The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell 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 22 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 Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 66 48 24
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 10 9 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 1.883% 2.256% 6.425%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.980% 2.521% 6.647%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 21
Average salary £41,250 £38,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.55% +2.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £38,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
505 357 346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 95.10% 89.47% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 322 271 298
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Berkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Bracknell region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bracknell Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 25 (75.76%) C++
2 21 (63.64%) C
3 20 (60.61%) Degree
4 15 (45.45%) Computer Science
5 13 (39.39%) NAS
5 13 (39.39%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (39.39%) OO
6 12 (36.36%) TCP/IP
7 11 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 9 (27.27%) Windows
8 9 (27.27%) NFS
8 9 (27.27%) C#
8 9 (27.27%) .NET
9 8 (24.24%) Hitachi
9 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
10 7 (21.21%) FTP
10 7 (21.21%) Clustering
10 7 (21.21%) Client/Server
10 7 (21.21%) Python
11 5 (15.15%) Linux
11 5 (15.15%) Ethernet
11 5 (15.15%) Perl
11 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
11 5 (15.15%) Finance
11 5 (15.15%) Scrum
11 5 (15.15%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (15.15%) TDD
11 5 (15.15%) QA
11 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (12.12%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 4 (12.12%) WCF
2 4 (12.12%) WPF
2 4 (12.12%) NHibernate
2 4 (12.12%) LINQ
2 4 (12.12%) WinForms
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
3 3 (9.091%) MFC
4 2 (6.061%) XML
5 1 (3.030%) XSLT
5 1 (3.030%) CSS
5 1 (3.030%) JSP
5 1 (3.030%) J2EE
5 1 (3.030%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.030%) Java EE
5 1 (3.030%) Silverlight
5 1 (3.030%) Spring
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) NAS
2 12 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 7 (21.21%) FTP
4 5 (15.15%) Ethernet
5 4 (12.12%) 3G
5 4 (12.12%) 3GPP
5 4 (12.12%) UMTS
5 4 (12.12%) WCDMA
6 3 (9.091%) GPRS
6 3 (9.091%) GSM
6 3 (9.091%) Wireless
7 2 (6.061%) IPv6
7 2 (6.061%) SAN
8 1 (3.030%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (6.061%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) WebDriver
1 4 (12.12%) Selenium
1 4 (12.12%) NUnit
1 4 (12.12%) ClearCase
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Electronics
2 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.091%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.030%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.030%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 13 (39.39%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 7 (21.21%) Clustering
4 7 (21.21%) Client/Server
5 3 (9.091%) Firmware
6 1 (3.030%) N-Tier
6 1 (3.030%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 4 (12.12%) UNIX
4 2 (6.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) OO
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
3 5 (15.15%) Scrum
3 5 (15.15%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (15.15%) TDD
4 4 (12.12%) Kanban
4 4 (12.12%) BDD
4 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
4 4 (12.12%) MVC
4 4 (12.12%) OOD
5 3 (9.091%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (6.061%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (6.061%) User Stories
6 2 (6.061%) Refactoring
7 1 (3.030%) Predictive Analytics
7 1 (3.030%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.030%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.030%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) C++
2 21 (63.64%) C
3 9 (27.27%) C#
4 7 (21.21%) Python
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
6 3 (9.091%) Java
6 3 (9.091%) Assembly Language
6 3 (9.091%) Embedded C
6 3 (9.091%) Embedded C++
6 3 (9.091%) Ruby
7 2 (6.061%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) NFS
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Hitachi
2 3 (9.091%) EMC
2 3 (9.091%) NEC
3 2 (6.061%) HP
4 1 (3.030%) Microsoft
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