The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 102 97 87
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 7 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.415% 0.341% 0.442%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.438% 0.354% 0.462%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 6
Average salary £43,000 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1597 1412 1298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.19% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1338 1263 1129
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham Senior Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 6 (66.67%) SQL
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) J2EE
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 3 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (33.33%) OO
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) WCF
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (22.22%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) QA
5 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Azure
5 2 (22.22%) jQuery
5 2 (22.22%) PowerHouse
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 3 (33.33%) J2EE
4 3 (33.33%) WCF
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (22.22%) jQuery
5 2 (22.22%) Java EE
5 2 (22.22%) JSP
5 2 (22.22%) Servlets
6 1 (11.11%) SOAP
6 1 (11.11%) Web Services
6 1 (11.11%) XSL
6 1 (11.11%) XSLT
6 1 (11.11%) Middleware
6 1 (11.11%) XHTML
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (11.11%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Azure
1 2 (22.22%) MSMQ
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (22.22%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
1 3 (33.33%) OO
1 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (22.22%) BDD
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) AOP
2 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) Web Application Development
2 2 (22.22%) Parallel Programming
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) PowerHouse
5 1 (11.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Sybase
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft