The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 21 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 57 33 63
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +30
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 25 38 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 2.413% 5.956% 1.899%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.342% 8.676% 2.732%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 12
Average salary £50,000 £43,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +45.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £33,500 £20,550
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £47,500 £39,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
748 438 549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 72.20% 68.65% 69.49%
Number of salaries quoted 631 390 497
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxford Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 58 (68.24%) Java
2 34 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 30 (35.29%) Oracle
4 25 (29.41%) QA
4 25 (29.41%) Hadoop
5 24 (28.24%) Big Data
6 22 (25.88%) MapReduce
6 22 (25.88%) Apache Hive
6 22 (25.88%) Mahout
6 22 (25.88%) Apache Pig
7 21 (24.71%) SOA
8 19 (22.35%) Waterfall
9 18 (21.18%) Publishing
10 17 (20.00%) Business Transformation
11 15 (17.65%) JavaScript
11 15 (17.65%) C++
12 14 (16.47%) Siebel
12 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.29%) Degree
13 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
14 12 (14.12%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (14.12%) Hyperion
15 11 (12.94%) SQL
15 11 (12.94%) C#
15 11 (12.94%) Windows
15 11 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (12.94%) Physics
16 10 (11.76%) Mathematics
16 10 (11.76%) IIS
16 10 (11.76%) CSS

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 22 (25.88%) MapReduce
2 10 (11.76%) CSS
3 9 (10.59%) ASP.NET
3 9 (10.59%) Web Services
3 9 (10.59%) XML
3 9 (10.59%) .NET
4 8 (9.412%) HTML
5 7 (8.235%) jQuery
6 6 (7.059%) ADO.NET
7 5 (5.882%) Lucene
7 5 (5.882%) Qt
7 5 (5.882%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (3.529%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.529%) Spring
8 3 (3.529%) STL
8 3 (3.529%) Java EE
8 3 (3.529%) RESTful
9 2 (2.353%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.353%) HTML5
9 2 (2.353%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 22 (25.88%) Apache Pig
2 10 (11.76%) IIS
3 8 (9.412%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (7.059%) Apache Solr
5 5 (5.882%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.176%) Apache
6 1 (1.176%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.176%) Kafka
6 1 (1.176%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (1.176%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.176%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.176%) Simulink
1 1 (1.176%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (1.176%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.176%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.706%) SAN
2 3 (3.529%) DNS
3 2 (2.353%) DHCP
3 2 (2.353%) HTTP
3 2 (2.353%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.353%) VPN
4 1 (1.176%) Firewall
4 1 (1.176%) Internet
4 1 (1.176%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.41%) Hadoop
2 24 (28.24%) Big Data
3 22 (25.88%) Apache Hive
3 22 (25.88%) Mahout
4 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.059%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (4.706%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.529%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.353%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.353%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.176%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (1.176%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.176%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.176%) MySQL
10 1 (1.176%) Redis
10 1 (1.176%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (1.176%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Visual Studio
1 9 (10.59%) JUnit
1 9 (10.59%) Selenium
2 8 (9.412%) PEAR
2 8 (9.412%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.882%) Subversion
3 5 (5.882%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.176%) Ant
4 1 (1.176%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (21.18%) Publishing
2 6 (7.059%) Finance
2 6 (7.059%) Music
3 1 (1.176%) Games
3 1 (1.176%) Legal
3 1 (1.176%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Software Engineer
2 27 (31.76%) Developer
3 22 (25.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) Software Manager
5 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.412%) Software Developer
7 6 (7.059%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.059%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (7.059%) Technical Manager
8 4 (4.706%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.529%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.529%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.353%) IT Support
10 2 (2.353%) GUI Developer
10 2 (2.353%) IT Support Engineer
10 2 (2.353%) C# Software Developer
10 2 (2.353%) C# Web Developer
10 2 (2.353%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.353%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (2.353%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (12.94%) Physics
3 10 (11.76%) Mathematics
4 7 (8.235%) Open Source
5 4 (4.706%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (3.529%) Replication
6 3 (3.529%) Clustering
6 3 (3.529%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.529%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.176%) Handset
7 1 (1.176%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.176%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.176%) Online Games
7 1 (1.176%) Blog
7 1 (1.176%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.176%) Ontologies
7 1 (1.176%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Windows
2 6 (7.059%) Linux
3 3 (3.529%) Android
3 3 (3.529%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.529%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.353%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.176%) Debian
5 1 (1.176%) VxWorks
5 1 (1.176%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.176%) UNIX
5 1 (1.176%) Windows Phone 8
5 1 (1.176%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.176%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.71%) SOA
2 19 (22.35%) Waterfall
3 17 (20.00%) Business Transformation
4 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.235%) Project Management
7 5 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (4.706%) TDD
9 3 (3.529%) Refactoring
9 3 (3.529%) Network Load Balancing
9 3 (3.529%) Signal Processing
10 2 (2.353%) Image Processing
10 2 (2.353%) BDD
10 2 (2.353%) Mobile Application Development
10 2 (2.353%) UML
10 2 (2.353%) OO
10 2 (2.353%) E-Commerce
10 2 (2.353%) MVC
10 2 (2.353%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 58 (68.24%) Java
2 15 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 15 (17.65%) C++
3 11 (12.94%) SQL
3 11 (12.94%) C#
4 9 (10.59%) Python
5 6 (7.059%) Delphi
5 6 (7.059%) VBA
6 5 (5.882%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.353%) Scala
7 2 (2.353%) C
7 2 (2.353%) PHP
7 2 (2.353%) Ruby
8 1 (1.176%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.176%) Perl
8 1 (1.176%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.176%) Clojure
8 1 (1.176%) R
8 1 (1.176%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 6 (7.059%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (1.176%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 1 (1.176%) Terminal Services
1 1 (1.176%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.176%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (1.176%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (35.29%) Oracle
2 14 (16.47%) Siebel
3 12 (14.12%) Hyperion
4 7 (8.235%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.059%) Sybase
6 3 (3.529%) VMware
7 1 (1.176%) PeopleSoft
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