Thames Valley Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs within the Thames Valley 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pewsey Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	5
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	62	127
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	27.68 %	15.16 %
Salaries quoted	54	119
Average minimum salary	£32,148	£32,059
Average salary	£36,176	£35,790
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Average maximum salary	£40,204	£39,521
UK excluding London average salary	£33,990	£34,005
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Job Titles Thames Valley
Matching permanent IT job ads	224	838
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.122 %	0.352 %
Salaries quoted	179	757
Average minimum salary	£39,827	£42,768
Average salary	£43,549	£45,700
% change on same period last year	-4.70 %
Average maximum salary	£47,270	£48,632
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 35 (30.97 %) .NET 1 35 (30.97 %) SQL Server 2 33 (29.20 %) HTML 3 32 (28.32 %) PHP 4 30 (26.55 %) SQL 5 28 (24.78 %) Java 6 27 (23.89 %) C 6 27 (23.89 %) CSS 7 26 (23.01 %) Web Development 8 25 (22.12 %) JavaScript 9 24 (21.24 %) ASP.NET 10 22 (19.47 %) XML 11 21 (18.58 %) C# 12 18 (15.93 %) Perl 12 18 (15.93 %) Oracle

13 17 (15.04 %) VB.NET 14 16 (14.16 %) SQL Server 2005 15 15 (13.27 %) Degree 15 15 (13.27 %) Education 16 12 (10.62 %) E-Commerce 17 11 (9.735 %) Windows 18 10 (8.850 %) MySQL 18 10 (8.850 %) ColdFusion 18 10 (8.850 %) Microsoft 18 10 (8.850 %) SQL Server 2000 19 9 (7.965 %) VB 19 9 (7.965 %) Linux 19 9 (7.965 %) VB6 20 8 (7.080 %) XHTML 20 8 (7.080 %) PL/SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 35 (30.97 %) .NET 2 33 (29.20 %) HTML 3 27 (23.89 %) CSS 4 24 (21.24 %) ASP.NET 5 22 (19.47 %) XML 6 8 (7.080 %) XHTML 7 7 (6.195 %) XSLT 8 6 (5.310 %) Ruby on Rails 9 4 (3.540 %) LAMP 9 4 (3.540 %) WinForms 9 4 (3.540 %) ASP 9 4 (3.540 %) WebServices 10 3 (2.655 %) COM+ 10 3 (2.655 %) WAP 10 3 (2.655 %) JDBC 10 3 (2.655 %) JSP 10 3 (2.655 %) WML 10 3 (2.655 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (2.655 %) AJAX 11 2 (1.770 %) Google Maps API	Application Platforms 1 10 (8.850 %) ColdFusion 2 4 (3.540 %) SharePoint 3 3 (2.655 %) CMS 3 3 (2.655 %) Oracle Workflow 4 2 (1.770 %) IIS 5 1 (0.885 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.885 %) SAS 5 1 (0.885 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 4 (3.540 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.655 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 4 (3.540 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (2.655 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP SD 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP FI 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP MM 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (0.885 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.770 %) SSL 1 2 (1.770 %) Intranet 2 1 (0.885 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (30.97 %) SQL Server 2 16 (14.16 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (8.850 %) MySQL 3 10 (8.850 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (6.195 %) Oracle Reports 4 7 (6.195 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (3.540 %) Crystal Reports 6 3 (2.655 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (2.655 %) ETL 6 3 (2.655 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 3 (2.655 %) Oracle 11g 6 3 (2.655 %) BusinessObjects 7 2 (1.770 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (1.770 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (1.770 %) SQLPlus 7 2 (1.770 %) Oracle OWB 7 2 (1.770 %) TOAD 8 1 (0.885 %) DB2 8 1 (0.885 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (0.885 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 7 (6.195 %) Oracle Forms 2 5 (4.425 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (2.655 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (1.770 %) ProC 4 2 (1.770 %) Ant 4 2 (1.770 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.885 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.885 %) Flash	General 1 15 (13.27 %) Education 2 7 (6.195 %) Manufacturing 2 7 (6.195 %) Finance 3 5 (4.425 %) Back Office 3 5 (4.425 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.655 %) Government 4 3 (2.655 %) Retail 5 2 (1.770 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.885 %) Games 6 1 (0.885 %) Banking 6 1 (0.885 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.885 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.885 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.770 %) Streaming Video 1 2 (1.770 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (0.885 %) French Language 2 1 (0.885 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 11 (9.735 %) Windows 2 9 (7.965 %) Linux 3 7 (6.195 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.885 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (23.01 %) Web Development 2 12 (10.62 %) E-Commerce 3 6 (5.310 %) Business Intelligence 3 6 (5.310 %) Project Management 4 5 (4.425 %) Web Design 5 4 (3.540 %) CRM 5 4 (3.540 %) Workflow 5 4 (3.540 %) ERP 5 4 (3.540 %) UML 6 2 (1.770 %) Scrum 6 2 (1.770 %) SEO 6 2 (1.770 %) Time Management 6 2 (1.770 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (0.885 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (0.885 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.885 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (0.885 %) OOP 7 1 (0.885 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (0.885 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (0.885 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 32 (28.32 %) PHP 2 30 (26.55 %) SQL 3 28 (24.78 %) Java 4 27 (23.89 %) C 5 25 (22.12 %) JavaScript 6 21 (18.58 %) C# 7 18 (15.93 %) Perl 8 17 (15.04 %) VB.NET 9 9 (7.965 %) VB6 9 9 (7.965 %) VB 10 8 (7.080 %) PL/SQL 11 6 (5.310 %) Ruby 12 2 (1.770 %) PHP5 12 2 (1.770 %) C++ 13 1 (0.885 %) COBOL 13 1 (0.885 %) PHP4 13 1 (0.885 %) SAS Macro 13 1 (0.885 %) ABAP 13 1 (0.885 %) ActionScript 13 1 (0.885 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 15 (13.27 %) Degree 2 2 (1.770 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.770 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (0.885 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 18 (15.93 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.850 %) Microsoft 3 6 (5.310 %) Cognos 4 3 (2.655 %) SAP 4 3 (2.655 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.770 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (1.770 %) JD Edwards 5 2 (1.770 %) Sage 5 2 (1.770 %) Google 6 1 (0.885 %) Sony 6 1 (0.885 %) BEA 6 1 (0.885 %) Informatica 6 1 (0.885 %) Apple