The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 99 84 77
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 14 13 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.840% 0.895% 0.996%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.130% 1.295% 1.564%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 13
Average salary £47,250 £46,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.16% +54.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,300 £33,250 £22,700
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,250 £34,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1239 1004 831
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.33% 69.10% 63.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1045 874 709
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £69,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 8 (44.44%) C#
3 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 7 (38.89%) QA
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) .NET
5 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
6 4 (22.22%) WinForms
6 4 (22.22%) Oracle
6 4 (22.22%) C++
6 4 (22.22%) Visual Studio
6 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
6 4 (22.22%) Publishing
7 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
7 3 (16.67%) OO
7 3 (16.67%) Java
7 3 (16.67%) VB
7 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
8 2 (11.11%) OOP
8 2 (11.11%) Mapinfo
8 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (11.11%) Finance
8 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
8 2 (11.11%) Automotive
8 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (11.11%) Retail
8 2 (11.11%) VC++

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) WinForms
3 2 (11.11%) WCF
3 2 (11.11%) WPF
4 1 (5.556%) HTML
4 1 (5.556%) Lucene
4 1 (5.556%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Apache
1 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.556%) Apache Solr
1 1 (5.556%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (5.556%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) ADSL
1 1 (5.556%) LAN
1 1 (5.556%) SDH
1 1 (5.556%) WAN
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.556%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.556%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.556%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.556%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.556%) HBase
2 1 (5.556%) Redis
2 1 (5.556%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.556%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (22.22%) Publishing
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Automotive
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.556%) Advertising
3 1 (5.556%) Marketing
3 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Development Manager
2 4 (22.22%) ScrumMaster
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Development Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Remedy Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.556%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 2 (11.11%) Physics
4 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.556%) DTV
4 1 (5.556%) Informatics
4 1 (5.556%) CMDB
4 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Scrum
2 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
3 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 3 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (11.11%) OOP
5 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.11%) CAD
5 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
6 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.556%) Manual Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.556%) Analytics
6 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Project Management
6 1 (5.556%) ITSM
6 1 (5.556%) Usability Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) VB
4 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 2 (11.11%) VC++
5 2 (11.11%) Fortran
6 1 (5.556%) R
6 1 (5.556%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) Perl
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Mapinfo
3 1 (5.556%) Remedy
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) DevExpress
3 1 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) BMC