The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 advertised for the Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 27 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 3.497% 4.000% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.650% 4.082% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 0
Average salary £32,500 £36,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.72% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
137 98 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 95.80% 98.00% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 124 76 98
Average salary £30,000 £36,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Wakefield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Wakefield Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Wakefield region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wakefield Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Games
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Flash Games
1 3 (50.00%) Flash
1 3 (50.00%) Online Games
1 3 (50.00%) Social Gaming
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) LAMP
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) XML

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Flash
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) LAMP
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Facebook Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Flash Games
1 3 (50.00%) Online Games
1 3 (50.00%) Social Gaming
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Facebook