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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 42 69 52
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 12 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 3.209% 0.391% 1.290%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.324% 0.404% 1.342%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 2
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
361 495 298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 96.52% 96.87% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 310 436 235
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Merseyside

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Liverpool Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 15 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) Web Development
3 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (53.33%) C++
3 8 (53.33%) Mobile App
4 7 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (40.00%) QA
5 6 (40.00%) Android
5 6 (40.00%) Manual Testing
5 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (40.00%) WebDriver
5 6 (40.00%) Open Source
5 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (40.00%) User Stories
5 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (40.00%) Hudson
5 6 (40.00%) Behat
5 6 (40.00%) PHP
5 6 (40.00%) Apache
5 6 (40.00%) Automated Testing
5 6 (40.00%) ISEB
5 6 (40.00%) JMeter
5 6 (40.00%) Scrum
5 6 (40.00%) ISTQB
5 6 (40.00%) Selenium
5 6 (40.00%) FitNesse
6 5 (33.33%) Windows
7 4 (26.67%) C
7 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
8 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone 8

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) WinForms
2 2 (13.33%) JNI
2 2 (13.33%) ActiveX
2 2 (13.33%) HTML5
2 2 (13.33%) FFmpeg
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.667%) RESTful
3 1 (6.667%) HTML
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.667%) CSS
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE
3 1 (6.667%) Spring
3 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.667%) Java EE
3 1 (6.667%) JSON
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
3 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) WebDriver
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (40.00%) Hudson
1 6 (40.00%) Behat
1 6 (40.00%) JMeter
1 6 (40.00%) Selenium
1 6 (40.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.667%) MyEclipse
3 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.667%) Xcode
3 1 (6.667%) CruiseControl
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (40.00%) Open Source
3 3 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Android
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone 8
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (6.667%) Mac OS
6 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Web Development
2 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (40.00%) User Stories
4 6 (40.00%) Automated Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
7 1 (6.667%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (6.667%) OOP
7 1 (6.667%) OO
7 1 (6.667%) MVC
7 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.667%) TDD
7 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) C++
3 6 (40.00%) PHP
4 4 (26.67%) C
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) VB6
6 2 (13.33%) VB
6 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (6.667%) C#
7 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.667%) Python
7 1 (6.667%) Objective-C
7 1 (6.667%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) ISEB
1 6 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Apple