The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Development Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Specialist
Rank 827 880 836
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Specialist 35 18 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.033% 0.015% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.016% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 27 16 31
Average salary £47,350 £37,250 £53,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.11% -30.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,170 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £102,500 £57,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year
-1.44% -25.40%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Development Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Development Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Development Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK.

Development Specialist Salary Trend

Development Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Development Specialist over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Development Specialist Salary Histogram

Development Specialist
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +38 31 £47,350 +18.37%
London +51 22 £70,000 +21.73%
Manchester - 6 £32,500 -
North West - 6 £32,500 -
Scotland -6 4 £55,000 +83.33%
Uxbridge - 4 £47,350 -
Derbyshire +5 2 £45,000 +12.50%
East Midlands -1 2 £45,000 +12.50%
Belper - 2 £45,000 -
City of London +7 1 £52,500 +72.13%
Stirling - 1 £55,000 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Development Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Development Specialist 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 Development Specialist in their job title.

1 24 (47.06%) .NET
2 23 (45.10%) CSS
3 22 (43.14%) C#
4 21 (41.18%) HTML
5 20 (39.22%) XML
6 19 (37.25%) ASP.NET
7 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
8 17 (33.33%) SQL
8 17 (33.33%) Web Development
9 15 (29.41%) OO
9 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
9 15 (29.41%) MVC
10 14 (27.45%) Java
10 14 (27.45%) TDD
11 13 (25.49%) Scrum
12 12 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
12 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
12 12 (23.53%) SharePoint
13 10 (19.61%) Web Services
13 10 (19.61%) Project Management
13 10 (19.61%) XSLT
13 10 (19.61%) QA
13 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (19.61%) BDD
14 9 (17.65%) Business Development
14 9 (17.65%) Refactoring
14 9 (17.65%) Spring
14 9 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (15.69%) jQuery

Development Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Development Specialist 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 Development Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (47.06%) .NET
2 23 (45.10%) CSS
3 21 (41.18%) HTML
4 20 (39.22%) XML
5 19 (37.25%) ASP.NET
6 10 (19.61%) Web Services
6 10 (19.61%) XSLT
6 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (17.65%) Spring
8 8 (15.69%) jQuery
9 6 (11.76%) EDI
10 5 (9.804%) Hibernate
10 5 (9.804%) WebSphere
11 4 (7.843%) JDBC
11 4 (7.843%) Servlets
11 4 (7.843%) WCF
11 4 (7.843%) WPF
11 4 (7.843%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 3 (5.882%) Razor View Engine
13 1 (1.961%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 12 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.804%) Apache
3 4 (7.843%) Tomcat
3 4 (7.843%) IIS
4 3 (5.882%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.961%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.961%) CMS
5 1 (1.961%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (7.843%) MS Office
1 4 (7.843%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.922%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (9.804%) Tridion
2 2 (3.922%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.961%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Internet
2 4 (7.843%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.961%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.961%) OLAP
2 1 (1.961%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.843%) Ant
1 4 (7.843%) Maven
2 3 (5.882%) JIRA
2 3 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (13.73%) Telecoms
1 7 (13.73%) Finance
2 4 (7.843%) Front Office
2 4 (7.843%) Banking
3 3 (5.882%) Marketing
3 3 (5.882%) Multimedia
4 2 (3.922%) Publishing
5 1 (1.961%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.843%) Equities
2 4 (7.843%) Derivative
3 3 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.882%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.922%) Social Media
5 1 (1.961%) SaaS
5 1 (1.961%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.961%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.961%) UNIX
1 1 (1.961%) Windows
1 1 (1.961%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Web Development
2 15 (29.41%) OO
2 15 (29.41%) MVC
3 14 (27.45%) TDD
4 13 (25.49%) Scrum
5 12 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (19.61%) Project Management
6 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (19.61%) BDD
7 9 (17.65%) Business Development
7 9 (17.65%) Refactoring
8 6 (11.76%) Load Balancing
8 6 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
8 6 (11.76%) Product Management
8 6 (11.76%) Kanban
8 6 (11.76%) Content Management
8 6 (11.76%) Pair Programming
9 5 (9.804%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (7.843%) Service Management
10 4 (7.843%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) C#
2 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 17 (33.33%) SQL
4 14 (27.45%) Java
5 5 (9.804%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.843%) C++
6 4 (7.843%) Perl
6 4 (7.843%) Groovy
6 4 (7.843%) F#
6 4 (7.843%) C-shell
6 4 (7.843%) Bash shell
7 2 (3.922%) C
8 1 (1.961%) PHP5
8 1 (1.961%) PHP
8 1 (1.961%) VB
8 1 (1.961%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.961%) Degree
1 1 (1.961%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) SAP
4 5 (9.804%) Sybase
5 2 (3.922%) Adobe
5 2 (3.922%) Google
Manchester, Lancashire
You will also be responsible for the co-ordination of technical change requests, including Web and EDI and helping to provide some support for these.The knowledge my...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The knowledge my client is looking for is excellent technical knowledge of software/web development and Internet technologies, such as ASP.Net, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS and SQL.
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013