The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire 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 22 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 42 37 50
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 181 213 145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 5.245% 5.474% 4.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.497% 5.694% 4.339%
Number of salaries quoted 164 189 131
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £29,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3293 3741 3342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 95.42% 96.14% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2794 3282 2826
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Southampton -2 59 £37,500 -6.25%
Basingstoke +16 48 £37,500 -21.05%
Farnborough -9 14 £42,500 +3.65%
Fareham +2 10 £24,000 -12.72%
Portsmouth -3 6 £40,000 +5.26%
Winchester -7 4 £33,000 -30.52%
Petersfield -7 2 £35,000 -22.22%
Havant +4 1 £45,000 +8.43%
Eastleigh 0 1 £32,500 -27.77%
Andover -7 1 £37,635 +6.01%
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 250 (57.87%) C++
2 187 (43.29%) C#
3 178 (41.20%) C
4 165 (38.19%) Degree
5 154 (35.65%) Linux
6 140 (32.41%) .NET
7 112 (25.93%) Windows
8 103 (23.84%) Software Engineering
9 90 (20.83%) Java
9 90 (20.83%) JavaScript
10 80 (18.52%) SQL
10 80 (18.52%) Computer Science
11 79 (18.29%) OO
12 73 (16.90%) ASP.NET
13 67 (15.51%) HTML
13 67 (15.51%) UML
13 67 (15.51%) Python
14 58 (13.43%) Electronics
15 53 (12.27%) CSS
15 53 (12.27%) Embedded C
16 51 (11.81%) Scrum
16 51 (11.81%) WPF
17 49 (11.34%) Security Cleared
18 46 (10.65%) MVC
19 45 (10.42%) SQL Server
20 44 (10.19%) Agile Software Development
21 43 (9.954%) UNIX
22 41 (9.491%) Telecoms
23 34 (7.870%) Subversion
24 31 (7.176%) TDD

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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
1 140 (32.41%) .NET
2 73 (16.90%) ASP.NET
3 67 (15.51%) HTML
4 53 (12.27%) CSS
5 51 (11.81%) WPF
6 30 (6.944%) jQuery
6 30 (6.944%) XML
7 29 (6.713%) GWT
7 29 (6.713%) WCF
8 27 (6.250%) ADO.NET
9 25 (5.787%) STL
10 24 (5.556%) LINQ
10 24 (5.556%) WinForms
11 21 (4.861%) HTML5
12 19 (4.398%) ASP
13 17 (3.935%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (3.935%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 15 (3.472%) Web Services
15 14 (3.241%) J2EE
15 14 (3.241%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 21 (4.861%) IIS
2 7 (1.620%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.157%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.926%) Apache
5 3 (0.694%) CM System
6 2 (0.463%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.463%) CMS
7 1 (0.231%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.231%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.231%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.231%) ESB
7 1 (0.231%) Mule
7 1 (0.231%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.231%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.231%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.231%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.231%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (3.241%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.620%) MS Office
3 1 (0.231%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.546%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.315%) HTTP
3 7 (1.620%) DVB
3 7 (1.620%) Internet
3 7 (1.620%) ATM
3 7 (1.620%) Broadband
4 5 (1.157%) GSM
4 5 (1.157%) WCDMA
4 5 (1.157%) SMTP
4 5 (1.157%) Firewall
4 5 (1.157%) LTE
5 4 (0.926%) Wireless
6 3 (0.694%) VLAN
6 3 (0.694%) LAN
6 3 (0.694%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.463%) UMTS
7 2 (0.463%) VoIP
7 2 (0.463%) GPRS
8 1 (0.231%) WEP
8 1 (0.231%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.481%) MySQL
3 14 (3.241%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.083%) GIS
5 8 (1.852%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.620%) Big Data
7 4 (0.926%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.926%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (0.694%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.694%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.694%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.463%) Ingres
9 2 (0.463%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.231%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 34 (7.870%) Subversion
2 31 (7.176%) Visual Studio
2 31 (7.176%) Git (software)
3 25 (5.787%) Selenium
4 18 (4.167%) ReSharper
5 17 (3.935%) SpecFlow
6 12 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 11 (2.546%) LabVIEW
8 10 (2.315%) NUnit
9 6 (1.389%) ClearCase
9 6 (1.389%) Bugzilla
9 6 (1.389%) CruiseControl
10 5 (1.157%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.157%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.157%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.926%) GoogleTest
11 4 (0.926%) Hudson
11 4 (0.926%) CppUnit
11 4 (0.926%) Rhino Mocks
12 3 (0.694%) Ant
General
1 58 (13.43%) Electronics
2 41 (9.491%) Telecoms
3 21 (4.861%) Aerospace
4 11 (2.546%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.315%) Military
6 9 (2.083%) Finance
7 7 (1.620%) Games
8 3 (0.694%) Advertising
9 2 (0.463%) Avionics
9 2 (0.463%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.463%) Automotive
9 2 (0.463%) Legal
9 2 (0.463%) Marketing
10 1 (0.231%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 80 (18.52%) Computer Science
2 27 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (6.019%) Firmware
4 23 (5.324%) Mathematics
5 19 (4.398%) Device Driver
6 11 (2.546%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (2.083%) Physics
8 8 (1.852%) Open Source
8 8 (1.852%) DTV
9 7 (1.620%) STB
9 7 (1.620%) Visualisation
9 7 (1.620%) Kindle
9 7 (1.620%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.389%) N-Tier
10 6 (1.389%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.389%) Derivative
11 4 (0.926%) SCADA
11 4 (0.926%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.694%) Replication
12 3 (0.694%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 154 (35.65%) Linux
2 112 (25.93%) Windows
3 43 (9.954%) UNIX
4 17 (3.935%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (1.852%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.389%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.157%) Windows CE
8 4 (0.926%) AIX
8 4 (0.926%) Solaris
9 3 (0.694%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.463%) Android
10 2 (0.463%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.463%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.463%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.231%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (23.84%) Software Engineering
2 79 (18.29%) OO
3 67 (15.51%) UML
4 51 (11.81%) Scrum
5 46 (10.65%) MVC
6 44 (10.19%) Agile Software Development
7 31 (7.176%) TDD
8 26 (6.019%) Multithreading
9 25 (5.787%) Software Testing
10 22 (5.093%) OOP
11 20 (4.630%) Unit Testing
11 20 (4.630%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (4.630%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (4.630%) Web Development
11 20 (4.630%) OOD
12 19 (4.398%) BDD
13 18 (4.167%) Kanban
14 14 (3.241%) Configuration Management
15 13 (3.009%) Validation
15 13 (3.009%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 250 (57.87%) C++
2 187 (43.29%) C#
3 178 (41.20%) C
4 90 (20.83%) Java
4 90 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 80 (18.52%) SQL
6 67 (15.51%) Python
7 53 (12.27%) Embedded C
8 24 (5.556%) PHP
9 21 (4.861%) Perl
9 21 (4.861%) Embedded C++
10 16 (3.704%) T-SQL
11 14 (3.241%) VB
12 13 (3.009%) PHP5
13 12 (2.778%) MATLAB
13 12 (2.778%) Ada
14 10 (2.315%) Assembly Language
15 9 (2.083%) VB6
16 8 (1.852%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.620%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 165 (38.19%) Degree
2 49 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.852%) HND
4 7 (1.620%) PhD
4 7 (1.620%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.926%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (0.926%) HNC
6 3 (0.694%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.463%) ISEB
7 2 (0.463%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.231%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.167%) QA
2 16 (3.704%) ISO 9001
3 8 (1.852%) DO-178B
4 4 (0.926%) TickIT
System Software
1 5 (1.157%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (1.157%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 29 (6.713%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.787%) Oracle
3 7 (1.620%) Atmel
4 6 (1.389%) Zend
4 6 (1.389%) VMware
5 4 (0.926%) hybris
5 4 (0.926%) Google
6 3 (0.694%) ATG
6 3 (0.694%) IBM
7 2 (0.463%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.463%) Progress
7 2 (0.463%) JBoss
7 2 (0.463%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.231%) Wonderware
8 1 (0.231%) Siemens
8 1 (0.231%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.231%) Twitter
Southampton, Hampshire
C++ Software Engineer C++, Windows, Linux, Complex programming £50k - £70k per annum Southampton, Hampshire C++ Software Engineer required by a niche software house based in Southampton, Hampshire... Keywords...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Key skills: C#, C++, STL, GUI, OOP/UML... The right candidate will have a demonstrable passion for software development and following skills and experience: - - .Net development in C#,...
Dakota 6
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Southampton, South East
I have just received instruction from a key client of mine for several Embedded C/C++ Engineers in and around the Southampton Area... The client can interview from...
Computer Futures
Salary: £23 - £35000 per annum + Pension,
Posted: 15 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Key Skills - .Net Development, C#, GUI design, C++, STL, Windows, Linux, OO Design, UML, GIS, SLQ Server, Embedded experience... Key Skills *C#.NET *GUI *C++ *STL *Windows *Linux *...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Basingstoke, South East
Key Skills*C#.NET*GUI*C++*STL*Windows*Linux*UI Design*Telecoms or defence environment experience desired.To be a good fit for this role you will be...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Experience Required Includes: - C# .Net Development in Windows and Web-based applications - ASP.Net - Proficient skills in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio and MFC. - Good experience of development...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Ideal Requirements: - Full UK Driving Licence - Programming ability in C/Java - Knowledge of Linux and Windows - General knowledge of computers and Networking - Customer service orientated - Ability to travel...
IT Talent Solutions
Salary: £25000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Working at Anite... Gain practical C/C++ programming experience. Design and develop of Windows applications in C / C++ to support test case execution... Participate in the design of...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
ASP.NET 2-3.5 *HTML *CSS *Javascript *JQuery *Web Services *Visual Studio 2005/2008 *TSQL *IIS *Linq *Visual Studio 2010 *Javascript *JQGrid Candidates must be eligible for...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £44000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Anite Telecoms provides specialist handset and system solutions to customers within the telecoms sector... Working at Anite... Anite Platform Group... Development in this team is on Windows based...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
My client is a leading digital market research agency based in Southampton and they are looking for a PHP Software Engineer to join their rapidly growing tech team.....
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30,000 to 45,000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Southampton, Hampshire OOP PHP5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Linux, version control, MVC framework PHP Software Engineer/Developer required to join the strategic team of a fast growing software...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + pension, healthcare, bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
LTE Layer2 protocol development, Embedded C/C++, Real Time OS, Knowledge of telecommunications protocols... C.Analysis of LTE/3G/2G specifications... 3.Ability to program in C/C++.
Connectus
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
We are looking for 2 senior back-end IS Developers with good knowledge of Java/J2EE software development with experience of operating in an agile environment (XP/SCRUM/...
Ordnance Survey
Salary: £32,000 per annum c£32,000 plus excellent benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
To be considered for the role of Senior Software Engineer you will be expected to have a proven track record of developing software covering the full development lifecycle...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
The successful applicant will be technically leading the team responsible for the development of LTE and UTRAN 37.901 Performance test cases for Anite's new Performance test...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013