The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 52 43 31
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 23 40 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 3.177% 4.251% 5.785%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.281% 4.435% 5.998%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 47
Average salary £30,000 £29,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.69% -6.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,100 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,250 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
701 902 817
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 96.82% 95.86% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 608 743 672
Average salary £33,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South Yorkshire Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Sheffield +2 16 £33,000 +3.93%
Barnsley +11 1 £40,000 +61.61%
Rotherham - 1 £27,500 -
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 24 (44.44%) C++
2 21 (38.89%) Windows
3 20 (37.04%) MFC
4 19 (35.19%) Java
5 18 (33.33%) Degree
6 14 (25.93%) Visual Studio
7 13 (24.07%) Scrum
8 12 (22.22%) Spring
8 12 (22.22%) MySQL
8 12 (22.22%) C
8 12 (22.22%) Hibernate
9 11 (20.37%) MVC
9 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
9 11 (20.37%) Web Services
10 10 (18.52%) HTML
10 10 (18.52%) CSS
11 9 (16.67%) OO
11 9 (16.67%) Internet
11 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 9 (16.67%) TDD
12 8 (14.81%) Spring MVC
12 8 (14.81%) RIA
12 8 (14.81%) YUI
12 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
12 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (14.81%) J2EE
12 8 (14.81%) OOP
12 8 (14.81%) OOD
12 8 (14.81%) PHP
13 7 (12.96%) C#

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (37.04%) MFC
2 12 (22.22%) Spring
2 12 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 11 (20.37%) Web Services
4 10 (18.52%) HTML
4 10 (18.52%) CSS
5 8 (14.81%) Spring MVC
5 8 (14.81%) YUI
5 8 (14.81%) J2EE
6 6 (11.11%) WinForms
6 6 (11.11%) .NET
7 5 (9.259%) XML
7 5 (9.259%) WSDL
8 3 (5.556%) WebSphere
8 3 (5.556%) Grails
8 3 (5.556%) XML Schema
8 3 (5.556%) JAXB
8 3 (5.556%) LAMP
9 2 (3.704%) SOAP
9 2 (3.704%) STL
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.259%) Apache
2 3 (5.556%) GlassFish
2 3 (5.556%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (3.704%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) MySQL
2 5 (9.259%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.852%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.556%) JUnit
3 2 (3.704%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (3.704%) Electronics
2 2 (3.704%) Finance
3 1 (1.852%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) RIA
2 7 (12.96%) Mathematics
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
3 6 (11.11%) Applied Mathematics
3 6 (11.11%) Physics
3 6 (11.11%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (5.556%) W3C
4 3 (5.556%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.704%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (1.852%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.852%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.89%) Windows
2 3 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Scrum
2 11 (20.37%) MVC
3 9 (16.67%) OO
3 9 (16.67%) TDD
4 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
4 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (14.81%) OOP
4 8 (14.81%) OOD
5 7 (12.96%) CAD
6 4 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (5.556%) Kanban
7 3 (5.556%) Feature Driven Development
7 3 (5.556%) User Stories
7 3 (5.556%) Project Management
7 3 (5.556%) ETL
7 3 (5.556%) PRINCE2
7 3 (5.556%) UML
8 2 (3.704%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (3.704%) Web Development
9 1 (1.852%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (44.44%) C++
2 19 (35.19%) Java
3 12 (22.22%) C
4 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.81%) PHP
6 7 (12.96%) C#
7 5 (9.259%) SQL
8 3 (5.556%) COBOL
8 3 (5.556%) Delphi
9 2 (3.704%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.852%) PHP5
10 1 (1.852%) VC++
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 2 (3.704%) Zend
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