The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 20 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 135 110 148
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 9 38 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.371% 1.515% 0.524%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.395% 1.571% 0.558%
Number of salaries quoted 9 36 15
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2280 2419 3045
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.90% 96.41% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1861 1974 2462
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
East of England

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Senior Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hemel Hempstead +4 2 £32,500 -35.00%
Stevenage -16 1 £45,000 -
Royston - 1 £42,500 -
Senior Software Engineer
East of England

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 15 (55.56%) C++
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 13 (48.15%) Web Services
3 11 (40.74%) C#
4 10 (37.04%) HTML
4 10 (37.04%) CSS
5 9 (33.33%) SOAP
5 9 (33.33%) Java
5 9 (33.33%) MFC
5 9 (33.33%) REST
6 8 (29.63%) JSP
7 7 (25.93%) Linux
7 7 (25.93%) SQL
7 7 (25.93%) UNIX
7 7 (25.93%) Image Processing
7 7 (25.93%) WPF
7 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (25.93%) Spring
7 7 (25.93%) Hibernate
8 6 (22.22%) Scrum
8 6 (22.22%) Degree
8 6 (22.22%) OO
8 6 (22.22%) XML
8 6 (22.22%) J2EE
9 5 (18.52%) C
9 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
9 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
9 5 (18.52%) Software Architecture
9 5 (18.52%) MVVM
9 5 (18.52%) jQuery

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 13 (48.15%) Web Services
2 10 (37.04%) HTML
2 10 (37.04%) CSS
3 9 (33.33%) MFC
3 9 (33.33%) SOAP
3 9 (33.33%) REST
4 8 (29.63%) JSP
5 7 (25.93%) WPF
5 7 (25.93%) Hibernate
5 7 (25.93%) Spring
6 6 (22.22%) XML
6 6 (22.22%) J2EE
7 5 (18.52%) Ajax
7 5 (18.52%) jQuery
8 4 (14.81%) Struts
8 4 (14.81%) .NET
8 4 (14.81%) JDBC
9 3 (11.11%) XHTML
9 3 (11.11%) JMS
9 3 (11.11%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
2 3 (11.11%) ESB
3 2 (7.407%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) LAN
1 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.704%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.407%) Subversion
General
1 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (7.407%) Electronics
2 2 (7.407%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Automotive
3 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) IVR
1 2 (7.407%) Speech Recognition
1 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
1 2 (7.407%) Open Source
1 2 (7.407%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.704%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
1 7 (25.93%) UNIX
2 2 (7.407%) Windows
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.407%) Windows XP
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.704%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (25.93%) Image Processing
2 6 (22.22%) Scrum
2 6 (22.22%) OO
3 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
3 5 (18.52%) TDD
3 5 (18.52%) Software Architecture
3 5 (18.52%) MVVM
4 4 (14.81%) Web Application Development
5 3 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (7.407%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (7.407%) Pair Programming
6 2 (7.407%) Logistics
6 2 (7.407%) Automated Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.407%) Extreme Programming
6 2 (7.407%) WFM
6 2 (7.407%) Multithreading
6 2 (7.407%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.407%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) C++
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (40.74%) C#
4 9 (33.33%) Java
5 7 (25.93%) SQL
6 5 (18.52%) C
7 3 (11.11%) PHP
7 3 (11.11%) Embedded C
7 3 (11.11%) Objective-C
7 3 (11.11%) Groovy
8 2 (7.407%) VC++
9 1 (3.704%) Python
9 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) PhD
3 1 (3.704%) ISEB
3 1 (3.704%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) JBoss