The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 48 57 46
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 45 26 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.644% 2.965% 3.603%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.820% 3.222% 3.799%
Number of salaries quoted 18 22 33
Average salary £36,250 £38,750 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.45% +7.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,650 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,800 £55,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1178 807 974
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 95.38% 92.02% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 774 569 761
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Software Engineer
Scotland

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 43 (58.11%) Java
2 34 (45.95%) CSS
3 27 (36.49%) OO
3 27 (36.49%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (35.14%) Ajax
4 26 (35.14%) XML
5 25 (33.78%) SQL
5 25 (33.78%) JBoss
5 25 (33.78%) Degree
6 24 (32.43%) SQL Server
7 23 (31.08%) J2EE
7 23 (31.08%) OOD
8 22 (29.73%) RDBMS
8 22 (29.73%) C#
8 22 (29.73%) Oracle
9 21 (28.38%) SOAP
10 20 (27.03%) WebSphere
10 20 (27.03%) TDD
11 19 (25.68%) .NET
12 18 (24.32%) Web Services
12 18 (24.32%) XHTML
12 18 (24.32%) Computer Science
13 17 (22.97%) C++
13 17 (22.97%) C
13 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
14 16 (21.62%) HTML
14 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
14 16 (21.62%) JDBC
14 16 (21.62%) Linux
14 16 (21.62%) XML Schema

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 34 (45.95%) CSS
2 26 (35.14%) Ajax
2 26 (35.14%) XML
3 23 (31.08%) J2EE
4 21 (28.38%) SOAP
5 20 (27.03%) WebSphere
6 19 (25.68%) .NET
7 18 (24.32%) Web Services
7 18 (24.32%) XHTML
8 16 (21.62%) HTML
8 16 (21.62%) JDBC
8 16 (21.62%) XML Schema
9 12 (16.22%) ASP.NET
9 12 (16.22%) jQuery
9 12 (16.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (10.81%) JSON
11 7 (9.459%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (9.459%) Qt
11 7 (9.459%) Middleware
11 7 (9.459%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.108%) Tomcat
1 6 (8.108%) Apache Solr
2 4 (5.405%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.351%) Apache
3 1 (1.351%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.459%) HTTP
2 4 (5.405%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.351%) ASN.1
3 1 (1.351%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.351%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 22 (29.73%) RDBMS
3 7 (9.459%) Couchbase
3 7 (9.459%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.108%) GIS
4 6 (8.108%) CouchDB
5 4 (5.405%) MySQL
6 3 (4.054%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.351%) SQLite
7 1 (1.351%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.351%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.351%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Subversion
2 10 (13.51%) Git (software)
3 7 (9.459%) Hudson
3 7 (9.459%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.459%) TeamCity
4 5 (6.757%) Visual Studio
5 4 (5.405%) MSI
5 4 (5.405%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (4.054%) JIRA
6 3 (4.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.703%) NUnit
7 2 (2.703%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.351%) Selenium
8 1 (1.351%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.351%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.351%) FogBugz
8 1 (1.351%) NetBeans IDE
8 1 (1.351%) CruiseControl
8 1 (1.351%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (1.351%) CodeWarrior
General
1 9 (12.16%) Games
2 3 (4.054%) Finance
3 2 (2.703%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.351%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Computer Science
2 16 (21.62%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.108%) Physics
4 5 (6.757%) Mathematics
5 3 (4.054%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.703%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.703%) Blackberry
6 2 (2.703%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.703%) Open Source
7 1 (1.351%) FMCG
7 1 (1.351%) iPhone
7 1 (1.351%) SCADA
7 1 (1.351%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.351%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (1.351%) CAN bus
7 1 (1.351%) Derivative
7 1 (1.351%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.351%) Handset
7 1 (1.351%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Linux
2 14 (18.92%) Windows
3 9 (12.16%) Android
4 8 (10.81%) Apple iOS
5 5 (6.757%) UNIX
6 1 (1.351%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.351%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) OO
1 27 (36.49%) Continuous Integration
2 23 (31.08%) OOD
3 20 (27.03%) TDD
4 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
5 14 (18.92%) Unit Testing
5 14 (18.92%) Web Development
6 12 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (12.16%) MVC
8 7 (9.459%) Software Testing
8 7 (9.459%) SOA
9 5 (6.757%) Scrum
9 5 (6.757%) Automated Testing
10 4 (5.405%) UML
11 3 (4.054%) Release Management
11 3 (4.054%) Software Deployment
12 2 (2.703%) Product Management
12 2 (2.703%) Multithreading
13 1 (1.351%) Performance Management
13 1 (1.351%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.11%) Java
2 25 (33.78%) SQL
3 22 (29.73%) C#
4 17 (22.97%) C++
4 17 (22.97%) C
5 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 7 (9.459%) PHP
8 6 (8.108%) Python
9 3 (4.054%) Perl
10 2 (2.703%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.703%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.351%) Groovy
11 1 (1.351%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.351%) Ruby
11 1 (1.351%) XPath
11 1 (1.351%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.351%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.351%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) Degree
2 5 (6.757%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.757%) ISEB
3 2 (2.703%) PhD
3 2 (2.703%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.405%) QA
2 2 (2.703%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.351%) JTAG
Vendors
1 25 (33.78%) JBoss
2 22 (29.73%) Oracle
3 5 (6.757%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.351%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.351%) Sybase
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