The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Stafford 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 19 June 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 Stafford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 6 10 21
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 3 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stafford 11.54% 12.50% 3.333%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% 13.33% 3.409%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
Average salary £30,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.41% +21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Job Titles
Stafford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
24 45 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stafford 92.31% 93.75% 97.78%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 80
Average salary £16,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-68.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Software Engineer
Staffordshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stafford 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 Stafford region.

Stafford Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stafford 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 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) QNX
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Wind River
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) ClearCase
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
2 2 (40.00%) VxWorks
2 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (40.00%) Simulink
2 2 (40.00%) Stateflow
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (20.00%) NHS
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) OO

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stafford 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Simulink
1 2 (40.00%) Stateflow
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Moq
3 1 (20.00%) ReSharper
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) VxWorks
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
1 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) QNX
1 2 (40.00%) Wind River
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Stafford, West Midlands
Software Engineer/ ASP.NET/ MVC/ Javascript/ Python/ C#/ ORM/ MSSQL My client is looking for an individual that has a genuine enthusiasm for software engineering with a voracious...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £30000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
In order to be considered for this role you must have experience in at least one of the following development technologies: * Web (Asp.net, MVC, Javascript, JQuery) * Python *...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £30000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
Web (Asp.net, MVC, Javascript, JQuery). Python. C# 3.5/4 (Visual Studio 2010, Resharper). ORM (NHibernate, Fluent). Testing (NUnit, MOQ, Selenium). SOA (WCF, REST, protobuf). MSSQL Server /...
ULO Limited
Salary: From £25,000 to £29,000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013