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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 4.698% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.109% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £22,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Job Titles
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
137 193 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 91.95% 98.47% 92.06%
Number of salaries quoted 97 129 83
Average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £41,500 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Software Engineer
West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) C#
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 6 (75.00%) MySQL
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 6 (75.00%) XML
3 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (75.00%) MVC
4 5 (62.50%) Back Office
4 5 (62.50%) Subversion
4 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
4 5 (62.50%) CSS
4 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
4 5 (62.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
4 5 (62.50%) PHP
4 5 (62.50%) Ajax
4 5 (62.50%) Marketing
4 5 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (62.50%) WordPress
5 2 (25.00%) VB
5 2 (25.00%) C
6 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Workflow

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) HTML
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) XML
3 5 (62.50%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MySQL
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
1 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
1 5 (62.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (62.50%) Back Office
1 5 (62.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) MVC
2 5 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 5 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 5 (62.50%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) VB
4 2 (25.00%) C
5 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle