The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Manager
Rank 114 119 97
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 21 16 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.971% 0.688% 1.443%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.023% 0.723% 1.540%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 24
Average salary £62,500 £52,500 £53,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.04% -2.32%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2052 2213 1753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.91% 95.22% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1666 1903 1414
Average salary £42,000 £41,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.20% -2.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Manager
Berkshire

Software Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Software Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Software Manager
Salary Trend

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

Reading Software Manager Salary Trend

Software Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Manager across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Software Manager Salary Histogram

Software Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Software Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 15 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (37.14%) HP
2 13 (37.14%) HTML
2 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 13 (37.14%) UNIX
2 13 (37.14%) HP Quality Center
3 12 (34.29%) AIX
3 12 (34.29%) Solaris
3 12 (34.29%) ClearCase
3 12 (34.29%) IBM
3 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
3 12 (34.29%) ClearQuest
3 12 (34.29%) DB2
3 12 (34.29%) Perl
4 11 (31.43%) .NET
5 10 (28.57%) Scrum
6 9 (25.71%) ITIL
7 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
7 8 (22.86%) Remedy
7 8 (22.86%) CGI
7 8 (22.86%) Ant
7 8 (22.86%) MS Office
7 8 (22.86%) Maven
8 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2
9 6 (17.14%) Java
9 6 (17.14%) Project Management
9 6 (17.14%) Legal
9 6 (17.14%) Waterfall
10 5 (14.29%) C#
10 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET

Software Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Software Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (37.14%) HTML
2 11 (31.43%) .NET
3 8 (22.86%) CGI
4 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.857%) HTML5
5 1 (2.857%) LAMP
5 1 (2.857%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.857%) Drupal
1 1 (2.857%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) MS Office
2 1 (2.857%) MS Project
2 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) DB2
2 1 (2.857%) MySQL
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) ClearCase
1 12 (34.29%) ClearQuest
2 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.86%) Ant
2 8 (22.86%) Maven
3 3 (8.571%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (17.14%) Legal
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 1 (2.857%) Retail
3 1 (2.857%) Marketing
3 1 (2.857%) Law
3 1 (2.857%) Electronics
3 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.857%) Advertising
3 1 (2.857%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
1 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.857%) Open Source
1 1 (2.857%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) UNIX
2 12 (34.29%) AIX
2 12 (34.29%) Solaris
3 1 (2.857%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (28.57%) Scrum
3 9 (25.71%) ITIL
4 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 6 (17.14%) Project Management
5 6 (17.14%) Waterfall
6 4 (11.43%) OO
6 4 (11.43%) TDD
6 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.43%) Product Management
7 3 (8.571%) Process Management
8 2 (5.714%) Web Development
9 1 (2.857%) Network Design
9 1 (2.857%) Resource Management
9 1 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.857%) BDD
9 1 (2.857%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (2.857%) Strategic Planning
9 1 (2.857%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
1 12 (34.29%) Perl
2 6 (17.14%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (5.714%) SQL
5 1 (2.857%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Degree
2 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) HP
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 12 (34.29%) IBM
3 8 (22.86%) Remedy
4 1 (2.857%) Huawei
4 1 (2.857%) Sybase
4 1 (2.857%) Niku