The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax region. 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 24 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 Halifax region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 31 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 0.649% 1.478% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.690% 1.515% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Average salary £28,500 £33,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
145 198 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 94.16% 97.54% 92.17%
Number of salaries quoted 106 141 76
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £20,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £44,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
West Yorkshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Halifax Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) XHTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 1 (20.00%) EPoS
3 1 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
3 1 (20.00%) IIS

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) XHTML
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) EPoS
2 1 (20.00%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft