North West Graduate Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Graduate Developer role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Graduate Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Graduate Developer
Location Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Humberside Hungerford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	216	225
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	57	66
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	0.511 %	0.517 %
Salaries quoted	42	64
Average minimum salary	£18,564	£19,094
Average salary	£20,628	£20,648
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Average maximum salary	£22,691	£22,203
UK excluding London average salary	£22,865	£22,366
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	11148	12772
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.885 %	5.230 %
Salaries quoted	9407	10740
Average minimum salary	£32,555	£34,146
Average salary	£36,431	£37,829
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,307	£41,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Graduate Developer England

Graduate Developer
Demand Trend

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

Graduate Developer
Salary Trend

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

Graduate Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Graduate Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cheshire	+21	34	£20,345	-4.88 %
Manchester	+11	19	£21,821	+4.16 %
Merseyside	+1	4	£18,500	-6.32 %

Graduate Developer England

Graduate Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate Developer in their job title.

1 56 (52.83 %) .NET 2 50 (47.17 %) Degree 3 36 (33.96 %) SQL 4 35 (33.02 %) C# 5 31 (29.25 %) SQL Server 6 25 (23.58 %) ASP.NET 7 24 (22.64 %) Java 7 24 (22.64 %) Microsoft 8 21 (19.81 %) HTML 9 20 (18.87 %) JavaScript 9 20 (18.87 %) VB 9 20 (18.87 %) XML 10 17 (16.04 %) VB.NET 11 16 (15.09 %) ASP 12 12 (11.32 %) E-Commerce

13 11 (10.38 %) PHP 13 11 (10.38 %) C++ 14 10 (9.434 %) OO 14 10 (9.434 %) Health 14 10 (9.434 %) SQL Server 2005 14 10 (9.434 %) .NET Framework 15 9 (8.491 %) Mathematics 15 9 (8.491 %) Oracle 15 9 (8.491 %) CSS 16 8 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 17 7 (6.604 %) Marketing 17 7 (6.604 %) Web Development 17 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2000 17 7 (6.604 %) Finance 17 7 (6.604 %) J2EE

Graduate Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Graduate 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 Graduate Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 56 (52.83 %) .NET 2 25 (23.58 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (19.81 %) HTML 4 20 (18.87 %) XML 5 16 (15.09 %) ASP 6 10 (9.434 %) .NET Framework 7 9 (8.491 %) CSS 8 7 (6.604 %) J2EE 8 7 (6.604 %) WebServices 9 6 (5.660 %) WinForms 10 5 (4.717 %) XHTML 11 4 (3.774 %) AJAX 12 3 (2.830 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 1 (0.943 %) BREW 13 1 (0.943 %) Servlets 13 1 (0.943 %) Adobe Flex 13 1 (0.943 %) WCF 13 1 (0.943 %) WPF 13 1 (0.943 %) LINQ 13 1 (0.943 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.660 %) Lotus Notes 2 5 (4.717 %) LiveLink 3 3 (2.830 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 2 (1.887 %) Apache 5 1 (0.943 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.943 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.943 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 5 (4.717 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.830 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.887 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.887 %) Dynamics NAV 2 1 (0.943 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.943 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.660 %) Intranet 2 3 (2.830 %) Internet 3 1 (0.943 %) DVB 3 1 (0.943 %) Wi-Fi 3 1 (0.943 %) NFC 3 1 (0.943 %) Bluetooth 3 1 (0.943 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.943 %) GSM 3 1 (0.943 %) UMTS 3 1 (0.943 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.943 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (29.25 %) SQL Server 2 10 (9.434 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (6.604 %) MySQL 3 7 (6.604 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.887 %) Database Marketing 5 1 (0.943 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.943 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 4 (3.774 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.830 %) Eclipse 3 2 (1.887 %) Flash 4 1 (0.943 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 10 (9.434 %) Health 2 7 (6.604 %) Finance 2 7 (6.604 %) Marketing 3 3 (2.830 %) Legal 3 3 (2.830 %) Games 4 2 (1.887 %) Advertising 4 2 (1.887 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.943 %) Video Editing 5 1 (0.943 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 9 (8.491 %) Mathematics 2 5 (4.717 %) Computer Science 3 4 (3.774 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.943 %) MPEG 4 1 (0.943 %) W3C 4 1 (0.943 %) Device Driver 4 1 (0.943 %) Speech Recognition 4 1 (0.943 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 4 (3.774 %) Linux 2 2 (1.887 %) Windows 3 1 (0.943 %) UNIX 3 1 (0.943 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.943 %) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (11.32 %) E-Commerce 2 10 (9.434 %) OO 3 7 (6.604 %) UML 3 7 (6.604 %) Web Development 4 6 (5.660 %) Content Management 5 5 (4.717 %) Agile Software Development 6 4 (3.774 %) Logistics 6 4 (3.774 %) RAD 7 3 (2.830 %) Scrum 8 2 (1.887 %) SOA 9 1 (0.943 %) Mobile Commerce 9 1 (0.943 %) DRM 9 1 (0.943 %) Project Management 9 1 (0.943 %) SEO 9 1 (0.943 %) Web Design 9 1 (0.943 %) CRM 9 1 (0.943 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (0.943 %) Email Marketing 9 1 (0.943 %) Internet Marketing 9 1 (0.943 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 36 (33.96 %) SQL 2 35 (33.02 %) C# 3 24 (22.64 %) Java 4 20 (18.87 %) JavaScript 4 20 (18.87 %) VB 5 17 (16.04 %) VB.NET 6 11 (10.38 %) PHP 6 11 (10.38 %) C++ 7 8 (7.547 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (4.717 %) Delphi 8 5 (4.717 %) C 9 3 (2.830 %) VBScript 9 3 (2.830 %) VBA 10 2 (1.887 %) Perl 11 1 (0.943 %) DHTML 11 1 (0.943 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 50 (47.17 %) Degree 2 5 (4.717 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (2.830 %) MCAD 3 3 (2.830 %) SCJA 3 3 (2.830 %) SCJP 3 3 (2.830 %) ISTQB 4 2 (1.887 %) MCSD 5 1 (0.943 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.943 %) QA
Vendors 1 24 (22.64 %) Microsoft 2 9 (8.491 %) Oracle 3 6 (5.660 %) Lotus 4 5 (4.717 %) Siebel 5 4 (3.774 %) IBM 6 3 (2.830 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.943 %) SAP 7 1 (0.943 %) Symbian 7 1 (0.943 %) Adobe