Cardiff Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cardiff region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barry Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Billericay Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Maidenhead Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Radlett Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	56
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.301 %	1.715 %
Salaries quoted	13	12
Average minimum salary	£27,154	£27,417
Average salary	£30,269	£32,750
% change on same period last year	-7.57 %
Average maximum salary	£33,385	£38,083
UK excluding London average salary	£35,997	£34,978
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Job Titles Cardiff
Matching permanent IT job ads	565	758
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.290 %	0.316 %
Salaries quoted	525	701
Average minimum salary	£28,687	£29,307
Average salary	£31,500	£32,517
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum salary	£34,313	£35,728
UK excluding London average salary	£38,190	£39,485
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Software Engineer South Wales

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 39 (67.24 %) C++ 2 21 (36.21 %) C 3 16 (27.59 %) Degree 4 14 (24.14 %) Tomcat 4 14 (24.14 %) Linux 5 13 (22.41 %) Windows 6 12 (20.69 %) Java 7 11 (18.97 %) OpenGL 8 10 (17.24 %) Smartphone 8 10 (17.24 %) Pocket PC 8 10 (17.24 %) DirectX 8 10 (17.24 %) Windows CE 8 10 (17.24 %) CodeWarrior 8 10 (17.24 %) Symbian 8 10 (17.24 %) Perl

8 10 (17.24 %) PHP 8 10 (17.24 %) UML 8 10 (17.24 %) ATL 8 10 (17.24 %) XML 9 8 (13.79 %) Visual Studio 9 8 (13.79 %) Unix 9 8 (13.79 %) VoIP 9 8 (13.79 %) Internet 9 8 (13.79 %) Quicktime 9 8 (13.79 %) DTV 9 8 (13.79 %) Games 9 8 (13.79 %) Automated Testing 10 7 (12.07 %) Software Engineering 10 7 (12.07 %) Education 10 7 (12.07 %) DVB

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 11 (18.97 %) OpenGL 2 10 (17.24 %) DirectX 2 10 (17.24 %) XML 2 10 (17.24 %) ATL 3 5 (8.621 %) WebServices 4 4 (6.897 %) J2ME 4 4 (6.897 %) J2SE 5 3 (5.172 %) HTML 5 3 (5.172 %) .NET 6 2 (3.448 %) WML 6 2 (3.448 %) JDBC 6 2 (3.448 %) JSP 7 1 (1.724 %) STL 7 1 (1.724 %) COM 7 1 (1.724 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.724 %) ASP 7 1 (1.724 %) Swing	Application Platforms 1 14 (24.14 %) Tomcat 2 2 (3.448 %) Apache 3 1 (1.724 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (13.79 %) Quicktime 2 2 (3.448 %) MS Office 2 2 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.79 %) VoIP 1 8 (13.79 %) Internet 2 7 (12.07 %) DVB 3 3 (5.172 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (3.448 %) HTTPS 4 2 (3.448 %) SMPP 4 2 (3.448 %) RTSP 4 2 (3.448 %) HTTP 4 2 (3.448 %) SMS 5 1 (1.724 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.448 %) PostgreSQL 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 10 (17.24 %) CodeWarrior 2 8 (13.79 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (8.621 %) WebSpeed 4 3 (5.172 %) Eclipse 5 2 (3.448 %) Ant
General 1 8 (13.79 %) Games 2 7 (12.07 %) Education 3 4 (6.897 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (5.172 %) Finance 5 1 (1.724 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.724 %) 3D Graphics 5 1 (1.724 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 10 (17.24 %) Smartphone 1 10 (17.24 %) Pocket PC 2 8 (13.79 %) DTV 3 3 (5.172 %) Physics 4 2 (3.448 %) STB 4 2 (3.448 %) iDTV 4 2 (3.448 %) CCTV 5 1 (1.724 %) Mathematics 5 1 (1.724 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.724 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 14 (24.14 %) Linux 2 13 (22.41 %) Windows 3 10 (17.24 %) Windows CE 4 8 (13.79 %) Unix 5 2 (3.448 %) Windows XP 5 2 (3.448 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (17.24 %) UML 2 8 (13.79 %) Automated Testing 3 7 (12.07 %) Software Engineering 3 7 (12.07 %) OO 4 4 (6.897 %) Software Testing 4 4 (6.897 %) Validation 5 2 (3.448 %) Risk Analysis 5 2 (3.448 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (3.448 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (3.448 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (1.724 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 39 (67.24 %) C++ 2 21 (36.21 %) C 3 12 (20.69 %) Java 4 10 (17.24 %) Perl 4 10 (17.24 %) PHP 5 7 (12.07 %) C# 6 6 (10.34 %) Embedded C 6 6 (10.34 %) SQL 7 4 (6.897 %) Embedded C++ 8 2 (3.448 %) VB 9 1 (1.724 %) VB.NET 9 1 (1.724 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 16 (27.59 %) Degree 2 3 (5.172 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.621 %) QA 2 1 (1.724 %) ISO9000	Vendors 1 10 (17.24 %) Symbian 2 7 (12.07 %) Oracle 3 5 (8.621 %) Progress 4 3 (5.172 %) Microsoft