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The table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank11
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads787919
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.456 %0.395 %
As % of the category below30.74 %32.25 %
Salaries quoted684851
Average minimum salary£32,208£30,269
Average salary£35,632£33,592
% change on same period last year+6.07 %
Average maximum salary£39,056£36,915
UK excluding London average salary£34,066£34,106
% change on same period last year-0.11 %
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads25602850
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.482 %1.226 %
Salaries quoted22452540
Average minimum salary£32,843£31,309
Average salary£35,987£34,544
% change on same period last year+4.17 %
Average maximum salary£39,131£37,779
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Developer South EastDeveloper
South East

Developer
Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Oxfordshire Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Oxfordshire Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
OxfordNo change0449£36,063+7.72 %
AbingdonUp+655£37,387+16.05 %
Henley-on-ThamesNo change030£36,269-0.84 %
KidlingtonNew entry-24£42,538-
WallingfordUp+124£30,625-10.84 %
BicesterDown-123£36,250+8.61 %
ThameDown-28£20,750-37.43 %
WitneyDown-55£27,000-9.24 %
BanburyDown-103£40,000+41.38 %
WantageUp+11£35,000+21.73 %
FaringdonNew entry-1--
Developer South EastDeveloper
South East

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1944 (56.76 %).NET
2693 (41.67 %)C#
3585 (35.18 %)SQL Server
4565 (33.97 %)SQL
5563 (33.85 %)ASP.NET
6412 (24.77 %)HTML
7407 (24.47 %)XML
8388 (23.33 %)JavaScript
9368 (22.13 %)Java
10306 (18.40 %)CSS
10306 (18.40 %)Microsoft
11284 (17.08 %)VB.NET
12269 (16.18 %)OO
13238 (14.31 %)C++
14234 (14.07 %)ASP
15232 (13.95 %)SQL Server 2005
16208 (12.51 %)SQL Server 2000
17204 (12.27 %)Finance
18192 (11.55 %)AJAX
19162 (9.741 %)Degree
20159 (9.561 %)WebServices
21158 (9.501 %)VB
21158 (9.501 %)Oracle
22132 (7.937 %)SharePoint
23129 (7.757 %)Web Development
24128 (7.697 %)E-Commerce
25126 (7.577 %)MS Excel
26123 (7.396 %)Transact-SQL
27117 (7.035 %)PHP
27117 (7.035 %)Linux

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1944 (56.76 %).NET
2563 (33.85 %)ASP.NET
3412 (24.77 %)HTML
4407 (24.47 %)XML
5306 (18.40 %)CSS
6234 (14.07 %)ASP
7192 (11.55 %)AJAX
8159 (9.561 %)WebServices
997 (5.833 %)XHTML
1080 (4.811 %).NET Framework
1175 (4.510 %)SOAP
1266 (3.969 %)J2EE
1357 (3.428 %)WCF
1455 (3.307 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1552 (3.127 %)Spring
1649 (2.946 %)STL
1748 (2.886 %)JSP
1847 (2.826 %)Hibernate
1946 (2.766 %)XSLT
2044 (2.646 %)WPF
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1132 (7.937 %)SharePoint
2103 (6.194 %)IIS
344 (2.646 %)SharePoint Server 2007
440 (2.405 %)CMS
522 (1.323 %)BizTalk Server
621 (1.263 %)MTS
720 (1.203 %)Tomcat
720 (1.203 %)Lotus Notes
819 (1.143 %)Lotus Domino
918 (1.082 %)Apache
1014 (0.842 %)Commerce Server
1014 (0.842 %)ColdFusion
1014 (0.842 %)SharePoint Portal Server
119 (0.541 %)Content Management Server
119 (0.541 %)ColdFusion MX
128 (0.481 %)JBoss
135 (0.301 %)ArcGIS
143 (0.180 %)Mathematica
143 (0.180 %)Commerce Server 2007
152 (0.120 %)WebLogic
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1126 (7.577 %)MS Excel
245 (2.706 %)MS Office
337 (2.225 %)Photoshop
411 (0.661 %)Adobe Illustrator
510 (0.601 %)InfoPath
69 (0.541 %)MS Visio
78 (0.481 %)Fireworks
86 (0.361 %)MATLAB
92 (0.120 %)ArcInfo
101 (0.060 %)Maya
101 (0.060 %)3ds Max
101 (0.060 %)Windchill
101 (0.060 %)MS PowerPoint
101 (0.060 %)CA Clarity
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
122 (1.323 %)Microsoft CRM
221 (1.263 %)Dynamics CRM
311 (0.661 %)Dynamics NAV
410 (0.601 %)Navision
410 (0.601 %)Dynamics AX
56 (0.361 %)Google Analytics
64 (0.241 %)Axapta
73 (0.180 %)Oracle Applications
82 (0.120 %)Oracle 11i
91 (0.060 %)Oracle Financials
91 (0.060 %)SAP Business One
91 (0.060 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
91 (0.060 %)Tesseract
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1112 (6.735 %)Internet
241 (2.465 %)Intranet
316 (0.962 %)Extranet
414 (0.842 %)FTP
57 (0.421 %)TCP/IP
64 (0.241 %)DNS
64 (0.241 %)SAN
64 (0.241 %)LAN
64 (0.241 %)Cisco IOS
73 (0.180 %)GPRS
73 (0.180 %)GSM
73 (0.180 %)Ethernet
73 (0.180 %)Firewall
82 (0.120 %)UMTS
82 (0.120 %)WAN
91 (0.060 %)Bluetooth
91 (0.060 %)SMS
91 (0.060 %)SSL
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1585 (35.18 %)SQL Server
2232 (13.95 %)SQL Server 2005
3208 (12.51 %)SQL Server 2000
4101 (6.073 %)MySQL
575 (4.510 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
641 (2.465 %)Oracle 9i
733 (1.984 %)DTS
823 (1.383 %)Oracle Reports
921 (1.263 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1020 (1.203 %)Oracle 10g
1119 (1.143 %)Crystal Reports
1119 (1.143 %)Datawarehouse
1216 (0.962 %)MS Access
1312 (0.722 %)KDB
1411 (0.661 %)GIS
1411 (0.661 %)Ingres
158 (0.481 %)DB2
167 (0.421 %)BusinessObjects
167 (0.421 %)Oracle OWB
176 (0.361 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1108 (6.494 %)Flash
254 (3.247 %)Visual Studio
336 (2.165 %)Eclipse
415 (0.902 %)JUnit
415 (0.902 %)Oracle Forms
512 (0.722 %)NUnit
512 (0.722 %)Subversion
611 (0.661 %)Dreamweaver
76 (0.361 %)VSS/SourceSafe
76 (0.361 %)MorphX
84 (0.241 %)MSI
92 (0.120 %)FrontPage
92 (0.120 %)Ant
101 (0.060 %)JDeveloper
101 (0.060 %)QuickTest Pro
101 (0.060 %)LoadRunner
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1204 (12.27 %)Finance
267 (4.029 %)Pensions
362 (3.728 %)Retail
452 (3.127 %)Education
539 (2.345 %)Games
636 (2.165 %)Marketing
733 (1.984 %)Health
832 (1.924 %)Government
832 (1.924 %)Music
926 (1.563 %)Insurance
926 (1.563 %)Publishing
1024 (1.443 %)Music Industry
1121 (1.263 %)Legal
1217 (1.022 %)Manufacturing
1313 (0.782 %)Banking
1410 (0.601 %)Graphic Design
1410 (0.601 %)Automotive
158 (0.481 %)Law
167 (0.421 %)Advertising
167 (0.421 %)Pharmaceutical
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1111 (6.675 %)Computer Science
245 (2.706 %)Mathematics
329 (1.744 %)Physics
329 (1.744 %)W3C
425 (1.503 %)N-Tier
518 (1.082 %)Tandem
610 (0.601 %)Chemistry
78 (0.481 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
87 (0.421 %)Biology
87 (0.421 %)VHDL
87 (0.421 %)Verilog
95 (0.301 %)Multithreading
95 (0.301 %)Statistics
104 (0.241 %)Web 2.0
104 (0.241 %)Data Extraction
113 (0.180 %)French Language
113 (0.180 %)Informatics
113 (0.180 %)VLE
122 (0.120 %)NHS
122 (0.120 %)Clustering
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1117 (7.035 %)Linux
2103 (6.194 %)Windows
362 (3.728 %)UNIX
417 (1.022 %)Windows Server 2003
512 (0.722 %)Mac OS X
68 (0.481 %)HPUX
77 (0.421 %)Embedded Linux
85 (0.301 %)Windows 2000
93 (0.180 %)AIX
102 (0.120 %)Windows 2000 Server
111 (0.060 %)Windows Vista
111 (0.060 %)Windows XP
111 (0.060 %)VxWorks
111 (0.060 %)Windows Mobile
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1269 (16.18 %)OO
2129 (7.757 %)Web Development
3128 (7.697 %)E-Commerce
480 (4.811 %)Project Management
556 (3.367 %)Content Management
649 (2.946 %)UML
741 (2.465 %)Agile Software Development
837 (2.225 %)Unit Testing
936 (2.165 %)ERP
1033 (1.984 %)CRM
1129 (1.744 %)Software Engineering
1228 (1.684 %)Scrum
1323 (1.383 %)Workflow
1323 (1.383 %)OOD
1323 (1.383 %)Business Intelligence
1323 (1.383 %)Time Management
1422 (1.323 %)Software Testing
1422 (1.323 %)Logistics
1521 (1.263 %)Web Design
1521 (1.263 %)OOP
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1693 (41.67 %)C#
2565 (33.97 %)SQL
3388 (23.33 %)JavaScript
4368 (22.13 %)Java
5284 (17.08 %)VB.NET
6238 (14.31 %)C++
7158 (9.501 %)VB
8123 (7.396 %)Transact-SQL
9117 (7.035 %)PHP
1069 (4.149 %)C
1154 (3.247 %)Perl
1252 (3.127 %)Delphi
1349 (2.946 %)PL/SQL
1447 (2.826 %)VB6
1540 (2.405 %)ActionScript
1639 (2.345 %)Python
1728 (1.684 %)DHTML
1820 (1.203 %)VBA
1919 (1.143 %)VBScript
2017 (1.022 %)VC++
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1162 (9.741 %)Degree
259 (3.548 %)Microsoft Certification
330 (1.804 %)MCTS
427 (1.624 %)MCPD
427 (1.624 %)MCAD
522 (1.323 %)MCSD
621 (1.263 %)MCP
720 (1.203 %)PhD
811 (0.661 %)MCDBA
97 (0.421 %)MCITP
106 (0.361 %)MCSE
115 (0.301 %)Sun Certification
124 (0.241 %)Postgraduate
133 (0.180 %)HND
142 (0.120 %)HNC
151 (0.060 %)IBM Certification
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (0.120 %)ISO9001
21 (0.060 %)QA
21 (0.060 %)HL7
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
14 (0.241 %)Active Directory
14 (0.241 %)VMware ESX
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
16 (0.361 %)AutoSys
24 (0.241 %)EMC NetWorker
24 (0.241 %)MOM
24 (0.241 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
Oxfordshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1306 (18.40 %)Microsoft
2158 (9.501 %)Oracle
320 (1.203 %)SAP
320 (1.203 %)Lotus
413 (0.782 %)IBM
59 (0.541 %)Siebel
68 (0.481 %)Intel
77 (0.421 %)Business Objects
77 (0.421 %)Google
86 (0.361 %)Sony
86 (0.361 %)HP
86 (0.361 %)Epicor
95 (0.301 %)Zend
104 (0.241 %)Apple
104 (0.241 %)VMware
104 (0.241 %)EMC
104 (0.241 %)Cisco
113 (0.180 %)Cognos
113 (0.180 %)Wall Street Systems
122 (0.120 %)Red Hat