South West Embedded Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Embedded Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the South West 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Calne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Droitwich Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Evesham Farnborough Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire High Peak Hull Huntingdon Kent Leeds London Lymington Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Margate Melksham Middlesex Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Penicuik Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tetbury Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Winsford Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	188	159
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching permanent IT job ads	71	100
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	0.657 %	0.989 %
Salaries quoted	58	65
Average minimum salary	£32,081	£32,794
Average salary	£36,803	£37,294
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Average maximum salary	£41,525	£41,794
UK excluding London average salary	£38,132	£39,097
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Job Titles South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	10812	10107
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.708 %	4.139 %
Salaries quoted	9261	8523
Average minimum salary	£31,813	£31,893
Average salary	£34,972	£35,032
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum salary	£38,131	£38,170
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Embedded Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucestershire	-8	27	£34,778	-22.71 %
Bristol	-41	25	£38,660	+4.59 %
Somerset	-10	13	£35,864	+2.46 %
Wiltshire	-28	4	£40,000	+5.05 %
Devon	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title.

1 138 (85.71 %) C 2 109 (67.70 %) Embedded C 3 106 (65.84 %) Electronics 4 72 (44.72 %) C++ 5 50 (31.06 %) UML 6 45 (27.95 %) Embedded C++ 7 42 (26.09 %) Degree 8 34 (21.12 %) Wireless 9 31 (19.25 %) Linux 10 30 (18.63 %) OO 11 26 (16.15 %) Assembly Language 12 24 (14.91 %) TCP/IP 13 21 (13.04 %) Software Engineering 14 18 (11.18 %) Embedded Linux 15 17 (10.56 %) OOD

16 13 (8.075 %) Computer Science 16 13 (8.075 %) Agile Software Development 16 13 (8.075 %) Security Cleared 16 13 (8.075 %) GPRS 16 13 (8.075 %) Aerospace 16 13 (8.075 %) Device Driver 17 12 (7.453 %) Construction 17 12 (7.453 %) GSM 18 11 (6.832 %) Python 18 11 (6.832 %) 3G 18 11 (6.832 %) Ethernet 19 9 (5.590 %) Automated Testing 19 9 (5.590 %) SC Cleared 19 9 (5.590 %) C# 20 8 (4.969 %) DTV

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (3.106 %) XML 2 1 (0.621 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.621 %) OpenROAD
Applications 1 4 (2.484 %) MATLAB 2 3 (1.863 %) Simulink	Communications & Networking 1 34 (21.12 %) Wireless 2 24 (14.91 %) TCP/IP 3 13 (8.075 %) GPRS 4 12 (7.453 %) GSM 5 11 (6.832 %) 3G 5 11 (6.832 %) Ethernet 6 8 (4.969 %) DVB 7 6 (3.727 %) UPnP 8 3 (1.863 %) UMTS 9 2 (1.242 %) WiMAX 9 2 (1.242 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.621 %) SQL Server 1 1 (0.621 %) RDBMS	General 1 106 (65.84 %) Electronics 2 13 (8.075 %) Aerospace 3 12 (7.453 %) Construction 4 6 (3.727 %) Manufacturing 4 6 (3.727 %) Pensions 5 4 (2.484 %) Automotive 6 3 (1.863 %) Telecoms 6 3 (1.863 %) Military 7 2 (1.242 %) Multimedia 7 2 (1.242 %) Health 7 2 (1.242 %) Publishing 7 2 (1.242 %) Electric 8 1 (0.621 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 13 (8.075 %) Device Driver 1 13 (8.075 %) Computer Science 2 8 (4.969 %) DTV 3 6 (3.727 %) IPTV 4 5 (3.106 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 5 (3.106 %) Firmware 5 4 (2.484 %) Physics 6 2 (1.242 %) VHDL 7 1 (0.621 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.621 %) ASIC 7 1 (0.621 %) MPEG 7 1 (0.621 %) iDTV 7 1 (0.621 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.621 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 31 (19.25 %) Linux 2 18 (11.18 %) Embedded Linux 3 3 (1.863 %) Windows 4 2 (1.242 %) UNIX 4 2 (1.242 %) VxWorks 4 2 (1.242 %) Nucleus RTOS 5 1 (0.621 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.621 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (31.06 %) UML 2 30 (18.63 %) OO 3 21 (13.04 %) Software Engineering 4 17 (10.56 %) OOD 5 13 (8.075 %) Agile Software Development 5 13 (8.075 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (5.590 %) SC Cleared 6 9 (5.590 %) Automated Testing 7 6 (3.727 %) Refactoring 8 4 (2.484 %) Release Management 8 4 (2.484 %) Regression Testing 9 3 (1.863 %) Software Testing 10 2 (1.242 %) Requirements Analysis 10 2 (1.242 %) Validation 11 1 (0.621 %) Yourdon	Programming Languages 1 138 (85.71 %) C 2 109 (67.70 %) Embedded C 3 72 (44.72 %) C++ 4 45 (27.95 %) Embedded C++ 5 26 (16.15 %) Assembly Language 6 11 (6.832 %) Python 7 9 (5.590 %) C# 8 6 (3.727 %) SQL 9 4 (2.484 %) Java 10 3 (1.863 %) JavaScript 10 3 (1.863 %) Ada 11 2 (1.242 %) Tcl 11 2 (1.242 %) Perl 11 2 (1.242 %) VB 12 1 (0.621 %) C++/CLI
Qualifications 1 42 (26.09 %) Degree	Vendors 1 5 (3.106 %) Motorola