Leicestershire Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Leicestershire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf 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 Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford 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 M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thetford Tring Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	41
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	38	46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.051 %	4.212 %
Salaries quoted	38	35
Average minimum salary	£26,024	£25,486
Average salary	£28,732	£28,957
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum salary	£31,439	£32,429
UK excluding London average salary	£33,268	£33,351
% change on same period last year	-0.24 %
Job Titles Leicestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	938	1092
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.512 %	0.459 %
Salaries quoted	820	822
Average minimum salary	£28,985	£29,566
Average salary	£31,524	£31,843
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Average maximum salary	£34,063	£34,120
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Software Developer East Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Leicester	+12	32	£28,219	-2.06 %
Loughborough	-7	4	£30,750	-18.00 %
Hinckley	+8	2	£32,500	+27.45 %

Software Developer East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 66 (84.62 %) .NET 2 53 (67.95 %) C# 3 43 (55.13 %) SQL Server 4 38 (48.72 %) ASP.NET 5 35 (44.87 %) SQL 6 29 (37.18 %) VB.NET 7 21 (26.92 %) SQL Server 2005 8 20 (25.64 %) OO 9 19 (24.36 %) Microsoft 10 17 (21.79 %) Degree 11 15 (19.23 %) WinForms 11 15 (19.23 %) MS Excel 11 15 (19.23 %) Windows 11 15 (19.23 %) VB 12 13 (16.67 %) Education

12 13 (16.67 %) Pensions 13 12 (15.38 %) C++ 13 12 (15.38 %) PHP 14 11 (14.10 %) JavaScript 14 11 (14.10 %) Delphi 14 11 (14.10 %) MySQL 14 11 (14.10 %) SQL Server 2000 14 11 (14.10 %) .NET Framework 15 10 (12.82 %) VB6 15 10 (12.82 %) C 15 10 (12.82 %) Visual Studio 16 9 (11.54 %) XML 17 8 (10.26 %) InterBase 17 8 (10.26 %) OOP 17 8 (10.26 %) Multimedia

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 66 (84.62 %) .NET 2 38 (48.72 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (19.23 %) WinForms 4 11 (14.10 %) .NET Framework 5 9 (11.54 %) XML 6 4 (5.128 %) COM 6 4 (5.128 %) HTML 6 4 (5.128 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (3.846 %) ASP 8 1 (1.282 %) AJAX 8 1 (1.282 %) Silverlight 8 1 (1.282 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (1.282 %) CSS 8 1 (1.282 %) JSP 8 1 (1.282 %) XSL 8 1 (1.282 %) ActiveX 8 1 (1.282 %) DirectX	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.128 %) IIS 1 4 (5.128 %) CMS 2 1 (1.282 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 15 (19.23 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.282 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.282 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.282 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (2.564 %) SalesLogix 1 2 (2.564 %) Dynamics CRM 1 2 (2.564 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.128 %) Intranet 2 2 (2.564 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (55.13 %) SQL Server 2 21 (26.92 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (14.10 %) MySQL 3 11 (14.10 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (10.26 %) InterBase 4 8 (10.26 %) Firebird 4 8 (10.26 %) SQLite 5 4 (5.128 %) Crystal Reports 6 3 (3.846 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 3 (3.846 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server 2008 7 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (1.282 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 10 (12.82 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.282 %) Flash	General 1 13 (16.67 %) Education 1 13 (16.67 %) Pensions 2 8 (10.26 %) Multimedia 3 5 (6.410 %) Manufacturing 4 4 (5.128 %) Health 5 3 (3.846 %) Finance 6 2 (2.564 %) Banking 6 2 (2.564 %) Advertising 6 2 (2.564 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (2.564 %) Back Office 6 2 (2.564 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.282 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.564 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.282 %) BBC 2 1 (1.282 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 15 (19.23 %) Windows 2 1 (1.282 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (25.64 %) OO 2 8 (10.26 %) OOP 3 7 (8.974 %) UML 3 7 (8.974 %) Content Management 4 6 (7.692 %) E-business 4 6 (7.692 %) Unit Testing 5 5 (6.410 %) CRM 5 5 (6.410 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (3.846 %) Project Management 6 3 (3.846 %) TDD 6 3 (3.846 %) Web Development 7 2 (2.564 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (2.564 %) Asset Management 7 2 (2.564 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (1.282 %) OOD 8 1 (1.282 %) SEO 8 1 (1.282 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.282 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 53 (67.95 %) C# 2 35 (44.87 %) SQL 3 29 (37.18 %) VB.NET 4 15 (19.23 %) VB 5 12 (15.38 %) C++ 5 12 (15.38 %) PHP 6 11 (14.10 %) JavaScript 6 11 (14.10 %) Delphi 7 10 (12.82 %) C 7 10 (12.82 %) VB6 8 6 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (3.846 %) VBA 10 2 (2.564 %) Perl 11 1 (1.282 %) Java
Qualifications 1 17 (21.79 %) Degree 2 1 (1.282 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 19 (24.36 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.410 %) Sage 3 2 (2.564 %) FrontRange 3 2 (2.564 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.282 %) Cognos 4 1 (1.282 %) Adobe