Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the South West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 South West region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 146 144 158
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 64 72 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 1.220% 1.305% 0.802%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.263% 1.368% 0.843%
Number of salaries quoted 49 59 43
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £34,750 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5066 5265 5574
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.57% 95.45% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4462 4544 4772
Average salary £35,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South West Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West Senior Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bristol +12 23 £40,000 -11.11%
Gloucestershire 0 16 £37,500 -6.25%
Dorset -21 7 £37,500 -
Somerset - 5 £38,000 -
Wiltshire +2 3 £50,000 -1.47%
Devon +1 1 £34,500 -16.36%
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 59 (49.17%) C++
2 55 (45.83%) C#
3 53 (44.17%) C
4 49 (40.83%) Degree
5 35 (29.17%) .NET
5 35 (29.17%) Linux
6 32 (26.67%) SQL
6 32 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 29 (24.17%) Visual Studio
8 27 (22.50%) Windows
9 23 (19.17%) JavaScript
9 23 (19.17%) jQuery
10 20 (16.67%) Multithreading
10 20 (16.67%) T-SQL
11 19 (15.83%) HTML
11 19 (15.83%) Java
11 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
11 19 (15.83%) Marketing
12 18 (15.00%) Assembly Language
12 18 (15.00%) SQL Server
12 18 (15.00%) OO
13 17 (14.17%) Automated Testing
14 16 (13.33%) Ajax
14 16 (13.33%) Open Source
14 16 (13.33%) XML
15 15 (12.50%) MS Excel
15 15 (12.50%) Management Information System
16 14 (11.67%) Aerospace
16 14 (11.67%) Legal
16 14 (11.67%) NUnit

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (29.17%) .NET
2 23 (19.17%) jQuery
3 19 (15.83%) HTML
4 16 (13.33%) XML
4 16 (13.33%) Ajax
5 13 (10.83%) LINQ
5 13 (10.83%) Qt
6 12 (10.00%) Web Services
7 9 (7.500%) MFC
7 9 (7.500%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.500%) WPF
8 8 (6.667%) SOAP
9 7 (5.833%) Silverlight
10 4 (3.333%) CSS
10 4 (3.333%) J2EE
10 4 (3.333%) WSDL
10 4 (3.333%) Middleware
11 3 (2.500%) JMS
12 2 (1.667%) Java EE
12 2 (1.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.500%) Apache
2 1 (0.833%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.833%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.833%) ESB
2 1 (0.833%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.833%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.833%) Simulink
2 1 (0.833%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.833%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.833%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 11 (9.167%) HTTP
2 11 (9.167%) Wireless
3 10 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.167%) 3G
5 4 (3.333%) FTP
5 4 (3.333%) DNS
5 4 (3.333%) Internet
5 4 (3.333%) Broadband
5 4 (3.333%) POP3
5 4 (3.333%) SMTP
5 4 (3.333%) SSH
5 4 (3.333%) 4G
6 3 (2.500%) BSS
7 2 (1.667%) RTCP
7 2 (1.667%) RTP
7 2 (1.667%) Gigabit Ethernet
7 2 (1.667%) RTSP
7 2 (1.667%) VoIP
8 1 (0.833%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.500%) MySQL
3 1 (0.833%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.833%) GIS
3 1 (0.833%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.833%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (0.833%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Visual Studio
2 14 (11.67%) NUnit
3 13 (10.83%) Subversion
3 13 (10.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (5.833%) Hudson
5 6 (5.000%) GCC
5 6 (5.000%) GDB
5 6 (5.000%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.500%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.667%) Git (software)
7 2 (1.667%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.833%) MSTest
General
1 19 (15.83%) Marketing
2 14 (11.67%) Aerospace
2 14 (11.67%) Legal
3 11 (9.167%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.000%) Finance
4 6 (5.000%) Military
5 5 (4.167%) Electronics
6 3 (2.500%) Automotive
7 1 (0.833%) Banking
7 1 (0.833%) Music
7 1 (0.833%) Advertising
7 1 (0.833%) Games
7 1 (0.833%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.833%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Open Source
2 15 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.500%) Device Driver
3 9 (7.500%) Computer Science
4 8 (6.667%) Mathematics
4 8 (6.667%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (5.000%) SystemC
6 4 (3.333%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 3 (2.500%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.667%) SWIFT
9 1 (0.833%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.833%) CCTV
9 1 (0.833%) Physics
9 1 (0.833%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.833%) Streaming Video
9 1 (0.833%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.833%) MPEG
9 1 (0.833%) Firmware
9 1 (0.833%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Linux
2 27 (22.50%) Windows
3 10 (8.333%) UNIX
4 6 (5.000%) Android
5 5 (4.167%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.833%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.833%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.833%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.67%) Software Engineering
2 20 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 18 (15.00%) OO
4 17 (14.17%) Automated Testing
5 13 (10.83%) PRINCE
5 13 (10.83%) Project Management
5 13 (10.83%) MVC
5 13 (10.83%) Unit Testing
6 9 (7.500%) UML
6 9 (7.500%) TDD
7 8 (6.667%) Validation
8 6 (5.000%) Test Scripting
8 6 (5.000%) MVVM
9 4 (3.333%) Service Delivery
9 4 (3.333%) Software Testing
9 4 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
10 3 (2.500%) OOP
10 3 (2.500%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (2.500%) Product Management
11 2 (1.667%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (49.17%) C++
2 55 (45.83%) C#
3 53 (44.17%) C
4 32 (26.67%) SQL
5 23 (19.17%) JavaScript
6 20 (16.67%) T-SQL
7 19 (15.83%) Java
8 18 (15.00%) Assembly Language
9 13 (10.83%) Embedded C
10 10 (8.333%) Perl
11 9 (7.500%) VB
12 6 (5.000%) VC++
13 4 (3.333%) Python
13 4 (3.333%) Ada
13 4 (3.333%) PHP
14 2 (1.667%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.667%) Bash shell
15 1 (0.833%) sed
15 1 (0.833%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.833%) AWK
Qualifications
1 49 (40.83%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.000%) HND
3 6 (5.000%) ISEB
3 6 (5.000%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.833%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.833%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.833%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.83%) SLA
2 10 (8.333%) DO-178B
3 6 (5.000%) QA
4 3 (2.500%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.667%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.667%) TickIT
Vendors
1 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.833%) Borland
3 6 (5.000%) Oracle
4 5 (4.167%) QNX
5 3 (2.500%) IBM
6 2 (1.667%) Intel
7 1 (0.833%) Motorola
7 1 (0.833%) Kofax
7 1 (0.833%) JBoss
7 1 (0.833%) Cognos
7 1 (0.833%) HP
Senior Software Engineer - C++ / Java
Weymouth, Dorset
The role will involve taking a leading role in Software design, coding, integration and validation on a range of defence related projects... *Proficiency in C++ or Java *Strong...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £43000 per annum + (Relocation allowance)
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior Software Engineer
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
An excellent opportunity is on offer for a skilled Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer to join an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company with a long,...
ComputerWorld Personnel Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + flexible benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior C# Software Engineer, Central Bristol
Bristol, Avon
Exposure to any level of Architecture (Microsoft technologies) - Database experience: SQL (ideal), Oracle, MySQL - Strong OO design skills Experience with Multi-Threaded and distributed systems is an advantage.
The People Network
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior Software Applications Engineer
Somerset
Essential skills include: *Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science... *Experience of full development life cycle using C/C++ for Embedded Systems, Assembler(8051) , Visual C++, VB.NET... *...
Roc Search
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior Software Test Engineer (QA) x2
Bristol, Avon
Our client is looking to employ 2 senior QA Test Engineers... Previous experience working with complex databases and writing SQL for test purposes is also expected. Testing within...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Tester, Senior Tester, Software Tester, Test Engineer, SWIFT, XML
Bath, Avon
My client’s test team predominately use automated testing, however would ideally like the successful Senior Tester / Software Test Engineer to have a background in both manual and...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £32,000 to £38,000 per annum + Excellent Corporate Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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