The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 71 45 88
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +43
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 54 66 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.917% 4.558% 1.510%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.144% 6.984% 2.338%
Number of salaries quoted 43 66 26
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,700 £25,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £56,250 £48,750
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1303 945 1155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 70.39% 65.26% 64.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1108 844 1029
Average salary £42,783 £43,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.64% +8.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Oxford -30 22 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Abingdon -7 12 £36,500 +32.72% 1
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 74 (63.79%) Java
2 50 (43.10%) Computer Science
3 35 (30.17%) .NET
3 35 (30.17%) Windows
4 34 (29.31%) C#
5 31 (26.72%) Hadoop
5 31 (26.72%) Apache Hive
5 31 (26.72%) Big Data
5 31 (26.72%) Apache Pig
6 30 (25.86%) Mahout
6 30 (25.86%) MapReduce
7 27 (23.28%) SQL Server
8 25 (21.55%) Oracle
9 24 (20.69%) QA
10 23 (19.83%) SQL
11 20 (17.24%) SOA
11 20 (17.24%) Degree
11 20 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
12 19 (16.38%) Waterfall
12 19 (16.38%) Windows XP
12 19 (16.38%) ASP.NET
13 18 (15.52%) IIS
14 17 (14.66%) Visual Studio
14 17 (14.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
15 16 (13.79%) MS Excel
15 16 (13.79%) Publishing
16 15 (12.93%) Project Management
17 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (12.07%) Business Transformation

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 35 (30.17%) .NET
2 30 (25.86%) MapReduce
3 19 (16.38%) ASP.NET
4 12 (10.34%) XHTML
5 10 (8.621%) CSS
6 8 (6.897%) HTML
7 5 (4.310%) jQuery
8 4 (3.448%) XML
9 3 (2.586%) Lucene
9 3 (2.586%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (2.586%) HTML5
9 3 (2.586%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (2.586%) Qt
9 3 (2.586%) STL
10 2 (1.724%) Web Services
10 2 (1.724%) XSLT
10 2 (1.724%) ADO.NET
10 2 (1.724%) Swing
10 2 (1.724%) SailPoint
10 2 (1.724%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 31 (26.72%) Apache Pig
2 18 (15.52%) IIS
3 9 (7.759%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (3.448%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.586%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.724%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (0.862%) nginx
7 1 (0.862%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (13.79%) MS Excel
2 13 (11.21%) MS Office
2 13 (11.21%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.034%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.07%) Internet
2 13 (11.21%) Extranet
3 5 (4.310%) SAN
4 4 (3.448%) DNS
5 3 (2.586%) Firewall
6 2 (1.724%) HTTP
7 1 (0.862%) DHCP
7 1 (0.862%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.862%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.72%) Hadoop
1 31 (26.72%) Apache Hive
1 31 (26.72%) Big Data
2 30 (25.86%) Mahout
3 27 (23.28%) SQL Server
4 20 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (14.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (6.034%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (4.310%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (4.310%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.724%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (1.724%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.862%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.862%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.862%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.862%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.862%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Visual Studio
2 9 (7.759%) Selenium
3 8 (6.897%) JUnit
3 8 (6.897%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.897%) PEAR
4 3 (2.586%) Subversion
4 3 (2.586%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.586%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.586%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.862%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.862%) Ant
General
1 16 (13.79%) Publishing
2 4 (3.448%) Games
3 3 (2.586%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.724%) Finance
5 1 (0.862%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (39.66%) Developer
2 39 (33.62%) Software Engineer
3 22 (18.97%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 15 (12.93%) Software Manager
6 13 (11.21%) Systems Developer
7 11 (9.483%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (8.621%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.172%) Technical Manager
10 5 (4.310%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.310%) Web Developer
10 5 (4.310%) Graduate
11 4 (3.448%) Development Manager
11 4 (3.448%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.448%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.448%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.448%) SQL Server Developer
12 3 (2.586%) Software Development Team Leader
12 3 (2.586%) Development Team Leader
12 3 (2.586%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 50 (43.10%) Computer Science
2 10 (8.621%) Mathematics
3 7 (6.034%) Device Driver
4 6 (5.172%) Physics
5 4 (3.448%) 3D Graphics
5 4 (3.448%) Open Source
6 3 (2.586%) Online Games
6 3 (2.586%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.724%) Clustering
7 2 (1.724%) Replication
7 2 (1.724%) Semantic Web
7 2 (1.724%) SaaS
7 2 (1.724%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.862%) Blog
8 1 (0.862%) Handset
8 1 (0.862%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.17%) Windows
2 19 (16.38%) Windows XP
3 13 (11.21%) Linux
4 12 (10.34%) Windows Vista
5 7 (6.034%) Windows 7
6 4 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.586%) Android
7 3 (2.586%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.862%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.862%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.862%) Debian
8 1 (0.862%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.24%) SOA
2 19 (16.38%) Waterfall
3 15 (12.93%) Project Management
4 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (12.07%) Business Transformation
5 9 (7.759%) UML
6 8 (6.897%) Web Application Development
7 7 (6.034%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (5.172%) Business Development
9 5 (4.310%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (4.310%) MVC
9 5 (4.310%) OO
10 4 (3.448%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (3.448%) Network Load Balancing
11 3 (2.586%) TDD
11 3 (2.586%) E-business
11 3 (2.586%) OOP
12 2 (1.724%) E-Commerce
12 2 (1.724%) Signal Processing
12 2 (1.724%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (63.79%) Java
2 34 (29.31%) C#
3 23 (19.83%) SQL
4 14 (12.07%) C++
5 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.759%) Python
7 3 (2.586%) Perl
7 3 (2.586%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.586%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.724%) VBA
8 2 (1.724%) PHP
8 2 (1.724%) C
8 2 (1.724%) Delphi
8 2 (1.724%) XQuery
8 2 (1.724%) SPARQL
8 2 (1.724%) Scala
8 2 (1.724%) Ruby
9 1 (0.862%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.862%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.862%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (3.448%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.586%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.586%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.862%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 25 (21.55%) Oracle
2 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.621%) Siebel
4 7 (6.034%) Hyperion
5 4 (3.448%) VMware
6 2 (1.724%) Sybase
6 2 (1.724%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.724%) Lotus
7 1 (0.862%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.862%) IBM
7 1 (0.862%) CA
7 1 (0.862%) Novell
7 1 (0.862%) SAP
Oxfordshire
Software Systems Engineer - Object Orientated, C / C++ / Java; Control Systems; Graduate, 1st / 2.1 Physics / Electronics / Computer Science... Candidates must have a good honours degree in physics, electronic...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
You will work alongside senior Developers in order to develop and produce a business critical suite of web based products and services across a C++, C# and Javascript...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £38000 per annum + Great Benefits!
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Roc Search is working with their client, an internationally renowned start-up organisation who are well respected for their intricate work in the Java JVM... If you enjoy...
Roc Search
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxfordshire
Follow defined software engineering processes... Excellent knowledge and experience of .Net Windows and Web deployment. Ideally a software engineering related degree. Experience of web and windows application development...
Go Partnership.
Salary: From £28,000 to £35,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS and experience of Ruby, Python, Perl, or another scripting language... The following are desirable but not essential: Development within a SaaS model, exposure...
SDC
Salary: From £45,000 to £75,000 per annum + bonus + comprehensive benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013