Suffolk Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Suffolk 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnsley Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	42
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	51	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	7.774 %	5.277 %
Salaries quoted	41	32
Average minimum salary	£31,000	£27,969
Average salary	£35,083	£30,984
% change on same period last year	+13.22 %
Average maximum salary	£39,167	£34,000
UK excluding London average salary	£33,168	£33,377
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	656	739
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.353 %	0.308 %
Salaries quoted	544	573
Average minimum salary	£34,238	£33,355
Average salary	£36,914	£36,778
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,590	£40,201
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Software Developer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Ipswich	-4	24	£37,412	+36.90 %
Haverhill	-	8	£34,000	-
Bury St Edmunds	+22	7	£41,500	+38.33 %
Woodbridge	-	6	£27,500	-
Felixstowe	-2	2	£26,250	-

Software Developer East of England

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Software 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 Software Developer in their job title.

1 50 (55.56 %) .NET 2 47 (52.22 %) C# 3 43 (47.78 %) SQL Server 4 32 (35.56 %) C++ 5 30 (33.33 %) VB 5 30 (33.33 %) Microsoft 5 30 (33.33 %) VB6 6 29 (32.22 %) C 6 29 (32.22 %) ASP.NET 7 27 (30.00 %) SQL 8 26 (28.89 %) Perl 9 25 (27.78 %) VB.NET 10 23 (25.56 %) Windows 11 21 (23.33 %) XML 12 20 (22.22 %) .NET Framework

13 17 (18.89 %) AJAX 13 17 (18.89 %) PHP 13 17 (18.89 %) Java 14 16 (17.78 %) Linux 15 15 (16.67 %) Oracle 15 15 (16.67 %) CSS 15 15 (16.67 %) JavaScript 16 14 (15.56 %) HTML 16 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 17 13 (14.44 %) Windows Server 2003 17 13 (14.44 %) Visual Studio 17 13 (14.44 %) SOAP 17 13 (14.44 %) UNIX 17 13 (14.44 %) E-Commerce 17 13 (14.44 %) Ruby

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Software 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 Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 50 (55.56 %) .NET 2 29 (32.22 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (23.33 %) XML 4 20 (22.22 %) .NET Framework 5 17 (18.89 %) AJAX 6 15 (16.67 %) CSS 7 14 (15.56 %) HTML 8 13 (14.44 %) SOAP 9 12 (13.33 %) ASP 10 7 (7.778 %) WebServices 11 3 (3.333 %) WinForms 12 2 (2.222 %) WCF 12 2 (2.222 %) WPF 13 1 (1.111 %) Silverlight 13 1 (1.111 %) XSD 13 1 (1.111 %) XSL 13 1 (1.111 %) XSLT 13 1 (1.111 %) XHTML 13 1 (1.111 %) J2EE	Applications 1 5 (5.556 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.111 %) MATLAB 2 1 (1.111 %) S-PLUS 2 1 (1.111 %) Photoshop
Communications & Networking 1 12 (13.33 %) 3GPP 1 12 (13.33 %) SNMP 1 12 (13.33 %) SS7 1 12 (13.33 %) INAP 1 12 (13.33 %) C7 2 3 (3.333 %) CTI 3 2 (2.222 %) TETRA 4 1 (1.111 %) Internet 4 1 (1.111 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (47.78 %) SQL Server 2 7 (7.778 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 13 (14.44 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (13.33 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 2 7 (7.778 %) Pensions 3 4 (4.444 %) Health 4 1 (1.111 %) Banking 4 1 (1.111 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (1.111 %) Finance 4 1 (1.111 %) Music 4 1 (1.111 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 11 (12.22 %) Data Protection Act 2 5 (5.556 %) Computer Science 3 3 (3.333 %) PMI 4 1 (1.111 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 23 (25.56 %) Windows 2 16 (17.78 %) Linux 3 13 (14.44 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (14.44 %) UNIX 3 13 (14.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 7 (7.778 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (14.44 %) E-Commerce 1 13 (14.44 %) Requirements Analysis 1 13 (14.44 %) Web Development 1 13 (14.44 %) Unit Testing 2 12 (13.33 %) Change Management 3 11 (12.22 %) Data Protection 4 7 (7.778 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (7.778 %) UML 5 5 (5.556 %) OO 5 5 (5.556 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (3.333 %) E-business 6 3 (3.333 %) OOD 6 3 (3.333 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (2.222 %) HOOD 8 1 (1.111 %) Validation 8 1 (1.111 %) Quality Management 8 1 (1.111 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (1.111 %) QMS	Programming Languages 1 47 (52.22 %) C# 2 32 (35.56 %) C++ 3 30 (33.33 %) VB 3 30 (33.33 %) VB6 4 29 (32.22 %) C 5 27 (30.00 %) SQL 6 26 (28.89 %) Perl 7 25 (27.78 %) VB.NET 8 17 (18.89 %) PHP 8 17 (18.89 %) Java 9 15 (16.67 %) JavaScript 10 13 (14.44 %) Ruby 11 12 (13.33 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (8.889 %) Degree	Vendors 1 30 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 15 (16.67 %) Oracle