The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 58 60 53
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 1 19 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.217% 2.836% 2.857%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.224% 2.928% 2.955%
Number of salaries quoted 1 19 8
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £24,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +85.56%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +1.44%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
446 649 440
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.96% 96.87% 96.70%
Number of salaries quoted 376 582 355
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Developer
North West

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Applications Developer Salary Trend

Applications Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +6 1 £42,500 +13.33%
Applications Developer
North West

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) VBA
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) PrintSoft PReS
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Visualfiles
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Resource Management

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Papyrus
2 1 (16.67%) StreamWeaver
2 1 (16.67%) Exstream Dialogue
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) PrintSoft PReS
2 1 (16.67%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visualfiles
1 1 (16.67%) Exstream
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Web Development
1 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Database Security
1 1 (16.67%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (50.00%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) VBA
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) HP