The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 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
Software Engineer
Rank 36 19 52
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 10 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.356% 10.24% 2.749%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.571% 10.43% 2.867%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 8
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
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%
Software Engineer
Cheshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Chester Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 14 (45.16%) C
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
1 14 (45.16%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (35.48%) Aerospace
2 11 (35.48%) C#
2 11 (35.48%) DO-178B
3 9 (29.03%) Embedded Software Development
4 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 7 (22.58%) Embedded C
6 6 (19.35%) OO
6 6 (19.35%) MySQL
6 6 (19.35%) SQL
6 6 (19.35%) C++
6 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
6 6 (19.35%) Electronics
7 5 (16.13%) Finance
7 5 (16.13%) Supplier Management
7 5 (16.13%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 5 (16.13%) Subversion
7 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
7 5 (16.13%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 5 (16.13%) HND
7 5 (16.13%) Windows
7 5 (16.13%) Linux
7 5 (16.13%) VB
7 5 (16.13%) .NET
7 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
7 5 (16.13%) SCADA
7 5 (16.13%) jQuery

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
1 5 (16.13%) .NET
1 5 (16.13%) jQuery
2 2 (6.452%) J2EE
2 2 (6.452%) XML
2 2 (6.452%) Spring
2 2 (6.452%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.226%) EJB
3 1 (3.226%) JSP
3 1 (3.226%) Servlets
3 1 (3.226%) Struts
3 1 (3.226%) Stripes Framework
3 1 (3.226%) Spring MVC
3 1 (3.226%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) CMS
1 1 (3.226%) Apache
1 1 (3.226%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Ethernet
2 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) MySQL
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Subversion
1 5 (16.13%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (3.226%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (35.48%) Aerospace
2 6 (19.35%) Electronics
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Military
5 1 (3.226%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (16.13%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 5 (16.13%) SCADA
3 1 (3.226%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Embedded Software Development
2 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
3 6 (19.35%) OO
4 5 (16.13%) Supplier Management
5 1 (3.226%) TDD
5 1 (3.226%) Pair Programming
5 1 (3.226%) Scrum
5 1 (3.226%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.226%) MVC
5 1 (3.226%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.226%) Requirements Management
5 1 (3.226%) Web Development
5 1 (3.226%) UML
5 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
5 1 (3.226%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) C
2 11 (35.48%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 7 (22.58%) Embedded C
4 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) C++
5 5 (16.13%) VB
6 3 (9.677%) Java
7 1 (3.226%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.226%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) HND
3 3 (9.677%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.677%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.226%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Twitter
2 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.226%) EMC
2 1 (3.226%) Oracle
2 1 (3.226%) JBoss