Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT jobs within the Berkshire 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
7 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank11
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads12452110
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.072 %1.077 %
As % of the category below21.59 %20.55 %
Salaries quoted11001819
Average minimum salary£35,419£34,358
Average salary£38,955£37,977
% change on same period last year+2.57 %
Average maximum salary£42,491£41,596
UK excluding London average salary£34,103£34,117
% change on same period last year-0.04 %
Berkshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads576610267
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled4.964 %5.243 %
Salaries quoted47938392
Average minimum salary£38,827£37,991
Average salary£42,190£41,638
% change on same period last year+1.32 %
Average maximum salary£45,553£45,284
UK excluding London average salary£38,504£39,019
% change on same period last year-1.32 %
Developer South EastDeveloper
South East

Developer
Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Developer Salary Trend

Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Developer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

Berkshire Developer Salary Histogram

Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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
ReadingNo change0370£39,275+3.57 %
NewburyNo change0152£45,185+26.32 %
WokinghamUp+8118£29,000-12.33 %
SloughDown-3114£36,046-3.19 %
MaidenheadDown-267£38,959+0.27 %
WindsorNo change058£37,698+15.71 %
BracknellUp+348£34,023-13.27 %
AscotUp+718£44,611+11.52 %
HungerfordNew entry-5£27,500-
CrowthorneNo change01£27,500-15.67 %
Developer South EastDeveloper
South East

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

11329 (45.95 %).NET
21002 (34.65 %)C#
3987 (34.13 %)SQL Server
4920 (31.81 %)ASP.NET
5858 (29.67 %)Java
6852 (29.46 %)XML
7841 (29.08 %)SQL
8765 (26.45 %)JavaScript
9760 (26.28 %)HTML
10592 (20.47 %)CSS
11427 (14.76 %)Oracle
12399 (13.80 %)OO
13391 (13.52 %)AJAX
14371 (12.83 %)C++
15366 (12.66 %)J2EE
16334 (11.55 %)Microsoft
17326 (11.27 %)Windows
18316 (10.93 %)VB.NET
19298 (10.30 %)ASP
19298 (10.30 %)Finance
20290 (10.03 %)SQL Server 2005
21289 (9.993 %)Degree
22286 (9.889 %)Linux
23285 (9.855 %)VB
24281 (9.716 %)XHTML
25273 (9.440 %)WebServices
26253 (8.748 %)PHP
27250 (8.645 %)UNIX
28247 (8.541 %)MySQL
29235 (8.126 %)C

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Berkshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11329 (45.95 %).NET
2920 (31.81 %)ASP.NET
3852 (29.46 %)XML
4760 (26.28 %)HTML
5592 (20.47 %)CSS
6391 (13.52 %)AJAX
7366 (12.66 %)J2EE
8298 (10.30 %)ASP
9281 (9.716 %)XHTML
10273 (9.440 %)WebServices
11189 (6.535 %)XSLT
12170 (5.878 %).NET Framework
13155 (5.360 %)Flash
14147 (5.083 %)Hibernate
15139 (4.806 %)JSP
16128 (4.426 %)Spring
17104 (3.596 %)J2SE
18103 (3.562 %)Struts
19100 (3.458 %)Servlets
2096 (3.320 %)WinForms
Berkshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1143 (4.945 %)SharePoint
2105 (3.631 %)Apache
391 (3.147 %)SharePoint Server 2007
474 (2.559 %)Tomcat
555 (1.902 %)IIS
651 (1.763 %)Movable Type
750 (1.729 %)JBoss
750 (1.729 %)WebLogic
843 (1.487 %)CMS
941 (1.418 %)CICS
1036 (1.245 %)Mambo
1133 (1.141 %)WebLogic Portal
1228 (0.968 %)Lotus Domino
1320 (0.692 %)BizTalk Server
1417 (0.588 %)MS Exchange
1417 (0.588 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1516 (0.553 %)ColdFusion
1615 (0.519 %)Exchange Server 2000
1714 (0.484 %)Lotus Notes
1813 (0.450 %)LiveLink
Berkshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1207 (7.158 %)MS Excel
292 (3.181 %)MS Office
389 (3.077 %)MS Visio
429 (1.003 %)Photoshop
513 (0.450 %)Fireworks
612 (0.415 %)InfoPath
711 (0.380 %)Adobe Illustrator
86 (0.207 %)FrameMaker
92 (0.069 %)MS PowerPoint
101 (0.035 %)Paint Shop Pro
101 (0.035 %)3ds Max
101 (0.035 %)Adobe After Effects
Berkshire IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
130 (1.037 %)Oracle Applications
225 (0.864 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
314 (0.484 %)Oracle Financials
413 (0.450 %)Oracle 11i
413 (0.450 %)Oracle EBS
413 (0.450 %)Oracle EBS R12
511 (0.380 %)Google Analytics
511 (0.380 %)Dynamics AX
69 (0.311 %)WebTrends
77 (0.242 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
86 (0.207 %)Navision
93 (0.104 %)Applix TM1
93 (0.104 %)Dynamics NAV
93 (0.104 %)Dynamics CRM
93 (0.104 %)Summit
102 (0.069 %)JDE OneWorld
102 (0.069 %)Microsoft CRM
102 (0.069 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
102 (0.069 %)Cognos Planning
111 (0.035 %)Great Plains
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1124 (4.288 %)Internet
281 (2.801 %)Intranet
363 (2.178 %)Wireless
457 (1.971 %)TCP/IP
527 (0.934 %)HTTP
624 (0.830 %)CTI
624 (0.830 %)VoIP
721 (0.726 %)SMTP
820 (0.692 %)WAN
820 (0.692 %)GSM
916 (0.553 %)GPRS
916 (0.553 %)DNS
916 (0.553 %)SAN
1015 (0.519 %)FTP
1015 (0.519 %)Extranet
1015 (0.519 %)SMS
1114 (0.484 %)UMTS
1114 (0.484 %)SNMP
129 (0.311 %)SMPP
137 (0.242 %)3G
Berkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1987 (34.13 %)SQL Server
2290 (10.03 %)SQL Server 2005
3247 (8.541 %)MySQL
4155 (5.360 %)SQL Server 2000
587 (3.008 %)RDBMS
686 (2.974 %)Datawarehouse
769 (2.386 %)SQL Server Integration Services
859 (2.040 %)Crystal Reports
953 (1.833 %)Oracle 10g
1052 (1.798 %)Oracle 8/8i
1142 (1.452 %)Oracle 9i
1240 (1.383 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1338 (1.314 %)ETL
1432 (1.107 %)SQL Server 2008
1531 (1.072 %)DTS
1531 (1.072 %)MS Access
1630 (1.037 %)Oracle Reports
1724 (0.830 %)Data Mining
1724 (0.830 %)PerformancePoint
1821 (0.726 %)BusinessObjects
Berkshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1159 (5.498 %)Visual Studio
2122 (4.219 %)Eclipse
381 (2.801 %)Ant
454 (1.867 %)Dreamweaver
538 (1.314 %)Subversion
627 (0.934 %)NUnit
722 (0.761 %)VSS/SourceSafe
820 (0.692 %)JUnit
918 (0.622 %)MSI
1017 (0.588 %)Oracle Forms
1113 (0.450 %)InstallShield
1211 (0.380 %)Rational Rose
138 (0.277 %)JDeveloper
145 (0.173 %)IntelliJ
153 (0.104 %)InterDev
162 (0.069 %)WebSpeed
162 (0.069 %)Oracle APEX
162 (0.069 %)Flex Builder
162 (0.069 %)ProC
162 (0.069 %)ClearCase
Berkshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1298 (10.30 %)Finance
2159 (5.498 %)Marketing
3146 (5.048 %)Pensions
4142 (4.910 %)Telecoms
5121 (4.184 %)Health
6107 (3.700 %)Education
787 (3.008 %)Insurance
880 (2.766 %)Retail
960 (2.075 %)Banking
1049 (1.694 %)Graphic Design
1138 (1.314 %)Government
1234 (1.176 %)Games
1234 (1.176 %)Multimedia
1329 (1.003 %)Pharmaceutical
1329 (1.003 %)Automotive
1426 (0.899 %)Investment Banking
1523 (0.795 %)Online Games
1622 (0.761 %)Manufacturing
1720 (0.692 %)Music
1819 (0.657 %)FMCG
Berkshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1148 (5.118 %)Computer Science
287 (3.008 %)W3C
357 (1.971 %)IVR
439 (1.349 %)Handset
527 (0.934 %)Mainframe
623 (0.795 %)Flash Lite
721 (0.726 %)Client/Server
721 (0.726 %)N-Tier
820 (0.692 %)Mathematics
917 (0.588 %)Speech Recognition
1015 (0.519 %)IPTV
1015 (0.519 %)Device Driver
1015 (0.519 %)E-Learning
1114 (0.484 %)Physics
1213 (0.450 %)Web 2.0
1213 (0.450 %)RIA
1310 (0.346 %)Multithreading
1310 (0.346 %)Streaming Media
149 (0.311 %)IBM Mainframe
157 (0.242 %)Management Information System
Berkshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1326 (11.27 %)Windows
2286 (9.889 %)Linux
3250 (8.645 %)UNIX
461 (2.109 %)Windows XP
555 (1.902 %)Windows Server 2003
642 (1.452 %)Windows 2000
740 (1.383 %)zOS
833 (1.141 %)Windows Mobile
929 (1.003 %)Solaris
1025 (0.864 %)Red Hat Linux
1121 (0.726 %)Windows CE
1218 (0.622 %)Embedded Linux
135 (0.173 %)Windows Vista
135 (0.173 %)Windows 2000 Server
135 (0.173 %)CentOS
135 (0.173 %)AIX
142 (0.069 %)VxWorks
151 (0.035 %)Mac OS X
Berkshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1399 (13.80 %)OO
2213 (7.365 %)Web Development
3144 (4.979 %)Agile Software Development
4143 (4.945 %)UML
5129 (4.461 %)Content Management
6122 (4.219 %)OOP
7106 (3.665 %)E-Commerce
8103 (3.562 %)Migration
994 (3.250 %)Business Intelligence
1087 (3.008 %)Scrum
1179 (2.732 %)CRM
1269 (2.386 %)Software Engineering
1363 (2.178 %)OOD
1462 (2.144 %)Web Design
1538 (1.314 %)Document Management
1634 (1.176 %)Business Development
1634 (1.176 %)ERP
1731 (1.072 %)TDD
1830 (1.037 %)Workflow
1929 (1.003 %)Project Management
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11002 (34.65 %)C#
2858 (29.67 %)Java
3841 (29.08 %)SQL
4765 (26.45 %)JavaScript
5371 (12.83 %)C++
6316 (10.93 %)VB.NET
7285 (9.855 %)VB
8253 (8.748 %)PHP
9235 (8.126 %)C
10133 (4.599 %)PL/SQL
11114 (3.942 %)VBScript
12113 (3.907 %)COBOL
1395 (3.285 %)ActionScript
1485 (2.939 %)VB6
1577 (2.663 %)Transact-SQL
1674 (2.559 %)Perl
1733 (1.141 %)JCL
1829 (1.003 %)VBA
1927 (0.934 %)Embedded C
2025 (0.864 %)Shell Script
Berkshire IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1289 (9.993 %)Degree
292 (3.181 %)Microsoft Certification
365 (2.248 %)MCP
447 (1.625 %)MCAD
546 (1.591 %)MCSD
641 (1.418 %)Security Cleared
728 (0.968 %)MCTS
820 (0.692 %)MCPD
919 (0.657 %)PhD
1018 (0.622 %)SC Cleared
115 (0.173 %)DV Cleared
115 (0.173 %)Sun Certification
115 (0.173 %)MCITP
115 (0.173 %)Oracle Certification
124 (0.138 %)OCP
132 (0.069 %)PRINCE2 Certification
141 (0.035 %)OCA
141 (0.035 %)HND
141 (0.035 %)MCDBA
141 (0.035 %)MySQL Certification
Berkshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
125 (0.864 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
223 (0.795 %)ISO9001
315 (0.519 %)TickIT
412 (0.415 %)WCAG
58 (0.277 %)QA
63 (0.104 %)JTAG
72 (0.069 %)SLA
72 (0.069 %)WAI
Berkshire IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
143 (1.487 %)Active Directory
25 (0.173 %)Oracle RMAN
25 (0.173 %)Oracle RAC
32 (0.069 %)Citrix Presentation Server
41 (0.035 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (0.035 %)MSMQ
41 (0.035 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
41 (0.035 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.035 %)NetBackup
Berkshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (0.311 %)MIIS
23 (0.104 %)Netcool
32 (0.069 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
32 (0.069 %)Netcool/Webtop
41 (0.035 %)ServiceCenter
41 (0.035 %)OpenView Configuration Management
Berkshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1427 (14.76 %)Oracle
2334 (11.55 %)Microsoft
388 (3.043 %)IBM
449 (1.694 %)SAP
449 (1.694 %)Cognos
541 (1.418 %)BEA
639 (1.349 %)Adobe
736 (1.245 %)FatWire
826 (0.899 %)JD Edwards
925 (0.864 %)Red Hat
1023 (0.795 %)Lotus
1023 (0.795 %)ProClarity
1121 (0.726 %)Business Objects
1219 (0.657 %)Ericsson
1316 (0.553 %)Sun
1414 (0.484 %)Micro Focus
1513 (0.450 %)Sage
1513 (0.450 %)Google
1513 (0.450 %)Sybase
1610 (0.346 %)PeopleSoft