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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 48 52 62
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 29 36 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 3.299% 3.561% 2.118%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.440% 3.789% 2.178%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 22
Average salary £36,000 £39,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,900 £39,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
843 950 1056
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 95.90% 93.97% 97.24%
Number of salaries quoted 758 813 962
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
South West

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Wiltshire Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Swindon +7 22 £35,000 -10.25%
Chippenham +8 4 £40,000 +23.07%
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 £37,500 -
Software Developer
South West

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 51 (67.11%) SQL
2 50 (65.79%) OO
3 48 (63.16%) Linux
3 48 (63.16%) PHP
4 40 (52.63%) Apache
5 39 (51.32%) C++
5 39 (51.32%) MySQL
5 39 (51.32%) LAMP
6 38 (50.00%) Oracle
7 37 (48.68%) QA
8 35 (46.05%) SOA
9 33 (43.42%) C
10 31 (40.79%) Automated Testing
11 27 (35.53%) C#
12 25 (32.89%) .NET
12 25 (32.89%) Finance
12 25 (32.89%) Integration Testing
13 24 (31.58%) DSDM
13 24 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (27.63%) Configuration Management
15 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
15 15 (19.74%) Degree
16 14 (18.42%) Agile Software Development
17 13 (17.11%) Windows
18 11 (14.47%) ASP.NET
18 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
19 9 (11.84%) Telecoms
19 9 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
20 8 (10.53%) Retail
20 8 (10.53%) JavaScript

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (51.32%) LAMP
2 25 (32.89%) .NET
3 11 (14.47%) ASP.NET
4 7 (9.211%) HTML
4 7 (9.211%) XML
4 7 (9.211%) WCF
5 5 (6.579%) MFC
5 5 (6.579%) STL
5 5 (6.579%) Web Services
5 5 (6.579%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.263%) XSLT
7 3 (3.947%) ASP
7 3 (3.947%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.632%) WinForms
8 2 (2.632%) ZK
8 2 (2.632%) JPA
8 2 (2.632%) JDBC
9 1 (1.316%) HTML5
9 1 (1.316%) JMS
9 1 (1.316%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 40 (52.63%) Apache
2 3 (3.947%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.632%) IIS
4 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.316%) MS Project
2 1 (1.316%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.316%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.316%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (51.32%) MySQL
2 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.316%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.316%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.211%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.947%) JUnit
3 2 (2.632%) Subversion
3 2 (2.632%) Selenium
3 2 (2.632%) TestNG
3 2 (2.632%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.632%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.316%) Ant
General
1 25 (32.89%) Finance
2 9 (11.84%) Telecoms
3 8 (10.53%) Retail
4 3 (3.947%) Marketing
5 1 (1.316%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.211%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.632%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.632%) Open Source
3 2 (2.632%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.316%) iPad
4 1 (1.316%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.316%) Social Network
4 1 (1.316%) STB
Operating Systems
1 48 (63.16%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.316%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (65.79%) OO
2 35 (46.05%) SOA
3 31 (40.79%) Automated Testing
4 25 (32.89%) Integration Testing
5 24 (31.58%) DSDM
6 21 (27.63%) Configuration Management
7 14 (18.42%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.263%) Unit Testing
11 3 (3.947%) PRINCE2
11 3 (3.947%) MVC
11 3 (3.947%) TDD
12 2 (2.632%) Digital Marketing
12 2 (2.632%) Web Analytics
12 2 (2.632%) Performance Management
12 2 (2.632%) UML
12 2 (2.632%) ETL
12 2 (2.632%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (2.632%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (67.11%) SQL
2 48 (63.16%) PHP
3 39 (51.32%) C++
4 33 (43.42%) C
5 27 (35.53%) C#
6 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.895%) Java
8 5 (6.579%) Perl
9 4 (5.263%) PHP5
9 4 (5.263%) VB
10 3 (3.947%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.632%) Erlang
11 2 (2.632%) Groovy
11 2 (2.632%) Scala
11 2 (2.632%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.632%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.632%) Bash shell
12 1 (1.316%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (48.68%) QA
Vendors
1 38 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (7.895%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.316%) JBoss
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