North West Embedded Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Embedded Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Embedded 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 Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Calne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Droitwich Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Evesham Farnborough Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire High Peak Hull Huntingdon Kent Leeds London Lymington Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Margate Melksham Middlesex Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Penicuik Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tetbury Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Winsford Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	251	245
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.197 %	0.360 %
Salaries quoted	20	34
Average minimum salary	£32,100	£29,529
Average salary	£35,225	£32,882
% change on same period last year	+7.12 %
Average maximum salary	£38,350	£36,235
UK excluding London average salary	£38,132	£39,097
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	11148	12772
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.885 %	5.230 %
Salaries quoted	9407	10740
Average minimum salary	£32,555	£34,146
Average salary	£36,431	£37,829
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,307	£41,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer across the North West 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 Embedded Software Engineer within the North West 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
Manchester	+34	12	£39,091	+13.63 %
Cheshire	-23	8	£29,429	-8.87 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title.

1 40 (61.54 %) C 2 34 (52.31 %) C++ 3 33 (50.77 %) Embedded C 4 22 (33.85 %) Embedded C++ 5 19 (29.23 %) Electronics 6 15 (23.08 %) Linux 7 12 (18.46 %) Symbian 7 12 (18.46 %) VxWorks 8 11 (16.92 %) Windows CE 8 11 (16.92 %) Windows 8 11 (16.92 %) MPEG 9 9 (13.85 %) Telecoms 9 9 (13.85 %) Embedded Linux 9 9 (13.85 %) OOD 10 6 (9.231 %) Aerospace

11 5 (7.692 %) Automotive 11 5 (7.692 %) STB 11 5 (7.692 %) Bluetooth 11 5 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 11 5 (7.692 %) DTV 11 5 (7.692 %) DVB 12 4 (6.154 %) RFID 12 4 (6.154 %) Ethernet 12 4 (6.154 %) TCP/IP 12 4 (6.154 %) OO 12 4 (6.154 %) Wi-Fi 12 4 (6.154 %) Degree 13 3 (4.615 %) Device Driver 13 3 (4.615 %) Symbian OS 13 3 (4.615 %) UIQ

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.615 %) UIQ	Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 5 (7.692 %) Bluetooth 1 5 (7.692 %) DVB 2 4 (6.154 %) RFID 2 4 (6.154 %) Wi-Fi 2 4 (6.154 %) Ethernet 2 4 (6.154 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.538 %) LAN 3 1 (1.538 %) WLAN 3 1 (1.538 %) Wireless	Development Applications 1 5 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.538 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 19 (29.23 %) Electronics 2 9 (13.85 %) Telecoms 3 6 (9.231 %) Aerospace 4 5 (7.692 %) Automotive 5 2 (3.077 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.538 %) Health 6 1 (1.538 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.538 %) Military	Miscellaneous 1 11 (16.92 %) MPEG 2 5 (7.692 %) DTV 2 5 (7.692 %) STB 3 3 (4.615 %) Smartphone 3 3 (4.615 %) Device Driver 4 2 (3.077 %) Firmware 5 1 (1.538 %) Handset 5 1 (1.538 %) CCTV 5 1 (1.538 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 15 (23.08 %) Linux 2 12 (18.46 %) VxWorks 3 11 (16.92 %) Windows 3 11 (16.92 %) Windows CE 4 9 (13.85 %) Embedded Linux 5 3 (4.615 %) Symbian OS 6 2 (3.077 %) Windows XP Embedded 6 2 (3.077 %) Nucleus RTOS 6 2 (3.077 %) Windows XP 6 2 (3.077 %) LynxOS 6 2 (3.077 %) ThreadX 7 1 (1.538 %) pSOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (13.85 %) OOD 2 4 (6.154 %) OO 3 2 (3.077 %) UML 4 1 (1.538 %) RUP 4 1 (1.538 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (1.538 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (1.538 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 40 (61.54 %) C 2 34 (52.31 %) C++ 3 33 (50.77 %) Embedded C 4 22 (33.85 %) Embedded C++ 5 2 (3.077 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 4 (6.154 %) Degree
Vendors 1 12 (18.46 %) Symbian 2 3 (4.615 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.538 %) Hitachi 3 1 (1.538 %) Siemens