Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 9 February 2010 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.

LinkSoftware Developer
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank10480100
Rank change year-on-year
Down-24Up+20
Matching permanent IT job ads154625424006
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.963 %2.515 %1.982 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.103 %2.695 %2.105 %
Salaries quoted139723443607
Average salary£35,000£32,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-7.140 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.560 %-1.530 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7351394340190321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.36 %93.34 %94.18 %
Salaries quoted6085779289154271
Average salary£40,000£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.890 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

Software Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. 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
EnglandDown-221474£35,000+7.69 %
LondonDown-1335£47,500+11.76 %
South EastDown-8334£34,000-2.85 %
East of EnglandUp+13220£34,000-5.55 %
South WestDown-10167£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeshireDown-1125£33,500-4.28 %
North WestDown-34125£29,000+3.57 %
City of LondonNo change0109£57,500+21.05 %
YorkshireDown-28106£31,500+5.00 %
CambridgeDown-795£32,500-7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-2984£30,250+0.83 %
BerkshireUp+478£35,000-
East MidlandsDown-175£32,500+8.33 %
HampshireUp+1674£27,500-19.11 %
ManchesterDown-2974£30,000+10.09 %
OxfordshireUp+1666£33,000-5.71 %
ScotlandDown-864£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+1456£35,000-12.50 %
SurreyDown-4055£37,500-
West YorkshireDown-2950£35,500+16.39 %
BirminghamDown-248£31,250+1.62 %
SomersetUp+2046£39,000+20.00 %
WiltshireUp+3042£35,000+7.69 %
South YorkshireUp+340£31,500-
NottinghamshireUp+2339£32,500+3.17 %
BathUp+2537£39,000+19.08 %
ReadingUp+3335£34,000-12.25 %
North EastUp+2233£33,500+34.00 %
EdinburghDown-431£35,000+3.70 %
DorsetUp+730£32,500-7.14 %

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

11851 (59.69 %).NET
21746 (56.30 %)C#
31190 (38.37 %)SQL Server
41021 (32.92 %)C++
51006 (32.44 %)ASP.NET
6954 (30.76 %)SQL
7842 (27.15 %)Java
8722 (23.28 %)Degree
9610 (19.67 %)XML
10591 (19.06 %)VB.NET
11560 (18.06 %)OO
12536 (17.28 %)Windows
13514 (16.58 %)Microsoft
14474 (15.29 %)JavaScript
15460 (14.83 %)C
16455 (14.67 %)Finance
17365 (11.77 %)VB
18350 (11.29 %)HTML
19317 (10.22 %)Linux
20304 (9.803 %)AJAX
21298 (9.610 %)Web Services
22296 (9.545 %)Computer Science
23287 (9.255 %)UNIX
24281 (9.062 %)SQL Server 2005
25280 (9.029 %)Pensions
25280 (9.029 %)Oracle
26275 (8.868 %)Agile Software Development
27270 (8.707 %).NET Framework
28268 (8.642 %)MS Excel
29267 (8.610 %)Visual Studio

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
11851 (59.69 %).NET
21006 (32.44 %)ASP.NET
3610 (19.67 %)XML
4350 (11.29 %)HTML
5304 (9.803 %)AJAX
6298 (9.610 %)Web Services
7270 (8.707 %).NET Framework
8264 (8.513 %)CSS
9253 (8.159 %)WinForms
10197 (6.353 %)J2EE
11192 (6.192 %)WCF
12159 (5.127 %)Spring
13151 (4.869 %)WPF
14140 (4.515 %)ASP
15132 (4.257 %)STL
16117 (3.773 %)XSLT
17110 (3.547 %)MFC
18105 (3.386 %)Silverlight
1984 (2.709 %)JSP
2082 (2.644 %)XHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
189 (2.870 %)SharePoint
287 (2.806 %)IIS
373 (2.354 %)Apache
455 (1.774 %)Tomcat
534 (1.096 %)BizTalk Server
616 (0.516 %)SharePoint Server 2007
616 (0.516 %)CMS
712 (0.387 %)nginx
712 (0.387 %)WebSphere MQ
811 (0.355 %)OpenEdge
99 (0.290 %)MQSeries
107 (0.226 %)ColdFusion
107 (0.226 %)ArcGIS
116 (0.193 %)Commerce Server
125 (0.161 %)OpenROAD
125 (0.161 %)WebLogic
125 (0.161 %)SAS
125 (0.161 %)Jetty
134 (0.129 %)Office Communications Server
134 (0.129 %)TIBCO EMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1268 (8.642 %)MS Excel
248 (1.548 %)MS Visio
333 (1.064 %)MS Office
48 (0.258 %)MS Project
56 (0.193 %)Photoshop
64 (0.129 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.097 %)MATLAB
73 (0.097 %)InfoPath
82 (0.064 %)PrintSoft PReS
82 (0.064 %)Adobe Illustrator
91 (0.032 %)Quicktime
91 (0.032 %)RoboHelp
91 (0.032 %)Fireworks
91 (0.032 %)AutoCAD
91 (0.032 %)SketchUp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.226 %)Axapta
17 (0.226 %)Dynamics AX
26 (0.193 %)Dynamics CRM
26 (0.193 %)BusinessWorks
35 (0.161 %)Microsoft CRM
43 (0.097 %)Navision
52 (0.064 %)Line 500
52 (0.064 %)Bond Adapt
61 (0.032 %)Endur
61 (0.032 %)Great Plains
61 (0.032 %)Summit
61 (0.032 %)Adaptiv
61 (0.032 %)Front Arena
61 (0.032 %)Global One
61 (0.032 %)Oracle Applications
61 (0.032 %)Dynamics GP
61 (0.032 %)AWD
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1102 (3.289 %)Internet
277 (2.483 %)TCP/IP
365 (2.096 %)HTTP
434 (1.096 %)Intranet
526 (0.838 %)SMTP
620 (0.645 %)UMTS
717 (0.548 %)Wireless
815 (0.484 %)GPRS
815 (0.484 %)GSM
913 (0.419 %)3GPP
1011 (0.355 %)SSL
119 (0.290 %)Extranet
119 (0.290 %)DNS
119 (0.290 %)Broadband
128 (0.258 %)SNMP
137 (0.226 %)VoIP
146 (0.193 %)LTE
146 (0.193 %)TETRA
146 (0.193 %)WAN
155 (0.161 %)DHCP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11190 (38.37 %)SQL Server
2281 (9.062 %)SQL Server 2005
3138 (4.450 %)MySQL
4133 (4.289 %)SQL Server 2000
5115 (3.708 %)RDBMS
681 (2.612 %)SQL Server 2008
746 (1.483 %)GIS
843 (1.387 %)Crystal Reports
935 (1.129 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1026 (0.838 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1026 (0.838 %)MS Access
1124 (0.774 %)Datawarehouse
1223 (0.742 %)PostgreSQL
1322 (0.709 %)BusinessObjects
1419 (0.613 %)Oracle 8/8i
1419 (0.613 %)OLAP
1517 (0.548 %)Oracle 10g
1517 (0.548 %)Oracle Reports
1615 (0.484 %)Data Mining
1712 (0.387 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1267 (8.610 %)Visual Studio
269 (2.225 %)NUnit
351 (1.645 %)Subversion
444 (1.419 %)VSS/SourceSafe
542 (1.354 %)Ant
639 (1.258 %)JUnit
736 (1.161 %)Eclipse
825 (0.806 %)Maven
914 (0.451 %)Oracle Forms
1012 (0.387 %)Git (software)
1111 (0.355 %)InstallShield
129 (0.290 %)WebSpeed
129 (0.290 %)FitNesse
137 (0.226 %)Team Foundation Server
137 (0.226 %)MorphX
146 (0.193 %)Visual Studio Team System
146 (0.193 %)CruiseControl
155 (0.161 %)Dreamweaver
164 (0.129 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
173 (0.097 %)ProC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1455 (14.67 %)Finance
2280 (9.029 %)Pensions
3192 (6.192 %)Health
4135 (4.353 %)Insurance
5126 (4.063 %)Banking
6114 (3.676 %)Education
797 (3.128 %)Telecoms
875 (2.419 %)Retail
966 (2.128 %)Games
1052 (1.677 %)Investment Banking
1143 (1.387 %)Pharmaceutical
1241 (1.322 %)Marketing
1334 (1.096 %)Government
1430 (0.967 %)Front Office
1526 (0.838 %)3D Graphics
1622 (0.709 %)Electric
1721 (0.677 %)Publishing
1721 (0.677 %)Financial Institution
1820 (0.645 %)Manufacturing
1917 (0.548 %)Back Office
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1296 (9.545 %)Computer Science
2204 (6.579 %)Mathematics
3138 (4.450 %)Client/Server
4103 (3.322 %)Multithreading
579 (2.548 %)Physics
678 (2.515 %)N-Tier
758 (1.870 %)Derivative
839 (1.258 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
937 (1.193 %)Web 2.0
1032 (1.032 %)iPhone
1127 (0.871 %)Equities
1225 (0.806 %)Fixed Income
1225 (0.806 %)Open Source
1319 (0.613 %)SaaS
1415 (0.484 %)Thin Client
1415 (0.484 %)Handset
1415 (0.484 %)Equity Derivative
1415 (0.484 %)Fat Client
1514 (0.451 %)Statistics
1613 (0.419 %)Blackberry
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1536 (17.28 %)Windows
2317 (10.22 %)Linux
3287 (9.255 %)UNIX
443 (1.387 %)Solaris
542 (1.354 %)Windows Server 2003
633 (1.064 %)Windows Mobile
719 (0.613 %)Android
817 (0.548 %)Debian
916 (0.516 %)Windows CE
109 (0.290 %)Windows Server 2008
117 (0.226 %)HPUX
126 (0.193 %)Windows 2000
126 (0.193 %)Windows XP
126 (0.193 %)Mac OS X
135 (0.161 %)AIX
144 (0.129 %)Windows Vista
144 (0.129 %)Mac OS
144 (0.129 %)Windows 2000 Server
144 (0.129 %)Red Hat Linux
144 (0.129 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1560 (18.06 %)OO
2275 (8.868 %)Agile Software Development
3177 (5.708 %)UML
4149 (4.805 %)Web Development
5131 (4.224 %)Scrum
6130 (4.192 %)Unit Testing
7121 (3.902 %)Software Engineering
8104 (3.354 %)Project Management
994 (3.031 %)E-Commerce
1091 (2.935 %)OOD
1186 (2.773 %)OOP
1260 (1.935 %)Workflow
1356 (1.806 %)TDD
1446 (1.483 %)CRM
1545 (1.451 %)OOA/OOD
1643 (1.387 %)Data Analysis
1740 (1.290 %)SOA
1837 (1.193 %)RAD
1936 (1.161 %)Content Management
2034 (1.096 %)Software Architecture
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11746 (56.30 %)C#
21021 (32.92 %)C++
3954 (30.76 %)SQL
4842 (27.15 %)Java
5591 (19.06 %)VB.NET
6474 (15.29 %)JavaScript
7460 (14.83 %)C
8365 (11.77 %)VB
9181 (5.837 %)VB6
10151 (4.869 %)T-SQL
11139 (4.482 %)PHP
1299 (3.193 %)Perl
1395 (3.064 %)Python
1484 (2.709 %)VC++
1557 (1.838 %)Ruby
1656 (1.806 %)Delphi
1746 (1.483 %)VBA
1845 (1.451 %)PL/SQL
1931 (1.000 %)VBScript
2030 (0.967 %)COBOL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1722 (23.28 %)Degree
292 (2.967 %)Microsoft Certification
373 (2.354 %)Security Cleared
439 (1.258 %)PhD
538 (1.225 %)MCSD
629 (0.935 %)SC Cleared
629 (0.935 %)MCTS
727 (0.871 %)MCPD
823 (0.742 %)MCAD
98 (0.258 %)HP AIS
98 (0.258 %)HP ASE
98 (0.258 %)HP MASE
107 (0.226 %)Postgraduate
116 (0.193 %)HND
124 (0.129 %)MCP
133 (0.097 %)CFA
133 (0.097 %)DV Cleared
142 (0.064 %)Oracle Certification
142 (0.064 %)A+ Certification
151 (0.032 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
177 (2.483 %)QA
24 (0.129 %)ISO9001
33 (0.097 %)WAI
41 (0.032 %)SLA
41 (0.032 %)GAMP
41 (0.032 %)ISO9000
41 (0.032 %)TickIT
41 (0.032 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.032 %)WCAG
41 (0.032 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
124 (0.774 %)Active Directory
28 (0.258 %)MSMQ
37 (0.226 %)VMware Infrastructure
43 (0.097 %)Terminal Services
52 (0.064 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
61 (0.032 %)Snort
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
118 (0.580 %)MSI
23 (0.097 %)HP Quality Center
32 (0.064 %)Dollar Universe
32 (0.064 %)MOM
41 (0.032 %)Tivoli
41 (0.032 %)AutoSys
41 (0.032 %)BMC PATROL
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1514 (16.58 %)Microsoft
2280 (9.029 %)Oracle
334 (1.096 %)JBoss
427 (0.871 %)Sybase
522 (0.709 %)Business Objects
619 (0.613 %)HP
718 (0.580 %)Symbian
817 (0.548 %)GUPTA
915 (0.484 %)DevExpress
1013 (0.419 %)Cognos
1013 (0.419 %)IBM
1112 (0.387 %)TIBCO
1210 (0.322 %)SAP
1210 (0.322 %)Adobe
139 (0.290 %)Borland
139 (0.290 %)Sage
139 (0.290 %)Sun
148 (0.258 %)Sitecore
148 (0.258 %)Sony
148 (0.258 %)VMware