The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Fife 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 23 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 Fife region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 5 1 6
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 13 17 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 31.71% 28.33% 19.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 34.21% 29.31% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 9
Average salary £36,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.30% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,025 £39,100 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38 58 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 92.68% 96.67% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 29 47 42
Average salary £36,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.30% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,150 £26,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £150,000 £45,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Scotland

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fife Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Fife Developer Salary Trend

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 Fife region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Dunfermline -3 2 £31,250 -7.40%
Glenrothes - 2 - -
Developer
Scotland

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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.

1 20 (68.97%) .NET
2 17 (58.62%) HTML
2 17 (58.62%) Java
3 16 (55.17%) CSS
3 16 (55.17%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
4 15 (51.72%) Oracle
5 14 (48.28%) Hibernate
5 14 (48.28%) JavaBeans
5 14 (48.28%) JSF
6 12 (41.38%) Degree
6 12 (41.38%) Android
6 12 (41.38%) Extreme Programming
7 11 (37.93%) SQL
7 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
7 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
7 11 (37.93%) Facelets
8 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
9 9 (31.03%) JPA
9 9 (31.03%) C#
9 9 (31.03%) ASP.NET
9 9 (31.03%) Scrum
10 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
11 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
11 7 (24.14%) JSP
11 7 (24.14%) Servlets
11 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
12 6 (20.69%) PL/SQL
13 5 (17.24%) MVC
13 5 (17.24%) Web Services

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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.

Application Development
1 20 (68.97%) .NET
2 17 (58.62%) HTML
3 16 (55.17%) CSS
4 14 (48.28%) Hibernate
4 14 (48.28%) JavaBeans
4 14 (48.28%) JSF
5 11 (37.93%) Facelets
6 9 (31.03%) JPA
6 9 (31.03%) ASP.NET
7 7 (24.14%) JSP
7 7 (24.14%) Servlets
8 5 (17.24%) Web Services
8 5 (17.24%) XML
8 5 (17.24%) WCF
8 5 (17.24%) WPF
8 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (13.79%) RESTful
9 4 (13.79%) RichFaces
10 3 (10.34%) JBoss Seam
11 2 (6.897%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) Apache
1 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.448%) MSMQ
1 1 (3.448%) Magento
1 1 (3.448%) Zen Cart
1 1 (3.448%) Joomla!
1 1 (3.448%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.448%) MySQL
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Eclipse RCP
1 4 (13.79%) Subversion
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
1 4 (13.79%) JUnit
1 4 (13.79%) Eclipse
2 3 (10.34%) Ant
2 3 (10.34%) CruiseControl
3 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.448%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.448%) Maven
General
1 4 (13.79%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.448%) W3C
2 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.448%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.448%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Android
2 1 (3.448%) Windows
2 1 (3.448%) Solaris
2 1 (3.448%) Linux
2 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (41.38%) Extreme Programming
3 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
4 9 (31.03%) Scrum
5 5 (17.24%) MVC
6 4 (13.79%) UML
7 2 (6.897%) Web Development
7 2 (6.897%) ERP
8 1 (3.448%) TDD
8 1 (3.448%) OOP
8 1 (3.448%) Mobile Application Development
8 1 (3.448%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
4 9 (31.03%) C#
5 6 (20.69%) PL/SQL
6 4 (13.79%) VB.NET
7 3 (10.34%) PHP
8 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.448%) VB
8 1 (3.448%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Degree
2 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.448%) MCSD
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Oracle
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) JBoss
4 2 (6.897%) Business Objects
4 2 (6.897%) Baan
5 1 (3.448%) Sun
Inverkeithing, Fife
The applicant will have commercial experience of: - Java - JSP/Servlet/JSF - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - Enterprise Java Beans 3 - Persistence frameworks, ideally Hibernate - Oracle (particularly server side programming, PL/...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013