The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester 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 23 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 52 21 34
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 14 34 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 3.608% 9.524% 3.158%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.723% 9.971% 3.435%
Number of salaries quoted 13 31 9
Average salary £26,500 £42,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.64% +73.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £33,000 £22,900
10% offered a salary of more than £29,700 £45,000 £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
376 341 262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 96.91% 95.52% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 329 312 225
Average salary £37,000 £33,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.44% +3.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Leicestershire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicester Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 17 (54.84%) C#
2 16 (51.61%) C++
2 16 (51.61%) .NET
3 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
4 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
5 11 (35.48%) C
6 10 (32.26%) SQL
6 10 (32.26%) VB
6 10 (32.26%) Windows
6 10 (32.26%) CRM
6 10 (32.26%) OO
6 10 (32.26%) Firmware
7 9 (29.03%) Web Services
7 9 (29.03%) Degree
7 9 (29.03%) Windows Azure
8 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
8 7 (22.58%) Web Development
8 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
9 6 (19.35%) WinForms
9 6 (19.35%) Migration
9 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
9 6 (19.35%) MS Office
9 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
9 6 (19.35%) WCF
9 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
10 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
10 5 (16.13%) XML
11 4 (12.90%) Biometrics

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 16 (51.61%) .NET
2 9 (29.03%) Web Services
3 6 (19.35%) WinForms
3 6 (19.35%) WCF
4 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
4 5 (16.13%) XML
5 3 (9.677%) Zend Framework
5 3 (9.677%) jQuery
5 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (9.677%) HTML
5 3 (9.677%) XHTML
5 3 (9.677%) CSS
5 3 (9.677%) ASP
6 2 (6.452%) Silverlight
6 2 (6.452%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.226%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 9 (29.03%) Windows Azure
2 3 (9.677%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Office
1 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
2 3 (9.677%) Photoshop
2 3 (9.677%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
1 4 (12.90%) NFC
2 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.677%) MySQL
4 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) NUnit
2 3 (9.677%) MSTest
2 3 (9.677%) Moq
2 3 (9.677%) Visual Studio
2 3 (9.677%) Subversion
3 1 (3.226%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 1 (3.226%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Firmware
2 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.90%) Biometrics
3 4 (12.90%) Smartcard
3 4 (12.90%) Cryptography
3 4 (12.90%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.226%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) CRM
1 10 (32.26%) OO
2 7 (22.58%) Web Development
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
3 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
4 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (12.90%) OOP
4 4 (12.90%) OOD
4 4 (12.90%) Cyber Security
5 3 (9.677%) TDD
5 3 (9.677%) MVC
6 2 (6.452%) Scrum
7 1 (3.226%) Integration Testing
7 1 (3.226%) Time Management
7 1 (3.226%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.226%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) C#
2 16 (51.61%) C++
3 11 (35.48%) C
4 10 (32.26%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) VB
5 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.90%) XAML
7 4 (12.90%) Objective-C
7 4 (12.90%) Java
8 3 (9.677%) Perl
8 3 (9.677%) PHP
8 3 (9.677%) VB.NET
9 1 (3.226%) Embedded C
9 1 (3.226%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) PhD
3 1 (3.226%) ISEB
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.677%) Zend
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle
3 1 (3.226%) Perforce