The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 24 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 56 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 29 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 3.699% 0.261% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.677% 0.377% -
Number of salaries quoted 29 2 0
Average salary £24,000 £31,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.80% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
620 531 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 79.08% 69.41% 65.52%
Number of salaries quoted 554 466 310
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
East Sussex

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Brighton Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 33 (84.62%) Computer Science
2 31 (79.49%) HTML
3 29 (74.36%) .NET
4 27 (69.23%) TDD
5 26 (66.67%) C#
5 26 (66.67%) XML
5 26 (66.67%) XSLT
5 26 (66.67%) BDD
6 24 (61.54%) Web Services
6 24 (61.54%) ASP.NET
7 23 (58.97%) SQL
8 22 (56.41%) WCF
9 21 (53.85%) Refactoring
10 11 (28.21%) QA
11 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
12 8 (20.51%) Java
12 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
12 8 (20.51%) OO
12 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
12 8 (20.51%) Project Management
12 8 (20.51%) Requirements Analysis
13 7 (17.95%) Degree
13 7 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (17.95%) Windows
13 7 (17.95%) MS Excel
13 7 (17.95%) CSS
14 6 (15.38%) ISEB
14 6 (15.38%) Subversion
15 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
15 5 (12.82%) Hibernate

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 31 (79.49%) HTML
2 29 (74.36%) .NET
3 26 (66.67%) XML
3 26 (66.67%) XSLT
4 24 (61.54%) Web Services
4 24 (61.54%) ASP.NET
5 22 (56.41%) WCF
6 7 (17.95%) CSS
7 5 (12.82%) Hibernate
7 5 (12.82%) Spring
7 5 (12.82%) Servlets
7 5 (12.82%) JPA
8 2 (5.128%) Silverlight
8 2 (5.128%) LINQ
8 2 (5.128%) jQuery
8 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (5.128%) HTML5
8 2 (5.128%) XHTML
8 2 (5.128%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) Apache
1 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
1 5 (12.82%) Jetty
2 3 (7.692%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Subversion
2 5 (12.82%) Git (software)
3 2 (5.128%) JIRA
3 2 (5.128%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.564%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.564%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (2.564%) Games
1 1 (2.564%) Electronics
1 1 (2.564%) Manufacturing
1 1 (2.564%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (66.67%) Developer
2 23 (58.97%) Graduate
3 18 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 18 (46.15%) Graduate Developer
4 15 (38.46%) Graduate .NET Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) QA Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (7.692%) Web Developer
7 3 (7.692%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.692%) Graduate Web Developer
8 2 (5.128%) Agile Project Manager
8 2 (5.128%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.564%) Games Programmer
9 1 (2.564%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.564%) Programmer
9 1 (2.564%) Senior Games Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (84.62%) Computer Science
2 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.82%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (7.692%) Open Source
4 2 (5.128%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.128%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Windows
2 2 (5.128%) Linux
3 1 (2.564%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.564%) UNIX
3 1 (2.564%) Android
3 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) TDD
2 26 (66.67%) BDD
3 21 (53.85%) Refactoring
4 8 (20.51%) OO
4 8 (20.51%) Project Management
4 8 (20.51%) Requirements Analysis
5 7 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (12.82%) Web Development
6 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
7 4 (10.26%) Scrum
8 3 (7.692%) OOD
8 3 (7.692%) Waterfall
9 2 (5.128%) Agile Project Management
9 2 (5.128%) MVC
9 2 (5.128%) Validation
10 1 (2.564%) Risk Management
10 1 (2.564%) Software Testing
10 1 (2.564%) Information Architecture
10 1 (2.564%) Game Development
10 1 (2.564%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) C#
2 23 (58.97%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) Java
5 5 (12.82%) XQuery
5 5 (12.82%) XPath
6 2 (5.128%) VBScript
6 2 (5.128%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.128%) VBA
6 2 (5.128%) C++
6 2 (5.128%) XAML
7 1 (2.564%) C
7 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.564%) Lua
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) ISEB
3 5 (12.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.564%) Perforce
2 1 (2.564%) IBM
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits and career progression
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Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Cornucopia IT Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
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