The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of Software Development role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Head of Software Development in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Software Development
Rank 850 868 868
Rank change year-on-year
+18 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Software Development 12 31 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.026% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.027% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 9
Average salary £70,000 £80,250 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.77% +23.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £56,501 £56,750 £55,000
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London average salary £62,500 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
-21.87% +23.07%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
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%

Head of Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Head of Software Development Jobs Demand Trend

Head of Software Development
Salary Trend

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

Head of Software Development Salary Trend

Head of Software Development
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Head of Software Development over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Head of Software Development Salary Histogram

Head of Software Development
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Software Development within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +11 12 £70,000 -12.50%
London +43 6 £95,000 +18.01%
South East +6 4 £66,250 -5.35%
Hampshire - 3 £70,000 -
North West +5 2 £45,450 -4.31%
Liverpool - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £56,501 -
Southampton - 1 £62,500 -
Portsmouth - 1 £70,000 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £56,501 -
Manchester - 1 £45,450 -

Head of Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Software Development 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 Head of Software Development in their job title.

1 9 (36.00%) Scrum
2 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (28.00%) .NET
3 7 (28.00%) Project Management
3 7 (28.00%) Degree
4 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (24.00%) ERP
5 5 (20.00%) Java
5 5 (20.00%) Web Development
6 4 (16.00%) Open Source
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (16.00%) Six Sigma
6 4 (16.00%) TQM
6 4 (16.00%) Publishing
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
7 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) B2B
7 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
7 3 (12.00%) C#
8 2 (8.000%) Oracle
8 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
8 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
8 2 (8.000%) UML

Head of Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Software Development 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 Head of Software Development in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.000%) Web Services
3 2 (8.000%) Ajax
3 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (8.000%) jQuery
3 2 (8.000%) REST
3 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (4.000%) Silverlight
4 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.000%) Spring
4 1 (4.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.000%) Confluence
2 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.000%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.000%) Mercurial
2 1 (4.000%) JIRA
2 1 (4.000%) Subversion
2 1 (4.000%) ClearQuest
2 1 (4.000%) ClearCase
General
1 4 (16.00%) Publishing
2 2 (8.000%) Law
2 2 (8.000%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.000%) Retail
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Open Source
1 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.000%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.000%) UNIX
1 1 (4.000%) Windows
1 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Scrum
2 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (28.00%) Project Management
4 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (24.00%) ERP
5 5 (20.00%) Web Development
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.00%) Six Sigma
6 4 (16.00%) TQM
6 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) B2B
8 2 (8.000%) UML
8 2 (8.000%) CRM
8 2 (8.000%) E-Commerce
8 2 (8.000%) Service Delivery
8 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
8 2 (8.000%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (12.00%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) C
4 1 (4.000%) Python
4 1 (4.000%) Perl
4 1 (4.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle
3 1 (4.000%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.000%) IBM
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