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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7 12 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 50.00% 41.38% 52.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 50.00% 42.86% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 18
Average salary £40,000 £26,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.94% -31.16%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
St Helens
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
14 28 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 100.00% 96.55% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12 27 31
Average salary £40,000 £28,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.35% -25.97%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Developer
Merseyside

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Helens 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 Helens region.

St Helens Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the St Helens region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

St Helens Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 13 (72.22%) HTML
1 13 (72.22%) SQL Server
1 13 (72.22%) CSS
2 11 (61.11%) Java
2 11 (61.11%) Spring
3 8 (44.44%) SQL
4 7 (38.89%) Swing
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
5 6 (33.33%) jQuery
5 6 (33.33%) Twitter
5 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 6 (33.33%) .NET
5 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (33.33%) C#
6 5 (27.78%) MVC
7 4 (22.22%) Apache Flex
7 4 (22.22%) WCF
7 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (22.22%) HTML5
7 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 4 (22.22%) Web Application Development
7 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (22.22%) Web Development
7 4 (22.22%) Java EE
7 4 (22.22%) NetBeans
7 4 (22.22%) Tomcat
7 4 (22.22%) JBuilder

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 13 (72.22%) HTML
1 13 (72.22%) CSS
2 11 (61.11%) Spring
3 7 (38.89%) Swing
4 6 (33.33%) jQuery
4 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 6 (33.33%) .NET
5 4 (22.22%) Apache Flex
5 4 (22.22%) WCF
5 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (22.22%) HTML5
5 4 (22.22%) Java EE
5 4 (22.22%) JSP
5 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) J2EE
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.556%) Ajax
6 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.556%) Magento
2 1 (5.556%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.556%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) NetBeans
1 4 (22.22%) JBuilder
1 4 (22.22%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) TDD
2 5 (27.78%) MVC
3 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
3 4 (22.22%) Web Application Development
3 4 (22.22%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Twitter
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe
St. Helens, Merseyside
Can do" approach to problem solving Desirable skills: Microsoft technologies -.NET Framework Development, ASP.NET, C#, VB.Net and SQL Server. Web technologies - CSS, HTML, Ajax, JQuery and...
ninesharp
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + benefits, training
Posted: 13 June 2013