 (2.506 %)C
1210 (2.278 %)ActionScript 2.0
139 (2.050 %)Perl
139 (2.050 %)T-SQL
139 (2.050 %)Python
148 (1.822 %)PL/SQL
156 (1.367 %)VB
156 (1.367 %)PHP5
Essex IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
139 (8.884 %)Degree
217 (3.872 %)Microsoft Certification
217 (3.872 %)MCTS
315 (3.417 %)MCP
315 (3.417 %)MCAD
315 (3.417 %)MCSD
48 (1.822 %)Security Cleared
54 (0.911 %)SC Cleared
62 (0.456 %)MCPD
Essex IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.228 %)Plesk
Essex IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
160 (13.67 %)Microsoft
253 (12.07 %)Salesforce.com
342 (9.567 %)Oracle
424 (5.467 %)Adobe
516 (3.645 %)JBoss
516 (3.645 %)Sitecore
65 (1.139 %)Zend
65 (1.139 %)Sybase
74 (0.911 %)HP
74 (0.911 %)BMC
74 (0.911 %)Remedy
82 (0.456 %)Google
82 (0.456 %)DevExpress
82 (0.456 %)SAP
91 (0.228 %)PeopleSoft