Software Engineering Jobs in the North West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West 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 North West region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 116 88 129
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +41
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 141 190 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 1.962% 2.677% 1.675%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.553% 3.648% 2.448%
Number of salaries quoted 134 118 91
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,350 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,750 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
Search 14 Software Engineering jobs in the North West
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5523 5209 4697
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.87% 73.39% 68.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4625 4554 4125
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -5.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -21 88 £37,750 +18.89%
Cheshire -24 47 £28,500 -18.57%
Lancashire -4 2 £50,000 +100.00%
Merseyside - 1 £32,500 -
Cumbria - 1 - -
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 126 (49.80%) Degree
2 125 (49.41%) C#
3 111 (43.87%) Computer Science
4 110 (43.48%) OO
5 105 (41.50%) SQL
6 103 (40.71%) .NET
7 83 (32.81%) Java
8 78 (30.83%) MVC
9 68 (26.88%) ASP.NET
10 65 (25.69%) Agile Software Development
11 59 (23.32%) C++
12 48 (18.97%) JavaScript
12 48 (18.97%) CSS
12 48 (18.97%) Unit Testing
13 47 (18.58%) Web Services
14 46 (18.18%) TDD
15 44 (17.39%) HTML
15 44 (17.39%) .NET Framework
16 40 (15.81%) Microsoft
17 36 (14.23%) Linux
18 34 (13.44%) Finance
19 31 (12.25%) WCF
20 30 (11.86%) Multithreading
20 30 (11.86%) Windows
21 29 (11.46%) N-Tier
21 29 (11.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
22 28 (11.07%) WinForms
23 27 (10.67%) Scrum
24 26 (10.28%) WPF
25 25 (9.881%) Apache

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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
1 103 (40.71%) .NET
2 68 (26.88%) ASP.NET
3 48 (18.97%) CSS
4 47 (18.58%) Web Services
5 44 (17.39%) HTML
5 44 (17.39%) .NET Framework
6 31 (12.25%) WCF
7 29 (11.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 28 (11.07%) WinForms
9 26 (10.28%) WPF
10 22 (8.696%) Ajax
11 21 (8.300%) jQuery
12 19 (7.510%) SOAP
13 17 (6.719%) WebSphere
14 15 (5.929%) LAMP
14 15 (5.929%) Servlets
15 14 (5.534%) J2EE
15 14 (5.534%) Spring
16 13 (5.138%) Hibernate
16 13 (5.138%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 25 (9.881%) Apache
2 14 (5.534%) nginx
3 6 (2.372%) CICS
4 4 (1.581%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.186%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.791%) ESB
6 2 (0.791%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (0.791%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.395%) CMS
7 1 (0.395%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.395%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (0.395%) Magento
7 1 (0.395%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.395%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 16 (6.324%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.395%) Maya
2 1 (0.395%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 3 (1.186%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.791%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.743%) Internet
2 6 (2.372%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.976%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.186%) LDAP
4 3 (1.186%) SMS
4 3 (1.186%) IMAP
5 2 (0.791%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.791%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.791%) NAS
5 2 (0.791%) SAN
5 2 (0.791%) ADSL
6 1 (0.395%) Firewall
6 1 (0.395%) Intranet
6 1 (0.395%) HTTP
6 1 (0.395%) SDH
6 1 (0.395%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.091%) MySQL
2 19 (7.510%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.557%) Redis
4 6 (2.372%) DB2
5 5 (1.976%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (1.976%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.395%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.395%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.395%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.395%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.395%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.395%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.395%) Big Data
6 1 (0.395%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.395%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.719%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.372%) Eclipse
2 6 (2.372%) Subversion
3 3 (1.186%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (1.186%) PHPUnit
4 2 (0.791%) Capistrano
4 2 (0.791%) Git (software)
4 2 (0.791%) JUnit
4 2 (0.791%) NUnit
5 1 (0.395%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.395%) TestPartner
5 1 (0.395%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.395%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.395%) WinRunner
5 1 (0.395%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (0.395%) QARun
5 1 (0.395%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.395%) GCC
General
1 34 (13.44%) Finance
2 16 (6.324%) Electronics
3 12 (4.743%) Games
3 12 (4.743%) Legal
4 11 (4.348%) Music
5 8 (3.162%) Music Industry
6 7 (2.767%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.372%) Military
8 5 (1.976%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.976%) Advertising
9 4 (1.581%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.186%) Retail
10 3 (1.186%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.186%) Publishing
11 2 (0.791%) Banking
12 1 (0.395%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 124 (49.01%) Developer
2 61 (24.11%) Software Engineer
3 53 (20.95%) .NET Developer
4 34 (13.44%) C# Developer
4 34 (13.44%) C# .NET Developer
5 27 (10.67%) ASP.NET Developer
6 26 (10.28%) Java Developer
6 26 (10.28%) Senior Developer
6 26 (10.28%) Software Developer
6 26 (10.28%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 22 (8.696%) Senior .NET Developer
8 21 (8.300%) Senior C# Developer
8 21 (8.300%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 21 (8.300%) Analyst
9 19 (7.510%) Junior
9 19 (7.510%) Junior .NET Developer
9 19 (7.510%) Junior Developer
10 18 (7.115%) Business Analyst
11 15 (5.929%) Consultant
12 14 (5.534%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 111 (43.87%) Computer Science
2 29 (11.46%) N-Tier
3 21 (8.300%) Client/Server
4 17 (6.719%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (5.929%) Web 2.0
6 8 (3.162%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.767%) Digital Media
7 7 (2.767%) Mathematics
8 6 (2.372%) IBM Mainframe
8 6 (2.372%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.372%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.976%) BBC
9 5 (1.976%) New Media
9 5 (1.976%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.976%) iPhone
10 4 (1.581%) Interactive TV
11 3 (1.186%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 3 (1.186%) Streaming Video
11 3 (1.186%) Chip and PIN
11 3 (1.186%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.23%) Linux
2 30 (11.86%) Windows
3 12 (4.743%) UNIX
4 6 (2.372%) Android
5 5 (1.976%) Windows Phone
6 3 (1.186%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.791%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.395%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.395%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (43.48%) OO
2 78 (30.83%) MVC
3 65 (25.69%) Agile Software Development
4 48 (18.97%) Unit Testing
5 46 (18.18%) TDD
6 30 (11.86%) Multithreading
7 27 (10.67%) Scrum
8 25 (9.881%) UML
9 19 (7.510%) OOP
9 19 (7.510%) Business Analysis
10 16 (6.324%) System Testing
11 14 (5.534%) Data Management
11 14 (5.534%) Service Delivery
12 12 (4.743%) E-Commerce
13 11 (4.348%) Project Management
13 11 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
14 10 (3.953%) Web Application Development
15 9 (3.557%) PRINCE2
15 9 (3.557%) Product Management
16 8 (3.162%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 125 (49.41%) C#
2 105 (41.50%) SQL
3 83 (32.81%) Java
4 59 (23.32%) C++
5 48 (18.97%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.696%) Ruby
7 21 (8.300%) PHP
7 21 (8.300%) C
8 12 (4.743%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.162%) Bash shell
9 8 (3.162%) Perl
10 7 (2.767%) Python
10 7 (2.767%) Embedded C
11 6 (2.372%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.976%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.581%) Lua
13 4 (1.581%) XAML
14 3 (1.186%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.186%) VB
14 3 (1.186%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 126 (49.80%) Degree
2 14 (5.534%) MCTS
3 12 (4.743%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.186%) HND
4 3 (1.186%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.186%) ISEB
4 3 (1.186%) BC Cleared
5 2 (0.791%) Sun Certification
6 1 (0.395%) PhD
6 1 (0.395%) PMP
6 1 (0.395%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.395%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.767%) QA
2 1 (0.395%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (3.557%) Varnish
2 2 (0.791%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.791%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 40 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.905%) Oracle
3 15 (5.929%) Twitter
4 12 (4.743%) Zend
5 6 (2.372%) IBM
6 5 (1.976%) Facebook
7 4 (1.581%) Perforce
8 2 (0.791%) Sun
8 2 (0.791%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.791%) VMware
9 1 (0.395%) SAP
9 1 (0.395%) Cisco
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