The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Software Developer
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank96108111
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads328526671934
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.724 %2.175 %2.026 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.876 %2.308 %2.171 %
Number of salaries quoted294323871721
Average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£52,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£33,000
% change year-on-year
-+6.06 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+143096£36,500+4.28 %
South EastUp+20854£37,500-
LondonDown-14643£42,000-11.57 %
East of EnglandUp+12527£37,500+7.14 %
North WestUp+25424£33,000-4.34 %
SurreyUp+40247£40,000+5.26 %
CambridgeshireUp+1226£37,500+13.63 %
South WestDown-7213£36,750+5.00 %
BerkshireUp+25212£35,500-0.69 %
ManchesterUp+20207£32,500-
HampshireUp+27193£37,500+7.14 %
CambridgeUp+1192£37,500+7.14 %
YorkshireUp+7189£33,250+5.55 %
West MidlandsDown-4156£35,000+4.47 %
CheshireUp+21143£35,000-
EssexUp+26126£35,000-6.66 %
East MidlandsDown-11120£32,500-
City of LondonDown-42112£50,000-13.04 %
ScotlandDown-5103£32,500+3.17 %
West YorkshireDown-5102£36,000+10.76 %
SouthamptonUp+188£40,000+7.38 %
HertfordshireUp+2074£38,500+10.00 %
LeedsDown-1373£37,000+12.12 %
ReadingUp+972£37,500+2.14 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1572£35,000-2.77 %
BristolDown-571£40,000-6.43 %
BedfordshireUp+1567£41,000+26.15 %
WarringtonUp+863£35,000-12.50 %
EdinburghUp+1161£30,000-14.28 %
GuildfordUp+1956£40,000+6.66 %

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

13832 (60.16 %)C#
23806 (59.75 %).NET
32559 (40.17 %)SQL Server
42368 (37.17 %)SQL
52219 (34.84 %)ASP.NET
61986 (31.18 %)Java
71868 (29.32 %)Degree
81785 (28.02 %)JavaScript
91657 (26.01 %)C++
101392 (21.85 %)XML
111344 (21.10 %)HTML
121232 (19.34 %)CSS
131211 (19.01 %)OO
141207 (18.95 %)Windows
151176 (18.46 %)Agile Software Development
161125 (17.66 %)Microsoft
171026 (16.11 %)Computer Science
18994 (15.60 %)VB.NET
19923 (14.49 %)Finance
20922 (14.47 %)Web Services
21830 (13.03 %)Linux
22802 (12.59 %)Visual Studio
23749 (11.76 %).NET Framework
24720 (11.30 %)TDD
25711 (11.16 %)WCF
26706 (11.08 %)Oracle
27698 (10.96 %)MVC
28694 (10.89 %)C
29665 (10.44 %)WPF
30654 (10.27 %)Ajax

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13806 (59.75 %).NET
22219 (34.84 %)ASP.NET
31392 (21.85 %)XML
41344 (21.10 %)HTML
51232 (19.34 %)CSS
6922 (14.47 %)Web Services
7749 (11.76 %).NET Framework
8711 (11.16 %)WCF
9665 (10.44 %)WPF
10654 (10.27 %)Ajax
11611 (9.592 %)jQuery
12534 (8.383 %)Spring
13517 (8.116 %)WinForms
14479 (7.520 %)J2EE
15438 (6.876 %)Hibernate
16359 (5.636 %)Silverlight
17280 (4.396 %)ASP
17280 (4.396 %)XSLT
18271 (4.254 %)ASP.NET MVC
19242 (3.799 %)LINQ
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1332 (5.212 %)SharePoint
2165 (2.590 %)IIS
3157 (2.465 %)Apache
498 (1.538 %)Tomcat
560 (0.942 %)BizTalk Server
654 (0.848 %)CMS
745 (0.706 %)SharePoint 2010
834 (0.534 %)MediaWiki
927 (0.424 %)Documentum
1025 (0.392 %)Jetty
1123 (0.361 %)SharePoint Server
1123 (0.361 %)ESB
1220 (0.314 %)Drupal
1220 (0.314 %)ArchestrA
1317 (0.267 %)Apache Solr
1415 (0.235 %)WebLogic
1514 (0.220 %)ActiveMQ
1613 (0.204 %)Rendezvous
1711 (0.173 %)MSMQ
189 (0.141 %)OpenEdge
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1479 (7.520 %)MS Excel
288 (1.381 %)MS Office
363 (0.989 %)MS Visio
461 (0.958 %)MATLAB
536 (0.565 %)Google Apps
617 (0.267 %)Simulink
617 (0.267 %)Photoshop
710 (0.157 %)Stateflow
88 (0.126 %)MS Project
88 (0.126 %)DOC1
88 (0.126 %)PrintSoft PReS
95 (0.078 %)MS PowerPoint
95 (0.078 %)Fireworks
104 (0.063 %)Spreadsheet
113 (0.047 %)Office 365
113 (0.047 %)CATIA
113 (0.047 %)Adobe Illustrator
122 (0.031 %)Windchill
122 (0.031 %)Paint Shop Pro
122 (0.031 %)AutoCAD
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
152 (0.816 %)Dynamics CRM
28 (0.126 %)Exstream
37 (0.110 %)Dynamics AX
44 (0.063 %)SAP CRM
44 (0.063 %)Visualfiles
44 (0.063 %)Eagle PACE
53 (0.047 %)Apache OFBiz
53 (0.047 %)Dynamics NAV
53 (0.047 %)Prophet
62 (0.031 %)JDE OneWorld
71 (0.016 %)BusinessWorks
71 (0.016 %)BASE24
71 (0.016 %)Summit
71 (0.016 %)SAP SRM
71 (0.016 %)Google Analytics
71 (0.016 %)TIBCO iProcess
71 (0.016 %)Oracle BPM
71 (0.016 %)SalesLogix
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1178 (2.794 %)Internet
2140 (2.198 %)TCP/IP
3126 (1.978 %)HTTP
445 (0.706 %)GSM
538 (0.597 %)VoIP
637 (0.581 %)Broadband
736 (0.565 %)Intranet
831 (0.487 %)Wireless
930 (0.471 %)Firewall
1029 (0.455 %)UMTS
1128 (0.440 %)LTE
1224 (0.377 %)GPRS
1323 (0.361 %)3GPP
1323 (0.361 %)HSPA
1419 (0.298 %)DNS
1518 (0.283 %)Ethernet
1614 (0.220 %)SSL
1713 (0.204 %)CDMA
1812 (0.188 %)Modbus
1812 (0.188 %)RTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12559 (40.17 %)SQL Server
2507 (7.959 %)SQL Server 2008
3418 (6.562 %)SQL Server 2005
4377 (5.918 %)MySQL
5204 (3.203 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6124 (1.947 %)RDBMS
7102 (1.601 %)SQL Server Integration Services
898 (1.538 %)SQL Server 2000
991 (1.429 %)Crystal Reports
1058 (0.911 %)Oracle 10g
1151 (0.801 %)Data Mining
1250 (0.785 %)Text Mining
1349 (0.769 %)Data Warehouse
1444 (0.691 %)Oracle 11g
1541 (0.644 %)Hadoop
1640 (0.628 %)PostgreSQL
1739 (0.612 %)Oracle 8/8i
1836 (0.565 %)Oracle Reports
1836 (0.565 %)NoSQL
1935 (0.549 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1802 (12.59 %)Visual Studio
2251 (3.940 %)Team Foundation Server
3236 (3.705 %)Subversion
4206 (3.234 %)Eclipse
5181 (2.841 %)NUnit
6137 (2.151 %)JUnit
7108 (1.695 %)VSS/SourceSafe
8100 (1.570 %)Ant
994 (1.476 %)Maven
1078 (1.224 %)Git (software)
1168 (1.068 %)Bugzilla
1261 (0.958 %)Rhino Mocks
1261 (0.958 %)GCC
1355 (0.863 %)Selenium
1451 (0.801 %)MSI
1539 (0.612 %)Mercurial
1634 (0.534 %)Cucumber
1733 (0.518 %)Mockito
1831 (0.487 %)ClearCase
1831 (0.487 %)SCons
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1923 (14.49 %)Finance
2276 (4.333 %)Telecoms
3175 (2.747 %)Games
4145 (2.276 %)Retail
5118 (1.852 %)Banking
6103 (1.617 %)Manufacturing
774 (1.162 %)Electronics
868 (1.068 %)Aerospace
959 (0.926 %)Marketing
1049 (0.769 %)Advertising
1148 (0.754 %)Back Office
1245 (0.706 %)Publishing
1339 (0.612 %)Billing
1437 (0.581 %)Law
1534 (0.534 %)Financial Institution
1629 (0.455 %)Front Office
1728 (0.440 %)Multimedia
1825 (0.392 %)Music
1923 (0.361 %)Automotive
2019 (0.298 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11026 (16.11 %)Computer Science
2511 (8.022 %)Mathematics
3182 (2.857 %)Physics
4158 (2.480 %)Open Source
5135 (2.119 %)N-Tier
6132 (2.072 %)Client/Server
6132 (2.072 %)iPhone
782 (1.287 %)Blackberry
877 (1.209 %)Digital Media
973 (1.146 %)Visualisation
1062 (0.973 %)iPad
1161 (0.958 %)SaaS
1250 (0.785 %)Embedded Systems
1344 (0.691 %)Statistics
1443 (0.675 %)Web 2.0
1541 (0.644 %)Cloud Computing
1640 (0.628 %)Device Driver
1739 (0.612 %)Life Science
1836 (0.565 %)Online Games
1934 (0.534 %)Management Information System
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11207 (18.95 %)Windows
2830 (13.03 %)Linux
3464 (7.284 %)UNIX
4213 (3.344 %)Android
5138 (2.166 %)Apple iOS
678 (1.224 %)Windows Server 2003
743 (0.675 %)Windows XP
836 (0.565 %)Windows 7
931 (0.487 %)Windows Mobile
1030 (0.471 %)Mac OS X
1129 (0.455 %)Windows Server 2008
1226 (0.408 %)Solaris
1325 (0.392 %)Windows Phone 7
1422 (0.345 %)Windows Vista
1521 (0.330 %)AIX
1617 (0.267 %)Windows CE
1710 (0.157 %)Embedded Linux
1710 (0.157 %)VxWorks
1710 (0.157 %)LynxOS
189 (0.141 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11211 (19.01 %)OO
21176 (18.46 %)Agile Software Development
3720 (11.30 %)TDD
4698 (10.96 %)MVC
5599 (9.403 %)Software Engineering
6496 (7.786 %)Scrum
7412 (6.468 %)Web Development
8348 (5.463 %)Unit Testing
9326 (5.118 %)OOP
10241 (3.783 %)Multithreading
11239 (3.752 %)UML
12221 (3.469 %)Project Management
13212 (3.328 %)E-Commerce
14204 (3.203 %)OOD
15194 (3.046 %)Continuous Integration
16178 (2.794 %)CRM
17172 (2.700 %)SOA
18143 (2.245 %)Automated Testing
19113 (1.774 %)Waterfall
20109 (1.711 %)Workflow
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13832 (60.16 %)C#
22368 (37.17 %)SQL
31986 (31.18 %)Java
41785 (28.02 %)JavaScript
51657 (26.01 %)C++
6994 (15.60 %)VB.NET
7694 (10.89 %)C
8553 (8.681 %)VB
9461 (7.237 %)T-SQL
10386 (6.060 %)PHP
11378 (5.934 %)Python
12310 (4.867 %)Perl
13302 (4.741 %)VB6
14213 (3.344 %)Ruby
15180 (2.826 %)PL/SQL
16143 (2.245 %)Delphi
17107 (1.680 %)XPath
1889 (1.397 %)Objective-C
1983 (1.303 %)VC++
2073 (1.146 %)Shell Script
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11868 (29.32 %)Degree
2174 (2.732 %)Security Cleared
3162 (2.543 %)Microsoft Certification
472 (1.130 %)PhD
568 (1.068 %)SC Cleared
643 (0.675 %)MCP
741 (0.644 %)HND
840 (0.628 %)MCTS
934 (0.534 %)Postgraduate
1028 (0.440 %)MCSD
1124 (0.377 %)MCAD
1222 (0.345 %)HNC
1319 (0.298 %)Sun Certification
1417 (0.267 %)ISEB
1516 (0.251 %)MCPD
1612 (0.188 %)ISTQB
1612 (0.188 %)DV Cleared
176 (0.094 %)Oracle Certification
184 (0.063 %)MCSE
184 (0.063 %)MCSA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1242 (3.799 %)QA
227 (0.424 %)DO-178B
321 (0.330 %)HL7
419 (0.298 %)ISO 9001
510 (0.157 %)SLA
65 (0.078 %)JTAG
65 (0.078 %)GAMP
72 (0.031 %)TickIT
72 (0.031 %)WAI
81 (0.016 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
131 (0.487 %)Active Directory
26 (0.094 %)VMware Infrastructure
34 (0.063 %)XenDesktop
43 (0.047 %)XenServer
52 (0.031 %)Kamailio
52 (0.031 %)OpenSIPS
52 (0.031 %)UAG
52 (0.031 %)Terminal Services
61 (0.016 %)Hyper-V
61 (0.016 %)Varnish
61 (0.016 %)vSphere
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.204 %)SCCM
210 (0.157 %)HP Quality Center
38 (0.126 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
38 (0.126 %)WMI
41 (0.016 %)EMC NetWorker
41 (0.016 %)Nagios
41 (0.016 %)SCOM
41 (0.016 %)SCVMM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11125 (17.66 %)Microsoft
2706 (11.08 %)Oracle
3112 (1.758 %)JBoss
468 (1.068 %)Google
552 (0.816 %)Salesforce.com
552 (0.816 %)Adobe
646 (0.722 %)Wonderware
741 (0.644 %)IBM
835 (0.549 %)Zend
934 (0.534 %)Sybase
1031 (0.487 %)Telerik
1129 (0.455 %)HP
1220 (0.314 %)Facebook
1220 (0.314 %)Twitter
1317 (0.267 %)Typemock
1317 (0.267 %)TIBCO
1416 (0.251 %)Sony
1416 (0.251 %)Cisco
1514 (0.220 %)EMC
1514 (0.220 %)Red Hat