The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 79 50 73
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 8 12 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.774% 1.893% 0.375%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.821% 1.951% 0.386%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 3
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £45,000 £43,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
974 615 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.29% 97.00% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 838 547 703
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
Oxfordshire

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxford Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Oxford region.

Oxford Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Senior Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 23 (82.14%) Software Engineering
3 19 (67.86%) Computer Science
4 15 (53.57%) Hadoop
4 15 (53.57%) Apache Hive
4 15 (53.57%) MapReduce
4 15 (53.57%) Mahout
4 15 (53.57%) Big Data
4 15 (53.57%) Apache Pig
5 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (25.00%) SQL
6 7 (25.00%) Python
7 6 (21.43%) Tomcat
7 6 (21.43%) ActionScript
7 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (21.43%) Open Source
7 6 (21.43%) jQuery
7 6 (21.43%) Git (software)
7 6 (21.43%) Music
7 6 (21.43%) Subversion
7 6 (21.43%) Lucene
7 6 (21.43%) Apache Solr
8 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
9 4 (14.29%) Physics
9 4 (14.29%) PhD
10 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
11 2 (7.143%) Project Management
11 2 (7.143%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (7.143%) Hibernate

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (53.57%) MapReduce
2 6 (21.43%) jQuery
2 6 (21.43%) Lucene
3 2 (7.143%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.143%) HTML
3 2 (7.143%) J2EE
3 2 (7.143%) CSS
3 2 (7.143%) STL
3 2 (7.143%) Spring
3 2 (7.143%) Grails
3 2 (7.143%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (7.143%) Qt
4 1 (3.571%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 15 (53.57%) Apache Pig
2 6 (21.43%) Tomcat
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) Hadoop
1 15 (53.57%) Apache Hive
1 15 (53.57%) Mahout
1 15 (53.57%) Big Data
2 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git (software)
1 6 (21.43%) Subversion
2 1 (3.571%) Concordion
2 1 (3.571%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.571%) FitNesse
General
1 6 (21.43%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 19 (67.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (21.43%) Open Source
3 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
4 4 (14.29%) Physics
5 2 (7.143%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (7.143%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.571%) UNIX
1 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (7.143%) Project Management
3 2 (7.143%) Logistics
3 2 (7.143%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (3.571%) Image Processing
4 1 (3.571%) Video Processing
4 1 (3.571%) Test Scripting
4 1 (3.571%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) ActionScript
5 2 (7.143%) C++
5 2 (7.143%) Groovy
6 1 (3.571%) C
6 1 (3.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) PhD
2 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.143%) Salesforce.com
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Austin Fraser is representing a high profile Digital Company is looking for experienced hands on Senior Engineer with strong server side development experience. The company are based in...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
For this position it would also be important to have a knowledge and experience of using Linux, embedded systems, ARM processors, H.264 video/audio compression, image processing,...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £60,000 to £80,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013