The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 48 68 59
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 47 8 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.087% 0.952% 2.881%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.635% 1.384% 3.627%
Number of salaries quoted 29 4 25
Average salary £45,000 £28,250 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+59.29% -21.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £23,250 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £33,950 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
834 578 772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 72.52% 68.81% 79.42%
Number of salaries quoted 473 439 589
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £57,500 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Scotland

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering.

1 36 (51.43%) Java
2 32 (45.71%) C#
3 29 (41.43%) C++
4 26 (37.14%) Degree
5 22 (31.43%) Computer Science
6 21 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
6 21 (30.00%) Front Office
7 20 (28.57%) TDD
8 18 (25.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (24.29%) Web Services
10 16 (22.86%) Windows
10 16 (22.86%) SQL
10 16 (22.86%) OO
11 15 (21.43%) HTML
11 15 (21.43%) .NET
11 15 (21.43%) CSS
12 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 14 (20.00%) JavaScript
12 14 (20.00%) WCF
13 12 (17.14%) WPF
14 11 (15.71%) XML
14 11 (15.71%) Linux
14 11 (15.71%) Risk Management
15 10 (14.29%) JBoss
15 10 (14.29%) J2EE
15 10 (14.29%) LINQ
15 10 (14.29%) Banking
16 9 (12.86%) Web Development
16 9 (12.86%) Agile Software Development
16 9 (12.86%) Multithreading

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Software Engineering also 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 that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (24.29%) Web Services
2 15 (21.43%) HTML
2 15 (21.43%) .NET
2 15 (21.43%) CSS
3 14 (20.00%) WCF
4 12 (17.14%) WPF
5 11 (15.71%) XML
6 10 (14.29%) J2EE
6 10 (14.29%) LINQ
7 9 (12.86%) HTML5
8 8 (11.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 8 (11.43%) Ajax
8 8 (11.43%) JSP
8 8 (11.43%) ASP.NET
8 8 (11.43%) Spring
9 7 (10.00%) Hibernate
9 7 (10.00%) SOAP
10 6 (8.571%) DHTML
10 6 (8.571%) Core Animation
10 6 (8.571%) REST
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.86%) Tomcat
2 4 (5.714%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.714%) Apache
3 3 (4.286%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.857%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.429%) Apache Qpid
Business Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.286%) HTTP
1 3 (4.286%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.857%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.429%) LDAP
3 1 (1.429%) LAN
3 1 (1.429%) VPN
3 1 (1.429%) Firewall
3 1 (1.429%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.571%) MySQL
3 5 (7.143%) SQLite
4 4 (5.714%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.286%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.286%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (4.286%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (4.286%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.857%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.429%) MarkLogic
7 1 (1.429%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.429%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.571%) Visual Studio
1 6 (8.571%) Subversion
2 5 (7.143%) Xcode
3 4 (5.714%) MSI
3 4 (5.714%) Git (software)
3 4 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.857%) CodeWarrior
4 2 (2.857%) Maven
5 1 (1.429%) JIRA
5 1 (1.429%) Selenium
5 1 (1.429%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.429%) jMock
5 1 (1.429%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.429%) JSUnit
5 1 (1.429%) NUnit
5 1 (1.429%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.429%) Ant
5 1 (1.429%) JUnit
5 1 (1.429%) Flash Builder
5 1 (1.429%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (30.00%) Front Office
2 10 (14.29%) Banking
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (4.286%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.429%) Legal
5 1 (1.429%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 43 (61.43%) Developer
2 19 (27.14%) Software Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) C++ Developer
3 11 (15.71%) C# Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Front Office Developer
5 8 (11.43%) WPF Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Applications Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.571%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.571%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.143%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 5 (7.143%) Mobile Developer
8 5 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.714%) Consultant
10 3 (4.286%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.286%) Technical Consultant
11 2 (2.857%) J2EE Developer
11 2 (2.857%) Web Applications Developer
11 2 (2.857%) Web Developer
11 2 (2.857%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.43%) Computer Science
2 18 (25.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.43%) Derivative
3 8 (11.43%) Mobile App
4 6 (8.571%) Animation
5 4 (5.714%) iPad
5 4 (5.714%) iPhone
6 3 (4.286%) Mathematics
6 3 (4.286%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.857%) Interactive TV
7 2 (2.857%) CAN bus
7 2 (2.857%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.857%) BBC
7 2 (2.857%) Semantic Web
7 2 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.857%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.429%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.429%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.429%) Open Source
8 1 (1.429%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) Windows
2 11 (15.71%) Linux
3 9 (12.86%) Apple iOS
4 8 (11.43%) UNIX
4 8 (11.43%) Android
5 2 (2.857%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.857%) Solaris
6 1 (1.429%) Windows CE
6 1 (1.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 20 (28.57%) TDD
3 16 (22.86%) OO
4 11 (15.71%) Risk Management
5 9 (12.86%) Web Development
5 9 (12.86%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (12.86%) Multithreading
6 5 (7.143%) MVC
7 4 (5.714%) OOD
7 4 (5.714%) Memory Management
8 3 (4.286%) Data Protection
8 3 (4.286%) UML
8 3 (4.286%) Content Management
9 2 (2.857%) Pair Programming
9 2 (2.857%) Asset Management
9 2 (2.857%) Scrum
9 2 (2.857%) Financial Modelling
9 2 (2.857%) BDD
9 2 (2.857%) Static Code Analysis
9 2 (2.857%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (51.43%) Java
2 32 (45.71%) C#
3 29 (41.43%) C++
4 16 (22.86%) SQL
5 14 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.43%) PHP
7 6 (8.571%) C
7 6 (8.571%) Perl
7 6 (8.571%) Objective-C
8 4 (5.714%) Python
9 3 (4.286%) Embedded C
9 3 (4.286%) Ruby
10 2 (2.857%) Korn
10 2 (2.857%) Embedded C++
10 2 (2.857%) Groovy
10 2 (2.857%) F#
10 2 (2.857%) Scala
11 1 (1.429%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.429%) XQuery
11 1 (1.429%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.857%) JTAG
2 1 (1.429%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.429%) NFS
1 1 (1.429%) Samba
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) JBoss
2 6 (8.571%) Apple
3 4 (5.714%) Oracle
4 3 (4.286%) Sybase
5 1 (1.429%) Cisco
5 1 (1.429%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.429%) Perforce
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Role: Software Engineer Key Skills/Experience: Software development experience using Object Orientated Design. A degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent experience... Exposure to web development technologies...
Net Talent
Salary: competitive package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Cathcart Associates are looking for Technical Consultants, with strong object oriented programming background, to join our Glasgow based client... The successful candidates will have: *A degree in Computer...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £48000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
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This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Strong Software Engineering background in Java, J2EE and knowledge of OO Design Patterns. Hands on experience of Spring, Hibernate/iBatis. Strong working knowledge of XML and related technologies,...
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Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013