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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

 Software Engineer
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank147164219
Rank change year-on-year
Up+17Up+55
Matching permanent IT job ads16875131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London1.428 %0.909 %0.680 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.542 %0.980 %0.722 %
Salaries quoted11141123
Average salary£55,000£47,500£53,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.78 %-11.21 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£72,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10895765518148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London92.59 %92.75 %94.23 %
Salaries quoted9445639914634
Average salary£52,500£50,000£52,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-3.840 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£75,000£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-
Software Engineer LondonSoftware Engineer
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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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

City of London Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1174 (66.16 %)Finance
2154 (58.56 %)C++
392 (34.98 %)Java
482 (31.18 %)UNIX
579 (30.04 %)OO
674 (28.14 %)Linux
770 (26.62 %)C#
863 (23.95 %)C
960 (22.81 %)Client/Server
1058 (22.05 %)OOD
1152 (19.77 %).NET
1250 (19.01 %)SQL
1250 (19.01 %)Banking
1344 (16.73 %)STL
1441 (15.59 %)Degree
1540 (15.21 %)Computer Science
1638 (14.45 %)Derivative
1735 (13.31 %)Multithreading
1831 (11.79 %)Education
1930 (11.41 %)Windows
2029 (11.03 %)Solaris
2128 (10.65 %)SQL Server
2128 (10.65 %)Equities
2227 (10.27 %)TDD
2227 (10.27 %)Boost C++ Libraries
2326 (9.886 %)Oracle
2425 (9.506 %)Fixed Income
2524 (9.125 %)Bloomberg
2623 (8.745 %)Continuous Integration
2722 (8.365 %)Perl

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
152 (19.77 %).NET
244 (16.73 %)STL
327 (10.27 %)Boost C++ Libraries
422 (8.365 %)WCF
422 (8.365 %)Web Services
521 (7.985 %)ASP.NET
521 (7.985 %)WPF
618 (6.844 %)Spring
717 (6.464 %)XML
816 (6.084 %)WinForms
816 (6.084 %)WebSphere
915 (5.703 %)MFC
1014 (5.323 %)J2EE
1014 (5.323 %)Hibernate
1014 (5.323 %).NET Framework
1014 (5.323 %)Silverlight
1112 (4.563 %)Java EE
1210 (3.802 %)FIX Protocol
1210 (3.802 %)CSS
139 (3.422 %)JMS
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
114 (5.323 %)MQSeries
213 (4.943 %)WebSphere MQ
34 (1.521 %)Apache
43 (1.141 %)Tomcat
43 (1.141 %)WebSphere Application Server
43 (1.141 %)WebLogic
43 (1.141 %)JRun
43 (1.141 %)BizTalk Server
52 (0.760 %)ActiveMQ
61 (0.380 %)Rendezvous
61 (0.380 %)CMS
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (2.662 %)MS Excel
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (2.281 %)Summit
16 (2.281 %)Oracle BPM
22 (0.760 %)Bloomberg TOMS
31 (0.380 %)RMDS
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
119 (7.224 %)TCP/IP
23 (1.141 %)HTTP
31 (0.380 %)VoIP
31 (0.380 %)Internet
31 (0.380 %)DVB
31 (0.380 %)AMQP
31 (0.380 %)Asterisk PBX
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
128 (10.65 %)SQL Server
214 (5.323 %)MySQL
313 (4.943 %)Ingres
412 (4.563 %)SQL Server 2005
58 (3.042 %)SQL Server Integration Services
58 (3.042 %)RDBMS
65 (1.901 %)Oracle 10g
74 (1.521 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
74 (1.521 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
74 (1.521 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
83 (1.141 %)SQL Server 2008
83 (1.141 %)DB2
91 (0.380 %)Oracle 9i
91 (0.380 %)BusinessObjects
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
117 (6.464 %)Eclipse
215 (5.703 %)JUnit
314 (5.323 %)Ant
410 (3.802 %)Subversion
410 (3.802 %)Maven
57 (2.662 %)WATIR
57 (2.662 %)Selenium
66 (2.281 %)CruiseControl
75 (1.901 %)JProbe
75 (1.901 %)AnthillPro
83 (1.141 %)Xcode
83 (1.141 %)IntelliJ
92 (0.760 %)Visual Studio
92 (0.760 %)PROIV
101 (0.380 %)NCover
101 (0.380 %)FxCop
101 (0.380 %)StyleCop
101 (0.380 %)Rhino Mocks
101 (0.380 %)ClearCase
101 (0.380 %)InstallShield
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1174 (66.16 %)Finance
250 (19.01 %)Banking
331 (11.79 %)Education
422 (8.365 %)Health
422 (8.365 %)Pensions
519 (7.224 %)Investment Banking
618 (6.844 %)Front Office
78 (3.042 %)Government
86 (2.281 %)Games
94 (1.521 %)Back Office
94 (1.521 %)Insurance
102 (0.760 %)Marketing
102 (0.760 %)Online Games
111 (0.380 %)Legal
111 (0.380 %)Electronics
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
160 (22.81 %)Client/Server
240 (15.21 %)Computer Science
338 (14.45 %)Derivative
435 (13.31 %)Multithreading
528 (10.65 %)Equities
625 (9.506 %)Fixed Income
720 (7.605 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
819 (7.224 %)Mathematics
913 (4.943 %)Management Information System
1012 (4.563 %)Credit Derivative
1111 (4.183 %)Open Source
127 (2.662 %)SaaS
127 (2.662 %)Grid Computing
134 (1.521 %)Ergonomics
134 (1.521 %)N-Tier
143 (1.141 %)iPhone
152 (0.760 %)Cloud Computing
152 (0.760 %)Equity Derivative
161 (0.380 %)Robotics
161 (0.380 %)Interest Rate Derivative
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
182 (31.18 %)UNIX
274 (28.14 %)Linux
330 (11.41 %)Windows
429 (11.03 %)Solaris
514 (5.323 %)VMS
67 (2.662 %)Windows Server 2003
73 (1.141 %)Windows XP
73 (1.141 %)Android
82 (0.760 %)OpenVMS
91 (0.380 %)Windows Vista
91 (0.380 %)Windows 2000
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
179 (30.04 %)OO
258 (22.05 %)OOD
327 (10.27 %)TDD
423 (8.745 %)Continuous Integration
519 (7.224 %)UML
614 (5.323 %)Code Coverage
614 (5.323 %)Agile Software Development
614 (5.323 %)Software Engineering
713 (4.943 %)Scrum
811 (4.183 %)Algorithmic Trading
910 (3.802 %)E-Commerce
109 (3.422 %)Information Management
109 (3.422 %)Software Architecture
118 (3.042 %)OOP
127 (2.662 %)Unit Testing
136 (2.281 %)Performance Testing
136 (2.281 %)Risk Management
136 (2.281 %)Automated Testing
145 (1.901 %)Web Development
145 (1.901 %)Workflow
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1154 (58.56 %)C++
292 (34.98 %)Java
370 (26.62 %)C#
463 (23.95 %)C
550 (19.01 %)SQL
622 (8.365 %)Perl
717 (6.464 %)JavaScript
717 (6.464 %)Shell Script
816 (6.084 %)VB
914 (5.323 %)VBA
1013 (4.943 %)DCL
1112 (4.563 %)Python
1211 (4.183 %)Ruby
138 (3.042 %)VC++
146 (2.281 %)PHP
154 (1.521 %)Jython
163 (1.141 %)PL/SQL
163 (1.141 %)VBScript
163 (1.141 %)XAML
171 (0.380 %)Erlang
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
141 (15.59 %)Degree
24 (1.521 %)Security Cleared
24 (1.521 %)ISEB
31 (0.380 %)PhD
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
117 (6.464 %)QA
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (3.422 %)Active Directory
22 (0.760 %)Terminal Server
31 (0.380 %)MSMQ
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (1.141 %)MSI
13 (1.141 %)Sysprep
21 (0.380 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
21 (0.380 %)SCCM
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
126 (9.886 %)Oracle
224 (9.125 %)Bloomberg
320 (7.605 %)Sybase
419 (7.224 %)TIBCO
514 (5.323 %)IBM
613 (4.943 %)Versant
710 (3.802 %)Microsoft
87 (2.662 %)Wall Street Systems
96 (2.281 %)DevExpress
104 (1.521 %)Citrix
113 (1.141 %)Symantec
113 (1.141 %)JBoss
113 (1.141 %)Altiris
122 (0.760 %)Reuters
131 (0.380 %)ATG
131 (0.380 %)Business Objects