The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans 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 24 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 60 62 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.90% 43.97% 29.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 36.14% 47.69% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 52 40
Average salary £43,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,600 £32,650 £32,100
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
166 130 170
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 93.79% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of salaries quoted 103 98 74
Average salary £35,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £26,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Developer
Hertfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

St Albans Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 69 (51.11%) SQL Server
2 57 (42.22%) .NET
3 56 (41.48%) MVC
4 55 (40.74%) C#
4 55 (40.74%) ASP.NET
5 50 (37.04%) SQL
6 49 (36.30%) SQL Server 2008
7 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
7 47 (34.81%) Finance
8 36 (26.67%) CSS
8 36 (26.67%) Dimensional Modelling
9 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
10 32 (23.70%) HTML
10 32 (23.70%) OO
10 32 (23.70%) ASP.NET MVC
11 30 (22.22%) Marketing
12 29 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (21.48%) Java
13 28 (20.74%) T-SQL
13 28 (20.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (20.00%) Broadband
14 27 (20.00%) LINQ
15 26 (19.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 25 (18.52%) TDD
17 24 (17.78%) MS Excel
18 23 (17.04%) SQL Server 2005
18 23 (17.04%) MDX
18 23 (17.04%) OLAP
19 22 (16.30%) .NET Framework
19 22 (16.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 57 (42.22%) .NET
2 55 (40.74%) ASP.NET
3 36 (26.67%) CSS
4 32 (23.70%) HTML
4 32 (23.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 27 (20.00%) LINQ
6 23 (17.04%) MDX
7 22 (16.30%) .NET Framework
8 19 (14.07%) J2EE
8 19 (14.07%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 18 (13.33%) jQuery
10 17 (12.59%) Silverlight
11 15 (11.11%) Lucene
11 15 (11.11%) NHibernate
11 15 (11.11%) WCF
11 15 (11.11%) Castle Windsor
12 14 (10.37%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 13 (9.630%) HTML5
14 12 (8.889%) Ajax
14 12 (8.889%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 20 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.963%) IIS
3 2 (1.481%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (1.481%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.481%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.741%) Apache
4 1 (0.741%) Jetty
Applications
1 24 (17.78%) MS Excel
2 22 (16.30%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.741%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.741%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.741%) PaintShop Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (0.741%) BPCS
1 1 (0.741%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.741%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.00%) Broadband
2 9 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (51.11%) SQL Server
2 49 (36.30%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (20.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (19.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 23 (17.04%) SQL Server 2005
5 23 (17.04%) OLAP
6 22 (16.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 14 (10.37%) PerformancePoint
8 13 (9.630%) RDBMS
9 8 (5.926%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (5.926%) NoSQL
9 8 (5.926%) Big Data
10 6 (4.444%) SQL Server 2012
11 5 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.963%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.222%) MySQL
13 3 (2.222%) dBASE
14 1 (0.741%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.741%) OLTP
14 1 (0.741%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) NUnit
1 15 (11.11%) Selenium
1 15 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 15 (11.11%) Rhino Mocks
2 8 (5.926%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.926%) Maven
3 4 (2.963%) JUnit
4 3 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.481%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.481%) Expression Blend
6 1 (0.741%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.741%) Subversion
General
1 47 (34.81%) Finance
2 30 (22.22%) Marketing
3 14 (10.37%) Games
4 11 (8.148%) Banking
5 8 (5.926%) Online Betting
5 8 (5.926%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.222%) Automotive
7 2 (1.481%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.481%) Back Office
8 1 (0.741%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.926%) Online Games
3 7 (5.185%) iPhone
4 6 (4.444%) Computer Science
4 6 (4.444%) Spread Betting
4 6 (4.444%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.481%) SaaS
5 2 (1.481%) Animation
6 1 (0.741%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.741%) iDTV
6 1 (0.741%) W3C
6 1 (0.741%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.741%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.59%) UNIX
2 15 (11.11%) Linux
3 9 (6.667%) Windows
4 6 (4.444%) Android
5 1 (0.741%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) MVC
2 36 (26.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 32 (23.70%) OO
4 29 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (18.52%) TDD
6 22 (16.30%) Unit Testing
7 18 (13.33%) Scrum
8 16 (11.85%) ETL
9 15 (11.11%) Kanban
9 15 (11.11%) Web Application Development
9 15 (11.11%) Scrum-ban
9 15 (11.11%) BDD
10 14 (10.37%) Validation
11 13 (9.630%) System Testing
11 13 (9.630%) Wealth Management
11 13 (9.630%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (8.148%) Data Modelling
13 10 (7.407%) Test Automation
13 10 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
14 9 (6.667%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 55 (40.74%) C#
2 50 (37.04%) SQL
3 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 29 (21.48%) Java
5 28 (20.74%) T-SQL
6 16 (11.85%) Shell Script
7 13 (9.630%) Korn
7 13 (9.630%) Bash shell
8 8 (5.926%) PL/SQL
9 6 (4.444%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.963%) Groovy
11 2 (1.481%) CoffeeScript
11 2 (1.481%) VB
12 1 (0.741%) PHP
12 1 (0.741%) C++
12 1 (0.741%) JCL
12 1 (0.741%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (11.11%) MCP
2 15 (11.11%) MCAD
2 15 (11.11%) MCSD
2 15 (11.11%) MCTS
3 11 (8.148%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.741%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.741%) QA
Vendors
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.630%) Ab Initio
3 12 (8.889%) Oracle
4 5 (3.704%) Symbian
5 3 (2.222%) JBoss
6 1 (0.741%) SAP
6 1 (0.741%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.741%) Cognos
6 1 (0.741%) Adobe
6 1 (0.741%) Epicor
6 1 (0.741%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.741%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.741%) Sage
6 1 (0.741%) Telerik
6 1 (0.741%) Zend
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
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