Hertfordshire Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Hertfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romsey Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thetford Totnes Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	73
Rank change on same period last year	-39
Matching permanent IT job ads	56	126
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	1.341 %	2.717 %
Salaries quoted	54	116
Average minimum salary	£33,927	£31,526
Average salary	£37,745	£35,513
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Average maximum salary	£41,564	£39,500
UK excluding London average salary	£33,110	£33,166
% change on same period last year	-0.16 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4177	4638
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.205 %	1.899 %
Salaries quoted	3519	4024
Average minimum salary	£36,944	£37,362
Average salary	£40,769	£40,512
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Average maximum salary	£44,594	£43,662
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Software Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
St Albans	-2	12	£36,875	-12.50 %
Watford	-18	5	£33,000	+4.60 %
Hitchin	-	4	£39,250	-
Stevenage	+1	3	£36,500	+8.75 %
Bishop's Stortford	-	2	£47,500	-
Hertford	-	2	£30,000	-
Berkhamsted	+4	1	£30,000	+50.00 %
Welwyn Garden City	-27	1	£35,000	+25.00 %
Letchworth	-	1	£27,500	-

Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 78 (60.94 %) .NET 2 65 (50.78 %) C# 3 61 (47.66 %) SQL 4 55 (42.97 %) C++ 5 47 (36.72 %) SQL Server 6 45 (35.16 %) Microsoft 7 41 (32.03 %) ASP.NET 7 41 (32.03 %) XML 8 40 (31.25 %) Degree 9 36 (28.13 %) Java 10 34 (26.56 %) VB.NET 11 27 (21.09 %) VB 12 24 (18.75 %) ASP 12 24 (18.75 %) WebServices 13 22 (17.19 %) C

14 19 (14.84 %) HTML 14 19 (14.84 %) JavaScript 14 19 (14.84 %) Project Management 14 19 (14.84 %) Computer Science 15 18 (14.06 %) OO 16 16 (12.50 %) Oracle 17 15 (11.72 %) UML 18 14 (10.94 %) OOD 18 14 (10.94 %) SQL Server 2000 18 14 (10.94 %) Pensions 19 13 (10.16 %) VB6 19 13 (10.16 %) MS Excel 20 12 (9.375 %) Windows 21 11 (8.594 %) Software Engineering 21 11 (8.594 %) MFC

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 78 (60.94 %) .NET 2 41 (32.03 %) ASP.NET 2 41 (32.03 %) XML 3 24 (18.75 %) ASP 3 24 (18.75 %) WebServices 4 19 (14.84 %) HTML 5 11 (8.594 %) MFC 6 10 (7.813 %) CSS 7 9 (7.031 %) XSL 7 9 (7.031 %) COM 8 8 (6.250 %) SOAP 8 8 (6.250 %) WSDL 8 8 (6.250 %) VXML 8 8 (6.250 %) ISPF 9 7 (5.469 %) WinForms 9 7 (5.469 %) XSLT 10 5 (3.906 %) ADO.NET 10 5 (3.906 %) J2EE 10 5 (3.906 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (2.344 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 9 (7.031 %) CICS 2 8 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 2 8 (6.250 %) Apache 3 3 (2.344 %) IIS 4 2 (1.563 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.781 %) WPS
Applications 1 13 (10.16 %) MS Excel 2 8 (6.250 %) MS Office 2 8 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (2.344 %) MS Visio 4 2 (1.563 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 6 (4.688 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.563 %) Internet 3 1 (0.781 %) 3G 3 1 (0.781 %) TETRA 3 1 (0.781 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.781 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 47 (36.72 %) SQL Server 2 14 (10.94 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (7.031 %) DB2 4 8 (6.250 %) MySQL 5 6 (4.688 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 5 (3.906 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (2.344 %) RDBMS 8 2 (1.563 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.781 %) Informix 9 1 (0.781 %) Firebird 9 1 (0.781 %) SQLBase	Development Applications 1 11 (8.594 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (4.688 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.781 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 3 1 (0.781 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.781 %) C++Builder 3 1 (0.781 %) NUnit
General 1 14 (10.94 %) Pensions 2 11 (8.594 %) Health 3 9 (7.031 %) Telecoms 3 9 (7.031 %) Finance 3 9 (7.031 %) Retail 4 7 (5.469 %) Marketing 4 7 (5.469 %) Insurance 5 5 (3.906 %) Construction 6 3 (2.344 %) Education 6 3 (2.344 %) Games 6 3 (2.344 %) Billing 7 2 (1.563 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.563 %) Electronics	Miscellaneous 1 19 (14.84 %) Computer Science 2 9 (7.031 %) IBM Mainframe 2 9 (7.031 %) Mainframe 3 8 (6.250 %) IVR 4 6 (4.688 %) AS400 5 4 (3.125 %) Mathematics 6 2 (1.563 %) VHDL 6 2 (1.563 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 2 (1.563 %) Multithreading 7 1 (0.781 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (0.781 %) Spread Betting 7 1 (0.781 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 12 (9.375 %) Windows 2 4 (3.125 %) UNIX 3 2 (1.563 %) Linux 3 2 (1.563 %) MVS 4 1 (0.781 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.781 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.781 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (14.84 %) Project Management 2 18 (14.06 %) OO 3 15 (11.72 %) UML 4 14 (10.94 %) OOD 5 11 (8.594 %) Scrum 5 11 (8.594 %) Software Engineering 6 9 (7.031 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 6 (4.688 %) Service Management 7 6 (4.688 %) B2B 7 6 (4.688 %) ERP 7 6 (4.688 %) OOA/OOD 8 5 (3.906 %) Service Delivery 8 5 (3.906 %) Change Management 9 4 (3.125 %) RAD 9 4 (3.125 %) E-Commerce 9 4 (3.125 %) Internet Marketing 9 4 (3.125 %) Web Development 9 4 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (2.344 %) Web Design 10 3 (2.344 %) Direct Marketing
Programming Languages 1 65 (50.78 %) C# 2 61 (47.66 %) SQL 3 55 (42.97 %) C++ 4 36 (28.13 %) Java 5 34 (26.56 %) VB.NET 6 27 (21.09 %) VB 7 22 (17.19 %) C 8 19 (14.84 %) JavaScript 9 13 (10.16 %) VB6 10 10 (7.813 %) PHP 11 8 (6.250 %) Delphi 12 7 (5.469 %) COBOL 12 7 (5.469 %) XPath 13 3 (2.344 %) VC++ 14 2 (1.563 %) PL/SQL 15 1 (0.781 %) DHTML 15 1 (0.781 %) Assembly Language 15 1 (0.781 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 40 (31.25 %) Degree 2 9 (7.031 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (6.250 %) MCSD 4 3 (2.344 %) HND 5 2 (1.563 %) PhD 6 1 (0.781 %) MCP 6 1 (0.781 %) MCAD
Vendors 1 45 (35.16 %) Microsoft 2 16 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 9 (7.031 %) IBM 4 6 (4.688 %) Remedy 5 2 (1.563 %) Adobe 5 2 (1.563 %) Cognos 6 1 (0.781 %) Sybase 6 1 (0.781 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (0.781 %) Borland 6 1 (0.781 %) Stellent 6 1 (0.781 %) GUPTA