Essex Software Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crickhowell Cumbria Darlington Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Ludlow Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Royston Rugby Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Ives St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thetford Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	84
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	36	46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.917 %	2.132 %
Salaries quoted	31	43
Average minimum salary	£31,903	£34,744
Average salary	£36,500	£41,977
% change on same period last year	-13.04 %
Average maximum salary	£41,097	£49,209
UK excluding London average salary	£33,363	£33,059
% change on same period last year	+0.92 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	1878	2158
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.096 %	0.925 %
Salaries quoted	1587	1898
Average minimum salary	£36,909	£35,932
Average salary	£38,988	£38,108
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Average maximum salary	£41,066	£40,284
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Essex 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 Essex region.

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Colchester	+2	12	£35,700	+54.37 %
Chelmsford	-7	4	£43,750	-11.65 %

Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 59 (81.94 %) .NET 2 44 (61.11 %) SQL Server 3 41 (56.94 %) C# 4 37 (51.39 %) ASP.NET 5 29 (40.28 %) SQL 6 21 (29.17 %) XML 7 20 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2005 8 19 (26.39 %) .NET Framework 8 19 (26.39 %) Java 9 18 (25.00 %) OO 10 17 (23.61 %) Microsoft 10 17 (23.61 %) VB.NET 11 14 (19.44 %) WebServices 12 13 (18.06 %) Degree 13 12 (16.67 %) Finance

14 11 (15.28 %) Oracle 14 11 (15.28 %) J2EE 15 10 (13.89 %) WinForms 16 9 (12.50 %) XSLT 17 8 (11.11 %) PHP 18 7 (9.722 %) JavaScript 18 7 (9.722 %) VB 18 7 (9.722 %) OOD 19 6 (8.333 %) MS Excel 19 6 (8.333 %) Windows 19 6 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 19 6 (8.333 %) MySQL 19 6 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 19 6 (8.333 %) E-business 19 6 (8.333 %) Pensions

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 59 (81.94 %) .NET 2 37 (51.39 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (29.17 %) XML 4 19 (26.39 %) .NET Framework 5 14 (19.44 %) WebServices 6 11 (15.28 %) J2EE 7 10 (13.89 %) WinForms 8 9 (12.50 %) XSLT 9 5 (6.944 %) AJAX 9 5 (6.944 %) XSL 9 5 (6.944 %) CSS 9 5 (6.944 %) XHTML 10 3 (4.167 %) SOAP 10 3 (4.167 %) HTML 10 3 (4.167 %) XSD 10 3 (4.167 %) Swing 11 2 (2.778 %) ASP 12 1 (1.389 %) MFC 12 1 (1.389 %) COM 12 1 (1.389 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.944 %) SharePoint 1 5 (6.944 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.389 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 6 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 3 (4.167 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.556 %) Internet 2 3 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (4.167 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (61.11 %) SQL Server 2 20 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (8.333 %) MySQL 4 4 (5.556 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (2.778 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (2.778 %) MS Access 6 2 (2.778 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 4 (5.556 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (2.778 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 12 (16.67 %) Finance 2 6 (8.333 %) Pensions 2 6 (8.333 %) Marketing 3 4 (5.556 %) Health 4 3 (4.167 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.778 %) Back Office 5 2 (2.778 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.389 %) Military 6 1 (1.389 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.944 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (4.167 %) PDA 2 3 (4.167 %) PMI 3 2 (2.778 %) Multithreading 4 1 (1.389 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.389 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 6 (8.333 %) Windows 2 2 (2.778 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.389 %) VxWorks 3 1 (1.389 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (25.00 %) OO 2 7 (9.722 %) OOD 3 6 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 6 (8.333 %) E-business 4 5 (6.944 %) Web Design 5 3 (4.167 %) Technical Architecture 5 3 (4.167 %) UML 6 1 (1.389 %) Internet Marketing 6 1 (1.389 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (1.389 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (1.389 %) TDD 6 1 (1.389 %) SEO 6 1 (1.389 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.389 %) Extreme Programming 6 1 (1.389 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 41 (56.94 %) C# 2 29 (40.28 %) SQL 3 19 (26.39 %) Java 4 17 (23.61 %) VB.NET 5 8 (11.11 %) PHP 6 7 (9.722 %) JavaScript 6 7 (9.722 %) VB 7 6 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (5.556 %) Delphi 9 3 (4.167 %) C++ 10 2 (2.778 %) VBA 10 2 (2.778 %) Shell Script 10 2 (2.778 %) VB6 11 1 (1.389 %) C 11 1 (1.389 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (1.389 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 13 (18.06 %) Degree 2 1 (1.389 %) HND 2 1 (1.389 %) ICAEW	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.389 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 17 (23.61 %) Microsoft 2 11 (15.28 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.389 %) BT