The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 20 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 Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 48 35 31
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 0.424% 0.637% 1.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.535% 0.917% 1.504%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £47,000 £21,000 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+123.80% -38.68%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 109 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 79.24% 69.43% 68.56%
Number of salaries quoted 136 78 93
Average salary £37,500 £33,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £22,650 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £43,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
West Midlands

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) VC++
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) DevExpress
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) VC++
3 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) DevExpress