Bristol Senior Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Bristol region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Software Engineer
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hove Inverness Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Manchester Matlock Melksham Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Renfrewshire Rochford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tamworth Tewkesbury Thames Valley Totnes Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	99
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.680 %	0.920 %
Salaries quoted	20	20
Average minimum salary	£39,600	£35,700
Average salary	£42,675	£38,325
% change on same period last year	+11.35 %
Average maximum salary	£45,750	£40,950
UK excluding London average salary	£41,808	£38,764
% change on same period last year	+7.85 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching permanent IT job ads	2943	2501
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.554 %	1.024 %
Salaries quoted	2637	2085
Average minimum salary	£30,762	£31,996
Average salary	£34,128	£35,122
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Average maximum salary	£37,493	£38,249
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Senior Software Engineer South West

Senior Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 43 (70.49 %) C++ 2 40 (65.57 %) Java 3 24 (39.34 %) C 4 19 (31.15 %) C# 4 19 (31.15 %) .NET 5 18 (29.51 %) SQL Server 6 15 (24.59 %) Degree 7 13 (21.31 %) SQL 8 12 (19.67 %) HTML 8 12 (19.67 %) Linux 8 12 (19.67 %) Embedded Linux 8 12 (19.67 %) Computer Science 9 11 (18.03 %) Finance 9 11 (18.03 %) UML 9 11 (18.03 %) OOA/OOD

10 10 (16.39 %) Project Management 11 9 (14.75 %) Oracle 11 9 (14.75 %) Delphi 11 9 (14.75 %) Security Cleared 12 8 (13.11 %) Government 12 8 (13.11 %) ASP.NET 13 7 (11.48 %) PowerBuilder 13 7 (11.48 %) Eclipse 13 7 (11.48 %) Software Engineering 14 6 (9.836 %) Pensions 14 6 (9.836 %) Manufacturing 14 6 (9.836 %) Validation 14 6 (9.836 %) OOD 15 5 (8.197 %) Visual Studio 15 5 (8.197 %) OO

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (31.15 %) .NET 2 12 (19.67 %) HTML 3 8 (13.11 %) ASP.NET 4 5 (8.197 %) .NET Framework 5 4 (6.557 %) J2ME 5 4 (6.557 %) MIDP 5 4 (6.557 %) Series 60 5 4 (6.557 %) J2EE 6 3 (4.918 %) Swing 7 2 (3.279 %) Spring 7 2 (3.279 %) JavaSpaces 7 2 (3.279 %) WebSphere 7 2 (3.279 %) JDBC 7 2 (3.279 %) JSP 7 2 (3.279 %) WebServices 7 2 (3.279 %) XML 8 1 (1.639 %) ActiveX 8 1 (1.639 %) ASP 8 1 (1.639 %) ATL 8 1 (1.639 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.918 %) Oracle Workflow 2 2 (3.279 %) WebLogic 2 2 (3.279 %) JBoss
Applications 1 4 (6.557 %) MATLAB 2 2 (3.279 %) S-PLUS 3 1 (1.639 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.639 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.279 %) GPRS 1 2 (3.279 %) Ethernet 1 2 (3.279 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (29.51 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.279 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 7 (11.48 %) Eclipse 1 7 (11.48 %) PowerBuilder 2 5 (8.197 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (4.918 %) Ant 3 3 (4.918 %) Subversion
General 1 11 (18.03 %) Finance 2 8 (13.11 %) Government 3 6 (9.836 %) Manufacturing 3 6 (9.836 %) Pensions 4 2 (3.279 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.279 %) Health 4 2 (3.279 %) Construction 4 2 (3.279 %) Electronics 4 2 (3.279 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.639 %) Education 5 1 (1.639 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 12 (19.67 %) Computer Science 2 2 (3.279 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 12 (19.67 %) Linux 1 12 (19.67 %) Embedded Linux 2 4 (6.557 %) Symbian OS 2 4 (6.557 %) Windows 3 2 (3.279 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (18.03 %) UML 1 11 (18.03 %) OOA/OOD 2 10 (16.39 %) Project Management 3 9 (14.75 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (11.48 %) Software Engineering 5 6 (9.836 %) Validation 5 6 (9.836 %) OOD 6 5 (8.197 %) OO 6 5 (8.197 %) RUP 6 5 (8.197 %) Scrum 6 5 (8.197 %) Workflow 7 4 (6.557 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (4.918 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (3.279 %) PRINCE 9 2 (3.279 %) E-Commerce 10 1 (1.639 %) Unit Testing 10 1 (1.639 %) Data Management 10 1 (1.639 %) Process Management
Programming Languages 1 43 (70.49 %) C++ 2 40 (65.57 %) Java 3 24 (39.34 %) C 4 19 (31.15 %) C# 5 13 (21.31 %) SQL 6 9 (14.75 %) Delphi 7 4 (6.557 %) C++/CLI 8 2 (3.279 %) Shell Script 8 2 (3.279 %) JavaScript 8 2 (3.279 %) Perl 8 2 (3.279 %) VB 8 2 (3.279 %) Embedded C 9 1 (1.639 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 15 (24.59 %) Degree 2 1 (1.639 %) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.639 %) QA	Systems Management 1 1 (1.639 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 9 (14.75 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.197 %) Sybase 2 5 (8.197 %) GigaSpaces 3 4 (6.557 %) Symbian 3 4 (6.557 %) Ericsson 3 4 (6.557 %) Nokia 3 4 (6.557 %) Sony 4 2 (3.279 %) Microsoft 4 2 (3.279 %) SAP 5 1 (1.639 %) SmartStream 5 1 (1.639 %) Perforce