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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 19 March 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

 Senior Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank496064
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Up+4
Matching permanent IT job ads118144251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands3.293 %3.103 %2.857 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.462 %3.237 %3.010 %
Salaries quoted93120225
Average salary£37,500£35,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.630 %+1.420 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,000£32,500£30,850
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£38,000
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %-
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
340844488339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands95.12 %95.84 %94.91 %
Salaries quoted296535647153
Average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£55,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Senior Developer EnglandSenior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Senior Developer Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Senior Developer Salary Trend

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

West Midlands Senior Developer Salary Histogram

Senior Developer
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 March 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
WarwickshireUp+2529£42,000+20.00 %
BirminghamNo change028£37,500+7.14 %
HerefordshireUp+2020£37,500-9.09 %
SolihullNo change016£37,500-16.66 %
CoventryDown-410£35,000+3.70 %
WorcestershireUp+177£32,500-13.33 %
StaffordshireDown-62£40,000-5.88 %
ShropshireUp+161£32,500-18.75 %
WolverhamptonUp+131£30,000-21.05 %
Senior Developer EnglandSenior Developer
England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1151 (47.63 %).NET
2141 (44.48 %)C#
3132 (41.64 %)SQL Server
4114 (35.96 %)ASP.NET
5110 (34.70 %)SQL
679 (24.92 %)JavaScript
775 (23.66 %)Java
864 (20.19 %)AJAX
959 (18.61 %)CSS
1054 (17.03 %)Microsoft
1153 (16.72 %)HTML
1247 (14.83 %)XML
1346 (14.51 %)Degree
1444 (13.88 %)PHP
1543 (13.56 %)MySQL
1642 (13.25 %)VB.NET
1740 (12.62 %)Oracle
1740 (12.62 %)SQL Server 2005
1839 (12.30 %)C++
1839 (12.30 %)Web Services
1935 (11.04 %)OO
2034 (10.73 %)SQL Server Integration Services
2034 (10.73 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
2133 (10.41 %)Silverlight
2133 (10.41 %)Linux
2133 (10.41 %)Business Intelligence
2229 (9.148 %)SAP
2327 (8.517 %)ABAP
2426 (8.202 %)Windows
2426 (8.202 %)XHTML

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1151 (47.63 %).NET
2114 (35.96 %)ASP.NET
364 (20.19 %)AJAX
459 (18.61 %)CSS
553 (16.72 %)HTML
647 (14.83 %)XML
739 (12.30 %)Web Services
833 (10.41 %)Silverlight
926 (8.202 %)XHTML
1023 (7.256 %)LAMP
1023 (7.256 %)WCF
1122 (6.940 %)XSLT
1221 (6.625 %)WPF
1320 (6.309 %)J2EE
1419 (5.994 %)J2SE
1419 (5.994 %).NET Framework
1518 (5.678 %)SOAP
1617 (5.363 %)Swing
1716 (5.047 %)jQuery
1815 (4.732 %)Adobe Flex
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
122 (6.940 %)NetWeaver
220 (6.309 %)SharePoint
317 (5.363 %)Apache
414 (4.416 %)IIS
511 (3.470 %)CMS
68 (2.524 %)MS Exchange
75 (1.577 %)GlassFish
75 (1.577 %)Joomla!
75 (1.577 %)Liferay
84 (1.262 %)SharePoint Server 2007
84 (1.262 %)WebSphere Application Server
93 (0.946 %)Lotus Domino
102 (0.631 %)DotNetNuke
102 (0.631 %)WebLogic
102 (0.631 %)Lotus Notes
102 (0.631 %)BizTalk Server
102 (0.631 %)WebSphere MQ
111 (0.315 %)Oracle Application Server
111 (0.315 %)Umbraco
111 (0.315 %)WordPress
West Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (4.101 %)MS Excel
28 (2.524 %)Photoshop
32 (0.631 %)MS Visio
West Midlands IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
122 (6.940 %)SAP R/3
24 (1.262 %)Dynamics CRM
33 (0.946 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
41 (0.315 %)TIBCO iProcess
41 (0.315 %)SAP ECC
41 (0.315 %)BusinessWorks
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
113 (4.101 %)Internet
210 (3.155 %)HTTP
33 (0.946 %)Intranet
42 (0.631 %)TCP/IP
51 (0.315 %)GPRS
51 (0.315 %)UMTS
51 (0.315 %)WCDMA
51 (0.315 %)Wireless
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1132 (41.64 %)SQL Server
243 (13.56 %)MySQL
340 (12.62 %)SQL Server 2005
434 (10.73 %)SQL Server Integration Services
434 (10.73 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
525 (7.886 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
525 (7.886 %)Datawarehouse
621 (6.625 %)SAP BW
719 (5.994 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
814 (4.416 %)BusinessObjects
814 (4.416 %)SQL Server 2000
814 (4.416 %)Crystal Reports
913 (4.101 %)ETL
1012 (3.785 %)OLAP
115 (1.577 %)BODI
124 (1.262 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
124 (1.262 %)Oracle 10g
124 (1.262 %)PostgreSQL
124 (1.262 %)Firebird
132 (0.631 %)RDBMS
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
123 (7.256 %)Visual Studio
215 (4.732 %)VSS/SourceSafe
312 (3.785 %)Team Foundation Server
44 (1.262 %)Subversion
44 (1.262 %)Flex Builder
51 (0.315 %)Oracle Forms
51 (0.315 %)Eclipse
51 (0.315 %)Log4j
51 (0.315 %)NUnit
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
125 (7.886 %)Pensions
217 (5.363 %)Finance
217 (5.363 %)Health
39 (2.839 %)Marketing
48 (2.524 %)Back Office
56 (1.893 %)Retail
65 (1.577 %)Billing
74 (1.262 %)Games
74 (1.262 %)Automotive
74 (1.262 %)Insurance
82 (0.631 %)Construction
82 (0.631 %)Telecoms
82 (0.631 %)Banking
91 (0.315 %)Investment Banking
91 (0.315 %)Social Media
West Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
123 (7.256 %)Computer Science
220 (6.309 %)E-Learning
39 (2.839 %)Open Source
47 (2.208 %)Speech Recognition
47 (2.208 %)N-Tier
56 (1.893 %)W3C
65 (1.577 %)Client/Server
74 (1.262 %)IVR
74 (1.262 %)Bulgarian Language
74 (1.262 %)French Language
74 (1.262 %)German Language
74 (1.262 %)Russian Language
74 (1.262 %)Serbian Language
83 (0.946 %)iPhone
83 (0.946 %)Mathematics
91 (0.315 %)Applied Mathematics
91 (0.315 %)Physics
91 (0.315 %)Dependency Injection
91 (0.315 %)Statistics
91 (0.315 %)Handset
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
133 (10.41 %)Linux
226 (8.202 %)Windows
313 (4.101 %)Windows Server 2003
45 (1.577 %)AIX
45 (1.577 %)Solaris
45 (1.577 %)UNIX
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
135 (11.04 %)OO
233 (10.41 %)Business Intelligence
319 (5.994 %)E-Commerce
418 (5.678 %)Web Development
517 (5.363 %)Data Modelling
517 (5.363 %)Project Management
616 (5.047 %)OOP
715 (4.732 %)SEO
715 (4.732 %)Unit Testing
811 (3.470 %)Document Management
910 (3.155 %)Scrum
109 (2.839 %)Agile Software Development
109 (2.839 %)Software Engineering
118 (2.524 %)Content Management
118 (2.524 %)SOA
127 (2.208 %)CRM
136 (1.893 %)Time Management
136 (1.893 %)Digital Marketing
144 (1.262 %)Dimensional Modelling
153 (0.946 %)UML
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1141 (44.48 %)C#
2110 (34.70 %)SQL
379 (24.92 %)JavaScript
475 (23.66 %)Java
544 (13.88 %)PHP
642 (13.25 %)VB.NET
739 (12.30 %)C++
827 (8.517 %)ABAP
923 (7.256 %)VB
1019 (5.994 %)T-SQL
1118 (5.678 %)PL/SQL
1214 (4.416 %)Ruby
1312 (3.785 %)PHP5
149 (2.839 %)XPath
158 (2.524 %)VB6
167 (2.208 %)ActionScript 3.0
167 (2.208 %)Perl
167 (2.208 %)Python
167 (2.208 %)ActionScript
176 (1.893 %)C
West Midlands IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
146 (14.51 %)Degree
29 (2.839 %)Microsoft Certification
34 (1.262 %)CFA
42 (0.631 %)PhD
51 (0.315 %)MCPD
51 (0.315 %)MCP
51 (0.315 %)MCAD
51 (0.315 %)MCSD
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.946 %)QA
22 (0.631 %)SLA
West Midlands IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.315 %)OpenSSO
West Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
154 (17.03 %)Microsoft
240 (12.62 %)Oracle
329 (9.148 %)SAP
417 (5.363 %)Adobe
514 (4.416 %)Business Objects
68 (2.524 %)Zend
74 (1.262 %)Kofax
74 (1.262 %)Thunderhead
74 (1.262 %)Cognos
74 (1.262 %)SunGard
74 (1.262 %)DataSynapse
83 (0.946 %)MicroStrategy
83 (0.946 %)Lotus
92 (0.631 %)IBM
92 (0.631 %)Google
101 (0.315 %)Ektron
101 (0.315 %)RedDot
101 (0.315 %)Teradata
101 (0.315 %)Open Text
101 (0.315 %)Apple