The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 24 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 46 56 65
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 10 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.919% 0.402% 0.853%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.639% 0.508% 1.093%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 6
Average salary - £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
379 394 549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 72.74% 79.12% 78.09%
Number of salaries quoted 293 312 410
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 15 (93.75%) Degree
2 12 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (75.00%) HTML5
3 11 (68.75%) BDD
3 11 (68.75%) CSS3
3 11 (68.75%) CSS
3 11 (68.75%) Internet
3 11 (68.75%) Java
3 11 (68.75%) TDD
3 11 (68.75%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (68.75%) Subversion
4 10 (62.50%) Git (software)
5 9 (56.25%) Node.js
5 9 (56.25%) Mocha
5 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (56.25%) Backbone.js
5 9 (56.25%) QUnit
5 9 (56.25%) Jasmine
5 9 (56.25%) AngularJS
5 9 (56.25%) SEO
5 9 (56.25%) Groovy
5 9 (56.25%) Grails
5 9 (56.25%) Pair Programming
5 9 (56.25%) HTML
5 9 (56.25%) JUnit
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
8 2 (12.50%) STB
8 2 (12.50%) QA

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 12 (75.00%) HTML5
2 11 (68.75%) CSS3
2 11 (68.75%) CSS
3 9 (56.25%) Node.js
3 9 (56.25%) Backbone.js
3 9 (56.25%) AngularJS
3 9 (56.25%) Grails
3 9 (56.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.250%) REST
4 1 (6.250%) JMS
4 1 (6.250%) JDBC
4 1 (6.250%) XML
4 1 (6.250%) XSL
4 1 (6.250%) JPA
4 1 (6.250%) Drools
4 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.250%) Lucene
4 1 (6.250%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) DVB
3 1 (6.250%) HTTP
3 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Subversion
2 10 (62.50%) Git (software)
3 9 (56.25%) Mocha
3 9 (56.25%) QUnit
3 9 (56.25%) Jasmine
3 9 (56.25%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.250%) LabVIEW
5 1 (6.250%) Maven
General
1 2 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.250%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Front-End Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Front-End Web Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Web Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) QA Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Programmer
5 1 (6.250%) Software Programmer
5 1 (6.250%) Java Programmer
5 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
3 2 (12.50%) STB
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) DTV
4 1 (6.250%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.250%) Firmware
4 1 (6.250%) Physics
4 1 (6.250%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (68.75%) BDD
2 11 (68.75%) TDD
2 11 (68.75%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (56.25%) SEO
3 9 (56.25%) Pair Programming
4 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) UML
5 1 (6.250%) Quality Management
5 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.250%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.250%) Python
5 1 (6.250%) Perl
5 1 (6.250%) SQL
5 1 (6.250%) C
5 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.250%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle