The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 77 65 95
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +30
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 15 9 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.274% 1.262% 0.475%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.786% 1.741% 0.657%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 5
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +108.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £28,450 £21,700
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £50,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
840 517 761
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 71.37% 72.51% 72.34%
Number of salaries quoted 709 459 689
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,600 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

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

Kent Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Canterbury - 2 £31,000 -
Maidstone -4 1 £32,500 -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 17 (77.27%) Degree
2 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 13 (59.09%) CSS
3 12 (54.55%) Computer Science
4 11 (50.00%) PHP
4 11 (50.00%) MySQL
5 9 (40.91%) Java
6 8 (36.36%) MVC
6 8 (36.36%) jQuery
6 8 (36.36%) Ajax
7 7 (31.82%) Internet
7 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
7 7 (31.82%) SQL
8 6 (27.27%) XHTML
8 6 (27.27%) HTML5
9 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (22.73%) .NET
10 4 (18.18%) J2EE
10 4 (18.18%) C#
10 4 (18.18%) HTML
10 4 (18.18%) Sybase
10 4 (18.18%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (18.18%) Kerberos
10 4 (18.18%) JBoss
10 4 (18.18%) Apache
10 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
10 4 (18.18%) JSP
10 4 (18.18%) Publishing
10 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (18.18%) Hibernate

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 13 (59.09%) CSS
2 8 (36.36%) Ajax
2 8 (36.36%) jQuery
3 6 (27.27%) HTML5
3 6 (27.27%) XHTML
4 5 (22.73%) .NET
5 4 (18.18%) J2EE
5 4 (18.18%) JSP
5 4 (18.18%) HTML
5 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 4 (18.18%) SiteMesh
5 4 (18.18%) Spring
5 4 (18.18%) Java EE
5 4 (18.18%) JSTL
5 4 (18.18%) iBATIS
5 4 (18.18%) Spring MVC
5 4 (18.18%) SPNEGO
5 4 (18.18%) JPA
5 4 (18.18%) PowerMock
6 3 (13.64%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Internet
2 4 (18.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.545%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MySQL
2 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (18.18%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (18.18%) JasperReports
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (18.18%) Redis
4 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) CruiseControl
1 4 (18.18%) EasyMock
1 4 (18.18%) DbUnit
1 4 (18.18%) Mockito
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git (software)
2 3 (13.64%) QADirector
2 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.545%) NUnit
3 1 (4.545%) Selenium
3 1 (4.545%) JUnit
General
1 4 (18.18%) Publishing
1 4 (18.18%) Music
2 3 (13.64%) Electronics
2 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.091%) Finance
3 2 (9.091%) French Language
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) J2EE Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.091%) Development Team Leader
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Web Project Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Web Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Web Team Leader
5 2 (9.091%) Web Development Team Leader
6 1 (4.545%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Linux
2 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) MVC
2 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (18.18%) Web Development
3 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 4 (18.18%) SEO
4 3 (13.64%) Lean Manufacturing
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 2 (9.091%) Migration
5 2 (9.091%) OOP
5 2 (9.091%) OO
5 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.545%) Change Management
6 1 (4.545%) Regression Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Scrum
6 1 (4.545%) Multithreading
6 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
6 1 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Usability Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 11 (50.00%) PHP
3 9 (40.91%) Java
4 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) C#
6 2 (9.091%) C++
7 1 (4.545%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Sybase
1 4 (18.18%) JBoss
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
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