The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 70 80 40
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 21 32 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.998% 2.494% 5.643%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.055% 2.564% 5.926%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 70
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.19% +1.20%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1022 1248 1215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.24% 97.27% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1079 1004
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Essex Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Essex 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
Basildon +8 9 £50,000 -
Brentwood - 5 £47,500 -
Chelmsford +15 2 £44,250 -15.71%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 33 (82.50%) .NET
2 28 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (70.00%) C#
3 18 (45.00%) Finance
3 18 (45.00%) WCF
4 17 (42.50%) HTML
4 17 (42.50%) JavaScript
5 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET
5 13 (32.50%) SQL
5 13 (32.50%) MVC
6 12 (30.00%) jQuery
6 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (27.50%) XML
7 11 (27.50%) .NET Framework
8 10 (25.00%) Ajax
8 10 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 10 (25.00%) OO
9 9 (22.50%) Web Services
9 9 (22.50%) Unit Testing
9 9 (22.50%) WPF
9 9 (22.50%) Silverlight
10 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
10 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
10 8 (20.00%) Oracle
10 8 (20.00%) Java
11 7 (17.50%) CSS
11 7 (17.50%) IIS
11 7 (17.50%) VB.NET

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (82.50%) .NET
2 18 (45.00%) WCF
3 17 (42.50%) HTML
4 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET
5 12 (30.00%) jQuery
6 11 (27.50%) XML
6 11 (27.50%) .NET Framework
7 10 (25.00%) Ajax
7 10 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 9 (22.50%) Web Services
8 9 (22.50%) WPF
8 9 (22.50%) Silverlight
9 7 (17.50%) CSS
10 6 (15.00%) XSLT
11 5 (12.50%) XSD
11 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
11 5 (12.50%) LINQ to SQL
11 5 (12.50%) HTML5
12 3 (7.500%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.500%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 6 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.500%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (7.500%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.500%) NUnit
2 3 (7.500%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (5.000%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (5.000%) MSTest
3 2 (5.000%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.500%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.500%) JIRA
4 1 (2.500%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.500%) CppUnit
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.500%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.500%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.500%) SaaS
3 1 (2.500%) Social Media
3 1 (2.500%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.000%) Linux
4 1 (2.500%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (2.500%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) MVC
2 10 (25.00%) OO
3 9 (22.50%) Unit Testing
4 7 (17.50%) TDD
5 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 5 (12.50%) Code Coverage
5 5 (12.50%) Web Development
5 5 (12.50%) Wealth Management
5 5 (12.50%) Change Control
6 4 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (7.500%) OOP
7 3 (7.500%) Data Protection
8 2 (5.000%) Test Management
8 2 (5.000%) Content Management
8 2 (5.000%) CRM
8 2 (5.000%) Change Management
9 1 (2.500%) Analytics
9 1 (2.500%) Workflow
9 1 (2.500%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) JavaScript
3 13 (32.50%) SQL
4 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (20.00%) Java
5 7 (17.50%) VB.NET
6 6 (15.00%) VB
7 5 (12.50%) Tcl
8 3 (7.500%) PL/SQL
9 2 (5.000%) C
9 2 (5.000%) Perl
9 2 (5.000%) PHP
9 2 (5.000%) C++
9 2 (5.000%) XAML
10 1 (2.500%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.500%) Remedy
3 1 (2.500%) Google
3 1 (2.500%) DevExpress