The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 24 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 53 45 50
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4 18 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.763% 2.932% 2.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.955% 4.306% 3.125%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 6
Average salary £32,000 £21,000 £31,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.38% -33.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £21,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £21,000 £33,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
419 418 384
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 79.96% 68.08% 66.78%
Number of salaries quoted 363 356 330
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £53,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 14 (82.35%) Java
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) MySQL
2 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 13 (76.47%) Release Management
3 12 (70.59%) Data Integration
3 12 (70.59%) Legal
4 10 (58.82%) PHP
4 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (58.82%) BT
5 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (23.53%) jQuery
5 4 (23.53%) Degree
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
5 4 (23.53%) Ant
5 4 (23.53%) Web Services
5 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
5 4 (23.53%) Subversion
5 4 (23.53%) Maven
5 4 (23.53%) Apache
5 4 (23.53%) Tomcat
6 2 (11.76%) Java EE
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 2 (11.76%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.76%) J2EE
7 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (23.53%) jQuery
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
1 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 2 (11.76%) Java EE
2 2 (11.76%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Apache
1 4 (23.53%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
1 4 (23.53%) Ant
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
1 4 (23.53%) Maven
General
1 12 (70.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Data Integration Specialist
1 9 (52.94%) Integration Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Database Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Data Integration
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Release Management
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
4 2 (11.76%) OOP
4 2 (11.76%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 10 (58.82%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 10 (58.82%) BT