Cheshire Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cheshire 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scarborough 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 Stirling Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Tring 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 Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	41
Rank change on same period last year	-45
Matching permanent IT job ads	70	139
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	2.300 %	4.919 %
Salaries quoted	64	87
Average minimum salary	£27,492	£31,033
Average salary	£30,184	£33,644
% change on same period last year	-10.28 %
Average maximum salary	£32,875	£36,256
UK excluding London average salary	£35,986	£35,073
% change on same period last year	+2.60 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3043	2826
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.638 %	1.178 %
Salaries quoted	2757	2490
Average minimum salary	£31,961	£31,327
Average salary	£35,171	£33,709
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Average maximum salary	£38,382	£36,090
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
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Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	-29	25	£29,350	-14.19 %
Macclesfield	-	6	£30,000	-
Northwich	-5	5	£29,000	-
Wilmslow	-3	4	£33,750	-12.90 %
Winsford	-	4	£24,625	-
Chester	-6	3	£22,333	-30.32 %
Crewe	+17	1	£28,000	-20.00 %
Knutsford	-35	1	£59,000	+80.15 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 88 (49.72 %) C++ 2 58 (32.77 %) Degree 3 54 (30.51 %) Windows 4 51 (28.81 %) XML 5 49 (27.68 %) C 5 49 (27.68 %) Java 6 42 (23.73 %) JavaScript 7 41 (23.16 %) Symbian 8 36 (20.34 %) OO 9 34 (19.21 %) UML 9 34 (19.21 %) HTTP 10 32 (18.08 %) Microsoft 11 29 (16.38 %) HTML 12 28 (15.82 %) C# 12 28 (15.82 %) .NET

12 28 (15.82 %) Finance 13 27 (15.25 %) J2EE 13 27 (15.25 %) VC++ 13 27 (15.25 %) GPRS 13 27 (15.25 %) GSM 14 25 (14.12 %) SQL 15 24 (13.56 %) OOD 16 23 (12.99 %) WebServices 17 22 (12.43 %) Web Development 18 21 (11.86 %) CSS 18 21 (11.86 %) SOAP 18 21 (11.86 %) MS Excel 19 20 (11.30 %) ActiveX 19 20 (11.30 %) VB 19 20 (11.30 %) Computer Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 51 (28.81 %) XML 2 29 (16.38 %) HTML 3 28 (15.82 %) .NET 4 27 (15.25 %) J2EE 5 23 (12.99 %) WebServices 6 21 (11.86 %) SOAP 6 21 (11.86 %) CSS 7 20 (11.30 %) ActiveX 8 18 (10.17 %) EJB 8 18 (10.17 %) WSDL 8 18 (10.17 %) JAX-RPC 9 17 (9.605 %) WAP 9 17 (9.605 %) JDBC 9 17 (9.605 %) ASP.NET 10 12 (6.780 %) XSLT 10 12 (6.780 %) UIQ 11 11 (6.215 %) XSL 12 10 (5.650 %) JSP 13 9 (5.085 %) ASP 13 9 (5.085 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 7 (3.955 %) IIS 2 3 (1.695 %) Tuxedo 2 3 (1.695 %) iPlanet 3 1 (0.565 %) WebLogic 3 1 (0.565 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.565 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (0.565 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.565 %) Apache
Applications 1 21 (11.86 %) MS Excel 2 7 (3.955 %) Photoshop 2 7 (3.955 %) Adobe Director 3 1 (0.565 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.565 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 34 (19.21 %) HTTP 2 27 (15.25 %) GPRS 2 27 (15.25 %) GSM 3 14 (7.910 %) TCP/IP 4 10 (5.650 %) SMS 5 7 (3.955 %) SMTP 5 7 (3.955 %) Internet 6 4 (2.260 %) Ethernet 6 4 (2.260 %) RFID 6 4 (2.260 %) Wi-Fi 6 4 (2.260 %) Wireless 6 4 (2.260 %) Bluetooth 7 2 (1.130 %) DVB 8 1 (0.565 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (7.910 %) SQL Server 2 10 (5.650 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (3.955 %) MySQL 4 4 (2.260 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (2.260 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (2.260 %) RDBMS 5 3 (1.695 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (1.695 %) Informix 5 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (1.695 %) DB2 5 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 1 (0.565 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 18 (10.17 %) Visual Studio 2 17 (9.605 %) Rational Rose 3 8 (4.520 %) Flash 4 7 (3.955 %) Dreamweaver 5 5 (2.825 %) Eclipse 6 4 (2.260 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Forms 7 3 (1.695 %) JIRA 8 2 (1.130 %) Synon 8 2 (1.130 %) JUnit 9 1 (0.565 %) Ant 9 1 (0.565 %) WinRunner 9 1 (0.565 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.565 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (0.565 %) MSI 9 1 (0.565 %) InstallShield 9 1 (0.565 %) Subversion	General 1 28 (15.82 %) Finance 2 7 (3.955 %) Graphic Design 3 6 (3.390 %) Electronics 3 6 (3.390 %) Electric 4 5 (2.825 %) Insurance 4 5 (2.825 %) Automotive 5 4 (2.260 %) Pensions 5 4 (2.260 %) Avionics 5 4 (2.260 %) Manufacturing 5 4 (2.260 %) Telecoms 5 4 (2.260 %) Aerospace 6 3 (1.695 %) Health 7 1 (0.565 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 20 (11.30 %) Computer Science 2 11 (6.215 %) Pocket PC 3 7 (3.955 %) Client/Server 4 5 (2.825 %) MPEG 5 4 (2.260 %) AS400 5 4 (2.260 %) SCADA 6 3 (1.695 %) Italian Language 6 3 (1.695 %) Spanish Language 6 3 (1.695 %) Multithreading 6 3 (1.695 %) Device Driver 6 3 (1.695 %) Firmware 6 3 (1.695 %) DTV 7 2 (1.130 %) STB 7 2 (1.130 %) Smartphone 8 1 (0.565 %) Mathematics 8 1 (0.565 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 54 (30.51 %) Windows 2 16 (9.040 %) Linux 3 13 (7.345 %) Windows Mobile 4 11 (6.215 %) Symbian OS 5 9 (5.085 %) UNIX 5 9 (5.085 %) Windows NT 6 6 (3.390 %) Embedded Linux 7 4 (2.260 %) Windows XP 7 4 (2.260 %) VxWorks 8 3 (1.695 %) Windows CE 8 3 (1.695 %) Windows Vista 9 2 (1.130 %) Windows 2000 10 1 (0.565 %) Windows XP Embedded 10 1 (0.565 %) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (20.34 %) OO 2 34 (19.21 %) UML 3 24 (13.56 %) OOD 4 22 (12.43 %) Web Development 5 17 (9.605 %) Integration Testing 6 12 (6.780 %) Software Engineering 7 11 (6.215 %) OOA/OOD 8 7 (3.955 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (2.260 %) Validation 9 4 (2.260 %) Scrum 9 4 (2.260 %) SOA 10 3 (1.695 %) Configuration Management 10 3 (1.695 %) Data Modelling 10 3 (1.695 %) Use Case 10 3 (1.695 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 2 (1.130 %) System Testing 11 2 (1.130 %) Time Management 11 2 (1.130 %) Systems Analysis 11 2 (1.130 %) Requirements Analysis 11 2 (1.130 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 88 (49.72 %) C++ 2 49 (27.68 %) C 2 49 (27.68 %) Java 3 42 (23.73 %) JavaScript 4 28 (15.82 %) C# 5 27 (15.25 %) VC++ 6 25 (14.12 %) SQL 7 20 (11.30 %) VB 8 14 (7.910 %) VB.NET 9 13 (7.345 %) PHP 10 10 (5.650 %) VB6 11 8 (4.520 %) DHTML 12 7 (3.955 %) ActionScript 12 7 (3.955 %) VBScript 13 6 (3.390 %) Embedded C 14 5 (2.825 %) Embedded C++ 14 5 (2.825 %) Fortran 14 5 (2.825 %) Perl 15 4 (2.260 %) PL/SQL 15 4 (2.260 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 58 (32.77 %) Degree 2 7 (3.955 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.130 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.130 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.565 %) Terminal Server 1 1 (0.565 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (0.565 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (0.565 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 41 (23.16 %) Symbian 2 32 (18.08 %) Microsoft 3 16 (9.040 %) Oracle 4 7 (3.955 %) Adobe 5 3 (1.695 %) Sybase 6 1 (0.565 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.565 %) CA 6 1 (0.565 %) VMware 6 1 (0.565 %) Altiris