I saw this data on developer jobs at http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?sortby=0&orderby=0&q=&id=1300&lid=2618 and thought it would make some interesting reading.
It shows:
- lots of demand around MS technologies and reasonable pay (average salary over £40K and about 3rd of the market is focused on MS specific skills)
- J2EE and Websphere pay/cost the most in terms of staff, but represent just 7.8% of the market demand, so if you are here, you are feeling good!!
- Old style HTML web jobs are dying in terms of pay (html, CSS, XHTML, JSP) and falling demand in terms of the number of jobs
- AJAX, the next great web dev scenario is not in high demand, which is a surprise to me
For those of you who like graphs, you can see the highest salaries for J2EE & Websphere people, but this is probably caused by the fact that there are so many fewer jobs, so rushing to get skilled in this area could severely weaken any salary advantage.
The chart above was created from the data below.
| Development Skill |
Average Salary |
Average salary change |
Number of Job Ads |
Percentage of all IT Job Ads |
| .NET |
£40,685 |
1.57% |
34623 |
15.72% |
| XML |
£40,624 |
-3.55% |
19978 |
9.07% |
| ASP.NET |
£37,046 |
0.98% |
16975 |
7.71% |
| HTML |
£34,228 |
-1.96% |
14740 |
6.69% |
| J2EE |
£49,061 |
1.28% |
13049 |
5.92% |
| CSS |
£32,981 |
0.71% |
9559 |
4.34% |
| WebServices |
£43,242 |
-0.60% |
6686 |
3.03% |
| JSP |
£42,265 |
-4.93% |
4761 |
2.16% |
| AJAX |
£37,246 |
-4.56% |
4739 |
2.15% |
| WebSphere |
£50,239 |
3.81% |
4311 |
1.96% |
| XHTML |
£32,747 |
-0.03% |
3848 |
1.75% |
ttfn
David
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Posted
Wed, Dec 5 2007 3:55 PM
by
David Overton