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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 31 42 40
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 22 18 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 4.762% 3.509% 2.869%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.922% 3.814% 2.954%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 13
Average salary £35,000 £39,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.25% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
447 472 474
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 96.75% 92.01% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 396 409 433
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Wiltshire

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Swindon Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Swindon Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 (75.76%) OO
2 48 (72.73%) Linux
2 48 (72.73%) PHP
3 47 (71.21%) SQL
4 40 (60.61%) Apache
5 39 (59.09%) LAMP
5 39 (59.09%) MySQL
6 38 (57.58%) Oracle
7 37 (56.06%) QA
8 36 (54.55%) C++
9 35 (53.03%) SOA
10 31 (46.97%) Automated Testing
11 29 (43.94%) C
12 25 (37.88%) Integration Testing
13 24 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (36.36%) DSDM
13 24 (36.36%) Finance
14 21 (31.82%) Configuration Management
15 20 (30.30%) C#
16 17 (25.76%) .NET
17 15 (22.73%) Degree
18 14 (21.21%) Agile Software Development
19 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
20 10 (15.15%) Windows
21 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
21 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
22 8 (12.12%) Computer Science
22 8 (12.12%) Retail
22 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET
22 8 (12.12%) Telecoms

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 39 (59.09%) LAMP
2 17 (25.76%) .NET
3 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET
4 7 (10.61%) XML
4 7 (10.61%) WCF
5 6 (9.091%) .NET Framework
5 6 (9.091%) STL
5 6 (9.091%) MFC
6 5 (7.576%) Web Services
6 5 (7.576%) HTML
7 4 (6.061%) XSLT
8 3 (4.545%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.030%) WinForms
9 2 (3.030%) JDBC
9 2 (3.030%) ZK
9 2 (3.030%) JPA
10 1 (1.515%) HTML5
10 1 (1.515%) Silverlight
10 1 (1.515%) ASP
10 1 (1.515%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 40 (60.61%) Apache
2 3 (4.545%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.030%) IIS
4 1 (1.515%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.515%) MS Project
2 1 (1.515%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.515%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (59.09%) MySQL
2 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.061%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.515%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.515%) GIS
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.545%) JUnit
3 2 (3.030%) Subversion
3 2 (3.030%) Selenium
3 2 (3.030%) TestNG
3 2 (3.030%) Git (software)
3 2 (3.030%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.515%) Ant
General
1 24 (36.36%) Finance
2 8 (12.12%) Retail
2 8 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.030%) Marketing
4 1 (1.515%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (12.12%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.030%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.030%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.515%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 48 (72.73%) Linux
2 10 (15.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) OO
2 35 (53.03%) SOA
3 31 (46.97%) Automated Testing
4 25 (37.88%) Integration Testing
5 24 (36.36%) DSDM
6 21 (31.82%) Configuration Management
7 14 (21.21%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (6.061%) Unit Testing
11 3 (4.545%) TDD
11 3 (4.545%) PRINCE2
12 2 (3.030%) UML
12 2 (3.030%) MVC
12 2 (3.030%) ETL
12 2 (3.030%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (3.030%) Performance Management
12 2 (3.030%) Software Architecture
12 2 (3.030%) Web Application Development
12 2 (3.030%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 48 (72.73%) PHP
2 47 (71.21%) SQL
3 36 (54.55%) C++
4 29 (43.94%) C
5 20 (30.30%) C#
6 6 (9.091%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.576%) Perl
8 4 (6.061%) Java
8 4 (6.061%) PHP5
9 3 (4.545%) VB
10 2 (3.030%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.030%) Erlang
10 2 (3.030%) Groovy
10 2 (3.030%) Scala
10 2 (3.030%) Bash shell
10 2 (3.030%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.515%) VB6
11 1 (1.515%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (56.06%) QA
Vendors
1 38 (57.58%) Oracle
2 5 (7.576%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.515%) JBoss
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