South West Graduate Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Graduate 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 Graduate Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Graduate Software Engineer
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cumbria Dorset Dunfermline East Grinstead East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Fife Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hastings Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Kent Leeds Lewes London Manchester Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Stockport Surrey Torfaen UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winsford Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	231	231
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	24
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.250 %	0.237 %
Salaries quoted	24	23
Average minimum salary	£21,042	£20,560
Average salary	£23,208	£21,660
% change on same period last year	+7.14 %
Average maximum salary	£25,375	£22,760
UK excluding London average salary	£23,062	£21,986
% change on same period last year	+4.89 %
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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Graduate Software Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Graduate Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Graduate Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate 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 Graduate 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	-	10	£21,786	-
Dorset	+8	6	£22,250	+5.95 %
Bristol	-	5	£24,300	-
Somerset	-21	4	£25,500	+17.24 %
Wiltshire	-16	2	£23,750	+5.22 %

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Graduate Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (60.00 %) C++ 2 23 (57.50 %) Degree 3 21 (52.50 %) C 4 17 (42.50 %) Java 5 13 (32.50 %) Computer Science 6 11 (27.50 %) Linux 7 10 (25.00 %) UML 8 9 (22.50 %) .NET 9 8 (20.00 %) Software Engineering 9 8 (20.00 %) Physics 10 7 (17.50 %) C# 10 7 (17.50 %) UNIX 11 6 (15.00 %) Oracle 11 6 (15.00 %) Electronics 11 6 (15.00 %) Aerospace

11 6 (15.00 %) Firmware 11 6 (15.00 %) TCP/IP 12 5 (12.50 %) Software Testing 12 5 (12.50 %) iSCSI 12 5 (12.50 %) Device Driver 12 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 12 5 (12.50 %) J2EE 12 5 (12.50 %) HTML 12 5 (12.50 %) XML 12 5 (12.50 %) HTTP 13 4 (10.00 %) Perl 13 4 (10.00 %) VB 13 4 (10.00 %) Tcl 14 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft 14 3 (7.500 %) Games

Graduate Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 9 (22.50 %) .NET 2 5 (12.50 %) J2EE 2 5 (12.50 %) XML 2 5 (12.50 %) HTML 3 2 (5.000 %) XSLT 3 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.500 %) CSS 4 1 (2.500 %) STL 4 1 (2.500 %) MFC 4 1 (2.500 %) XHTML 4 1 (2.500 %) wxWidgets	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.500 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.500 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Office 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.500 %) Simulink 2 1 (2.500 %) Stateflow	Communications & Networking 1 6 (15.00 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (12.50 %) HTTP 2 5 (12.50 %) iSCSI 3 3 (7.500 %) Wireless 4 1 (2.500 %) SIGTRAN 4 1 (2.500 %) SS7 4 1 (2.500 %) GPRS 4 1 (2.500 %) GSM 4 1 (2.500 %) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio
General 1 6 (15.00 %) Aerospace 1 6 (15.00 %) Electronics 2 3 (7.500 %) Games 3 2 (5.000 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.500 %) Multimedia 4 1 (2.500 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.500 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 13 (32.50 %) Computer Science 2 8 (20.00 %) Physics 3 6 (15.00 %) Firmware 4 5 (12.50 %) Device Driver 5 3 (7.500 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 11 (27.50 %) Linux 2 7 (17.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (25.00 %) UML 2 8 (20.00 %) Software Engineering 3 5 (12.50 %) Software Testing 4 3 (7.500 %) Requirements Analysis 5 2 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (5.000 %) OO 6 1 (2.500 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.500 %) Migration 6 1 (2.500 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 24 (60.00 %) C++ 2 21 (52.50 %) C 3 17 (42.50 %) Java 4 7 (17.50 %) C# 5 4 (10.00 %) Perl 5 4 (10.00 %) VB 5 4 (10.00 %) Tcl 6 3 (7.500 %) VBA 7 1 (2.500 %) VC++ 7 1 (2.500 %) Embedded C 7 1 (2.500 %) VB.NET 7 1 (2.500 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 23 (57.50 %) Degree 2 1 (2.500 %) PhD
Vendors 1 6 (15.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.500 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.500 %) MathWorks