The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Developer
Rank 54 66 57
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 2 16 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.448% 2.374% 3.219%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.463% 2.450% 3.326%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 14
Average salary £38,250 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.37% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,650 £37,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,850 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.75% +2.50%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
432 653 451
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.86% 96.88% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 362 582 366
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%
Senior Software Developer
North West

Senior Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Senior Software Developer Salary Trend

Senior Software Developer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Hibernate
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) J2EE
2 5 (71.43%) EJB
2 5 (71.43%) HND
2 5 (71.43%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Swing
2 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) Use Case
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) EJB 3.0
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) WCF
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET

Senior Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) EJB
1 5 (71.43%) Swing
1 5 (71.43%) Hibernate
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) J2EE
1 5 (71.43%) jQuery
1 5 (71.43%) EJB 3.0
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) WCF
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Use Case
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) HND
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle