The first table below looks at the demand for the Embedded Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Embedded Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Software Engineer
Rank 204 176 207
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Software Engineer 15 46 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.288% 0.747% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.306% 0.791% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 3
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £26,800 £40,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £55,500 £44,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Embedded Software Engineer
South East

Embedded Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Embedded Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Embedded Software Engineer Salary Trend

Embedded Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newbury +19 11 £42,500 -1.16%
Reading -13 1 £41,500 -2.35%
Slough -22 1 £42,500 -26.08%
Bracknell - 1 £34,000 -
Embedded Software Engineer
South East

Embedded Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Embedded Software Engineer 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title.

1 36 (100.00%) C
2 35 (97.22%) Embedded C
3 33 (91.67%) Linux
4 32 (88.89%) C++
5 25 (69.44%) Windows
6 24 (66.67%) Device Driver
7 21 (58.33%) Embedded C++
8 20 (55.56%) Firmware
9 18 (50.00%) Clustering
9 18 (50.00%) SNMP
10 17 (47.22%) SAS
10 17 (47.22%) Flash
10 17 (47.22%) FreeBSD
10 17 (47.22%) SSL
10 17 (47.22%) FIX Protocol
10 17 (47.22%) iSCSI
10 17 (47.22%) Fibre Channel
10 17 (47.22%) Big Data
11 10 (27.78%) GSM
12 8 (22.22%) Degree
13 7 (19.44%) ZigBee
13 7 (19.44%) Windows CE
13 7 (19.44%) VxWorks
13 7 (19.44%) ThreadX
13 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (19.44%) Bluetooth
14 6 (16.67%) Electronics
14 6 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
15 5 (13.89%) STB
15 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering

Embedded Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Embedded Software Engineer 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (47.22%) Flash
1 17 (47.22%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (13.89%) Middleware
2 5 (13.89%) POSIX
2 5 (13.89%) XML
3 3 (8.333%) .NET
3 3 (8.333%) MFC
4 1 (2.778%) CSS
4 1 (2.778%) HTML
4 1 (2.778%) SVG
4 1 (2.778%) WebGL
Application Platforms
1 17 (47.22%) SAS
2 3 (8.333%) CM System
Communications & Networking
1 18 (50.00%) SNMP
2 17 (47.22%) SSL
2 17 (47.22%) iSCSI
2 17 (47.22%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (27.78%) GSM
4 7 (19.44%) ZigBee
4 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (19.44%) Bluetooth
5 5 (13.89%) DVB
5 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
6 4 (11.11%) Ethernet
7 3 (8.333%) GPRS
7 3 (8.333%) Wireless
8 1 (2.778%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.333%) ClearCase
1 3 (8.333%) PVCS
2 1 (2.778%) Subversion
General
1 6 (16.67%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 24 (66.67%) Device Driver
2 20 (55.56%) Firmware
3 18 (50.00%) Clustering
4 6 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (13.89%) STB
5 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.89%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 33 (91.67%) Linux
2 25 (69.44%) Windows
3 17 (47.22%) FreeBSD
4 7 (19.44%) Windows CE
4 7 (19.44%) VxWorks
4 7 (19.44%) ThreadX
5 1 (2.778%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.778%) Solaris
5 1 (2.778%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
2 3 (8.333%) UML
2 3 (8.333%) Configuration Management
2 3 (8.333%) Multithreading
2 3 (8.333%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (5.556%) Software Architecture
3 2 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (2.778%) OO
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C
2 35 (97.22%) Embedded C
3 32 (88.89%) C++
4 21 (58.33%) Embedded C++
5 5 (13.89%) Java
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (8.333%) Ada
7 3 (8.333%) Assembly Language
7 3 (8.333%) C#
8 1 (2.778%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (2.778%) NFS
Vendors
1 3 (8.333%) EMC
1 3 (8.333%) NEC
Reading, Thames Valley
Location: Reading, Berkshire An Embedded Software Engineer with Linux experience is required to work in an innovative media organisation based in the Reading vicinity. As the Embedded software...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £41000 per annum + Attractive Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Salary + Fantastic benefits incl pension, bonus & much moreDP Connect, an industry award winning recruitment company, have a fantastic opportunity for a talented Embedded Software Engineer to join a...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Fantastic benefits incl pension
Posted: 9 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Embedded C, Embedded Software, Firmware, C/C++, FreeBSD Kernel, RTOS, Linux, Device drivers, PCIe, Fiber channel, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, Storage, Datacentre, SATA disks, Disk storage, R&D. This...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013