Manchester Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barry Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Radlett Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	61
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	125	214
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.088 %
As % of the category below	2.462 %	3.267 %
Salaries quoted	113	201
Average minimum salary	£29,423	£29,945
Average salary	£32,484	£33,619
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Average maximum salary	£35,545	£37,294
UK excluding London average salary	£36,034	£34,924
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	5077	6551
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.680 %	2.683 %
Salaries quoted	4253	5618
Average minimum salary	£33,152	£35,795
Average salary	£38,079	£40,436
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Average maximum salary	£43,006	£45,076
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Engineer North West

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Manchester region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	0	19	£34,875	-1.00 %
Oldham	-3	12	£31,667	+6.44 %
Bolton	-	6	£32,083	-
Salford	0	5	£33,000	+6.45 %
Cheadle	-	3	£33,000	-
Ashton-under-Lyne	-1	3	£25,000	-16.66 %
Rochdale	-5	3	£29,500	+4.88 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 182 (68.94 %) C++ 2 97 (36.74 %) OO 3 81 (30.68 %) Degree 4 70 (26.52 %) Windows 5 58 (21.97 %) C 6 49 (18.56 %) Visual Studio 7 48 (18.18 %) Java 8 47 (17.80 %) Symbian 9 46 (17.42 %) OOD 10 44 (16.67 %) C# 11 43 (16.29 %) UML 11 43 (16.29 %) Software Engineering 12 41 (15.53 %) Linux 12 41 (15.53 %) .NET 13 37 (14.02 %) Symbian OS

14 34 (12.88 %) SQL 15 27 (10.23 %) VC++ 16 26 (9.848 %) XML 17 25 (9.470 %) SQL Server 17 25 (9.470 %) Electronics 17 25 (9.470 %) Games 18 24 (9.091 %) Pensions 19 23 (8.712 %) Embedded C 19 23 (8.712 %) Microsoft 20 21 (7.955 %) UNIX 21 19 (7.197 %) Mathematics 21 19 (7.197 %) Physics 22 18 (6.818 %) VB 23 17 (6.439 %) Perl 24 16 (6.061 %) MFC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 41 (15.53 %) .NET 2 26 (9.848 %) XML 3 16 (6.061 %) MFC 3 16 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 4 11 (4.167 %) WAP 5 9 (3.409 %) BREW 5 9 (3.409 %) HTML 6 7 (2.652 %) ActiveX 7 6 (2.273 %) ASP 7 6 (2.273 %) J2EE 8 5 (1.894 %) ATL 8 5 (1.894 %) Spring 9 4 (1.515 %) STL 9 4 (1.515 %) WebServices 10 3 (1.136 %) CORBA 10 3 (1.136 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (0.758 %) WCF 11 2 (0.758 %) WPF 11 2 (0.758 %) XHTML 11 2 (0.758 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 8 (3.030 %) IIS 2 2 (0.758 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 12 (4.545 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.379 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.379 %) MATLAB 2 1 (0.379 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 1 (0.379 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 13 (4.924 %) GPRS 2 11 (4.167 %) HTTP 3 10 (3.788 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (3.788 %) GSM 4 8 (3.030 %) Wireless 5 5 (1.894 %) DVB 6 3 (1.136 %) Internet 7 2 (0.758 %) VoIP 7 2 (0.758 %) Ethernet 8 1 (0.379 %) WLAN 8 1 (0.379 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (9.470 %) SQL Server 2 7 (2.652 %) MySQL 3 2 (0.758 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (0.758 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.379 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.379 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.379 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 49 (18.56 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (4.167 %) Rational Rose 3 8 (3.030 %) Eclipse 4 3 (1.136 %) CodeWarrior 4 3 (1.136 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.379 %) Flash 5 1 (0.379 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.379 %) ClearQuest	General 1 25 (9.470 %) Electronics 1 25 (9.470 %) Games 2 24 (9.091 %) Pensions 3 16 (6.061 %) 3D Graphics 4 12 (4.545 %) Manufacturing 5 11 (4.167 %) Telecoms 6 10 (3.788 %) Finance 6 10 (3.788 %) Automotive 6 10 (3.788 %) Education 6 10 (3.788 %) Banking 7 8 (3.030 %) Health 8 7 (2.652 %) Aerospace 9 3 (1.136 %) Pharmaceutical 10 2 (0.758 %) Multimedia 10 2 (0.758 %) Insurance 10 2 (0.758 %) Military 10 2 (0.758 %) Animation 11 1 (0.379 %) Marketing 11 1 (0.379 %) Electric
Miscellaneous 1 19 (7.197 %) Mathematics 1 19 (7.197 %) Physics 2 14 (5.303 %) Multithreading 3 6 (2.273 %) Handset 3 6 (2.273 %) Pocket PC 4 5 (1.894 %) DTV 4 5 (1.894 %) MPEG 4 5 (1.894 %) Computer Science 5 3 (1.136 %) Life Science 5 3 (1.136 %) Chemistry 5 3 (1.136 %) Client/Server 5 3 (1.136 %) SCADA 6 2 (0.758 %) VHDL 6 2 (0.758 %) STB 6 2 (0.758 %) Speech Recognition 6 2 (0.758 %) N-Tier 6 2 (0.758 %) Device Driver 6 2 (0.758 %) Biotechnology 6 2 (0.758 %) Smartphone 7 1 (0.379 %) Streaming Video	Operating Systems 1 70 (26.52 %) Windows 2 41 (15.53 %) Linux 3 37 (14.02 %) Symbian OS 4 21 (7.955 %) UNIX 5 16 (6.061 %) Windows Mobile 6 15 (5.682 %) Solaris 6 15 (5.682 %) Windows CE 7 10 (3.788 %) VxWorks 8 7 (2.652 %) Windows XP Embedded 8 7 (2.652 %) Windows XP 9 4 (1.515 %) Windows 2000 10 2 (0.758 %) Palm OS 10 2 (0.758 %) AIX 10 2 (0.758 %) HPUX 10 2 (0.758 %) Nucleus RTOS 10 2 (0.758 %) Embedded Linux 10 2 (0.758 %) Tru64 10 2 (0.758 %) LynxOS 10 2 (0.758 %) ThreadX 10 2 (0.758 %) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 97 (36.74 %) OO 2 46 (17.42 %) OOD 3 43 (16.29 %) UML 3 43 (16.29 %) Software Engineering 4 13 (4.924 %) Web Development 5 12 (4.545 %) Use Case 6 11 (4.167 %) Validation 7 9 (3.409 %) TDD 8 8 (3.030 %) Requirements Analysis 9 7 (2.652 %) Software Testing 10 4 (1.515 %) Configuration Management 11 3 (1.136 %) Statistical Analysis 12 2 (0.758 %) Security Cleared 12 2 (0.758 %) Continuous Integration 12 2 (0.758 %) SOA 12 2 (0.758 %) Agile Software Development 12 2 (0.758 %) Unit Testing 13 1 (0.379 %) Test Scripting 13 1 (0.379 %) Automated Testing 13 1 (0.379 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 182 (68.94 %) C++ 2 58 (21.97 %) C 3 48 (18.18 %) Java 4 44 (16.67 %) C# 5 34 (12.88 %) SQL 6 27 (10.23 %) VC++ 7 23 (8.712 %) Embedded C 8 18 (6.818 %) VB 9 17 (6.439 %) Perl 10 16 (6.061 %) Embedded C++ 11 15 (5.682 %) Ruby 11 15 (5.682 %) JavaScript 12 14 (5.303 %) Shell Script 13 13 (4.924 %) VB6 13 13 (4.924 %) VB.NET 14 5 (1.894 %) XPath 15 4 (1.515 %) Simula 15 4 (1.515 %) Python 15 4 (1.515 %) Fortran 15 4 (1.515 %) Smalltalk
Qualifications 1 81 (30.68 %) Degree 2 7 (2.652 %) ISEB 3 5 (1.894 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.379 %) MCP 4 1 (0.379 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.894 %) SLA 2 4 (1.515 %) QA 3 1 (0.379 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 47 (17.80 %) Symbian 2 23 (8.712 %) Microsoft 3 11 (4.167 %) Oracle 4 3 (1.136 %) Red Hat 5 2 (0.758 %) Progress 5 2 (0.758 %) Novell 5 2 (0.758 %) Sun 6 1 (0.379 %) Motorola 6 1 (0.379 %) Nokia 6 1 (0.379 %) SAP 6 1 (0.379 %) Cisco 6 1 (0.379 %) Macrovision