Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Somerset region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank111
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads238344291
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset46.85 %38.57 %27.95 %
As % of the Job Titles category48.37 %40.52 %29.54 %
Salaries quoted229315270
Average salary£32,500£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+7.690 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£27,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£39,000£40,000£42,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-1.510 %
Somerset IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
492849985
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset96.85 %95.18 %94.62 %
Salaries quoted469785885
Average salary£32,500£35,000£34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+1.440 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£25,000£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Developer South WestDeveloper
South West

Developer
Demand Trend

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

Somerset Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Somerset Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Somerset Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BathNo change0126£32,500-7.14 %
GlastonburyNo change013£35,000-15.15 %
TauntonUp+112£30,000-14.28 %
StreetDown-38£37,500+7.14 %
WellsUp+17£32,500+8.33 %
BridgwaterNo change07£27,023-32.44 %
Weston-super-MareUp+54£32,500-7.14 %
YeovilNew entry-1£20,000-
Developer South WestDeveloper
South West

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Somerset 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.

1276 (60.66 %).NET
2211 (46.37 %)C#
3191 (41.98 %)HTML
3191 (41.98 %)CSS
4185 (40.66 %)ASP.NET
5164 (36.04 %)PHP
6151 (33.19 %)SQL Server
7144 (31.65 %)JavaScript
8125 (27.47 %)SQL
9111 (24.40 %)Java
10108 (23.74 %)MySQL
1196 (21.10 %)XML
1294 (20.66 %)Web Development
1386 (18.90 %)E-Commerce
1476 (16.70 %)Pensions
1572 (15.82 %)Degree
1656 (12.31 %)Content Management
1752 (11.43 %)C++
1847 (10.33 %)Windows
1946 (10.11 %)VB.NET
2044 (9.670 %)Spring
2142 (9.231 %)Web Services
2241 (9.011 %)C
2339 (8.571 %)Microsoft
2339 (8.571 %)Linux
2438 (8.352 %)UNIX
2533 (7.253 %)OO
2632 (7.033 %)jQuery
2731 (6.813 %)J2EE
2731 (6.813 %)AJAX

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Somerset 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.

Somerset IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1276 (60.66 %).NET
2191 (41.98 %)HTML
2191 (41.98 %)CSS
3185 (40.66 %)ASP.NET
496 (21.10 %)XML
544 (9.670 %)Spring
642 (9.231 %)Web Services
732 (7.033 %)jQuery
831 (6.813 %)J2EE
831 (6.813 %)AJAX
924 (5.275 %)WinForms
924 (5.275 %)Java SE
924 (5.275 %)Java EE
1023 (5.055 %)XHTML
1118 (3.956 %)Zend Framework
1215 (3.297 %)JSP
1313 (2.857 %)LAMP
1411 (2.418 %)Flash
1510 (2.198 %)XSLT
1510 (2.198 %).NET Framework
Somerset IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
127 (5.934 %)BizTalk Server
225 (5.495 %)Commerce Server
321 (4.615 %)CMS
413 (2.857 %)Apache
59 (1.978 %)IIS
59 (1.978 %)SharePoint
59 (1.978 %)WordPress
66 (1.319 %)Magento
74 (0.879 %)ArcGIS
82 (0.440 %)Tomcat
82 (0.440 %)OpenROAD
91 (0.220 %)SharePoint Server 2007
91 (0.220 %)Commerce Server 2007
91 (0.220 %)Sitecore CMS
Somerset IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
126 (5.714 %)Photoshop
217 (3.736 %)MS Excel
38 (1.758 %)ImageReady
43 (0.659 %)FastStats
52 (0.440 %)MS Office
52 (0.440 %)Fireworks
61 (0.220 %)S-PLUS
61 (0.220 %)Adobe Illustrator
61 (0.220 %)MS PowerPoint
Somerset IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
111 (2.418 %)VoIP
111 (2.418 %)TCP/IP
111 (2.418 %)Internet
25 (1.099 %)Extranet
33 (0.659 %)DNS
42 (0.440 %)HTTP
Somerset IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1151 (33.19 %)SQL Server
2108 (23.74 %)MySQL
329 (6.374 %)SQL Server 2005
422 (4.835 %)SQL Server 2008
512 (2.637 %)SQL Server 2000
66 (1.319 %)PostgreSQL
66 (1.319 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
74 (0.879 %)GIS
74 (0.879 %)RDBMS
83 (0.659 %)SQL Server Integration Services
83 (0.659 %)Database Marketing
92 (0.440 %)MS Access
92 (0.440 %)Ingres
101 (0.220 %)VLDB
Somerset IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (4.835 %)Subversion
213 (2.857 %)NUnit
39 (1.978 %)Dreamweaver
48 (1.758 %)Visual Studio
56 (1.319 %)Eclipse
62 (0.440 %)Expression Blend
62 (0.440 %)Team Foundation Server
71 (0.220 %)Git (software)
71 (0.220 %)JUnit
71 (0.220 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Somerset IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
176 (16.70 %)Pensions
229 (6.374 %)Finance
325 (5.495 %)Marketing
420 (4.396 %)Insurance
518 (3.956 %)Banking
611 (2.418 %)Back Office
79 (1.978 %)Health
87 (1.538 %)Telecoms
96 (1.319 %)Advertising
96 (1.319 %)Education
105 (1.099 %)Construction
105 (1.099 %)Investment Banking
112 (0.440 %)Retail
112 (0.440 %)Pharmaceutical
121 (0.220 %)Social Media
Somerset IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (4.396 %)Mathematics
217 (3.736 %)Open Source
310 (2.198 %)Visualisation
45 (1.099 %)Computer Science
54 (0.879 %)W3C
62 (0.440 %)Device Driver
62 (0.440 %)Physics
62 (0.440 %)Web 2.0
71 (0.220 %)SaaS
71 (0.220 %)Tandem
Somerset IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
147 (10.33 %)Windows
239 (8.571 %)Linux
338 (8.352 %)UNIX
412 (2.637 %)Debian
56 (1.319 %)Ubuntu
65 (1.099 %)AIX
65 (1.099 %)Solaris
65 (1.099 %)Windows Server 2003
65 (1.099 %)Red Hat Linux
73 (0.659 %)Windows Vista
73 (0.659 %)Windows Server 2008
82 (0.440 %)Windows Mobile
82 (0.440 %)Windows CE
91 (0.220 %)FreeBSD
Somerset IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
194 (20.66 %)Web Development
286 (18.90 %)E-Commerce
356 (12.31 %)Content Management
433 (7.253 %)OO
525 (5.495 %)MVC
624 (5.275 %)OOP
720 (4.396 %)Requirements Analysis
816 (3.516 %)Agile Software Development
914 (3.077 %)TDD
1010 (2.198 %)Regression Testing
1010 (2.198 %)Business Intelligence
118 (1.758 %)UML
118 (1.758 %)Unit Testing
127 (1.538 %)Direct Marketing
127 (1.538 %)Data Management
127 (1.538 %)OOD
127 (1.538 %)Project Management
136 (1.319 %)Software Engineering
145 (1.099 %)Release Management
145 (1.099 %)Integration Testing
Somerset IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1211 (46.37 %)C#
2164 (36.04 %)PHP
3144 (31.65 %)JavaScript
4125 (27.47 %)SQL
5111 (24.40 %)Java
652 (11.43 %)C++
746 (10.11 %)VB.NET
841 (9.011 %)C
928 (6.154 %)VB
1024 (5.275 %)Python
1117 (3.736 %)Perl
1216 (3.516 %)Delphi
1216 (3.516 %)VB6
1315 (3.297 %)T-SQL
1414 (3.077 %)PHP5
1513 (2.857 %)ActionScript
1610 (2.198 %)FoxPro (VFP)
177 (1.538 %)Embedded C++
185 (1.099 %)Fortran
185 (1.099 %)VBA
Somerset IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
172 (15.82 %)Degree
29 (1.978 %)Microsoft Certification
37 (1.538 %)MCP
45 (1.099 %)MCSD
54 (0.879 %)MCAD
54 (0.879 %)MCTS
62 (0.440 %)MCPD
62 (0.440 %)HND
71 (0.220 %)PhD
Somerset IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.220 %)WCAG
11 (0.220 %)WAI
11 (0.220 %)QA
11 (0.220 %)HL7
11 (0.220 %)DICOM
Somerset IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.659 %)Active Directory
22 (0.440 %)Postfix
Somerset IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
139 (8.571 %)Microsoft
230 (6.593 %)Zend
322 (4.835 %)Oracle
48 (1.758 %)Alterian
55 (1.099 %)Red Hat
55 (1.099 %)Adobe
55 (1.099 %)Sun
63 (0.659 %)JBoss
63 (0.659 %)Unica
72 (0.440 %)ComponentOne
72 (0.440 %)Infragistics
72 (0.440 %)telerik
81 (0.220 %)Intel
81 (0.220 %)Sitecore