Oxford Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Oxford 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.

Software Engineer
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	25	29
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	117	99
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.062 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	8.316 %	6.635 %
Salaries quoted	114	98
Average minimum salary	£32,364	£26,857
Average salary	£36,333	£30,158
% change on same period last year	+20.47 %
Average maximum salary	£40,303	£33,459
UK excluding London average salary	£36,034	£34,924
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Job Titles Oxford
Matching permanent IT job ads	1407	1492
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.743 %	0.611 %
Salaries quoted	1307	1350
Average minimum salary	£33,012	£32,592
Average salary	£36,319	£35,440
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum salary	£39,626	£38,288
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Engineer Oxfordshire

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

1 127 (54.51 %) C++ 2 64 (27.47 %) C# 3 62 (26.61 %) C 4 54 (23.18 %) Degree 5 53 (22.75 %) Linux 6 52 (22.32 %) Windows 7 51 (21.89 %) Java 8 46 (19.74 %) .NET 8 46 (19.74 %) OO 9 33 (14.16 %) XML 10 32 (13.73 %) Embedded C 11 31 (13.30 %) Mathematics 11 31 (13.30 %) Software Engineering 12 28 (12.02 %) Agile Software Development 13 27 (11.59 %) ASP.NET

13 27 (11.59 %) SQL Server 13 27 (11.59 %) UNIX 14 26 (11.16 %) Telecoms 15 23 (9.871 %) DB2 16 22 (9.442 %) XBRL 17 18 (7.725 %) PhD 18 17 (7.296 %) Perl 18 17 (7.296 %) Physics 19 16 (6.867 %) WebServices 19 16 (6.867 %) Python 19 16 (6.867 %) Windows NT 20 15 (6.438 %) OOD 21 14 (6.009 %) SOA 21 14 (6.009 %) J2EE 22 13 (5.579 %) Microsoft

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 46 (19.74 %) .NET 2 33 (14.16 %) XML 3 27 (11.59 %) ASP.NET 4 22 (9.442 %) XBRL 5 16 (6.867 %) WebServices 6 14 (6.009 %) J2EE 7 11 (4.721 %) STL 8 10 (4.292 %) WPF 9 6 (2.575 %) XSLT 10 5 (2.146 %) ASP 10 5 (2.146 %) COM 11 4 (1.717 %) DCOM 11 4 (1.717 %) JSP 12 3 (1.288 %) Ruby on Rails 12 3 (1.288 %) OpenGL 12 3 (1.288 %) Middleware 12 3 (1.288 %) WinForms 13 2 (0.858 %) Lucene 13 2 (0.858 %) Spring 13 2 (0.858 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 4 (1.717 %) MTS 2 3 (1.288 %) Tomcat 3 1 (0.429 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.429 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 5 (2.146 %) MATLAB 1 5 (2.146 %) MS Visio 2 3 (1.288 %) Acrobat 2 3 (1.288 %) FrameMaker 3 1 (0.429 %) Maya 3 1 (0.429 %) 3ds Max 3 1 (0.429 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (3.004 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (3.004 %) DVB 2 4 (1.717 %) Intranet 2 4 (1.717 %) Internet 2 4 (1.717 %) Intrusion Detection 3 2 (0.858 %) Wireless 3 2 (0.858 %) GPRS 3 2 (0.858 %) WLAN 4 1 (0.429 %) Bluetooth 4 1 (0.429 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (11.59 %) SQL Server 2 23 (9.871 %) DB2 3 11 (4.721 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.429 %) MS Access 4 1 (0.429 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 2 (0.858 %) JUnit 1 2 (0.858 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.429 %) Ant 2 1 (0.429 %) Eclipse 2 1 (0.429 %) WinRunner 2 1 (0.429 %) TestDirector
General 1 26 (11.16 %) Telecoms 2 10 (4.292 %) Electronics 3 9 (3.863 %) Pharmaceutical 3 9 (3.863 %) 3D Graphics 4 8 (3.433 %) Games 4 8 (3.433 %) Health 4 8 (3.433 %) Manufacturing 4 8 (3.433 %) Electric 5 7 (3.004 %) Pensions 6 6 (2.575 %) Banking 7 5 (2.146 %) Investment Banking 7 5 (2.146 %) Insurance 8 4 (1.717 %) Automotive 8 4 (1.717 %) Education 8 4 (1.717 %) Finance 9 2 (0.858 %) Aerospace 9 2 (0.858 %) Retail 9 2 (0.858 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.429 %) Publishing 10 1 (0.429 %) Financial Institution	Miscellaneous 1 31 (13.30 %) Mathematics 2 17 (7.296 %) Physics 3 12 (5.150 %) Computer Science 4 7 (3.004 %) MPEG 4 7 (3.004 %) DTV 5 5 (2.146 %) Multithreading 6 4 (1.717 %) Statistics 6 4 (1.717 %) Robotics 7 3 (1.288 %) German Language 7 3 (1.288 %) Chemistry 7 3 (1.288 %) Biology 8 2 (0.858 %) Spanish Language 8 2 (0.858 %) Device Driver 8 2 (0.858 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 8 2 (0.858 %) Client/Server 8 2 (0.858 %) ASIC 9 1 (0.429 %) N-Tier 9 1 (0.429 %) Firmware 9 1 (0.429 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 53 (22.75 %) Linux 2 52 (22.32 %) Windows 3 27 (11.59 %) UNIX 4 16 (6.867 %) Windows NT 5 8 (3.433 %) VxWorks 5 8 (3.433 %) Windows Mobile 6 7 (3.004 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (19.74 %) OO 2 31 (13.30 %) Software Engineering 3 28 (12.02 %) Agile Software Development 4 15 (6.438 %) OOD 5 14 (6.009 %) SOA 6 13 (5.579 %) OOP 7 5 (2.146 %) E-Commerce 7 5 (2.146 %) Monte Carlo Method 8 4 (1.717 %) Unit Testing 8 4 (1.717 %) UML 9 3 (1.288 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (0.858 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (0.858 %) Use Case 10 2 (0.858 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (0.858 %) Software Testing 10 2 (0.858 %) EDA 11 1 (0.429 %) Web Development 11 1 (0.429 %) Business Development 11 1 (0.429 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 1 (0.429 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 127 (54.51 %) C++ 2 64 (27.47 %) C# 3 62 (26.61 %) C 4 51 (21.89 %) Java 5 32 (13.73 %) Embedded C 6 17 (7.296 %) Perl 7 16 (6.867 %) Python 8 12 (5.150 %) VB 9 9 (3.863 %) SQL 10 7 (3.004 %) Delphi 10 7 (3.004 %) VC++ 11 4 (1.717 %) Fortran 11 4 (1.717 %) Embedded C++ 11 4 (1.717 %) Assembly Language 11 4 (1.717 %) VB6 12 3 (1.288 %) Ruby 12 3 (1.288 %) Lua 12 3 (1.288 %) C++/CLI 12 3 (1.288 %) VB.NET 13 2 (0.858 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 54 (23.18 %) Degree 2 18 (7.725 %) PhD 3 5 (2.146 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (1.288 %) MCSD 5 2 (0.858 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.429 %) MCP 6 1 (0.429 %) MCAD 6 1 (0.429 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.429 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.146 %) QA	Vendors 1 13 (5.579 %) Microsoft 2 12 (5.150 %) Oracle 3 4 (1.717 %) Intel