Merseyside Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Merseyside region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thetford Tring Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	51
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	31
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	2.697 %	3.222 %
Salaries quoted	24	28
Average minimum salary	£28,292	£30,643
Average salary	£29,875	£32,196
% change on same period last year	-7.21 %
Average maximum salary	£31,458	£33,750
UK excluding London average salary	£33,268	£33,351
% change on same period last year	-0.24 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	964	962
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.526 %	0.404 %
Salaries quoted	832	792
Average minimum salary	£31,087	£32,146
Average salary	£33,340	£34,884
% change on same period last year	-4.42 %
Average maximum salary	£35,593	£37,622
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+6	19	£29,794	-8.52 %
Wirral	-	1	£28,500	-
Southport	-	1	£35,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 32 (71.11 %) .NET 2 31 (68.89 %) SQL Server 3 24 (53.33 %) C# 4 19 (42.22 %) VB 5 16 (35.56 %) SQL 5 16 (35.56 %) ASP.NET 6 12 (26.67 %) XML 7 11 (24.44 %) VB.NET 8 10 (22.22 %) IIS 8 10 (22.22 %) WebServices 9 9 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 10 8 (17.78 %) MS Excel 10 8 (17.78 %) XSLT 10 8 (17.78 %) Transact-SQL 10 8 (17.78 %) VB6

10 8 (17.78 %) AJAX 11 7 (15.56 %) Legal 12 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 13 5 (11.11 %) Clustering 13 5 (11.11 %) DHTML 14 4 (8.889 %) Visual Studio 14 4 (8.889 %) Windows 14 4 (8.889 %) E-Commerce 14 4 (8.889 %) Logistics 15 3 (6.667 %) .NET Framework 15 3 (6.667 %) Pensions 15 3 (6.667 %) WinForms 15 3 (6.667 %) Migration 15 3 (6.667 %) Finance 15 3 (6.667 %) Health

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 32 (71.11 %) .NET 2 16 (35.56 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (26.67 %) XML 4 10 (22.22 %) WebServices 5 8 (17.78 %) XSLT 5 8 (17.78 %) AJAX 6 3 (6.667 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (6.667 %) WinForms 6 3 (6.667 %) SOAP 7 2 (4.444 %) HTML 8 1 (2.222 %) Struts 8 1 (2.222 %) CSS 8 1 (2.222 %) JSP 8 1 (2.222 %) J2EE 8 1 (2.222 %) ASP 8 1 (2.222 %) Spring 8 1 (2.222 %) JSF 8 1 (2.222 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 10 (22.22 %) IIS 2 1 (2.222 %) JBoss 2 1 (2.222 %) Apache 2 1 (2.222 %) MTS 2 1 (2.222 %) Tomcat 2 1 (2.222 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 8 (17.78 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.444 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (68.89 %) SQL Server 2 9 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (6.667 %) DTS 5 2 (4.444 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (2.222 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.222 %) GIS 6 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 4 (8.889 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.222 %) Ant
General 1 7 (15.56 %) Legal 2 3 (6.667 %) Health 2 3 (6.667 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Pensions 3 2 (4.444 %) Law 3 2 (4.444 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.222 %) Chemicals 4 1 (2.222 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.222 %) Financial Institution	Miscellaneous 1 5 (11.11 %) Clustering 2 2 (4.444 %) Pocket PC 2 2 (4.444 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.222 %) NHS 3 1 (2.222 %) Computer Science 3 1 (2.222 %) Life Science
Operating Systems 1 4 (8.889 %) Windows 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (8.889 %) E-Commerce 1 4 (8.889 %) Logistics 2 3 (6.667 %) Migration 3 1 (2.222 %) Scrum 3 1 (2.222 %) Information Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (2.222 %) Web Development 3 1 (2.222 %) Performance Testing
Programming Languages 1 24 (53.33 %) C# 2 19 (42.22 %) VB 3 16 (35.56 %) SQL 4 11 (24.44 %) VB.NET 5 8 (17.78 %) VB6 5 8 (17.78 %) Transact-SQL 6 5 (11.11 %) DHTML 7 3 (6.667 %) JavaScript 8 1 (2.222 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (4.444 %) MCP 1 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (4.444 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft 1 2 (4.444 %) Visualfiles 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.222 %) BEA