The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Development Specialist 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Specialist
Rank 151 150 152
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Specialist 4 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.126% 0.029% 0.206%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.133% 0.030% 0.217%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
Average salary £55,000 £30,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+83.33% -36.84%
UK excluding London average salary £38,750 £34,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.31% -23.33%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3000 3304 3220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.70% 94.70% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1791 2412 2426
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Development Specialist
UK

Development Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Development Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Development Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Development Specialist Salary Trend

Development Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 £55,000 -
Development Specialist
UK

Development Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Development Specialist 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 Development Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
3 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) VB
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) OLAP
5 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
5 1 (16.67%) MS Office
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
5 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere

Development Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Development Specialist 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 Development Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Java SE
3 1 (16.67%) Java EE
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) OLAP
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft