Developer Jobs in Dorset

Developer
South West > Dorset

The median Developer salary in Dorset is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 185 111 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 14.90% 16.95% 32.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.69% 20.52% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 175 106 213
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,625 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 1,179 541 771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 82.60% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 701 343 576
10th Percentile £27,050 £32,100 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Salary Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Dorset.

Salary trend for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Dorset over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Dorset

Developer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth -6 112 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Poole -3 30 £52,625 +0.24% 3
Wimborne -1 10 £32,500 +8.33%
Ferndown - 7 £32,500 - 1
Weymouth - 1 £47,500 -
Developer
South West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 95 (51.35%) JavaScript
2 72 (38.92%) PHP
2 72 (38.92%) HTML
3 68 (36.76%) Full Stack Development
4 66 (35.68%) CSS
5 54 (29.19%) MySQL
5 54 (29.19%) Laravel
6 49 (26.49%) Agile
7 48 (25.95%) React
8 47 (25.41%) Web Development
9 43 (23.24%) LAMP
10 42 (22.70%) OOP
11 41 (22.16%) jQuery
12 39 (21.08%) .NET
13 37 (20.00%) Vue
14 34 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (16.76%) Scrum
16 30 (16.22%) C#
17 29 (15.68%) Front End Development
18 25 (13.51%) Git
18 25 (13.51%) CRM
18 25 (13.51%) Social Skills
19 24 (12.97%) MVC
20 23 (12.43%) Azure
21 22 (11.89%) AngularJS
22 21 (11.35%) CI/CD
23 20 (10.81%) TypeScript
24 19 (10.27%) Design Patterns
25 18 (9.73%) Mentoring
25 18 (9.73%) AWS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.11%) WordPress
2 7 (3.78%) Apache
3 3 (1.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.62%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Magento
2 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.43%) Azure
2 18 (9.73%) AWS
3 10 (5.41%) GitHub
4 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.24%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.16%) BigCommerce
7 4 (2.16%) Figma
7 4 (2.16%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.62%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.08%) npm
9 2 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.08%) SaaS
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.19%) MySQL
2 17 (9.19%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.16%) Essbase
6 3 (1.62%) Power BI
6 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Power Query
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (13.51%) Git
2 7 (3.78%) Subversion
3 6 (3.24%) webpack
4 5 (2.70%) JIRA
5 4 (2.16%) LabVIEW
5 4 (2.16%) Selenium
6 2 (1.08%) Grunt
6 2 (1.08%) Storybook
7 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.41%) Finance
3 8 (4.32%) Retail
4 7 (3.78%) Games
5 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.08%) Marketing
6 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.92%) HTML
2 66 (35.68%) CSS
3 54 (29.19%) Laravel
4 48 (25.95%) React
5 43 (23.24%) LAMP
6 41 (22.16%) jQuery
7 39 (21.08%) .NET
8 37 (20.00%) Vue
9 22 (11.89%) AngularJS
10 16 (8.65%) .NET Core
11 12 (6.49%) RESTful
12 11 (5.95%) ASP.NET
13 10 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (4.86%) Alpine.js
14 9 (4.86%) Node.js
14 9 (4.86%) Web Services
15 8 (4.32%) GraphQL
16 7 (3.78%) GatsbyJS
16 7 (3.78%) SVG
17 6 (3.24%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.78%) Animation
1 7 (3.78%) Low-Code
1 7 (3.78%) Video Editing
2 6 (3.24%) Client/Server
2 6 (3.24%) IoT
2 6 (3.24%) Life Science
2 6 (3.24%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.70%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.62%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.62%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.54%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.95%) Android
2 7 (3.78%) Linux
3 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.08%) Windows
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.76%) Full Stack Development
2 49 (26.49%) Agile
3 47 (25.41%) Web Development
4 42 (22.70%) OOP
5 34 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.76%) Scrum
7 29 (15.68%) Front End Development
8 25 (13.51%) CRM
9 24 (12.97%) MVC
10 21 (11.35%) CI/CD
11 19 (10.27%) Design Patterns
12 18 (9.73%) E-Commerce
12 18 (9.73%) Mentoring
13 16 (8.65%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (7.57%) Microservices
14 14 (7.57%) Project Management
15 13 (7.03%) Software Engineering
16 12 (6.49%) DevOps
17 10 (5.41%) Analytics
18 9 (4.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 95 (51.35%) JavaScript
2 72 (38.92%) PHP
3 30 (16.22%) C#
4 20 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.95%) Java
6 8 (4.32%) Python
7 7 (3.78%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.70%) SQL
9 3 (1.62%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.54%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.54%) Swift
10 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.32%) SC Cleared
1 8 (4.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.08%) Degree
2 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.54%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.62%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.86%) Xamarin
3 6 (3.24%) Google
4 5 (2.70%) Twitter
5 4 (2.16%) Adobe
5 4 (2.16%) Oracle
6 3 (1.62%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.08%) Apple
7 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Databricks