Northamptonshire Software Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Northamptonshire 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Beckenham 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 Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely 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 Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Otley 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 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 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 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	65
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	25	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.240 %	1.430 %
Salaries quoted	25	10
Average minimum salary	£27,769	£26,200
Average salary	£32,231	£30,050
% change on same period last year	+7.25 %
Average maximum salary	£36,692	£33,900
UK excluding London average salary	£33,237	£33,294
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1116	1119
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.620 %	0.471 %
Salaries quoted	988	901
Average minimum salary	£34,791	£33,844
Average salary	£37,873	£36,261
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Average maximum salary	£40,955	£38,678
UK excluding London average salary	£38,057	£39,434
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Software Developer East Midlands

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Northampton	+3	20	£32,325	+4.75 %
Daventry	-	1	£27,500	-
Kettering	-	1	£30,000	-

Software Developer East Midlands

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 30 (49.18 %) .NET 2 24 (39.34 %) UNIX 3 21 (34.43 %) UniData 3 21 (34.43 %) Degree 4 20 (32.79 %) InterSystems Cache 4 20 (32.79 %) MUMPS 5 19 (31.15 %) COBOL 6 18 (29.51 %) C# 7 16 (26.23 %) SQL 8 15 (24.59 %) VB.NET 9 14 (22.95 %) SQL Server 10 12 (19.67 %) JavaScript 11 11 (18.03 %) ASP.NET 11 11 (18.03 %) Windows 12 10 (16.39 %) ASP

13 9 (14.75 %) C++ 13 9 (14.75 %) HTML 14 8 (13.11 %) XML 14 8 (13.11 %) OO 15 7 (11.48 %) Microsoft 15 7 (11.48 %) Visual Studio 15 7 (11.48 %) AJAX 16 6 (9.836 %) WPF 16 6 (9.836 %) C 16 6 (9.836 %) Java 16 6 (9.836 %) WinForms 16 6 (9.836 %) Retail 17 5 (8.197 %) Telecoms 17 5 (8.197 %) Workflow 17 5 (8.197 %) Health

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 30 (49.18 %) .NET 2 11 (18.03 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (16.39 %) ASP 4 9 (14.75 %) HTML 5 8 (13.11 %) XML 6 7 (11.48 %) AJAX 7 6 (9.836 %) WinForms 7 6 (9.836 %) WPF 8 5 (8.197 %) MFC 9 4 (6.557 %) JSP 9 4 (6.557 %) Servlets 9 4 (6.557 %) WebServices 10 3 (4.918 %) Hibernate 10 3 (4.918 %) CSS 10 3 (4.918 %) Spring 10 3 (4.918 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (3.279 %) JDBC 11 2 (3.279 %) J2EE 11 2 (3.279 %) MVC 11 2 (3.279 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.197 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.279 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.639 %) IIS 3 1 (1.639 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (3.279 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.639 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.279 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.639 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (34.43 %) UniData 2 20 (32.79 %) InterSystems Cache 3 14 (22.95 %) SQL Server 4 1 (1.639 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.639 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.639 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 7 (11.48 %) Visual Studio
General 1 6 (9.836 %) Retail 2 5 (8.197 %) Telecoms 2 5 (8.197 %) Health 3 4 (6.557 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.279 %) Pensions 4 2 (3.279 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (3.279 %) Construction 4 2 (3.279 %) Multimedia 5 1 (1.639 %) Billing 5 1 (1.639 %) Government 5 1 (1.639 %) Legal 5 1 (1.639 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.639 %) Banking 5 1 (1.639 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.197 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 24 (39.34 %) UNIX 2 11 (18.03 %) Windows 3 5 (8.197 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (8.197 %) Windows XP 3 5 (8.197 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (8.197 %) Windows Vista 3 5 (8.197 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (13.11 %) OO 2 5 (8.197 %) Workflow 2 5 (8.197 %) UML 2 5 (8.197 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (1.639 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (1.639 %) Web Development 3 1 (1.639 %) OOP 3 1 (1.639 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (32.79 %) MUMPS 2 19 (31.15 %) COBOL 3 18 (29.51 %) C# 4 16 (26.23 %) SQL 5 15 (24.59 %) VB.NET 6 12 (19.67 %) JavaScript 7 9 (14.75 %) C++ 8 6 (9.836 %) Java 8 6 (9.836 %) C 9 5 (8.197 %) VB 9 5 (8.197 %) Embedded C 10 3 (4.918 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (3.279 %) Perl 12 1 (1.639 %) PHP 12 1 (1.639 %) RPG 12 1 (1.639 %) VB6 12 1 (1.639 %) XPath 12 1 (1.639 %) PHP5 12 1 (1.639 %) VBA 12 1 (1.639 %) FoxPro (VFP)	Qualifications 1 21 (34.43 %) Degree 2 5 (8.197 %) Postgraduate 3 2 (3.279 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (1.639 %) MCPD 4 1 (1.639 %) MCAD
Vendors 1 7 (11.48 %) Microsoft 2 5 (8.197 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.639 %) Visualfiles