The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 75 75 69
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 41 17 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.446% 1.170% 1.880%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.583% 1.213% 1.956%
Number of salaries quoted 39 14 22
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% +16.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £32,500 £27,650
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £50,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1587 1402 1278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.69% 96.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1333 1251 1113
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
West Midlands

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 44 (61.97%) .NET
2 42 (59.15%) C#
3 26 (36.62%) Degree
4 23 (32.39%) Mathematics
5 22 (30.99%) SQL
6 21 (29.58%) C++
7 20 (28.17%) OO
8 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
8 19 (26.76%) Computer Science
9 18 (25.35%) ASP.NET
9 18 (25.35%) CSS
10 17 (23.94%) HTML
10 17 (23.94%) Physics
11 16 (22.54%) Java
11 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
11 16 (22.54%) XML
12 14 (19.72%) MVC
12 14 (19.72%) jQuery
13 13 (18.31%) WCF
13 13 (18.31%) VC++
14 12 (16.90%) Manufacturing
15 11 (15.49%) Visual Studio
16 10 (14.08%) Web Services
16 10 (14.08%) Automotive
17 9 (12.68%) Aerospace
17 9 (12.68%) CAD
17 9 (12.68%) Oracle
17 9 (12.68%) J2EE
17 9 (12.68%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (12.68%) ASP.NET MVC

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 44 (61.97%) .NET
2 18 (25.35%) ASP.NET
2 18 (25.35%) CSS
3 17 (23.94%) HTML
4 16 (22.54%) XML
5 14 (19.72%) jQuery
6 13 (18.31%) WCF
7 10 (14.08%) Web Services
8 9 (12.68%) J2EE
8 9 (12.68%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (9.859%) WinForms
9 7 (9.859%) MFC
10 6 (8.451%) WPF
11 5 (7.042%) .NET Framework
11 5 (7.042%) REST
11 5 (7.042%) SOAP
11 5 (7.042%) XSLT
11 5 (7.042%) XHTML
12 4 (5.634%) STL
12 4 (5.634%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.042%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (4.225%) Apache
3 2 (2.817%) MSMQ
3 2 (2.817%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.408%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.408%) WordPress
4 1 (1.408%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (5.634%) Photoshop
2 3 (4.225%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.225%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.451%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.451%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.042%) MySQL
4 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.408%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.408%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.408%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.408%) RavenDB
4 1 (1.408%) Big Data
4 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Visual Studio
2 9 (12.68%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (7.042%) MSBuild
4 3 (4.225%) NUnit
4 3 (4.225%) Subversion
5 2 (2.817%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.817%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 12 (16.90%) Manufacturing
2 10 (14.08%) Automotive
3 9 (12.68%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.634%) Retail
5 3 (4.225%) Advertising
5 3 (4.225%) Games
6 2 (2.817%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.817%) Finance
7 1 (1.408%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.39%) Mathematics
2 19 (26.76%) Computer Science
3 17 (23.94%) Physics
4 6 (8.451%) Semantic Web
5 3 (4.225%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.225%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.17%) OO
2 14 (19.72%) MVC
3 9 (12.68%) CAD
4 8 (11.27%) Scrum
5 7 (9.859%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (8.451%) TDD
6 6 (8.451%) Web Development
6 6 (8.451%) Analytics
7 5 (7.042%) BDD
7 5 (7.042%) AOP
8 4 (5.634%) Web Application Development
9 3 (4.225%) Unit Testing
9 3 (4.225%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (4.225%) Software Engineering
9 3 (4.225%) OOP
9 3 (4.225%) CRM
9 3 (4.225%) E-Commerce
10 2 (2.817%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (2.817%) UML
10 2 (2.817%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (59.15%) C#
2 22 (30.99%) SQL
3 21 (29.58%) C++
4 16 (22.54%) Java
4 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) VC++
6 8 (11.27%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.042%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.634%) VB.NET
8 4 (5.634%) PHP
9 3 (4.225%) VB
9 3 (4.225%) Perl
9 3 (4.225%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.817%) XPath
10 2 (2.817%) PowerHouse
10 2 (2.817%) C
11 1 (1.408%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Degree
2 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.817%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle
2 5 (7.042%) Sybase
2 5 (7.042%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.225%) Borland
3 3 (4.225%) Zend
4 1 (1.408%) DevExpress
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Birmingham, West Midlands
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
WCF. SQL (T-SQL), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery... Visual Studio / TFS 2010... Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Development (TDD) ASP.Net MVC... MSBuild / Powershell. Parallel programming... JQuery.....
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Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum DOE
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