The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southend-on-Sea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 24 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 Southend-on-Sea region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank - - 19
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea - - 2.632%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southend-on-Sea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
10 13 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea 90.91% 76.47% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 16
Average salary £41,375 £32,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.29% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £24,000 £23,326
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £52,500 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Essex

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea region.

Southend-on-Sea Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft