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The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Chester 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Software Engineer
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank5553
Rank change on same period last yearDown-2
Matching permanent IT job ads1216
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.007 %0.007 %
As % of the category below2.679 %2.504 %
Salaries quoted1015
Average minimum salary£29,300£30,933
Average salary£33,250£31,300
% change on same period last year+6.23 %
Average maximum salary£37,200£31,667
UK excluding London average salary£35,895£35,254
% change on same period last year+1.81 %
Chester IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
Chester
Matching permanent IT job ads448639
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.259 %0.275 %
Salaries quoted421583
Average minimum salary£30,299£30,340
Average salary£33,002£33,135
% change on same period last year-0.40 %
Average maximum salary£35,704£35,931
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Software Engineer CheshireSoftware Engineer
Cheshire

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

The 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
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Chester region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Chester Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

116 (64.00 %)Finance
212 (48.00 %)HTML
311 (44.00 %)SQL
311 (44.00 %)CSS
410 (40.00 %)Oracle
59 (36.00 %)XML
59 (36.00 %)Integration Testing
68 (32.00 %)WebServices
68 (32.00 %)Java
77 (28.00 %)PL/SQL
77 (28.00 %)SOAP
77 (28.00 %)Oracle 9i
77 (28.00 %)Client/Server
77 (28.00 %)WSDL
77 (28.00 %)JAX-RPC
86 (24.00 %)HTTP
86 (24.00 %)JDBC
86 (24.00 %)EJB
86 (24.00 %)J2EE
95 (20.00 %).NET
95 (20.00 %)C++
95 (20.00 %)Oracle Applications
95 (20.00 %)AJAX
104 (16.00 %)Degree
104 (16.00 %)Hibernate
104 (16.00 %)Data Modelling
104 (16.00 %)Oracle Discoverer
104 (16.00 %)Microsoft
104 (16.00 %)C#
104 (16.00 %)JavaScript

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

Chester IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
112 (48.00 %)HTML
211 (44.00 %)CSS
39 (36.00 %)XML
48 (32.00 %)WebServices
57 (28.00 %)SOAP
57 (28.00 %)WSDL
57 (28.00 %)JAX-RPC
66 (24.00 %)JDBC
66 (24.00 %)EJB
66 (24.00 %)J2EE
75 (20.00 %).NET
75 (20.00 %)AJAX
84 (16.00 %)Hibernate
84 (16.00 %)XSL
93 (12.00 %)ASP.NET
102 (8.000 %)JSP
102 (8.000 %)ASP
102 (8.000 %)Swing
102 (8.000 %)Spring
102 (8.000 %)MVC
Chester IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (4.000 %)Tuxedo
Chester IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (4.000 %)MS Excel
Chester IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
15 (20.00 %)Oracle Applications
Chester IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
16 (24.00 %)HTTP
22 (8.000 %)Internet
Chester IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (28.00 %)Oracle 9i
24 (16.00 %)SQL Server
24 (16.00 %)Oracle Reports
24 (16.00 %)Oracle Discoverer
32 (8.000 %)RDBMS
32 (8.000 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (8.000 %)SQL Server 2008
32 (8.000 %)Datawarehouse
41 (4.000 %)Oracle 10g
Chester IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
14 (16.00 %)Oracle Forms
21 (4.000 %)JIRA
Chester IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
116 (64.00 %)Finance
21 (4.000 %)Pensions
21 (4.000 %)Pharmaceutical
Chester IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
17 (28.00 %)Client/Server
22 (8.000 %)Data Protection Act
22 (8.000 %)Mathematics
22 (8.000 %)Physics
Chester IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (8.000 %)UNIX
12 (8.000 %)Windows
Chester IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
19 (36.00 %)Integration Testing
24 (16.00 %)Data Modelling
33 (12.00 %)Agile Software Development
42 (8.000 %)Systems Analysis
42 (8.000 %)Data Protection
51 (4.000 %)Web Development
51 (4.000 %)Release Management
51 (4.000 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (4.000 %)Data Analysis
51 (4.000 %)ITIL
51 (4.000 %)OOA/OOD
51 (4.000 %)OO
Chester IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
111 (44.00 %)SQL
28 (32.00 %)Java
37 (28.00 %)PL/SQL
45 (20.00 %)C++
54 (16.00 %)C#
54 (16.00 %)JavaScript
54 (16.00 %)VB
63 (12.00 %)VB.NET
72 (8.000 %)ActionScript
72 (8.000 %)Fortran
72 (8.000 %)Shell Script
72 (8.000 %)VBScript
72 (8.000 %)Delphi
81 (4.000 %)DHTML
81 (4.000 %)C
81 (4.000 %)Transact-SQL
81 (4.000 %)VB6
81 (4.000 %)XPath
Chester IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
14 (16.00 %)Degree
Chester IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
110 (40.00 %)Oracle
24 (16.00 %)Microsoft
32 (8.000 %)Adobe