Staffordshire Applications Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT jobs within the Staffordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grantham Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	50
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	12
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.664 %	1.872 %
Salaries quoted	11	12
Average minimum salary	£32,545	£26,500
Average salary	£34,114	£29,375
% change on same period last year	+16.13 %
Average maximum salary	£35,682	£32,250
UK excluding London average salary	£33,941	£35,995
% change on same period last year	-5.70 %
Job Titles Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	661	641
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.390 %	0.277 %
Salaries quoted	518	550
Average minimum salary	£30,041	£32,845
Average salary	£32,976	£35,557
% change on same period last year	-7.25 %
Average maximum salary	£35,912	£38,268
UK excluding London average salary	£38,166	£39,197
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
Applications Developer West Midlands

Applications Developer
Demand Trend

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

Applications Developer
Salary Trend

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

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

Applications Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lichfield	-	6	£32,500	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	2	£45,000	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-12	1	£25,250	+1.00 %

Applications Developer West Midlands

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 17 (70.83 %) .NET 2 16 (66.67 %) C# 3 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 12 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 4 8 (33.33 %) CSS 5 7 (29.17 %) Finance 5 7 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2005 6 6 (25.00 %) ASP 6 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 6 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET 6 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 7 5 (20.83 %) SQL 7 5 (20.83 %) HTML 7 5 (20.83 %) AJAX 8 4 (16.67 %) XHTML

9 3 (12.50 %) JD Edwards 9 3 (12.50 %) WebServices 9 3 (12.50 %) XML 9 3 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows 9 3 (12.50 %) Java 9 3 (12.50 %) J2EE 9 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 10 2 (8.333 %) Ruby 10 2 (8.333 %) MCPD 10 2 (8.333 %) Continuous Integration 10 2 (8.333 %) C 10 2 (8.333 %) IIS 10 2 (8.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 2 (8.333 %) DHTML

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (70.83 %) .NET 2 12 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (33.33 %) CSS 4 6 (25.00 %) ASP 5 5 (20.83 %) HTML 5 5 (20.83 %) AJAX 6 4 (16.67 %) XHTML 7 3 (12.50 %) J2EE 7 3 (12.50 %) WebServices 7 3 (12.50 %) XML 8 1 (4.167 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) IIS
Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 7 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (4.167 %) Cognos Powerplay 4 1 (4.167 %) Cognos Impromptu 4 1 (4.167 %) OLTP 4 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (8.333 %) NUnit
General 1 7 (29.17 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Back Office 3 1 (4.167 %) Health 3 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) Scrum 1 2 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (8.333 %) TDD 1 2 (8.333 %) Continuous Integration 1 2 (8.333 %) OO 2 1 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) C# 2 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET 3 5 (20.83 %) SQL 4 3 (12.50 %) Java 5 2 (8.333 %) C 5 2 (8.333 %) DHTML 5 2 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (8.333 %) PHP 5 2 (8.333 %) Smalltalk 5 2 (8.333 %) Ruby 6 1 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (4.167 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) MCAD 1 2 (8.333 %) MCSD 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (8.333 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft 1 3 (12.50 %) JD Edwards 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.167 %) Cognos