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The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs within the London 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 Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Senior Developer
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank5151
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads26883663
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.556 %1.576 %
As % of the category below4.228 %3.837 %
Salaries quoted23273021
Average minimum salary£51,956£52,647
Average salary£57,455£57,641
% change on same period last year-0.32 %
Average maximum salary£62,954£62,634
UK excluding London average salary£39,953£40,453
% change on same period last year-1.23 %
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
London
Matching permanent IT job ads6357295461
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled36.80 %41.08 %
Salaries quoted5330674301
Average minimum salary£45,799£47,221
Average salary£50,111£51,761
% change on same period last year-3.18 %
Average maximum salary£54,423£56,301
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Senior Developer EnglandSenior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Demand Trend

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

London Senior Developer Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

London Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

London Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 10 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+6728£64,623+4.37 %
Canary WharfDown-225£66,095-15.56 %
HammersmithUp+1120£41,875-12.86 %
BarnetDown-319£42,684-14.63 %
Docklands, LondonDown-4116£66,875-13.33 %
LutonDown-1514£38,615-17.17 %
CroydonDown-1910£41,600-22.99 %
RuislipNew entry-8£37,500-
ClaphamDown-128£45,714+10.76 %
SouthwarkNew entry-8£52,500-
WembleyNew entry-5£42,500-
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+144£41,875+1.82 %
HarrowDown-54£41,875-6.94 %
WestminsterUp+54£55,000+22.22 %
EalingDown-43£48,167-3.66 %
BromleyDown-133£42,000+7.23 %
PaddingtonNew entry-3£44,833-
BarkingNew entry-2£36,250-
SurbitonNew entry-2£40,000-
UxbridgeNew entry-2£55,000-
WimbledonUp+121£37,500-9.48 %
TwickenhamNew entry-1£45,000-
Senior Developer EnglandSenior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

12361 (41.04 %)Java
22121 (36.87 %).NET
32019 (35.09 %)C#
41636 (28.44 %)Finance
51562 (27.15 %)SQL
61557 (27.06 %)XML
71525 (26.51 %)SQL Server
81297 (22.54 %)OO
91169 (20.32 %)ASP.NET
101151 (20.01 %)C++
111109 (19.28 %)J2EE
12964 (16.76 %)AJAX
13934 (16.24 %)JavaScript
14901 (15.66 %)CSS
15892 (15.50 %)Banking
16885 (15.38 %)Spring
17835 (14.51 %)Oracle
18803 (13.96 %)Front Office
19800 (13.91 %)HTML
20771 (13.40 %)WebServices
21717 (12.46 %)UNIX
22664 (11.54 %)Agile Software Development
23656 (11.40 %)Derivative
24615 (10.69 %)Hibernate
25582 (10.12 %)Degree
26577 (10.03 %)Microsoft
27569 (9.890 %)SQL Server 2005
28567 (9.856 %)Windows
29565 (9.821 %)PHP
30550 (9.560 %)E-Commerce

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12121 (36.87 %).NET
21557 (27.06 %)XML
31169 (20.32 %)ASP.NET
41109 (19.28 %)J2EE
5964 (16.76 %)AJAX
6901 (15.66 %)CSS
7885 (15.38 %)Spring
8800 (13.91 %)HTML
9771 (13.40 %)WebServices
10615 (10.69 %)Hibernate
11488 (8.483 %)XHTML
12397 (6.901 %).NET Framework
13370 (6.431 %)JSP
14283 (4.919 %)WinForms
15240 (4.172 %)XSLT
16227 (3.946 %)MVC
17226 (3.928 %)Struts
18212 (3.685 %)ASP
19188 (3.268 %)Swing
20186 (3.233 %)JMS
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1284 (4.937 %)Apache
2176 (3.059 %)Tomcat
3171 (2.972 %)CMS
4158 (2.746 %)WebLogic
5156 (2.712 %)SharePoint
6144 (2.503 %)JBoss
779 (1.373 %)SharePoint Server 2007
867 (1.165 %)IIS
962 (1.078 %)BizTalk Server
1039 (0.678 %)Commerce Server
1138 (0.661 %)WebSphere Application Server
1229 (0.504 %)MQSeries
1325 (0.435 %)Content Management Server
1420 (0.348 %)ColdFusion
1519 (0.330 %)SAS
1617 (0.295 %)MS Exchange
1716 (0.278 %)Flash Media Server
1815 (0.261 %)Rendezvous
1913 (0.226 %)Zope
2010 (0.174 %)Oracle Application Server
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1337 (5.858 %)MS Excel
272 (1.252 %)Photoshop
350 (0.869 %)MS Visio
438 (0.661 %)MS Office
520 (0.348 %)InfoPath
619 (0.330 %)Spreadsheet
714 (0.243 %)Adobe Illustrator
88 (0.139 %)Fireworks
91 (0.017 %)MATLAB
91 (0.017 %)MS Project
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
115 (0.261 %)RMDS
212 (0.209 %)Eagle PACE
311 (0.191 %)Microsoft CRM
46 (0.104 %)Endur
46 (0.104 %)HFM
55 (0.087 %)Dynamics CRM
55 (0.087 %)Oracle Applications
64 (0.070 %)Axapta
73 (0.052 %)Oracle EBS
73 (0.052 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
82 (0.035 %)Oracle Financials
82 (0.035 %)Summit
91 (0.017 %)SAP R/3
91 (0.017 %)Findur
91 (0.017 %)Unica Affinium
91 (0.017 %)ResourceLink
91 (0.017 %)FRONT ARENA
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1305 (5.302 %)Internet
276 (1.321 %)TCP/IP
356 (0.973 %)Intranet
424 (0.417 %)HTTP
519 (0.330 %)SMS
610 (0.174 %)FTP
79 (0.156 %)Extranet
87 (0.122 %)SSH
94 (0.070 %)UMTS
94 (0.070 %)GPRS
94 (0.070 %)GSM
103 (0.052 %)Broadband
103 (0.052 %)SAN
103 (0.052 %)Network Security
112 (0.035 %)VPN
112 (0.035 %)POP3
112 (0.035 %)SMTP
121 (0.017 %)3GPP
121 (0.017 %)LDAP
121 (0.017 %)SNA
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11525 (26.51 %)SQL Server
2569 (9.890 %)SQL Server 2005
3456 (7.926 %)MySQL
4352 (6.119 %)RDBMS
5278 (4.832 %)SQL Server 2000
6152 (2.642 %)Datawarehouse
7130 (2.260 %)ETL
8120 (2.086 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9107 (1.860 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9107 (1.860 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
10105 (1.825 %)Oracle 10g
1184 (1.460 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1274 (1.286 %)DTS
1354 (0.939 %)OLAP
1440 (0.695 %)PostgreSQL
1539 (0.678 %)Oracle 9i
1634 (0.591 %)Oracle 8/8i
1732 (0.556 %)DB2
1829 (0.504 %)BusinessObjects
1925 (0.435 %)Reference Data
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1281 (4.884 %)Subversion
2259 (4.502 %)Ant
3233 (4.050 %)JUnit
3233 (4.050 %)Eclipse
4197 (3.424 %)Flash
5171 (2.972 %)Visual Studio
683 (1.443 %)NUnit
752 (0.904 %)VSS/SourceSafe
842 (0.730 %)Selenium
938 (0.661 %)CruiseControl
1029 (0.504 %)FitNesse
1121 (0.365 %)Cactus
1218 (0.313 %)Oracle Forms
1317 (0.295 %)Mylyn
1416 (0.278 %)QuickTest Pro
1511 (0.191 %)IntelliJ
1610 (0.174 %)Dreamweaver
1610 (0.174 %)ClearCase
1610 (0.174 %)JIRA
1610 (0.174 %)Log4j
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11636 (28.44 %)Finance
2892 (15.50 %)Banking
3803 (13.96 %)Front Office
4360 (6.258 %)Investment Banking
5237 (4.120 %)Marketing
6194 (3.372 %)Games
7192 (3.337 %)Insurance
8145 (2.520 %)Health
9134 (2.329 %)Pensions
10123 (2.138 %)Retail
11101 (1.756 %)Education
1295 (1.651 %)Telecoms
1381 (1.408 %)Music
1480 (1.391 %)Back Office
1576 (1.321 %)Financial Institution
1660 (1.043 %)Publishing
1757 (0.991 %)Legal
1855 (0.956 %)Government
1946 (0.800 %)Advertising
2040 (0.695 %)Construction
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1656 (11.40 %)Derivative
2289 (5.023 %)Fixed Income
3274 (4.763 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4272 (4.728 %)Equities
5255 (4.432 %)Multithreading
6193 (3.355 %)Equity Derivative
7169 (2.938 %)Web 2.0
8128 (2.225 %)Computer Science
9120 (2.086 %)Credit Derivative
10103 (1.790 %)N-Tier
1190 (1.564 %)Client/Server
1286 (1.495 %)Grid Computing
1384 (1.460 %)W3C
1477 (1.338 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1568 (1.182 %)Mathematics
1667 (1.165 %)Market Risk
1752 (0.904 %)Credit Risk
1850 (0.869 %)Social Network
1948 (0.834 %)Spread Betting
2039 (0.678 %)Physics
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1717 (12.46 %)UNIX
2567 (9.856 %)Windows
3504 (8.761 %)Linux
494 (1.634 %)Solaris
561 (1.060 %)Windows Server 2003
657 (0.991 %)Windows 2000
756 (0.973 %)Windows XP
826 (0.452 %)Red Hat Linux
923 (0.400 %)Windows Vista
1021 (0.365 %)Windows NT
1117 (0.295 %)Android
1117 (0.295 %)Windows Server 2008
1210 (0.174 %)SUSE
138 (0.139 %)Symbian OS
147 (0.122 %)AIX
154 (0.070 %)VMS
163 (0.052 %)Debian
163 (0.052 %)Windows Mobile
172 (0.035 %)Windows CE
181 (0.017 %)Ubuntu
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11297 (22.54 %)OO
2664 (11.54 %)Agile Software Development
3550 (9.560 %)E-Commerce
4490 (8.517 %)UML
5337 (5.858 %)Web Development
6318 (5.528 %)TDD
7296 (5.145 %)Scrum
8290 (5.041 %)OOP
9193 (3.355 %)Unit Testing
10191 (3.320 %)Risk Management
11184 (3.198 %)Content Management
12183 (3.181 %)Project Management
13177 (3.077 %)OOD
14167 (2.903 %)SOA
15144 (2.503 %)RUP
16130 (2.260 %)OOA/OOD
17127 (2.208 %)Continuous Integration
18116 (2.016 %)Asset Management
19112 (1.947 %)Algorithmic Trading
20109 (1.895 %)Electronic Trading
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12361 (41.04 %)Java
22019 (35.09 %)C#
31562 (27.15 %)SQL
41151 (20.01 %)C++
5934 (16.24 %)JavaScript
6565 (9.821 %)PHP
7324 (5.632 %)VB.NET
8307 (5.336 %)VB
9283 (4.919 %)Perl
10242 (4.207 %)VBA
11205 (3.563 %)PL/SQL
12201 (3.494 %)Transact-SQL
13189 (3.285 %)Python
14166 (2.885 %)Ruby
15160 (2.781 %)ActionScript
16158 (2.746 %)C
17146 (2.538 %)VB6
18112 (1.947 %)PHP5
1999 (1.721 %)DHTML
2083 (1.443 %)Shell Script
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1582 (10.12 %)Degree
2125 (2.173 %)Microsoft Certification
397 (1.686 %)MCSD
441 (0.713 %)MCAD
535 (0.608 %)MCP
613 (0.226 %)PhD
79 (0.156 %)MCSE
87 (0.122 %)Oracle Certification
96 (0.104 %)OCP
96 (0.104 %)MCPD
104 (0.070 %)Postgraduate
112 (0.035 %)MCTS
112 (0.035 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
121 (0.017 %)MySQL Certification
121 (0.017 %)ITIL Certification
121 (0.017 %)MCDBA
121 (0.017 %)HND
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
181 (1.408 %)QA
210 (0.174 %)HL7
39 (0.156 %)DICOM
48 (0.139 %)Basel II
55 (0.087 %)WAI
63 (0.052 %)ISO8583
72 (0.035 %)MiFID
81 (0.017 %)WCAG
81 (0.017 %)ISO9001
81 (0.017 %)SLA
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
168 (1.182 %)Active Directory
212 (0.209 %)MSMQ
33 (0.052 %)Squid
33 (0.052 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.035 %)Backup Exec
51 (0.017 %)AquaLogic
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
110 (0.174 %)AutoSys
28 (0.139 %)SCOM
35 (0.087 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
43 (0.052 %)SCCM
51 (0.017 %)Netcool
51 (0.017 %)Netcool/Proviso
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1835 (14.51 %)Oracle
2577 (10.03 %)Microsoft
3341 (5.927 %)Sybase
4134 (2.329 %)TIBCO
564 (1.112 %)Adobe
655 (0.956 %)Reuters
750 (0.869 %)Bloomberg
842 (0.730 %)DataSynapse
935 (0.608 %)Infragistics
1032 (0.556 %)SAP
1129 (0.504 %)Business Objects
1228 (0.487 %)BEA
1228 (0.487 %)Zend
1326 (0.452 %)Red Hat
1422 (0.382 %)Cognos
1521 (0.365 %)OpenLink
1620 (0.348 %)ATG
1620 (0.348 %)Citrix
1719 (0.330 %)Vignette
1817 (0.295 %)Hyperion