Wales Software Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banchory Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buckley Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malton Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Seaford Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thetford Tring Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	40
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	56	86
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	3.472 %	4.199 %
Salaries quoted	54	71
Average minimum salary	£29,870	£25,847
Average salary	£32,971	£29,917
% change on same period last year	+10.20 %
Average maximum salary	£36,072	£33,986
UK excluding London average salary	£33,264	£33,328
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	1613	2048
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.893 %	0.859 %
Salaries quoted	1457	1833
Average minimum salary	£31,175	£30,202
Average salary	£34,932	£33,757
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Average maximum salary	£38,688	£37,313
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Software Developer UK

Software Developer
Demand Trend

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Software Developer within the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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	-13	50	£33,336	+10.47 %
North Wales	+15	5	£28,300	+0.55 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region 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.

1 70 (64.81 %) SQL Server 2 48 (44.44 %) C++ 3 43 (39.81 %) C# 4 42 (38.89 %) Visual Studio 5 39 (36.11 %) .NET 6 36 (33.33 %) Oracle 7 35 (32.41 %) Windows 8 34 (31.48 %) UNIX 9 33 (30.56 %) SQL 10 32 (29.63 %) Security Cleared 11 31 (28.70 %) VB.NET 11 31 (28.70 %) C 12 27 (25.00 %) VB 12 27 (25.00 %) Solaris 12 27 (25.00 %) SC Cleared

13 25 (23.15 %) ASP.NET 14 24 (22.22 %) ASP 15 21 (19.44 %) VB6 16 18 (16.67 %) Internet 17 17 (15.74 %) HTML 18 16 (14.81 %) Java 18 16 (14.81 %) XML 19 14 (12.96 %) JavaScript 19 14 (12.96 %) AJAX 20 12 (11.11 %) Benchmarking 21 11 (10.19 %) VoIP 22 10 (9.259 %) Transact-SQL 22 10 (9.259 %) RDBMS 23 9 (8.333 %) Games 23 9 (8.333 %) Competitive Intelligence

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region 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.

Application Development 1 39 (36.11 %) .NET 2 25 (23.15 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (22.22 %) ASP 4 17 (15.74 %) HTML 5 16 (14.81 %) XML 6 14 (12.96 %) AJAX 7 8 (7.407 %) CSS 7 8 (7.407 %) OpenGL 7 8 (7.407 %) DirectX 8 7 (6.481 %) JSP 9 6 (5.556 %) Hibernate 9 6 (5.556 %) Spring 9 6 (5.556 %) JSTL 9 6 (5.556 %) XSLT 9 6 (5.556 %) SVG 10 3 (2.778 %) XHTML 10 3 (2.778 %) STL 10 3 (2.778 %) DCOM 10 3 (2.778 %) J2EE 10 3 (2.778 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 7 (6.481 %) Apache 1 7 (6.481 %) Tomcat 2 6 (5.556 %) SharePoint 3 3 (2.778 %) ColdFusion 3 3 (2.778 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.926 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.926 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (7.407 %) Quicktime 2 2 (1.852 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.926 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.926 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 18 (16.67 %) Internet 2 11 (10.19 %) VoIP 3 2 (1.852 %) RTP 4 1 (0.926 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.926 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.926 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 70 (64.81 %) SQL Server 2 10 (9.259 %) RDBMS 3 4 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (2.778 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 3 (2.778 %) Data Mining 4 3 (2.778 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (2.778 %) OLAP 5 2 (1.852 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (1.852 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 2 (1.852 %) MySQL 5 2 (1.852 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.926 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 42 (38.89 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (6.481 %) Ant 3 6 (5.556 %) Eclipse 4 4 (3.704 %) Rational Rose 5 2 (1.852 %) Oracle Forms 5 2 (1.852 %) Flash 6 1 (0.926 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 9 (8.333 %) Games 2 5 (4.630 %) Pensions 2 5 (4.630 %) Finance 3 3 (2.778 %) Government 4 2 (1.852 %) Electronics 4 2 (1.852 %) Telecoms 4 2 (1.852 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.926 %) Law 5 1 (0.926 %) Manufacturing	Miscellaneous 1 8 (7.407 %) DTV 2 1 (0.926 %) Mathematics 2 1 (0.926 %) Multithreading 2 1 (0.926 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.926 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 35 (32.41 %) Windows 2 34 (31.48 %) UNIX 3 27 (25.00 %) Solaris 4 2 (1.852 %) Linux 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.926 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (29.63 %) Security Cleared 2 27 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (11.11 %) Benchmarking 4 9 (8.333 %) Competitive Intelligence 5 6 (5.556 %) OO 6 5 (4.630 %) UML 7 3 (2.778 %) Web Design 7 3 (2.778 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (0.926 %) Pay per click 8 1 (0.926 %) Web Development 8 1 (0.926 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (0.926 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (0.926 %) SEO 8 1 (0.926 %) OOA/OOD 8 1 (0.926 %) CRM 8 1 (0.926 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 48 (44.44 %) C++ 2 43 (39.81 %) C# 3 33 (30.56 %) SQL 4 31 (28.70 %) C 4 31 (28.70 %) VB.NET 5 27 (25.00 %) VB 6 21 (19.44 %) VB6 7 16 (14.81 %) Java 8 14 (12.96 %) JavaScript 9 10 (9.259 %) Transact-SQL 10 3 (2.778 %) VC++ 11 2 (1.852 %) Embedded C 11 2 (1.852 %) Shell Script 11 2 (1.852 %) VBA 11 2 (1.852 %) VBScript 11 2 (1.852 %) PHP 11 2 (1.852 %) Delphi 12 1 (0.926 %) DHTML 12 1 (0.926 %) Embedded C++ 12 1 (0.926 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 4 (3.704 %) Degree 2 1 (0.926 %) PhD
Vendors 1 36 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 3 (2.778 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.852 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.926 %) Adobe 4 1 (0.926 %) Hitachi