Worcestershire Software Developer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs within the Worcestershire 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 20 August 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 Barnsley Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Batley 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 Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ellesmere Port 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 Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	28
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	38	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	9.026 %	5.990 %
Salaries quoted	36	22
Average minimum salary	£29,667	£28,455
Average salary	£32,300	£30,932
% change on same period last year	+4.42 %
Average maximum salary	£34,933	£33,409
UK excluding London average salary	£33,168	£33,377
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Job Titles Worcestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	421	384
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.160 %
Salaries quoted	372	346
Average minimum salary	£30,145	£29,637
Average salary	£32,511	£31,456
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Average maximum salary	£34,877	£33,275
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Software Developer West Midlands

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Worcester	+2	21	£34,350	+9.15 %
Kidderminster	-	9	£35,000	-
Redditch	+3	3	£25,750	+3.00 %

Software Developer West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 79 (80.61 %) .NET 2 76 (77.55 %) C# 3 57 (58.16 %) ASP.NET 4 51 (52.04 %) VB.NET 5 50 (51.02 %) Degree 6 48 (48.98 %) Windows 7 44 (44.90 %) Finance 8 38 (38.78 %) JavaScript 9 36 (36.73 %) C++ 9 36 (36.73 %) Java 10 35 (35.71 %) Web Development 11 24 (24.49 %) SQL Server 12 13 (13.27 %) SQL 13 12 (12.24 %) AJAX 14 11 (11.22 %) SQL Server 2005

14 11 (11.22 %) Mathematics 14 11 (11.22 %) Oracle 15 10 (10.20 %) SQL Server 2000 16 9 (9.184 %) Data Modelling 16 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 8 (8.163 %) Performance Management 17 8 (8.163 %) Microsoft 17 8 (8.163 %) MFC 18 7 (7.143 %) HTML 18 7 (7.143 %) WinForms 18 7 (7.143 %) Pensions 19 6 (6.122 %) SCADA 19 6 (6.122 %) Linux 20 5 (5.102 %) OO 20 5 (5.102 %) VB

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 79 (80.61 %) .NET 2 57 (58.16 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (12.24 %) AJAX 4 8 (8.163 %) MFC 5 7 (7.143 %) HTML 5 7 (7.143 %) WinForms 6 4 (4.082 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 3 (3.061 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (3.061 %) CSS 8 2 (2.041 %) ASP 8 2 (2.041 %) WCF 8 2 (2.041 %) Silverlight 9 1 (1.020 %) Drupal 9 1 (1.020 %) WPF 9 1 (1.020 %) WF 9 1 (1.020 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (1.020 %) JSON 9 1 (1.020 %) DAO 9 1 (1.020 %) STL 9 1 (1.020 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.020 %) IIS 1 1 (1.020 %) Apache 1 1 (1.020 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.020 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.041 %) GPRS 2 1 (1.020 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (24.49 %) SQL Server 2 11 (11.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (10.20 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (4.082 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (1.020 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.020 %) GIS 6 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.020 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) Visual Studio
General 1 44 (44.90 %) Finance 2 7 (7.143 %) Pensions 3 5 (5.102 %) Health 4 4 (4.082 %) Pharmaceutical 4 4 (4.082 %) Telecoms 5 3 (3.061 %) Banking 5 3 (3.061 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.020 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.020 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.020 %) Education 6 1 (1.020 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 11 (11.22 %) Mathematics 2 6 (6.122 %) SCADA 3 3 (3.061 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.020 %) Firmware 4 1 (1.020 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 48 (48.98 %) Windows 2 6 (6.122 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (35.71 %) Web Development 2 9 (9.184 %) Data Modelling 3 8 (8.163 %) Performance Management 4 5 (5.102 %) OO 5 3 (3.061 %) Business Intelligence 5 3 (3.061 %) Strategic Management 6 2 (2.041 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (2.041 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (2.041 %) UML 7 1 (1.020 %) OOP 7 1 (1.020 %) RAD 7 1 (1.020 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.020 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (1.020 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.020 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.020 %) Business Development 7 1 (1.020 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 76 (77.55 %) C# 2 51 (52.04 %) VB.NET 3 38 (38.78 %) JavaScript 4 36 (36.73 %) C++ 4 36 (36.73 %) Java 5 13 (13.27 %) SQL 6 5 (5.102 %) VB 7 4 (4.082 %) VC++ 7 4 (4.082 %) C 8 2 (2.041 %) Delphi 8 2 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (2.041 %) PHP 8 2 (2.041 %) VB6 9 1 (1.020 %) Embedded C 9 1 (1.020 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 50 (51.02 %) Degree 2 2 (2.041 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 11 (11.22 %) Oracle 2 8 (8.163 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.020 %) Cisco