The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 24 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 81 71 101
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.519% 0.139% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.552% 0.153% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £52,500 £42,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% -26.08%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1087 654 1014
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.95% 91.21% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 930 583 931
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £48,650
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 24 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
Rochester - 1 - -
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 5 (41.67%) HTML
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (41.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (33.33%) Publishing
2 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) JasperReports
2 4 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Music
2 4 (33.33%) Java EE
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) JSTL
2 4 (33.33%) iBATIS
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Spring MVC
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
2 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) JPA
2 4 (33.33%) PHP
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (33.33%) MySQL
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Sybase

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Java EE
2 4 (33.33%) JSTL
2 4 (33.33%) iBATIS
2 4 (33.33%) Spring MVC
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
2 4 (33.33%) JPA
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) JSP
2 4 (33.33%) SPNEGO
2 4 (33.33%) SiteMesh
2 4 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (8.333%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Quicktime
1 1 (8.333%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (8.333%) 4G
2 1 (8.333%) DLNA
2 1 (8.333%) UPnP
2 1 (8.333%) Broadband
2 1 (8.333%) WAN
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
2 1 (8.333%) FTP
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.333%) DNS
2 1 (8.333%) 802.11
2 1 (8.333%) DSL
2 1 (8.333%) TELNET
2 1 (8.333%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) JasperReports
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 4 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) CruiseControl
1 4 (33.33%) EasyMock
1 4 (33.33%) DbUnit
1 4 (33.33%) Mockito
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.333%) Trac
2 1 (8.333%) JIRA
2 1 (8.333%) ClearCase
General
1 5 (41.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (33.33%) Publishing
2 4 (33.33%) Music
3 1 (8.333%) Electronics
3 1 (8.333%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) Streaming Video
2 1 (8.333%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Android
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) MVC
1 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 4 (33.33%) UML
1 4 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (8.333%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PHP
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) C
3 3 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
4 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++
5 1 (8.333%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Sybase
1 4 (33.33%) JBoss