Wales Senior Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs within the Wales region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Developer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bilston Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grampian Grantham Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horley Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Mold Newbury Newcastle Newmarket Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Ives St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swanley Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	69
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	40	44
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	2.661 %	2.198 %
Salaries quoted	38	44
Average minimum salary	£35,025	£29,568
Average salary	£36,613	£34,318
% change on same period last year	+6.68 %
Average maximum salary	£38,200	£39,068
UK excluding London average salary	£40,502	£40,288
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	1503	2002
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.893 %
Salaries quoted	1399	1834
Average minimum salary	£31,522	£30,876
Average salary	£35,419	£34,258
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£39,317	£37,640
UK excluding London average salary	£38,454	£39,134
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+1	29	£36,650	+7.42 %
West Wales	+2	6	£41,750	+34.67 %
North Wales	0	2	£22,250	-37.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 47 (65.28 %) .NET 2 46 (63.89 %) C# 3 36 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 34 (47.22 %) SQL 5 32 (44.44 %) VB 6 28 (38.89 %) Java 7 27 (37.50 %) XML 8 26 (36.11 %) ASP 9 24 (33.33 %) VB6 10 22 (30.56 %) ASP.NET 11 19 (26.39 %) J2EE 12 18 (25.00 %) Windows 13 17 (23.61 %) VB.NET 14 14 (19.44 %) JSP 15 13 (18.06 %) Transact-SQL

15 13 (18.06 %) HTML 16 12 (16.67 %) WebServices 17 11 (15.28 %) JavaScript 18 10 (13.89 %) AJAX 18 10 (13.89 %) Struts 18 10 (13.89 %) Internet 18 10 (13.89 %) Microsoft 19 9 (12.50 %) EJB 19 9 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 19 9 (12.50 %) RIA 19 9 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 20 8 (11.11 %) JSF 20 8 (11.11 %) Agile Software Development 20 8 (11.11 %) Hibernate 20 8 (11.11 %) IIS

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 47 (65.28 %) .NET 2 27 (37.50 %) XML 3 26 (36.11 %) ASP 4 22 (30.56 %) ASP.NET 5 19 (26.39 %) J2EE 6 14 (19.44 %) JSP 7 13 (18.06 %) HTML 8 12 (16.67 %) WebServices 9 10 (13.89 %) AJAX 9 10 (13.89 %) Struts 10 9 (12.50 %) EJB 11 8 (11.11 %) JSF 11 8 (11.11 %) Hibernate 12 7 (9.722 %) Spring 12 7 (9.722 %) Silverlight 13 6 (8.333 %) EJB 3.0 13 6 (8.333 %) JBoss Seam 13 6 (8.333 %) LINQ 13 6 (8.333 %) Spring MVC 13 6 (8.333 %) Tapestry	Application Platforms 1 8 (11.11 %) IIS 2 7 (9.722 %) JBoss 3 2 (2.778 %) WebLogic 3 2 (2.778 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (2.778 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.389 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (13.89 %) Internet 2 4 (5.556 %) SAN 3 2 (2.778 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 9 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (6.944 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 2 (2.778 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 2 (2.778 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (2.778 %) OLAP 5 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (2.778 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (2.778 %) Data Mining 6 1 (1.389 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 7 (9.722 %) Visual Studio 1 7 (9.722 %) JUnit 2 6 (8.333 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 2 (2.778 %) XDoclet 3 2 (2.778 %) Ant 3 2 (2.778 %) Eclipse 3 2 (2.778 %) ClearCase 3 2 (2.778 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.389 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.389 %) CruiseControl 4 1 (1.389 %) CheckStyle 4 1 (1.389 %) Cactus
General 1 6 (8.333 %) Insurance 2 4 (5.556 %) Government 3 3 (4.167 %) Health 4 2 (2.778 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.389 %) Finance 5 1 (1.389 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 9 (12.50 %) RIA 2 6 (8.333 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (2.778 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.389 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 18 (25.00 %) Windows 2 8 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (2.778 %) UNIX 3 2 (2.778 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 2 8 (11.11 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (11.11 %) Project Management 3 7 (9.722 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (8.333 %) System Testing 4 6 (8.333 %) Project Planning 4 6 (8.333 %) B2B 4 6 (8.333 %) SC Cleared 5 5 (6.944 %) B2C 5 5 (6.944 %) Web Development 6 4 (5.556 %) Migration 7 2 (2.778 %) Release Management 7 2 (2.778 %) Data Migration 7 2 (2.778 %) Workflow 7 2 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (2.778 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (2.778 %) UML 7 2 (2.778 %) SOA 8 1 (1.389 %) ITIL 8 1 (1.389 %) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages 1 46 (63.89 %) C# 2 34 (47.22 %) SQL 3 32 (44.44 %) VB 4 28 (38.89 %) Java 5 24 (33.33 %) VB6 6 17 (23.61 %) VB.NET 7 13 (18.06 %) Transact-SQL 8 11 (15.28 %) JavaScript 9 8 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (2.778 %) XPath 10 2 (2.778 %) Perl 11 1 (1.389 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (4.167 %) Degree 2 2 (2.778 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.389 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management 1 2 (2.778 %) AutoSys 2 1 (1.389 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 10 (13.89 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.944 %) Oracle 3 3 (4.167 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.389 %) BEA 4 1 (1.389 %) Progress