The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. 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 21 May 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 52 59 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 44.07% 46.46% 35.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 46.02% 53.64% 36.96%
Number of salaries quoted 51 59 15
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £27,500 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £36,300 £42,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
113 110 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 95.76% 86.61% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 106 102 36
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £26,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £41,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Lancashire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Preston Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Preston region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Preston Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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.

1 60 (73.17%) .NET
2 54 (65.85%) C#
3 49 (59.76%) SQL Server
4 42 (51.22%) ASP.NET
5 35 (42.68%) JavaScript
6 33 (40.24%) Microsoft
7 27 (32.93%) MVC
8 23 (28.05%) VB.NET
9 22 (26.83%) OO
10 21 (25.61%) HTML
11 19 (23.17%) Java
11 19 (23.17%) CSS
12 17 (20.73%) MS Excel
12 17 (20.73%) .NET Framework
13 16 (19.51%) SQL Server 2005
14 15 (18.29%) VB
14 15 (18.29%) ASP.NET MVC
15 14 (17.07%) MVVM
15 14 (17.07%) WPF
16 13 (15.85%) Web Development
16 13 (15.85%) Windows
16 13 (15.85%) jQuery
17 12 (14.63%) SQL Server 2008
17 12 (14.63%) SQL Server 2012
17 12 (14.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 12 (14.63%) XML
17 12 (14.63%) TDD
17 12 (14.63%) XAML
18 11 (13.41%) WinForms
18 11 (13.41%) SQL Server Integration Services

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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.

Application Development
1 60 (73.17%) .NET
2 42 (51.22%) ASP.NET
3 21 (25.61%) HTML
4 19 (23.17%) CSS
5 17 (20.73%) .NET Framework
6 15 (18.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (17.07%) WPF
8 13 (15.85%) jQuery
9 12 (14.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 12 (14.63%) XML
10 11 (13.41%) WinForms
10 11 (13.41%) J2EE
11 10 (12.20%) WCF
12 9 (10.98%) Castle Windsor
12 9 (10.98%) LINQ
13 8 (9.756%) Web Services
14 7 (8.537%) Ajax
14 7 (8.537%) Lucene
14 7 (8.537%) Spring
14 7 (8.537%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.537%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.317%) TeamSite
3 4 (4.878%) IIS
4 3 (3.659%) ESB
5 2 (2.439%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.439%) CMS
6 1 (1.220%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 17 (20.73%) MS Excel
2 6 (7.317%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.439%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.439%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.439%) HTTP
2 1 (1.220%) Intranet
2 1 (1.220%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (59.76%) SQL Server
2 16 (19.51%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (14.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (14.63%) SQL Server 2012
4 11 (13.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (10.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle 9i
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.220%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Rhino Mocks
1 9 (10.98%) Team Foundation Server
1 9 (10.98%) NUnit
2 8 (9.756%) Visual Studio
3 7 (8.537%) Cucumber
3 7 (8.537%) Selenium
4 5 (6.098%) JUnit
5 3 (3.659%) Maven
5 3 (3.659%) Ant
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.439%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.439%) MSTest
6 2 (2.439%) Moq
7 1 (1.220%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.220%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.220%) ClearCase
General
1 8 (9.756%) Finance
2 7 (8.537%) Advertising
3 2 (2.439%) Publishing
4 1 (1.220%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.439%) Client/Server
1 2 (2.439%) Computer Science
1 2 (2.439%) Social Media
1 2 (2.439%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.439%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (2.439%) Open Source
1 2 (2.439%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (1.220%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.85%) Windows
2 8 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (7.317%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.439%) Linux
5 1 (1.220%) Android
5 1 (1.220%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.220%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.220%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.93%) MVC
2 22 (26.83%) OO
3 14 (17.07%) MVVM
4 13 (15.85%) Web Development
5 12 (14.63%) TDD
6 10 (12.20%) E-Commerce
7 9 (10.98%) Kanban
7 9 (10.98%) Web Application Development
7 9 (10.98%) Scrum
8 7 (8.537%) Scrum-ban
8 7 (8.537%) BDD
9 6 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (7.317%) Waterfall
10 5 (6.098%) Web Design
10 5 (6.098%) OOD
11 2 (2.439%) Mobile Application Development
11 2 (2.439%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (2.439%) Unit Testing
11 2 (2.439%) Web Testing
11 2 (2.439%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.85%) C#
2 35 (42.68%) JavaScript
3 23 (28.05%) VB.NET
4 19 (23.17%) Java
5 15 (18.29%) VB
6 12 (14.63%) XAML
7 9 (10.98%) C++
7 9 (10.98%) SQL
7 9 (10.98%) T-SQL
8 6 (7.317%) VBA
9 2 (2.439%) PHP
9 2 (2.439%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.439%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.220%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.220%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (1.220%) Delphi
10 1 (1.220%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) MCTS
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (10.98%) MCP
1 9 (10.98%) MCAD
1 9 (10.98%) MCSD
2 7 (8.537%) Degree
Vendors
1 33 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.756%) Oracle
3 3 (3.659%) Twitter
4 1 (1.220%) IBM
4 1 (1.220%) Symbian
4 1 (1.220%) Nokia
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