The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton 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 18 June 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 44 31 35
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 10 20 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 2.525% 4.684% 5.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.660% 4.808% 5.187%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 25
Average salary £33,500 £31,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.51% -2.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,850 £21,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
376 416 482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 94.95% 97.42% 98.37%
Number of salaries quoted 345 400 451
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £43,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Northamptonshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Northampton Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 15 (83.33%) SQL
1 15 (83.33%) .NET
2 13 (72.22%) JavaScript
2 13 (72.22%) HTML
3 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 12 (66.67%) OOP
3 12 (66.67%) OOD
3 12 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
5 10 (55.56%) Scrum
6 9 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 8 (44.44%) jQuery
8 7 (38.89%) C#
9 6 (33.33%) Selenium
9 6 (33.33%) FitNesse
9 6 (33.33%) HTML5
9 6 (33.33%) MVC
10 5 (27.78%) CSS3
10 5 (27.78%) Web Development
10 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (27.78%) Extreme Programming
10 5 (27.78%) WinForms
10 5 (27.78%) TDD
10 5 (27.78%) Spring
10 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
10 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
10 5 (27.78%) JUnit
11 4 (22.22%) Java EE
12 3 (16.67%) J2EE
12 3 (16.67%) MySQL

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 15 (83.33%) .NET
2 13 (72.22%) HTML
3 12 (66.67%) CSS
4 9 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 8 (44.44%) jQuery
6 6 (33.33%) HTML5
7 5 (27.78%) CSS3
7 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (27.78%) WinForms
7 5 (27.78%) Spring
8 4 (22.22%) Java EE
9 3 (16.67%) J2EE
10 2 (11.11%) ASP
10 2 (11.11%) Ajax
11 1 (5.556%) Struts
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.556%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Selenium
1 6 (33.33%) FitNesse
2 5 (27.78%) JUnit
3 2 (11.11%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (5.556%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (5.556%) MSTest
General
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) OOP
1 12 (66.67%) OOD
1 12 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (55.56%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) MVC
4 5 (27.78%) Extreme Programming
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Web Development
5 2 (11.11%) Data Management
5 2 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 13 (72.22%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
5 3 (16.67%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 2 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) PHP
7 1 (5.556%) Progress 4GL
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle
1 1 (5.556%) Progress