The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 89 39 43
Rank change year-on-year
-50 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 44 111 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 2.029% 4.903% 4.668%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.134% 5.160% 4.977%
Number of salaries quoted 44 108 79
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £73,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2062 2151 1768
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 95.07% 95.01% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1675 1848 1424
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
Berkshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Reading Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 96 (63.58%) SQL
2 71 (47.02%) CSS
3 69 (45.70%) JavaScript
4 66 (43.71%) Java
5 64 (42.38%) HTML
6 63 (41.72%) .NET
7 51 (33.77%) C#
8 49 (32.45%) ASP.NET
8 49 (32.45%) jQuery
9 46 (30.46%) SQL Server
10 42 (27.81%) Finance
11 41 (27.15%) J2EE
12 39 (25.83%) PHP
13 31 (20.53%) Agile Software Development
13 31 (20.53%) Ajax
14 30 (19.87%) Web Services
15 29 (19.21%) OO
16 28 (18.54%) MVC
16 28 (18.54%) Integration Testing
17 25 (16.56%) Degree
17 25 (16.56%) Spring
18 24 (15.89%) Linux
19 23 (15.23%) Financial Institution
20 21 (13.91%) XML
20 21 (13.91%) MySQL
20 21 (13.91%) VB.NET
21 20 (13.25%) JSON
21 20 (13.25%) Oracle
22 19 (12.58%) Web Development
23 18 (11.92%) Computer Science

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 71 (47.02%) CSS
2 64 (42.38%) HTML
3 63 (41.72%) .NET
4 49 (32.45%) ASP.NET
4 49 (32.45%) jQuery
5 41 (27.15%) J2EE
6 31 (20.53%) Ajax
7 30 (19.87%) Web Services
8 25 (16.56%) Spring
9 21 (13.91%) XML
10 20 (13.25%) JSON
11 16 (10.60%) RESTful
12 14 (9.272%) LINQ
13 13 (8.609%) Hibernate
13 13 (8.609%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (8.609%) HTML5
14 10 (6.623%) CSS3
14 10 (6.623%) WCF
15 9 (5.960%) XHTML
15 9 (5.960%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.636%) Tomcat
1 7 (4.636%) CMS
2 6 (3.974%) Jetty
2 6 (3.974%) Apache
3 4 (2.649%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (2.649%) Drupal
3 4 (2.649%) WordPress
3 4 (2.649%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (2.649%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.987%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.987%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.987%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (1.325%) Joomla!
5 2 (1.325%) ExpressionEngine
5 2 (1.325%) Movable Type
6 1 (0.662%) IIS
6 1 (0.662%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.662%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.662%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 9 (5.960%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (4.636%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.325%) MS Office
3 2 (1.325%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.662%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.298%) LDAP
2 7 (4.636%) Internet
3 1 (0.662%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (30.46%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.91%) MySQL
3 18 (11.92%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (5.960%) Data Mining
5 7 (4.636%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (2.649%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.325%) TOAD
7 2 (1.325%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.325%) Big Data
8 1 (0.662%) DB2
8 1 (0.662%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.662%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.662%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (5.960%) Subversion
2 8 (5.298%) Ant
3 7 (4.636%) Eclipse
3 7 (4.636%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.636%) Firebug
4 6 (3.974%) Git (software)
4 6 (3.974%) JUnit
5 4 (2.649%) ReSharper
5 4 (2.649%) Selenium
5 4 (2.649%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.325%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.325%) PVCS
7 1 (0.662%) Maven
General
1 42 (27.81%) Finance
2 23 (15.23%) Financial Institution
3 7 (4.636%) Publishing
4 5 (3.311%) Marketing
5 3 (1.987%) Retail
6 2 (1.325%) Billing
6 2 (1.325%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Computer Science
2 15 (9.934%) Open Source
3 12 (7.947%) SaaS
4 7 (4.636%) New Media
5 6 (3.974%) Taxonomies
5 6 (3.974%) Ontologies
6 5 (3.311%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.649%) Social Media
8 3 (1.987%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.325%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.325%) Video Editing
9 2 (1.325%) Motion Graphics
10 1 (0.662%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.662%) DataPower
10 1 (0.662%) Mathematics
10 1 (0.662%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.89%) Linux
2 18 (11.92%) UNIX
3 4 (2.649%) Windows
4 2 (1.325%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.662%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.53%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (19.21%) OO
3 28 (18.54%) MVC
3 28 (18.54%) Integration Testing
4 19 (12.58%) Web Development
5 14 (9.272%) Scrum
6 11 (7.285%) Multithreading
7 10 (6.623%) Waterfall
7 10 (6.623%) E-Commerce
8 9 (5.960%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (5.298%) TDD
10 7 (4.636%) B2B
11 6 (3.974%) Performance Testing
11 6 (3.974%) OWASP
11 6 (3.974%) OOP
11 6 (3.974%) ETL
11 6 (3.974%) Data Modelling
11 6 (3.974%) OOD
12 5 (3.311%) Email Marketing
13 4 (2.649%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 96 (63.58%) SQL
2 69 (45.70%) JavaScript
3 66 (43.71%) Java
4 51 (33.77%) C#
5 39 (25.83%) PHP
6 21 (13.91%) VB.NET
7 14 (9.272%) C
8 9 (5.960%) C++
8 9 (5.960%) T-SQL
9 8 (5.298%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.636%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.974%) PHP5
11 6 (3.974%) Bash shell
12 3 (1.987%) Perl
12 3 (1.987%) Python
12 3 (1.987%) Scala
12 3 (1.987%) Ruby
13 1 (0.662%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 25 (16.56%) Degree
2 1 (0.662%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.325%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (13.25%) Oracle
2 11 (7.285%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.311%) Zend
4 4 (2.649%) JBoss
5 3 (1.987%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.325%) Capita
6 2 (1.325%) Manugistics
6 2 (1.325%) Adobe
7 1 (0.662%) Facebook
7 1 (0.662%) Twitter
7 1 (0.662%) Informatica
7 1 (0.662%) IBM
7 1 (0.662%) Ab Initio
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