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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 63 38 65
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 23 56 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 2.722% 6.054% 1.303%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.781% 6.195% 1.347%
Number of salaries quoted 22 51 8
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +5.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,600 £38,500 £35,216
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £46,100
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
827 904 594
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.87% 97.73% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 753 845 538
Average salary £37,500 £39,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.45% +12.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
Hampshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 30 (58.82%) Java
2 25 (49.02%) Telecoms
2 25 (49.02%) Digital Media
3 19 (37.25%) Oracle
4 18 (35.29%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (35.29%) MySQL
5 17 (33.33%) Spring
6 16 (31.37%) OOA/OOD
7 15 (29.41%) Waterfall
8 14 (27.45%) CSS
8 14 (27.45%) HTML
9 13 (25.49%) C#
10 11 (21.57%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (21.57%) ASP.NET
10 11 (21.57%) .NET
11 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
11 10 (19.61%) OO
11 10 (19.61%) MVC
12 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (13.73%) Visual Studio
12 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
12 7 (13.73%) SQL
12 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 5 (9.804%) PHP
13 5 (9.804%) Web Services
14 4 (7.843%) TDD
14 4 (7.843%) XML
14 4 (7.843%) Linux
14 4 (7.843%) UML

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 17 (33.33%) Spring
2 14 (27.45%) CSS
2 14 (27.45%) HTML
3 11 (21.57%) ASP.NET
3 11 (21.57%) .NET
4 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 5 (9.804%) Web Services
6 4 (7.843%) XML
6 4 (7.843%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.882%) XSLT
7 3 (5.882%) Servlets
7 3 (5.882%) SOAP
7 3 (5.882%) Struts
7 3 (5.882%) Ajax
7 3 (5.882%) HTML5
7 3 (5.882%) Apache CXF
7 3 (5.882%) jQuery
8 2 (3.922%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 18 (35.29%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (3.922%) Apache
3 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.961%) SAS
3 1 (1.961%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.961%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MoSes
1 1 (1.961%) Prophet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.922%) Internet
2 1 (1.961%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) MySQL
2 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.961%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.961%) JUnit
2 1 (1.961%) Subversion
General
1 25 (49.02%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.882%) Retail
3 2 (3.922%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.961%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 25 (49.02%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.922%) Social Network
2 2 (3.922%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.922%) Visualisation
3 1 (1.961%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.961%) iPad
3 1 (1.961%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.843%) Linux
2 2 (3.922%) UNIX
2 2 (3.922%) Windows
3 1 (1.961%) FreeBSD
3 1 (1.961%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) OOA/OOD
2 15 (29.41%) Waterfall
3 11 (21.57%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (19.61%) OO
4 10 (19.61%) MVC
5 4 (7.843%) TDD
5 4 (7.843%) UML
5 4 (7.843%) Project Management
6 3 (5.882%) Scrum
6 3 (5.882%) OOD
6 3 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.922%) Web Development
7 2 (3.922%) OOP
8 1 (1.961%) Workflow
8 1 (1.961%) B2B
8 1 (1.961%) B2C
8 1 (1.961%) SOA
8 1 (1.961%) E-Commerce
8 1 (1.961%) ERP
8 1 (1.961%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) Java
2 13 (25.49%) C#
3 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.73%) SQL
4 5 (9.804%) PHP
5 3 (5.882%) PHP5
6 2 (3.922%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.922%) Perl
7 1 (1.961%) C
7 1 (1.961%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.961%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.922%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Oracle
2 3 (5.882%) Zend
3 2 (3.922%) RedPrairie
3 2 (3.922%) VMware
4 1 (1.961%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.961%) Microsoft
Southampton, Hampshire
You will need experience with Worpress, Magento, MVC, HTML, CSS and Javascript... Knowledge, experience and technical skills: *A strong technical background developing PHP websites / applications *Experience developing within...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + AMAZING BENEFITS
Posted: 17 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Due to an ongoing expansion within their development department they are now seeking an experienced Java Analyst Developer to assist in the gathering and analysis of software requirements,...
Novate IT
Salary: £35000 - £48000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Due to this continued success they are now expanding their software development department and require a Senior Java Developer with strong analytical skills to lead the work of...
Novate IT
Salary: £35000 - £44000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 3 May 2013