The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Loughborough 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 23 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 Loughborough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 15 13 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 4 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough 8.696% 1.961% 5.882%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.889% 2.128% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £21,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Loughborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45 47 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough 97.83% 92.16% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 39 39 14
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -5.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £18,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £37,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Leicestershire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Loughborough 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 Loughborough region.

Loughborough Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 10 (83.33%) jQuery
2 8 (66.67%) MVC
3 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (50.00%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
4 6 (50.00%) HTML
4 6 (50.00%) Ajax
5 5 (41.67%) Apple
5 5 (41.67%) Subversion
5 5 (41.67%) Android
5 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (41.67%) Web Services
6 4 (33.33%) XML
6 4 (33.33%) SOAP
6 4 (33.33%) Photoshop
6 4 (33.33%) PHP
6 4 (33.33%) C
6 4 (33.33%) C#
6 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
6 4 (33.33%) MySQL
6 4 (33.33%) SEO
6 4 (33.33%) CMS
6 4 (33.33%) LAMP
6 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
6 4 (33.33%) SOA
6 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
6 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 4 (33.33%) Adobe
6 4 (33.33%) Git (software)

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 10 (83.33%) jQuery
2 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) HTML
3 6 (50.00%) Ajax
4 5 (41.67%) Web Services
5 4 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) SOAP
5 4 (33.33%) LAMP
5 4 (33.33%) XHTML
5 4 (33.33%) HTML5
5 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (33.33%) JSON
5 4 (33.33%) WCF
5 4 (33.33%) WPF
5 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
5 4 (33.33%) LINQ
5 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (33.33%) REST
5 4 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) CMS
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Solr
1 4 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Subversion
2 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 4 (33.33%) PHPUnit
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (8.333%) iPad
2 1 (8.333%) FMCG
2 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (8.333%) Mac OS X
3 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) SEO
2 4 (33.33%) SOA
2 4 (33.33%) MVVM
2 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Mobile Commerce
2 4 (33.33%) Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.333%) OOP
4 1 (8.333%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 4 (33.33%) C
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (8.333%) C++
5 1 (8.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Apple
2 4 (33.33%) Adobe
2 4 (33.33%) Zend