The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 86 78 76
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 13 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.119% 0.119% 0.612%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.185% 0.128% 0.648%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
Average salary £40,000 £48,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +43.28%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1097 782 926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.41% 93.21% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 656 570 730
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £53,950
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
Scotland

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 21 (75.00%) Java
2 19 (67.86%) J2EE
3 17 (60.71%) CSS
3 17 (60.71%) Oracle
3 17 (60.71%) XML
3 17 (60.71%) JBoss
3 17 (60.71%) WebSphere
4 16 (57.14%) Ajax
4 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 16 (57.14%) OOD
5 15 (53.57%) OO
5 15 (53.57%) SOAP
5 15 (53.57%) TDD
6 14 (50.00%) XHTML
7 13 (46.43%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (46.43%) JDBC
7 13 (46.43%) XML Schema
7 13 (46.43%) RDBMS
8 6 (21.43%) SQL
9 5 (17.86%) C
9 5 (17.86%) C++
9 5 (17.86%) Windows
9 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
10 4 (14.29%) Games
11 3 (10.71%) Web Services
11 3 (10.71%) C#
11 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
12 2 (7.143%) Python

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (67.86%) J2EE
2 17 (60.71%) CSS
2 17 (60.71%) XML
2 17 (60.71%) WebSphere
3 16 (57.14%) Ajax
4 15 (53.57%) SOAP
5 14 (50.00%) XHTML
6 13 (46.43%) JDBC
6 13 (46.43%) XML Schema
7 3 (10.71%) Web Services
8 2 (7.143%) Spring
8 2 (7.143%) REST
8 2 (7.143%) .NET
8 2 (7.143%) HTML
9 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
9 1 (3.571%) XSLT
9 1 (3.571%) ODBC
9 1 (3.571%) Struts
9 1 (3.571%) JSP
9 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
1 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) HTTP
1 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (46.43%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.143%) MySQL
3 2 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.571%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (3.571%) Bugzilla
1 1 (3.571%) Selenium
1 1 (3.571%) Fiddler
1 1 (3.571%) FogBugz
1 1 (3.571%) Mercurial
1 1 (3.571%) JIRA
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
General
1 4 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (3.571%) Front Office
2 1 (3.571%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.143%) iPhone
3 2 (7.143%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.571%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.571%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.571%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.571%) iPad
4 1 (3.571%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.571%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 2 (7.143%) Android
2 2 (7.143%) Linux
2 2 (7.143%) UNIX
3 1 (3.571%) Windows CE
3 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) OOD
2 15 (53.57%) OO
2 15 (53.57%) TDD
3 13 (46.43%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.571%) Scrum
6 1 (3.571%) SOA
6 1 (3.571%) MVC
6 1 (3.571%) UML
6 1 (3.571%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (3.571%) Performance Management
6 1 (3.571%) Automation Testing
6 1 (3.571%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.571%) Web Development
6 1 (3.571%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.571%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) C
3 5 (17.86%) C++
4 3 (10.71%) C#
5 2 (7.143%) Python
5 2 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.143%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.571%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.571%) Embedded C++
6 1 (3.571%) Perl
6 1 (3.571%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) ISEB
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle
1 17 (60.71%) JBoss