The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Durham 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 24 May 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 9 16 17
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 11 12 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 14.29% 8.451% 4.854%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.67% 8.696% 5.155%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 3
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +6.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
75 138 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 97.40% 97.18% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 70 126 76
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% -12.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £20,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
North East

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) C
2 15 (75.00%) C++
3 14 (70.00%) .NET
4 11 (55.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 11 (55.00%) Configuration Management
4 11 (55.00%) Subversion
5 10 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (50.00%) PHP
5 10 (50.00%) SQL
5 10 (50.00%) C#
6 9 (45.00%) OOP
6 9 (45.00%) Multithreading
6 9 (45.00%) Qt
7 7 (35.00%) Marketing
7 7 (35.00%) Refactoring
7 7 (35.00%) Scrum
7 7 (35.00%) Internet
7 7 (35.00%) VC++
7 7 (35.00%) CSS
7 7 (35.00%) SOAP
7 7 (35.00%) Python
7 7 (35.00%) ECMAScript
7 7 (35.00%) Ethernet
7 7 (35.00%) HTML
7 7 (35.00%) Perl
7 7 (35.00%) MFC
8 5 (25.00%) UNIX
8 5 (25.00%) Java
9 4 (20.00%) Embedded C

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 14 (70.00%) .NET
2 9 (45.00%) Qt
3 7 (35.00%) CSS
3 7 (35.00%) SOAP
3 7 (35.00%) HTML
3 7 (35.00%) MFC
4 3 (15.00%) JSP
4 3 (15.00%) J2EE
4 3 (15.00%) ASP
5 2 (10.00%) WCF
5 2 (10.00%) WPF
6 1 (5.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Internet
1 7 (35.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 11 (55.00%) Subversion
2 3 (15.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Marketing
2 4 (20.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
2 3 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) UNIX
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Configuration Management
2 10 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (45.00%) OOP
3 9 (45.00%) Multithreading
4 7 (35.00%) Refactoring
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C
1 15 (75.00%) C++
2 10 (50.00%) PHP
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) VC++
3 7 (35.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) ECMAScript
3 7 (35.00%) Perl
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (20.00%) Embedded C
5 4 (20.00%) Embedded C++
5 4 (20.00%) Assembly Language
6 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Citrix
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
Durham, County Durham
Software Engineer, Software Developer, Embedded Software, C/C++, VC++, MFC, GUI, Qt, ARM9, .NET, OOP, SQL, Python, Perl, Ethernet, USB, Linux, HTML, PHP, CSS, SOAP, Agile, SCRUM... Qt, ...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Knowledge of C++... - Knowledge of Software testing techniques... Experience of writing programs in CUDA and Matlab will also be of benefit as will experience of producing multi-threaded...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £20,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Embedded C/C++, Assembler, Firmware, Embedded Software, Embedded Linux, UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, PIC, ARM, LCD development... As a Firmware Engineer / Embedded Software Engineer you will have 4+...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013