Reading Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Reading 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 20 August 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 Barnsley Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Batley 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 Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port 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 Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 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 St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	38
Rank change on same period last year	-42
Matching permanent IT job ads	58	176
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.073 %
As % of the category below	2.180 %	5.110 %
Salaries quoted	53	166
Average minimum salary	£30,472	£33,060
Average salary	£35,142	£36,961
% change on same period last year	-4.92 %
Average maximum salary	£39,811	£40,861
UK excluding London average salary	£33,168	£33,377
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	2661	3444
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.433 %	1.436 %
Salaries quoted	2279	2673
Average minimum salary	£36,634	£38,785
Average salary	£40,211	£41,894
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Average maximum salary	£43,788	£45,003
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Software Developer Berkshire

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 57 (57.58 %) .NET 2 51 (51.52 %) C# 3 48 (48.48 %) ASP.NET 4 46 (46.46 %) SQL Server 5 33 (33.33 %) SQL 6 24 (24.24 %) Perl 6 24 (24.24 %) Windows 7 23 (23.23 %) Java 8 22 (22.22 %) C++ 8 22 (22.22 %) Finance 9 20 (20.20 %) Linux 10 15 (15.15 %) Python 10 15 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2005 10 15 (15.15 %) Pensions 11 14 (14.14 %) OO

12 12 (12.12 %) Transact-SQL 12 12 (12.12 %) Ruby 13 11 (11.11 %) Computer Science 13 11 (11.11 %) JavaScript 13 11 (11.11 %) J2EE 13 11 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 14 10 (10.10 %) XML 14 10 (10.10 %) Apache 14 10 (10.10 %) Microsoft 15 9 (9.091 %) MS Excel 15 9 (9.091 %) C 15 9 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 15 9 (9.091 %) HTML 15 9 (9.091 %) Health 15 9 (9.091 %) Degree

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 57 (57.58 %) .NET 2 48 (48.48 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (11.11 %) J2EE 4 10 (10.10 %) XML 5 9 (9.091 %) HTML 6 8 (8.081 %) Struts 7 7 (7.071 %) WebServices 7 7 (7.071 %) CSS 7 7 (7.071 %) WinForms 8 5 (5.051 %) .NET Framework 9 4 (4.040 %) WPF 9 4 (4.040 %) EJB 9 4 (4.040 %) MVC 10 2 (2.020 %) Hibernate 10 2 (2.020 %) J2SE 10 2 (2.020 %) ASP 10 2 (2.020 %) JDBC 10 2 (2.020 %) Servlets 10 2 (2.020 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (2.020 %) Lucene	Application Platforms 1 10 (10.10 %) Apache 2 8 (8.081 %) JBoss 3 6 (6.061 %) Tomcat 4 3 (3.030 %) IIS 5 2 (2.020 %) WebLogic 5 2 (2.020 %) Resin
Applications 1 9 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.020 %) MS Visio 2 2 (2.020 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.081 %) Internet 2 5 (5.051 %) H.323 2 5 (5.051 %) VoIP 3 4 (4.040 %) SMTP 4 1 (1.010 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.010 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.010 %) CTI 4 1 (1.010 %) GSM 4 1 (1.010 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (46.46 %) SQL Server 2 15 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (6.061 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (2.020 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.010 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 9 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (6.061 %) Ant 3 4 (4.040 %) Eclipse 3 4 (4.040 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.020 %) JUnit 4 2 (2.020 %) PVCS
General 1 22 (22.22 %) Finance 2 15 (15.15 %) Pensions 3 9 (9.091 %) Insurance 3 9 (9.091 %) Health 4 7 (7.071 %) Electronics 4 7 (7.071 %) Telecoms 5 4 (4.040 %) Banking 6 1 (1.010 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 11 (11.11 %) Computer Science 2 3 (3.030 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.020 %) MPEG 3 2 (2.020 %) Thin Client 3 2 (2.020 %) Fat Client 3 2 (2.020 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.010 %) DTV 4 1 (1.010 %) IVR 4 1 (1.010 %) STB 4 1 (1.010 %) Speech Recognition 4 1 (1.010 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 24 (24.24 %) Windows 2 20 (20.20 %) Linux 3 7 (7.071 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.010 %) VxWorks 5 1 (1.010 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.14 %) OO 2 8 (8.081 %) Web Development 3 6 (6.061 %) UML 3 6 (6.061 %) OOP 3 6 (6.061 %) OOD 3 6 (6.061 %) Agile Software Development 3 6 (6.061 %) Document Management 4 5 (5.051 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (4.040 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (3.030 %) RAD 6 3 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (2.020 %) OOA/OOD 8 1 (1.010 %) CRM 8 1 (1.010 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (1.010 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 51 (51.52 %) C# 2 33 (33.33 %) SQL 3 24 (24.24 %) Perl 4 23 (23.23 %) Java 5 22 (22.22 %) C++ 6 15 (15.15 %) Python 7 12 (12.12 %) Ruby 7 12 (12.12 %) Transact-SQL 8 11 (11.11 %) JavaScript 9 9 (9.091 %) C 10 8 (8.081 %) PHP 11 5 (5.051 %) VB6 11 5 (5.051 %) VB 12 3 (3.030 %) VB.NET 12 3 (3.030 %) Assembly Language 13 1 (1.010 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 9 (9.091 %) Degree 2 3 (3.030 %) PhD
Vendors 1 10 (10.10 %) Microsoft 2 5 (5.051 %) Cisco