The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 31 11 28
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +17
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 5.405% 10.38% 1.481%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.602% 18.33% 2.667%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 2
Average salary £47,500 £27,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+72.72% -35.29%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
93 60 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 62.84% 56.60% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 72 59 66
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £27,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Abingdon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Abingdon Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 8 (80.00%) SQL
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) IIS
1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
1 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
1 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (80.00%) C#
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) XHTML
1 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
1 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 8 (80.00%) Internet
1 8 (80.00%) Extranet
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 8 (80.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (30.00%) Business Development
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (20.00%) sed
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) STL
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (80.00%) XHTML
2 2 (20.00%) STL
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
1 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
1 8 (80.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Internet
1 8 (80.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Systems Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Business Development
2 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) sed
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (20.00%) AWK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft