The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank - 22 17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 0 28 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton - 7.216% 7.792%
As % of the Job Titles category - 7.467% 8.182%
Number of salaries quoted 0 24 17
Average salary - £41,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.15%
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
365 375 220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 95.55% 96.65% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 307 290 198
Average salary £45,000 £41,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.43% +18.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,925 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Bedfordshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) NUnit
5 2 (33.33%) VBA
5 2 (33.33%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (33.33%) IIS
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (33.33%) VB
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (33.33%) NHibernate
5 2 (33.33%) VB6
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (33.33%) WCF

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) WF
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Web Development
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) VB6
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft