The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Wigan region. 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 23 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 Wigan region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 22 28 9
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 12 12 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 15.58% 9.375% 16.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.22% 9.375% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 6
Average salary £33,500 £26,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.84% -35.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Wigan
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
74 128 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 96.10% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 73 126 34
Average salary £30,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
Manchester

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wigan Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Wigan Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Wigan region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Wigan Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (79.17%) SQL
3 18 (75.00%) MVC
3 18 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 18 (75.00%) Visual Studio
3 18 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 18 (75.00%) LINQ
3 18 (75.00%) jQuery
4 17 (70.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 17 (70.83%) Scrum
4 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
5 13 (54.17%) Unit Testing
6 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (37.50%) Degree
7 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
8 8 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
8 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (33.33%) Mobile App
8 8 (33.33%) C
8 8 (33.33%) HTML
8 8 (33.33%) IIS
8 8 (33.33%) T-SQL
8 8 (33.33%) Web Development
8 8 (33.33%) CSS
9 5 (20.83%) XML
9 5 (20.83%) XSLT
9 5 (20.83%) .NET Framework
9 5 (20.83%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 18 (75.00%) LINQ
2 18 (75.00%) jQuery
3 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 8 (33.33%) HTML
3 8 (33.33%) CSS
4 5 (20.83%) XML
4 5 (20.83%) XSLT
4 5 (20.83%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.83%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (4.167%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 18 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 17 (70.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 8 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) MVC
1 18 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 17 (70.83%) Scrum
3 13 (54.17%) Unit Testing
4 8 (33.33%) Web Development
5 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (79.17%) SQL
3 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (33.33%) C
4 8 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Microsoft