The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 207 200 175
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 13 23 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.243% 0.371% 0.651%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.259% 0.393% 0.689%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 33
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £37,500 £40,700
10% offered a salary of more than £59,250 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.32% +1.17%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5018 5848 5077
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 93.90% 94.31% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4020 4914 4250
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £27,500 £25,500
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%
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Berkshire Senior Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Vacancies
Reading +6 10 £51,250 +2.50% 2
Maidenhead 0 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £45,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 23 (58.97%) C++
2 17 (43.59%) Degree
3 15 (38.46%) Java
4 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (35.90%) Linux
4 14 (35.90%) Computer Science
5 11 (28.21%) Windows
6 9 (23.08%) ClearCase
6 9 (23.08%) MySQL
7 8 (20.51%) SQL
7 8 (20.51%) HTML
7 8 (20.51%) CSS
7 8 (20.51%) UNIX
7 8 (20.51%) Ruby
7 8 (20.51%) Finance
7 8 (20.51%) Multithreading
8 7 (17.95%) jQuery
8 7 (17.95%) Oracle
8 7 (17.95%) OOD
9 6 (15.38%) .NET
9 6 (15.38%) C#
9 6 (15.38%) STL
9 6 (15.38%) Web Services
9 6 (15.38%) Ajax
9 6 (15.38%) QA
9 6 (15.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 6 (15.38%) Big Data
10 5 (12.82%) HTML5
10 5 (12.82%) ZeroMQ
10 5 (12.82%) User Experience Design

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (20.51%) HTML
1 8 (20.51%) CSS
2 7 (17.95%) jQuery
3 6 (15.38%) Ajax
3 6 (15.38%) .NET
3 6 (15.38%) STL
3 6 (15.38%) Web Services
3 6 (15.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 5 (12.82%) HTML5
4 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 5 (12.82%) ZeroMQ
4 5 (12.82%) XML
4 5 (12.82%) JSP
5 4 (10.26%) SOAP
5 4 (10.26%) J2EE
5 4 (10.26%) JMX
5 4 (10.26%) Node.js
6 3 (7.692%) Swing
6 3 (7.692%) Flash
6 3 (7.692%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) SAS
2 2 (5.128%) ArcGIS
2 2 (5.128%) Apache
2 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.564%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) 3GPP
1 5 (12.82%) UMTS
1 5 (12.82%) WCDMA
1 5 (12.82%) 3G
2 3 (7.692%) NAS
2 3 (7.692%) SSL
3 2 (5.128%) FTP
3 2 (5.128%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MySQL
2 6 (15.38%) Big Data
3 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.128%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.128%) GIS
5 1 (2.564%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.564%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) ClearCase
2 4 (10.26%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.26%) Git (software)
3 3 (7.692%) Selenium
3 3 (7.692%) Subversion
4 2 (5.128%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.564%) Ant
5 1 (2.564%) Maven
General
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.26%) Electronics
4 2 (5.128%) Military
5 1 (2.564%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.564%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Computer Science
2 3 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.692%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.692%) Clustering
2 3 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (7.692%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.128%) Firmware
3 2 (5.128%) Social Media
4 1 (2.564%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.564%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 11 (28.21%) Windows
3 8 (20.51%) UNIX
4 4 (10.26%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.564%) Android
5 1 (2.564%) Windows Phone 8
5 1 (2.564%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Multithreading
2 7 (17.95%) OOD
3 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
3 5 (12.82%) Project Management
3 5 (12.82%) OO
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
3 5 (12.82%) Web Development
3 5 (12.82%) User Experience Design
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Testing
4 4 (10.26%) TDD
4 4 (10.26%) MVC
5 3 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.692%) Metaprogramming
6 2 (5.128%) Web Application Development
6 2 (5.128%) Software Testing
6 2 (5.128%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.128%) UML
7 1 (2.564%) OOP
7 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.564%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) C++
2 15 (38.46%) Java
3 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 8 (20.51%) Ruby
5 6 (15.38%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) C
6 5 (12.82%) Scala
6 5 (12.82%) PHP
6 5 (12.82%) Python
7 4 (10.26%) Perl
8 2 (5.128%) Embedded C
8 2 (5.128%) VB.NET
9 1 (2.564%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (43.59%) Degree
2 3 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.128%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.128%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.564%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.128%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 3 (7.692%) JBoss
2 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.692%) Hitachi
2 3 (7.692%) Teradata
2 3 (7.692%) Aprimo
3 2 (5.128%) ESRI
3 2 (5.128%) Progress
4 1 (2.564%) Sybase
4 1 (2.564%) Apple
4 1 (2.564%) Sun
4 1 (2.564%) Zend
Reading, Berkshire
The successful Senior C# / ASP.Net software engineer will have a strong record of academic achievement (good degree in Software engineering, Computer Science or related) and 5+ years...
Tindall IT Resourcing
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum GBP 55k +Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
As the Senior Software Engineer you will need to demonstrate strong experience within MySQL, unix and multi-threading... 3+ years' experience with C++ including STL and Boost. Experience...
bridgenoble
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013