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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 11 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3 13 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 14.29% 26.53% 54.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% 27.66% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 12
Average salary £35,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.89% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Runcorn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21 47 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 100.00% 95.92% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 42 20
Average salary £29,750 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.59% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £30,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £46,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Cheshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 10 (76.92%) .NET
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) C#
3 7 (53.85%) HTML
4 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 6 (46.15%) MySQL
4 6 (46.15%) Web Services
4 6 (46.15%) MVC
4 6 (46.15%) Business Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) .NET Framework
4 6 (46.15%) Degree
4 6 (46.15%) WCF
4 6 (46.15%) jQuery
4 6 (46.15%) Windows 8
5 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
5 5 (38.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (38.46%) Web Development
5 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (38.46%) WPF
5 5 (38.46%) Mathematics
5 5 (38.46%) JSON
5 5 (38.46%) Back Office
5 5 (38.46%) Subversion
5 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 5 (38.46%) Scrum
5 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
5 5 (38.46%) Avaya
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 10 (76.92%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) HTML
3 6 (46.15%) Web Services
3 6 (46.15%) .NET Framework
3 6 (46.15%) WCF
3 6 (46.15%) jQuery
4 5 (38.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (38.46%) WPF
4 5 (38.46%) JSON
5 3 (23.08%) COM
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
7 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
7 1 (7.692%) SOAP
7 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (7.692%) CakePHP
7 1 (7.692%) REST
7 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Subversion
General
1 5 (38.46%) Back Office
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
1 5 (38.46%) Mathematics
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 8
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) MVC
1 6 (46.15%) Business Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Web Development
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 3 (23.08%) CAD
4 1 (7.692%) CRM
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
3 5 (38.46%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Avaya
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
Runcorn, WA7 1TN, North West
The bulk of work is around web forms and general back-end business logic, which will often require refactoring and optimising, however there will be elements of DBA...
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Salary: Salary Range: £25,000 - £28,000 (depending on experience)
Posted: 20 May 2013