The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Watford 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 21 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 35 41 51
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 10 20 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 3.521% 5.780% 3.480%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.663% 5.882% 3.571%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 15
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
273 340 420
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 96.13% 98.27% 97.45%
Number of salaries quoted 217 233 312
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Developer
Hertfordshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Watford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Watford Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) C#
2 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 6 (37.50%) OO
4 6 (37.50%) TDD
5 5 (31.25%) FoxPro (VFP)
5 5 (31.25%) VB
6 4 (25.00%) MVC
6 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
7 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (18.75%) QA
7 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
7 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
7 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
7 3 (18.75%) C++
7 3 (18.75%) HTML
7 3 (18.75%) XML
7 3 (18.75%) XSL
8 2 (12.50%) EJB
8 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
8 2 (12.50%) Java

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) XML
4 3 (18.75%) XSL
5 2 (12.50%) EJB
5 2 (12.50%) J2EE
5 2 (12.50%) Struts
5 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (12.50%) WPF
5 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (12.50%) Ajax
5 2 (12.50%) Spring
5 2 (12.50%) HTML5
6 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (6.250%) Node.js
6 1 (6.250%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.250%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) OO
1 6 (37.50%) TDD
2 4 (25.00%) MVC
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum
2 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Web Development
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (6.250%) OOD
5 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.250%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 5 (31.25%) VB
4 3 (18.75%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (6.250%) VB6
6 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft