Kent Software Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Kent 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 6 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 Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crickhowell Cumbria Darlington Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing 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 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 M4 Corridor 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 Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans 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 Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	40
Rank change on same period last year	-56
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	74
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	0.627 %	4.888 %
Salaries quoted	4	64
Average minimum salary	£28,500	£30,000
Average salary	£30,750	£31,703
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum salary	£33,000	£33,406
UK excluding London average salary	£33,373	£33,041
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching permanent IT job ads	1276	1514
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.734 %	0.649 %
Salaries quoted	1073	1261
Average minimum salary	£32,631	£31,548
Average salary	£35,149	£33,879
% change on same period last year	+3.74 %
Average maximum salary	£37,668	£36,211
UK excluding London average salary	£38,185	£39,281
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Software Developer South East

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Kent region over the 3 months to 6 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 6 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
Stansted	-	1	£47,500	-

Software Developer South East

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 22 (81.48 %) .NET 2 18 (66.67 %) C# 3 13 (48.15 %) SQL 4 12 (44.44 %) XML 4 12 (44.44 %) .NET Framework 5 10 (37.04 %) Health 5 10 (37.04 %) OO 6 9 (33.33 %) N-Tier 6 9 (33.33 %) SQL Server 7 8 (29.63 %) WinForms 7 8 (29.63 %) Degree 8 7 (25.93 %) ASP.NET 8 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 9 5 (18.52 %) RDBMS 9 5 (18.52 %) RAD

9 5 (18.52 %) Visual Studio 9 5 (18.52 %) CSS 9 5 (18.52 %) VB 9 5 (18.52 %) VB.NET 10 4 (14.81 %) Oracle 10 4 (14.81 %) C++ 10 4 (14.81 %) Java 10 4 (14.81 %) UML 10 4 (14.81 %) PowerBuilder 11 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 12 2 (7.407 %) NHS 12 2 (7.407 %) Client/Server 13 1 (3.704 %) Workflow 13 1 (3.704 %) Retail 13 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 22 (81.48 %) .NET 2 12 (44.44 %) XML 2 12 (44.44 %) .NET Framework 3 8 (29.63 %) WinForms 4 7 (25.93 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (18.52 %) CSS 6 1 (3.704 %) HTML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 5 (18.52 %) RDBMS 3 3 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 5 (18.52 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (14.81 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 10 (37.04 %) Health 2 1 (3.704 %) Retail 2 1 (3.704 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 9 (33.33 %) N-Tier 2 2 (7.407 %) NHS 2 2 (7.407 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.704 %) Informatics	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (37.04 %) OO 2 5 (18.52 %) RAD 3 4 (14.81 %) UML 4 1 (3.704 %) OOP 4 1 (3.704 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (3.704 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (3.704 %) Workflow 4 1 (3.704 %) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages 1 18 (66.67 %) C# 2 13 (48.15 %) SQL 3 5 (18.52 %) VB 3 5 (18.52 %) VB.NET 4 4 (14.81 %) C++ 4 4 (14.81 %) Java 5 1 (3.704 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 8 (29.63 %) Degree 2 1 (3.704 %) MCP 2 1 (3.704 %) MCAD 2 1 (3.704 %) MCSD 2 1 (3.704 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.704 %) MCPD
Vendors 1 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 2 4 (14.81 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.704 %) Sybase 3 1 (3.704 %) Visualfiles