North West Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the 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 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	90	61
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching permanent IT job ads	253	423
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.173 %
As % of the category below	2.269 %	3.312 %
Salaries quoted	208	336
Average minimum salary	£28,877	£29,864
Average salary	£31,883	£33,329
% change on same period last year	-4.33 %
Average maximum salary	£34,888	£36,794
UK excluding London average salary	£36,034	£34,924
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
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 %
Software Engineer England

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the North West 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 North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 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 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	-18	125	£32,484	-3.37 %
Cheshire	-27	75	£30,596	-8.90 %
Lancashire	-5	36	£31,238	+0.97 %
Merseyside	-16	7	£26,917	-23.94 %
Cumbria	-2	3	£28,667	+5.68 %

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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 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.

1 346 (60.07 %) C++ 2 165 (28.65 %) Windows 3 163 (28.30 %) OO 4 161 (27.95 %) C 5 150 (26.04 %) Degree 6 104 (18.06 %) Symbian 7 102 (17.71 %) Java 8 94 (16.32 %) .NET 9 90 (15.63 %) C# 10 87 (15.10 %) SQL 10 87 (15.10 %) Visual Studio 11 84 (14.58 %) XML 11 84 (14.58 %) UML 12 75 (13.02 %) OOD 13 69 (11.98 %) Linux

14 65 (11.28 %) VC++ 14 65 (11.28 %) Microsoft 15 64 (11.11 %) Embedded C 16 63 (10.94 %) Software Engineering 17 58 (10.07 %) JavaScript 18 54 (9.375 %) Symbian OS 19 51 (8.854 %) MS Excel 20 49 (8.507 %) SQL Server 21 45 (7.813 %) HTTP 22 42 (7.292 %) Games 23 41 (7.118 %) Electronics 23 41 (7.118 %) Finance 23 41 (7.118 %) GPRS 23 41 (7.118 %) VB.NET 24 40 (6.944 %) HTML

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 94 (16.32 %) .NET 2 84 (14.58 %) XML 3 40 (6.944 %) HTML 4 36 (6.250 %) MFC 5 34 (5.903 %) J2EE 5 34 (5.903 %) WebServices 6 33 (5.729 %) ASP.NET 7 28 (4.861 %) ActiveX 8 25 (4.340 %) WAP 8 25 (4.340 %) CSS 9 22 (3.819 %) SOAP 10 19 (3.299 %) JDBC 11 18 (3.125 %) EJB 11 18 (3.125 %) WSDL 11 18 (3.125 %) JAX-RPC 11 18 (3.125 %) UIQ 12 13 (2.257 %) BREW 12 13 (2.257 %) XSL 12 13 (2.257 %) ASP 13 12 (2.083 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 11 (1.910 %) IIS 2 3 (0.521 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (0.521 %) iPlanet 2 3 (0.521 %) Tuxedo 3 2 (0.347 %) SharePoint 3 2 (0.347 %) WebLogic 3 2 (0.347 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.174 %) JBoss 4 1 (0.174 %) Apache 4 1 (0.174 %) WebLogic Portal 4 1 (0.174 %) WPS
Applications 1 51 (8.854 %) MS Excel 2 5 (0.868 %) MS Visio 3 3 (0.521 %) Photoshop 3 3 (0.521 %) Adobe Director 4 1 (0.174 %) MATLAB 4 1 (0.174 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 4 (0.694 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.174 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 45 (7.813 %) HTTP 2 41 (7.118 %) GPRS 3 39 (6.771 %) GSM 4 29 (5.035 %) TCP/IP 5 27 (4.688 %) VoIP 6 25 (4.340 %) DHCP 6 25 (4.340 %) DNS 7 13 (2.257 %) SMS 8 11 (1.910 %) Wireless 9 8 (1.389 %) DVB 10 7 (1.215 %) Internet 10 7 (1.215 %) Ethernet 11 5 (0.868 %) Bluetooth 12 4 (0.694 %) RFID 12 4 (0.694 %) Wi-Fi 13 3 (0.521 %) SMTP 14 2 (0.347 %) WLAN 15 1 (0.174 %) LAN 15 1 (0.174 %) 3G 15 1 (0.174 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 49 (8.507 %) SQL Server 2 10 (1.736 %) MySQL 2 10 (1.736 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (1.563 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (0.868 %) RDBMS 4 5 (0.868 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (0.694 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (0.694 %) DB2 6 3 (0.521 %) Informix 6 3 (0.521 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (0.521 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (0.347 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.174 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 1 (0.174 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.174 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (0.174 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 87 (15.10 %) Visual Studio 2 25 (4.340 %) Rational Rose 3 15 (2.604 %) Eclipse 4 9 (1.563 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 8 (1.389 %) Flash 6 3 (0.521 %) JIRA 6 3 (0.521 %) CodeWarrior 6 3 (0.521 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (0.521 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (0.347 %) JUnit 7 2 (0.347 %) Synon 7 2 (0.347 %) ClearCase 8 1 (0.174 %) ProC 8 1 (0.174 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.174 %) MSI 8 1 (0.174 %) InstallShield 8 1 (0.174 %) Subversion 8 1 (0.174 %) Ant 8 1 (0.174 %) WinRunner 8 1 (0.174 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 42 (7.292 %) Games 2 41 (7.118 %) Electronics 2 41 (7.118 %) Finance 3 30 (5.208 %) Pensions 4 21 (3.646 %) Telecoms 5 18 (3.125 %) Automotive 6 17 (2.951 %) 3D Graphics 7 16 (2.778 %) Manufacturing 8 15 (2.604 %) Aerospace 9 13 (2.257 %) Banking 10 10 (1.736 %) Health 10 10 (1.736 %) Education 11 7 (1.215 %) Electric 12 4 (0.694 %) Insurance 13 3 (0.521 %) Multimedia 13 3 (0.521 %) Military 13 3 (0.521 %) Pharmaceutical 13 3 (0.521 %) Music 13 3 (0.521 %) Graphic Design 14 2 (0.347 %) Animation
Miscellaneous 1 27 (4.688 %) Computer Science 2 25 (4.340 %) Mathematics 3 21 (3.646 %) Multithreading 4 19 (3.299 %) Physics 5 17 (2.951 %) Pocket PC 6 14 (2.431 %) MPEG 6 14 (2.431 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 7 12 (2.083 %) Client/Server 8 9 (1.563 %) DTV 9 7 (1.215 %) Handset 10 6 (1.042 %) Device Driver 11 5 (0.868 %) STB 11 5 (0.868 %) Smartphone 12 4 (0.694 %) AS400 12 4 (0.694 %) CCTV 13 3 (0.521 %) SCADA 13 3 (0.521 %) Chemistry 13 3 (0.521 %) Life Science 13 3 (0.521 %) Italian Language 13 3 (0.521 %) Spanish Language	Operating Systems 1 165 (28.65 %) Windows 2 69 (11.98 %) Linux 3 54 (9.375 %) Symbian OS 4 32 (5.556 %) Windows Mobile 5 31 (5.382 %) UNIX 6 30 (5.208 %) Windows XP 7 23 (3.993 %) Windows XP Embedded 8 20 (3.472 %) Windows CE 9 19 (3.299 %) Solaris 10 17 (2.951 %) VxWorks 11 13 (2.257 %) Embedded Linux 12 10 (1.736 %) Windows NT 13 7 (1.215 %) Windows 2000 14 6 (1.042 %) Mac OS X 15 3 (0.521 %) AIX 15 3 (0.521 %) HPUX 16 2 (0.347 %) Tru64 16 2 (0.347 %) LynxOS 16 2 (0.347 %) ThreadX 16 2 (0.347 %) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 163 (28.30 %) OO 2 84 (14.58 %) UML 3 75 (13.02 %) OOD 4 63 (10.94 %) Software Engineering 5 33 (5.729 %) Web Development 6 30 (5.208 %) Security Cleared 7 25 (4.340 %) SC Cleared 8 20 (3.472 %) Validation 9 18 (3.125 %) Integration Testing 10 15 (2.604 %) Use Case 11 14 (2.431 %) OOA/OOD 12 12 (2.083 %) Requirements Analysis 13 10 (1.736 %) Agile Software Development 13 10 (1.736 %) SOA 14 9 (1.563 %) TDD 15 7 (1.215 %) Software Testing 15 7 (1.215 %) Configuration Management 16 4 (0.694 %) Scrum 16 4 (0.694 %) Unit Testing 17 3 (0.521 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 346 (60.07 %) C++ 2 161 (27.95 %) C 3 102 (17.71 %) Java 4 90 (15.63 %) C# 5 87 (15.10 %) SQL 6 65 (11.28 %) VC++ 7 64 (11.11 %) Embedded C 8 58 (10.07 %) JavaScript 9 41 (7.118 %) VB.NET 10 35 (6.076 %) VB 11 28 (4.861 %) Embedded C++ 12 21 (3.646 %) Perl 13 17 (2.951 %) VB6 14 16 (2.778 %) Ruby 14 16 (2.778 %) Assembly Language 14 16 (2.778 %) Shell Script 15 13 (2.257 %) PHP 16 9 (1.563 %) Fortran 17 6 (1.042 %) XPath 18 5 (0.868 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 150 (26.04 %) Degree 2 9 (1.563 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (1.215 %) ISEB 4 2 (0.347 %) Sun Certification 5 1 (0.174 %) MCP 5 1 (0.174 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.389 %) QA 2 5 (0.868 %) SLA 3 1 (0.174 %) ISO9000
System Software 1 1 (0.174 %) Terminal Server 1 1 (0.174 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (0.174 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (0.174 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 104 (18.06 %) Symbian 2 65 (11.28 %) Microsoft 3 25 (4.340 %) Oracle 4 5 (0.868 %) Red Hat 5 3 (0.521 %) Sybase 5 3 (0.521 %) Adobe 5 3 (0.521 %) Sun 6 2 (0.347 %) Novell 6 2 (0.347 %) Macrovision 6 2 (0.347 %) Progress 7 1 (0.174 %) Altiris 7 1 (0.174 %) Xilinx 7 1 (0.174 %) Siemens 7 1 (0.174 %) VMware 7 1 (0.174 %) SAP 7 1 (0.174 %) Cisco 7 1 (0.174 %) IBM 7 1 (0.174 %) Citrix 7 1 (0.174 %) CA 7 1 (0.174 %) Hitachi