The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 23 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 23 93 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 6.516% 26.05% 24.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.785% 26.88% 25.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20 84 66
Average salary £32,500 £40,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.75% +15.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,850 £28,000 £30,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,250 £46,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
339 346 266
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 96.03% 96.92% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 293 286 239
Average salary £45,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.75% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £52,500 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Bedfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Luton Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Luton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Luton Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1 62 (64.58%) C#
1 62 (64.58%) .NET
2 52 (54.17%) SQL Server
3 43 (44.79%) JavaScript
4 42 (43.75%) HTML
5 41 (42.71%) Windows
6 37 (38.54%) Web Services
6 37 (38.54%) MVC
7 34 (35.42%) TDD
8 32 (33.33%) Scrum
8 32 (33.33%) ASP.NET
8 32 (33.33%) SQL
8 32 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 26 (27.08%) E-Commerce
10 24 (25.00%) Web Development
10 24 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 23 (23.96%) XML
12 22 (22.92%) .NET Framework
12 22 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
13 21 (21.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (18.75%) SOA
15 17 (17.71%) Internet
15 17 (17.71%) BDD
16 15 (15.63%) Unit Testing
16 15 (15.63%) RDBMS
16 15 (15.63%) CSS
17 14 (14.58%) HP
17 14 (14.58%) MS Excel
17 14 (14.58%) Exstream
17 14 (14.58%) DOC1

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 62 (64.58%) .NET
2 42 (43.75%) HTML
3 37 (38.54%) Web Services
4 32 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 23 (23.96%) XML
6 22 (22.92%) .NET Framework
7 15 (15.63%) CSS
8 14 (14.58%) jQuery
9 13 (13.54%) NHibernate
10 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (8.333%) WinForms
11 8 (8.333%) Ajax
12 7 (7.292%) SOAP
13 6 (6.250%) J2EE
14 5 (5.208%) RESTful
15 4 (4.167%) HTML5
15 4 (4.167%) iOS SDK
15 4 (4.167%) CSS3
15 4 (4.167%) Cocoa
15 4 (4.167%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 13 (13.54%) Exstream Dialogue
2 8 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
2 8 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.333%) Windows Azure
3 4 (4.167%) Drupal
3 4 (4.167%) IIS
3 4 (4.167%) CMS
4 3 (3.125%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.125%) Apache
5 1 (1.042%) SAS
5 1 (1.042%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.042%) Papyrus
5 1 (1.042%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (14.58%) MS Excel
1 14 (14.58%) DOC1
1 14 (14.58%) PrintSoft PReS
2 1 (1.042%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.042%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.71%) Internet
2 3 (3.125%) Intranet
3 1 (1.042%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (54.17%) SQL Server
2 24 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
4 21 (21.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (15.63%) RDBMS
6 6 (6.250%) MS Access
7 5 (5.208%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
9 3 (3.125%) GIS
9 3 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (1.042%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.042%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Team Foundation Server
2 12 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.167%) Xcode
3 4 (4.167%) NUnit
4 1 (1.042%) Maven
4 1 (1.042%) ReSharper
4 1 (1.042%) Selenium
4 1 (1.042%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.042%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.042%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.042%) Hudson
4 1 (1.042%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.042%) Ant
General
1 7 (7.292%) Retail
2 5 (5.208%) Finance
3 4 (4.167%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.125%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.125%) Games
4 3 (3.125%) Banking
4 3 (3.125%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.083%) French Language
5 2 (2.083%) Front Office
5 2 (2.083%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.042%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Inversion of Control
2 9 (9.375%) N-Tier
3 6 (6.250%) Digital Media
4 5 (5.208%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.167%) Mathematics
5 4 (4.167%) Computer Science
5 4 (4.167%) iPhone
5 4 (4.167%) iPad
6 3 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.083%) SaaS
7 2 (2.083%) Physics
8 1 (1.042%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 41 (42.71%) Windows
2 5 (5.208%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (4.167%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) MVC
2 34 (35.42%) TDD
3 32 (33.33%) Scrum
4 26 (27.08%) E-Commerce
5 24 (25.00%) Web Development
6 18 (18.75%) SOA
7 17 (17.71%) BDD
8 15 (15.63%) Unit Testing
9 11 (11.46%) Dependency Injection
9 11 (11.46%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (9.375%) Change Management
10 9 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (8.333%) Refactoring
11 8 (8.333%) ETL
12 6 (6.250%) Service Delivery
12 6 (6.250%) OO
13 5 (5.208%) OOP
14 4 (4.167%) Migration
15 3 (3.125%) AOP
15 3 (3.125%) UML
Programming Languages
1 62 (64.58%) C#
2 43 (44.79%) JavaScript
3 32 (33.33%) SQL
4 7 (7.292%) Java
5 6 (6.250%) PHP
6 4 (4.167%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.167%) VB
6 4 (4.167%) VB.NET
6 4 (4.167%) Objective-C
7 3 (3.125%) VBA
8 2 (2.083%) Ada
8 2 (2.083%) VB6
9 1 (1.042%) VBScript
9 1 (1.042%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.042%) C
9 1 (1.042%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.375%) Degree
2 2 (2.083%) PhD
2 2 (2.083%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.042%) MCP
3 1 (1.042%) MCAD
3 1 (1.042%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.375%) QA
Vendors
1 32 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) HP
3 13 (13.54%) XMPie
4 6 (6.250%) Oracle
5 4 (4.167%) Sybase
5 4 (4.167%) Apple
6 1 (1.042%) Dundas
6 1 (1.042%) JBoss
6 1 (1.042%) Twitter
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