The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton 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 21 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 75 80 58
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 8 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 1.053% 0.396% 2.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.074% 0.402% 2.198%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 9
Average salary £43,750 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
745 747 455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 98.03% 98.55% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 679 668 436
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £49,080
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
East Sussex

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brighton Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 8 (61.54%) MVC
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) jQuery
4 4 (30.77%) Windows
4 4 (30.77%) OO
4 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 4 (30.77%) MySQL
4 4 (30.77%) PHP
4 4 (30.77%) C++
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
5 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
5 3 (23.08%) Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (23.08%) Marketing
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (15.38%) HTML5
6 2 (15.38%) PHP5
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (38.46%) CSS
1 5 (38.46%) jQuery
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) XHTML
4 2 (15.38%) LINQ
4 2 (15.38%) Silverlight
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.692%) ADO
5 1 (7.692%) Symfony
5 1 (7.692%) Zend Framework
5 1 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (7.692%) Spring
5 1 (7.692%) Memcached
5 1 (7.692%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) CMS
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (7.692%) Redis
4 1 (7.692%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) LabVIEW
2 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing
2 1 (7.692%) Electronics
2 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.692%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Solaris
3 1 (7.692%) UNIX
3 1 (7.692%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) MVC
2 4 (30.77%) OO
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.692%) B2B
5 1 (7.692%) Validation
5 1 (7.692%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (7.692%) Time Management
5 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.692%) TDD
5 1 (7.692%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (7.692%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) PHP
2 4 (30.77%) C++
3 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
4 2 (15.38%) PHP5
4 2 (15.38%) VBA
4 2 (15.38%) VBScript
4 2 (15.38%) XAML
5 1 (7.692%) MATLAB
5 1 (7.692%) C
5 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.692%) Java
5 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.692%) Perl
5 1 (7.692%) ECMAScript
5 1 (7.692%) Python
5 1 (7.692%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
1 1 (7.692%) QA
1 1 (7.692%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) IBM
2 1 (7.692%) Apple
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Zend
2 1 (7.692%) Advent
Brighton, East Sussex
HTML 4.01 / XHTML / CSS (mandatory) - .NET & C# (mandatory) - VB.NET / VBScript / VBA (a benefit) - ASP.NET applications (mandatory) - Silverlight / XAML (a benefit) - JavaScript / JQuery (mandatory) - LinQ (a...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013