Essex Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barry Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Radlett Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	89
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	45	34
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.366 %	1.557 %
Salaries quoted	32	31
Average minimum salary	£40,324	£37,219
Average salary	£42,544	£39,281
% change on same period last year	+8.30 %
Average maximum salary	£44,765	£41,344
UK excluding London average salary	£36,034	£34,924
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	1902	2184
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.004 %	0.894 %
Salaries quoted	1580	1915
Average minimum salary	£36,347	£36,012
Average salary	£38,540	£38,122
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Average maximum salary	£40,733	£40,232
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Engineer East of England

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chelmsford	+13	9	£47,222	+81.62 %
Saffron Walden	-	3	-	-
Colchester	-6	2	£25,000	-37.50 %
Rochford	-	1	£50,000	-
Harlow	-	1	£38,500	-
Maldon	-3	1	£34,000	+13.33 %
Brentwood	-	1	£50,000	-

Software Engineer East of England

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 65 (73.03 %) C++ 2 60 (67.42 %) C 3 33 (37.08 %) Linux 4 28 (31.46 %) Electronics 5 21 (23.60 %) Embedded C 6 17 (19.10 %) Software Engineering 6 17 (19.10 %) Embedded Linux 7 16 (17.98 %) Telecoms 7 16 (17.98 %) VxWorks 7 16 (17.98 %) Java 8 13 (14.61 %) Insurance 8 13 (14.61 %) Pensions 8 13 (14.61 %) Health 8 13 (14.61 %) .NET 8 13 (14.61 %) Embedded C++

9 12 (13.48 %) Windows 10 10 (11.24 %) Degree 10 10 (11.24 %) Aerospace 11 9 (10.11 %) C# 12 8 (8.989 %) J2EE 12 8 (8.989 %) XML 12 8 (8.989 %) MS Excel 12 8 (8.989 %) ERP 12 8 (8.989 %) OOD 12 8 (8.989 %) Microsoft 12 8 (8.989 %) Device Driver 13 7 (7.865 %) Project Management 14 6 (6.742 %) Web Development 14 6 (6.742 %) Requirements Analysis 14 6 (6.742 %) Systems Analysis

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 13 (14.61 %) .NET 2 8 (8.989 %) J2EE 2 8 (8.989 %) XML 3 5 (5.618 %) MFC 4 3 (3.371 %) HTML 5 2 (2.247 %) STL 5 2 (2.247 %) COM 5 2 (2.247 %) DCOM 5 2 (2.247 %) Swing 6 1 (1.124 %) J2ME 6 1 (1.124 %) AJAX 6 1 (1.124 %) WebSphere 6 1 (1.124 %) XSLT 6 1 (1.124 %) CSS 6 1 (1.124 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.124 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 8 (8.989 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.371 %) MATLAB 2 3 (3.371 %) Simulink 3 1 (1.124 %) ImageReady 3 1 (1.124 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.124 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.742 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.371 %) VoIP 2 3 (3.371 %) Ethernet 3 2 (2.247 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.124 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 4 (4.494 %) ClearCase 2 3 (3.371 %) PVCS 2 3 (3.371 %) Subversion 3 2 (2.247 %) Flash 3 2 (2.247 %) RequisitePro 3 2 (2.247 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (2.247 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (1.124 %) WinRunner 4 1 (1.124 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (1.124 %) Visual Studio
General 1 28 (31.46 %) Electronics 2 16 (17.98 %) Telecoms 3 13 (14.61 %) Health 3 13 (14.61 %) Insurance 3 13 (14.61 %) Pensions 4 10 (11.24 %) Aerospace 5 5 (5.618 %) Automotive 6 3 (3.371 %) Military 7 2 (2.247 %) Back Office 8 1 (1.124 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (1.124 %) Publishing 8 1 (1.124 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.989 %) Device Driver 2 2 (2.247 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.247 %) Firmware 3 1 (1.124 %) Multithreading 3 1 (1.124 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 33 (37.08 %) Linux 2 17 (19.10 %) Embedded Linux 3 16 (17.98 %) VxWorks 4 12 (13.48 %) Windows 5 3 (3.371 %) Windows NT 5 3 (3.371 %) Windows XP 6 2 (2.247 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.124 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (1.124 %) Windows CE 7 1 (1.124 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (19.10 %) Software Engineering 2 8 (8.989 %) OOD 2 8 (8.989 %) ERP 3 7 (7.865 %) Project Management 4 6 (6.742 %) Systems Analysis 4 6 (6.742 %) Requirements Analysis 4 6 (6.742 %) Web Development 5 5 (5.618 %) OO 6 4 (4.494 %) UML 6 4 (4.494 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (3.371 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (3.371 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (2.247 %) Document Management 8 2 (2.247 %) CRM 8 2 (2.247 %) Validation 8 2 (2.247 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (2.247 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (1.124 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.124 %) Manual Testing 9 1 (1.124 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 65 (73.03 %) C++ 2 60 (67.42 %) C 3 21 (23.60 %) Embedded C 4 16 (17.98 %) Java 5 13 (14.61 %) Embedded C++ 6 9 (10.11 %) C# 7 6 (6.742 %) Delphi 8 4 (4.494 %) PHP 8 4 (4.494 %) VB 9 3 (3.371 %) VB.NET 9 3 (3.371 %) VC++ 9 3 (3.371 %) Assembly Language 9 3 (3.371 %) SQL 10 2 (2.247 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (2.247 %) JavaScript 11 1 (1.124 %) Perl 11 1 (1.124 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.124 %) Python 11 1 (1.124 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 10 (11.24 %) Degree 2 2 (2.247 %) PhD 3 1 (1.124 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.124 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (8.989 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.247 %) Intel 2 2 (2.247 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.124 %) Borland 3 1 (1.124 %) QNX 3 1 (1.124 %) NEC