The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. 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 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.32% +1.17%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
280 163 279
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.96% 98.19% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 156 152 266
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £46,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Senior Software Engineer
Cheshire

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Chester Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Chester Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (100.00%) HND
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Military
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 4 (100.00%) SCADA
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (75.00%) BC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 4 (100.00%) SCADA
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) HND
2 3 (75.00%) BC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared