The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 20 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 29 35 28
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 7 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 4.762% 3.723% 3.804%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.861% 3.784% 3.955%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 4
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
144 185 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 97.96% 98.40% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 131 152 125
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
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 Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) C#
3 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (41.67%) VB.NET
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (25.00%) C++
6 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 3 (25.00%) CSS
6 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (25.00%) JIRA
6 3 (25.00%) jQuery
7 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
7 2 (16.67%) AccuRev
7 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (16.67%) Mercurial
7 2 (16.67%) Hudson
7 2 (16.67%) Change Control
7 2 (16.67%) CruiseControl
7 2 (16.67%) Subversion
7 2 (16.67%) Maven
7 2 (16.67%) VC++
7 2 (16.67%) Python
7 2 (16.67%) Ant
7 2 (16.67%) VB
7 2 (16.67%) Ruby
7 2 (16.67%) Ajax

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) WPF
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) XML
5 1 (8.333%) MFC
5 1 (8.333%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 2 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (16.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (16.67%) Hudson
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.333%) Selenium
General
1 1 (8.333%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) CMDB
1 1 (8.333%) SaaS
1 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
3 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.333%) B2B
3 1 (8.333%) B2C
3 1 (8.333%) Change Management
3 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) Validation
3 1 (8.333%) TDD
3 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) VB.NET
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (25.00%) C++
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) Ruby
5 2 (16.67%) VB
5 2 (16.67%) VC++
5 2 (16.67%) Python
6 1 (8.333%) VB6
6 1 (8.333%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Remedy
1 2 (16.67%) AccuRev
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) VMware