Berkshire Software Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chepstow Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport-on-Tay Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Teesside Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tyne and Wear UK Usk Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	55
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	290	420
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.187 %	0.188 %
As % of the category below	3.811 %	3.680 %
Salaries quoted	270	367
Average minimum salary	£34,785	£35,368
Average salary	£38,232	£39,456
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Average maximum salary	£41,680	£43,545
UK excluding London average salary	£36,127	£35,822
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	7610	11412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.910 %	5.108 %
Salaries quoted	6369	9337
Average minimum salary	£38,871	£38,405
Average salary	£42,272	£42,054
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum salary	£45,673	£45,703
UK excluding London average salary	£38,468	£39,125
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Software Engineer South East

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+5	113	£38,481	-2.28 %
Newbury	+17	38	£35,487	+7.44 %
Slough	0	31	£38,097	-8.87 %
Maidenhead	-6	20	£38,600	-9.73 %
Bracknell	+24	17	£38,094	-8.99 %
Wokingham	-9	5	£23,000	-44.76 %
Hungerford	-	1	£26,000	-

Software Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 339 (55.85 %) C++ 2 226 (37.23 %) Java 3 176 (29.00 %) C 4 163 (26.85 %) Linux 5 112 (18.45 %) OO 6 109 (17.96 %) Degree 7 105 (17.30 %) SQL 8 104 (17.13 %) Perl 9 102 (16.80 %) UNIX 10 98 (16.14 %) XML 11 88 (14.50 %) Windows 12 87 (14.33 %) .NET 12 87 (14.33 %) Python 13 86 (14.17 %) C# 14 80 (13.18 %) SQL Server

15 73 (12.03 %) Eclipse 16 72 (11.86 %) J2EE 17 67 (11.04 %) JavaScript 18 61 (10.05 %) Oracle 19 60 (9.885 %) Agile Software Development 20 58 (9.555 %) WebServices 21 55 (9.061 %) UML 21 55 (9.061 %) MySQL 22 53 (8.731 %) VB 23 51 (8.402 %) HTML 24 49 (8.072 %) Tomcat 25 45 (7.414 %) PHP 25 45 (7.414 %) OOD 26 44 (7.249 %) Apache 27 42 (6.919 %) XSLT

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 98 (16.14 %) XML 2 87 (14.33 %) .NET 3 72 (11.86 %) J2EE 4 58 (9.555 %) WebServices 5 51 (8.402 %) HTML 6 42 (6.919 %) XSLT 7 37 (6.096 %) ASP.NET 8 34 (5.601 %) Struts 9 33 (5.437 %) Hibernate 10 31 (5.107 %) ASP 11 29 (4.778 %) JSP 12 28 (4.613 %) CSS 13 27 (4.448 %) Servlets 13 27 (4.448 %) VXML 14 25 (4.119 %) EJB 15 24 (3.954 %) AJAX 16 23 (3.789 %) MVC 17 22 (3.624 %) XHTML 18 19 (3.130 %) EDI 19 18 (2.965 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 49 (8.072 %) Tomcat 2 44 (7.249 %) Apache 3 38 (6.260 %) JBoss 4 13 (2.142 %) IIS 5 4 (0.659 %) WebLogic 5 4 (0.659 %) SAS 6 2 (0.329 %) Oracle Application Server 6 2 (0.329 %) Oracle Spatial 7 1 (0.165 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (0.165 %) CICS 7 1 (0.165 %) WebSphere MQ 7 1 (0.165 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.165 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 11 (1.812 %) MS Excel 1 11 (1.812 %) MS Visio 2 3 (0.494 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (0.329 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.165 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 24 (3.954 %) TCP/IP 1 24 (3.954 %) Internet 2 18 (2.965 %) GSM 3 12 (1.977 %) VoIP 4 11 (1.812 %) SMTP 4 11 (1.812 %) UMTS 5 10 (1.647 %) HTTP 6 8 (1.318 %) IGMP 6 8 (1.318 %) NGN 7 7 (1.153 %) WAN 7 7 (1.153 %) LAN 8 5 (0.824 %) 3G 9 4 (0.659 %) SSL 9 4 (0.659 %) SNMP 10 3 (0.494 %) FTP 10 3 (0.494 %) POP3 10 3 (0.494 %) 3GPP 10 3 (0.494 %) iSCSI 11 2 (0.329 %) RTSP 11 2 (0.329 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 80 (13.18 %) SQL Server 2 55 (9.061 %) MySQL 3 19 (3.130 %) Datawarehouse 4 9 (1.483 %) MS Access 5 7 (1.153 %) DB2 5 7 (1.153 %) PostgreSQL 5 7 (1.153 %) SQL Server 2005 6 6 (0.988 %) SQL Server 2000 7 3 (0.494 %) RDBMS 8 2 (0.329 %) Informix 8 2 (0.329 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.329 %) GIS 9 1 (0.165 %) Hyperion Essbase 9 1 (0.165 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 73 (12.03 %) Eclipse 2 36 (5.931 %) Visual Studio 3 31 (5.107 %) Subversion 4 18 (2.965 %) Ant 5 10 (1.647 %) Flash 6 7 (1.153 %) ClearQuest 7 6 (0.988 %) ClearCase 8 4 (0.659 %) Rational Rose 9 3 (0.494 %) RequisitePro 10 2 (0.329 %) yacc 11 1 (0.165 %) TestPartner 11 1 (0.165 %) Oracle Forms 11 1 (0.165 %) WinRunner 11 1 (0.165 %) TestDirector 11 1 (0.165 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 41 (6.755 %) Telecoms 2 37 (6.096 %) Retail 3 32 (5.272 %) FMCG 4 30 (4.942 %) Electronics 5 25 (4.119 %) Finance 6 22 (3.624 %) Education 7 20 (3.295 %) Pensions 8 18 (2.965 %) Government 9 10 (1.647 %) Law 10 9 (1.483 %) Military 11 7 (1.153 %) Advertising 11 7 (1.153 %) Health 12 6 (0.988 %) Pharmaceutical 13 5 (0.824 %) Aerospace 13 5 (0.824 %) Insurance 14 4 (0.659 %) Manufacturing 14 4 (0.659 %) Construction 14 4 (0.659 %) Electric 14 4 (0.659 %) Police 15 3 (0.494 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 32 (5.272 %) IPTV 2 27 (4.448 %) IVR 3 26 (4.283 %) Computer Science 4 21 (3.460 %) Data Integration 5 18 (2.965 %) Client/Server 6 17 (2.801 %) Thin Client 6 17 (2.801 %) Fat Client 7 16 (2.636 %) Mathematics 8 15 (2.471 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 9 13 (2.142 %) Physics 10 12 (1.977 %) DTV 11 10 (1.647 %) Management Information System 12 9 (1.483 %) N-Tier 13 8 (1.318 %) Multithreading 14 7 (1.153 %) RIA 14 7 (1.153 %) W3C 14 7 (1.153 %) Device Driver 15 6 (0.988 %) Handset 15 6 (0.988 %) Artificial Intelligence 16 5 (0.824 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 163 (26.85 %) Linux 2 102 (16.80 %) UNIX 3 88 (14.50 %) Windows 4 28 (4.613 %) VxWorks 5 23 (3.789 %) Solaris 5 23 (3.789 %) Embedded Linux 6 7 (1.153 %) Windows XP 7 4 (0.659 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (0.659 %) SUSE 7 4 (0.659 %) Debian 7 4 (0.659 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (0.659 %) FreeBSD 7 4 (0.659 %) Red Hat Linux 8 3 (0.494 %) Windows Vista 8 3 (0.494 %) Windows NT 8 3 (0.494 %) AIX 8 3 (0.494 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.165 %) Nucleus RTOS 9 1 (0.165 %) ThreadX 9 1 (0.165 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 112 (18.45 %) OO 2 60 (9.885 %) Agile Software Development 3 55 (9.061 %) UML 4 45 (7.414 %) OOD 5 39 (6.425 %) Web Development 5 39 (6.425 %) Security Cleared 6 28 (4.613 %) SOA 6 28 (4.613 %) Software Engineering 7 27 (4.448 %) Technical Architecture 8 26 (4.283 %) Unit Testing 9 22 (3.624 %) Data Management 10 21 (3.460 %) Migration 10 21 (3.460 %) Data Migration 11 17 (2.801 %) Configuration Management 11 17 (2.801 %) Project Management 12 11 (1.812 %) Requirements Analysis 13 7 (1.153 %) E-Commerce 13 7 (1.153 %) Test Scripting 14 6 (0.988 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 6 (0.988 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 339 (55.85 %) C++ 2 226 (37.23 %) Java 3 176 (29.00 %) C 4 105 (17.30 %) SQL 5 104 (17.13 %) Perl 6 87 (14.33 %) Python 7 86 (14.17 %) C# 8 67 (11.04 %) JavaScript 9 53 (8.731 %) VB 10 45 (7.414 %) PHP 11 31 (5.107 %) Embedded C 11 31 (5.107 %) Ruby 11 31 (5.107 %) XPath 12 29 (4.778 %) VBScript 13 25 (4.119 %) Assembly Language 14 16 (2.636 %) Embedded C++ 15 15 (2.471 %) Delphi 16 11 (1.812 %) VB.NET 16 11 (1.812 %) VB6 17 9 (1.483 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 109 (17.96 %) Degree 2 18 (2.965 %) PhD 3 3 (0.494 %) HND 4 2 (0.329 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (2.965 %) QA 2 7 (1.153 %) WCAG 3 1 (0.165 %) GAMP 3 1 (0.165 %) JTAG
System Software 1 7 (1.153 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.165 %) MOM 1 1 (0.165 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 61 (10.05 %) Oracle 2 28 (4.613 %) Microsoft 3 7 (1.153 %) Sybase 3 7 (1.153 %) Mapinfo 4 4 (0.659 %) Red Hat 5 2 (0.329 %) NEC 5 2 (0.329 %) Anite 5 2 (0.329 %) Symbian 5 2 (0.329 %) IBM 5 2 (0.329 %) HP 5 2 (0.329 %) Intel 5 2 (0.329 %) ILOG 6 1 (0.165 %) BEA 6 1 (0.165 %) Hyperion 6 1 (0.165 %) Motorola 6 1 (0.165 %) Siemens 6 1 (0.165 %) LANDesk 6 1 (0.165 %) Stellent 6 1 (0.165 %) Apple 6 1 (0.165 %) QNX