The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 49 54 47
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 5 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 1.497% 1.556% 0.294%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.874% 2.360% 0.415%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 1
Average salary £22,500 £33,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% -3.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
174 339 241
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 52.10% 65.95% 70.88%
Number of salaries quoted 160 311 186
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £38,900
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +2.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Berkshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 10 (90.91%) Degree
2 8 (72.73%) .NET
3 7 (63.64%) C#
3 7 (63.64%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
5 5 (45.45%) C++
5 5 (45.45%) OO
5 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
5 5 (45.45%) OpenGL
5 5 (45.45%) DirectX
5 5 (45.45%) CAD
5 5 (45.45%) GIS
5 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
6 4 (36.36%) WinForms
6 4 (36.36%) Mathematics
6 4 (36.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
6 4 (36.36%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
8 2 (18.18%) Spring
8 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
8 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (18.18%) XML
8 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
8 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
8 2 (18.18%) Java
8 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
8 2 (18.18%) Struts
8 2 (18.18%) SQL Server

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) OpenGL
2 5 (45.45%) DirectX
3 4 (36.36%) WinForms
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) Spring
5 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 2 (18.18%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) Struts
6 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) CSS
6 1 (9.091%) HTML
6 1 (9.091%) XSLT
6 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
6 1 (9.091%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Intranet
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
1 1 (9.091%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
1 4 (36.36%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Software Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Graduate
3 3 (27.27%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Graduate Java Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Mathematics
3 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) OO
1 5 (45.45%) CAD
1 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
2 1 (9.091%) SOA
2 1 (9.091%) UML
2 1 (9.091%) OOP
2 1 (9.091%) Web Development
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Scrum
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
3 5 (45.45%) C++
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
6 1 (9.091%) VB
6 1 (9.091%) XQuery
6 1 (9.091%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle