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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 19 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 3.659% 6.250% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.797% 6.522% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
79 46 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 96.34% 95.83% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 75 44 96
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,600 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Kent

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Sahi
2 2 (50.00%) soapUI
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) RUP

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) soapUI
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Smarty
3 1 (25.00%) STL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Sahi
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) RUP
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) Facebook