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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cardiff region.

 Software Engineering
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank413849
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+11
Matching permanent IT job ads8215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff2.606 %0.662 %2.193 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category3.653 %1.124 %4.335 %
Salaries quoted8115
Average salary£25,848£25,000£33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.390 %-24.24 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,710£25,000£25,800
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,000£25,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£37,250£35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.040 %+6.420 %
Cardiff IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
219178346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff71.34 %58.94 %50.58 %
Salaries quoted190162319
Average salary£31,500£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.070 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£41,500£45,000£47,250
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
Software Engineering South WalesSoftware Engineering
South Wales

Software Engineering
Demand Trend

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

Cardiff Software Engineering Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Cardiff Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

17 (87.50 %)HTML
17 (87.50 %)CSS
26 (75.00 %)C
26 (75.00 %)Oracle
26 (75.00 %)Perl
26 (75.00 %)XML
26 (75.00 %)UNIX
26 (75.00 %)OO
26 (75.00 %)Tuxedo
32 (25.00 %)ION Trading
32 (25.00 %)Java
32 (25.00 %)JavaScript
32 (25.00 %)Web Services
32 (25.00 %)Web Development
41 (12.50 %)SQL
41 (12.50 %)Pensions
41 (12.50 %)N-Tier
41 (12.50 %)Middleware

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

Cardiff IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (87.50 %)HTML
17 (87.50 %)CSS
26 (75.00 %)XML
32 (25.00 %)Web Services
41 (12.50 %)Middleware
Cardiff IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (75.00 %)Tuxedo
Cardiff IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (12.50 %)Pensions
Cardiff IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (100.00 %)Developer
26 (75.00 %)Perl Developer
32 (25.00 %)JavaScript Developer
Cardiff IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (12.50 %)N-Tier
Cardiff IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (75.00 %)UNIX
Cardiff IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (75.00 %)OO
22 (25.00 %)Web Development
Cardiff IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16 (75.00 %)C
16 (75.00 %)Perl
22 (25.00 %)Java
22 (25.00 %)JavaScript
31 (12.50 %)SQL
Cardiff IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (75.00 %)Oracle
22 (25.00 %)ION Trading