Northamptonshire Software Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Northamptonshire 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chepstow Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport-on-Tay Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochford Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Teesside Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Usk Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	40
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	37
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.307 %	3.667 %
Salaries quoted	11	30
Average minimum salary	£30,818	£28,094
Average salary	£35,864	£29,219
% change on same period last year	+22.74 %
Average maximum salary	£40,909	£30,344
UK excluding London average salary	£35,855	£35,302
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1071	1009
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.626 %	0.443 %
Salaries quoted	947	837
Average minimum salary	£34,469	£32,762
Average salary	£37,167	£35,030
% change on same period last year	+6.10 %
Average maximum salary	£39,866	£37,298
UK excluding London average salary	£38,166	£39,195
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Software Engineer East Midlands

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Northampton	-14	8	£32,833	-6.80 %
Brackley	-	3	£40,000	-
Corby	-	2	£37,500	-

Software Engineer East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 20 (60.61 %) C++ 2 16 (48.48 %) XML 3 15 (45.45 %) C 3 15 (45.45 %) SQL 4 10 (30.30 %) .NET 4 10 (30.30 %) C# 5 9 (27.27 %) Java 5 9 (27.27 %) VC++ 6 8 (24.24 %) Software Engineering 7 7 (21.21 %) Multithreading 7 7 (21.21 %) Windows 7 7 (21.21 %) VB 7 7 (21.21 %) VBA 7 7 (21.21 %) MFC 8 6 (18.18 %) VSS/SourceSafe

8 6 (18.18 %) STL 8 6 (18.18 %) Linux 8 6 (18.18 %) TCP/IP 8 6 (18.18 %) Degree 8 6 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (15.15 %) Pensions 9 5 (15.15 %) Servlets 9 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 9 5 (15.15 %) Embedded C 9 5 (15.15 %) JDBC 9 5 (15.15 %) J2EE 10 4 (12.12 %) Swing 10 4 (12.12 %) PhD 10 4 (12.12 %) OO 10 4 (12.12 %) Retail

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (48.48 %) XML 2 10 (30.30 %) .NET 3 7 (21.21 %) MFC 4 6 (18.18 %) STL 4 6 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (15.15 %) Servlets 5 5 (15.15 %) JDBC 5 5 (15.15 %) J2EE 6 4 (12.12 %) Swing 7 3 (9.091 %) XSLT 7 3 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 7 3 (9.091 %) WebServices 8 2 (6.061 %) JSP 9 1 (3.030 %) CORBA 9 1 (3.030 %) J2SE 9 1 (3.030 %) NetBeans	Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) RoboHelp 2 3 (9.091 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 6 (18.18 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 6 (18.18 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 4 (12.12 %) MSI 2 4 (12.12 %) InstallShield 3 1 (3.030 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (15.15 %) Pensions 2 4 (12.12 %) Retail 3 3 (9.091 %) Government 4 2 (6.061 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (3.030 %) Banking 5 1 (3.030 %) Health 5 1 (3.030 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (3.030 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.21 %) Multithreading 2 3 (9.091 %) Artificial Intelligence 3 2 (6.061 %) Computer Science 3 2 (6.061 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 7 (21.21 %) Windows 2 6 (18.18 %) Linux 3 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 4 2 (6.061 %) Windows Mobile 4 2 (6.061 %) Embedded Linux 4 2 (6.061 %) Windows CE 5 1 (3.030 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (24.24 %) Software Engineering 2 4 (12.12 %) OO 2 4 (12.12 %) Logistics 2 4 (12.12 %) Automated Testing 3 3 (9.091 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (9.091 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 20 (60.61 %) C++ 2 15 (45.45 %) C 2 15 (45.45 %) SQL 3 10 (30.30 %) C# 4 9 (27.27 %) Java 4 9 (27.27 %) VC++ 5 7 (21.21 %) VB 5 7 (21.21 %) VBA 6 5 (15.15 %) Embedded C 7 3 (9.091 %) JavaScript 8 2 (6.061 %) Embedded C++ 8 2 (6.061 %) Assembly Language
Qualifications 1 6 (18.18 %) Degree 2 4 (12.12 %) PhD	Vendors 1 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.030 %) QNX