Portsmouth Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Portsmouth 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes 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 Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Pickering Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scarborough 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 Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	22
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	47	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	10.09 %	6.584 %
Salaries quoted	43	25
Average minimum salary	£36,907	£27,740
Average salary	£40,430	£32,410
% change on same period last year	+24.74 %
Average maximum salary	£43,953	£37,080
UK excluding London average salary	£35,986	£35,073
% change on same period last year	+2.60 %
Job Titles Portsmouth
Matching permanent IT job ads	466	486
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.251 %	0.203 %
Salaries quoted	376	348
Average minimum salary	£33,297	£33,908
Average salary	£36,591	£38,022
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum salary	£39,886	£42,136
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Software Engineer Hampshire

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Demand Trend

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

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 73 (85.88 %) C++ 2 37 (43.53 %) UML 3 35 (41.18 %) MFC 4 32 (37.65 %) C# 5 30 (35.29 %) SQL 6 28 (32.94 %) VC++ 7 23 (27.06 %) OO 8 22 (25.88 %) Electronics 8 22 (25.88 %) Degree 9 21 (24.71 %) Linux 10 19 (22.35 %) C 11 13 (15.29 %) Windows 12 12 (14.12 %) Device Driver 13 11 (12.94 %) OOD 14 9 (10.59 %) Pensions

15 8 (9.412 %) Software Engineering 15 8 (9.412 %) Java 15 8 (9.412 %) .NET 15 8 (9.412 %) Embedded C++ 16 7 (8.235 %) OpenGL 17 6 (7.059 %) X-Windows 17 6 (7.059 %) Health 17 6 (7.059 %) Visual Studio 18 5 (5.882 %) Validation 18 5 (5.882 %) Telecoms 18 5 (5.882 %) Embedded C 18 5 (5.882 %) Multithreading 19 4 (4.706 %) VxWorks 19 4 (4.706 %) Finance 19 4 (4.706 %) Construction

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 35 (41.18 %) MFC 2 8 (9.412 %) .NET 3 7 (8.235 %) OpenGL 4 6 (7.059 %) X-Windows 5 3 (3.529 %) XML 6 2 (2.353 %) STL 6 2 (2.353 %) WCF 6 2 (2.353 %) WPF 7 1 (1.176 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.176 %) CORBA 7 1 (1.176 %) XML Schema 7 1 (1.176 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.529 %) SAS
Applications 1 4 (4.706 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.706 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.529 %) SNMP 2 3 (3.529 %) iSCSI 3 1 (1.176 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.176 %) MySQL 1 1 (1.176 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.176 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (1.176 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 6 (7.059 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (3.529 %) LabVIEW 3 2 (2.353 %) ARTiSAN
General 1 22 (25.88 %) Electronics 2 9 (10.59 %) Pensions 3 6 (7.059 %) Health 4 5 (5.882 %) Telecoms 5 4 (4.706 %) Finance 5 4 (4.706 %) Construction 6 2 (2.353 %) Animation 6 2 (2.353 %) Aerospace 6 2 (2.353 %) 3D Graphics 6 2 (2.353 %) Military 7 1 (1.176 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (1.176 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 12 (14.12 %) Device Driver 2 5 (5.882 %) Multithreading 3 3 (3.529 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.176 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 21 (24.71 %) Linux 2 13 (15.29 %) Windows 3 4 (4.706 %) VxWorks 3 4 (4.706 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.353 %) AIX 4 2 (2.353 %) HPUX 4 2 (2.353 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (43.53 %) UML 2 23 (27.06 %) OO 3 11 (12.94 %) OOD 4 8 (9.412 %) Software Engineering 5 5 (5.882 %) Validation 6 3 (3.529 %) Software Testing 6 3 (3.529 %) Risk Management 7 2 (2.353 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (1.176 %) Test Management 8 1 (1.176 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.176 %) SSADM 8 1 (1.176 %) DoDAF 8 1 (1.176 %) MODAF 8 1 (1.176 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 1 (1.176 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 73 (85.88 %) C++ 2 32 (37.65 %) C# 3 30 (35.29 %) SQL 4 28 (32.94 %) VC++ 5 19 (22.35 %) C 6 8 (9.412 %) Java 6 8 (9.412 %) Embedded C++ 7 5 (5.882 %) Embedded C 8 2 (2.353 %) Shell Script 8 2 (2.353 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (1.176 %) VB 9 1 (1.176 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 22 (25.88 %) Degree 2 2 (2.353 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.176 %) ISO12207	Vendors 1 3 (3.529 %) Oracle 2 2 (2.353 %) IBM 3 1 (1.176 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.176 %) Metastorm