The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 18 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 86 48 92
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 167 294 149
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 3.194% 4.936% 2.678%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.347% 5.148% 2.832%
Number of salaries quoted 151 251 143
Average salary £41,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.52% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4989 5711 5261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.41% 95.89% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4078 4964 4642
Average salary £42,500 £43,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.16% +4.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Guildford -5 46 £42,500 - 4
Woking -27 16 £40,000 - 2
Reigate +19 8 £75,000 +11.11%
Leatherhead -9 8 £35,000 -17.64%
Epsom +5 4 £80,000 +6.66%
Staines -19 4 £45,000 +1.12% 3
Redhill +1 2 £68,750 -14.06%
Godalming - 2 £26,750 -
Weybridge -2 1 £42,500 +14.86%
Shepperton - 1 £40,000 -
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 147 (56.54%) C++
2 146 (56.15%) C#
3 100 (38.46%) Degree
4 96 (36.92%) .NET
5 92 (35.38%) Linux
6 83 (31.92%) OO
7 82 (31.54%) SQL Server
8 79 (30.38%) Computer Science
9 73 (28.08%) C
10 59 (22.69%) Microsoft
11 58 (22.31%) Windows
12 50 (19.23%) Software Engineering
13 49 (18.85%) Electronics
14 47 (18.08%) SQL
14 47 (18.08%) WPF
15 46 (17.69%) ASP.NET
16 45 (17.31%) OOD
17 42 (16.15%) Finance
18 39 (15.00%) Java
19 36 (13.85%) Telecoms
19 36 (13.85%) TDD
20 33 (12.69%) Embedded Systems
21 32 (12.31%) Banking
21 32 (12.31%) Automated Testing
22 30 (11.54%) WCF
23 28 (10.77%) Automotive
23 28 (10.77%) Cisco
24 27 (10.38%) Marketing
25 25 (9.615%) WinForms
25 25 (9.615%) VB

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 96 (36.92%) .NET
2 47 (18.08%) WPF
3 46 (17.69%) ASP.NET
4 30 (11.54%) WCF
5 25 (9.615%) WinForms
6 24 (9.231%) XML
7 19 (7.308%) HTML
8 17 (6.538%) STL
8 17 (6.538%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 15 (5.769%) .NET Framework
9 15 (5.769%) SOAP
9 15 (5.769%) Middleware
10 14 (5.385%) CSS
11 12 (4.615%) Web Services
12 10 (3.846%) ADO.NET
13 8 (3.077%) ActiveX
14 7 (2.692%) Lucene
15 6 (2.308%) POSIX
15 6 (2.308%) JSP
15 6 (2.308%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 12 (4.615%) IIS
2 5 (1.923%) Apache
3 3 (1.154%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.769%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.769%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.769%) CM System
4 2 (0.769%) ElasticSearch
4 2 (0.769%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (3.462%) Simulink
2 8 (3.077%) Stateflow
3 4 (1.538%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.385%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.154%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.462%) GSM
2 19 (7.308%) PBX
2 19 (7.308%) VoIP
2 19 (7.308%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.538%) UMTS
3 17 (6.538%) LTE
3 17 (6.538%) Asterisk PBX
4 16 (6.154%) RTP
4 16 (6.154%) RANAP
5 10 (3.846%) DVB
6 8 (3.077%) Firewall
7 7 (2.692%) Internet
8 4 (1.538%) HTTP
8 4 (1.538%) Broadband
9 3 (1.154%) 3G
9 3 (1.154%) Wireless
9 3 (1.154%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.769%) UPnP
10 2 (0.769%) DLNA
10 2 (0.769%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (31.54%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.615%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (3.077%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (2.308%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.923%) MySQL
5 5 (1.923%) MS Access
6 2 (0.769%) OLAP
6 2 (0.769%) Big Data
7 1 (0.385%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.385%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (8.846%) Visual Studio
1 23 (8.846%) GCC
2 20 (7.692%) Subversion
3 17 (6.538%) GDB
3 17 (6.538%) Trac
4 9 (3.462%) Selenium
5 7 (2.692%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.308%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.923%) NUnit
7 5 (1.923%) WebDriver
7 5 (1.923%) Rhino Mocks
8 3 (1.154%) Moq
9 2 (0.769%) PVCS
9 2 (0.769%) ClearCase
9 2 (0.769%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.385%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.385%) RSpec
10 1 (0.385%) Xcode
General
1 49 (18.85%) Electronics
2 42 (16.15%) Finance
3 36 (13.85%) Telecoms
4 32 (12.31%) Banking
5 28 (10.77%) Automotive
6 27 (10.38%) Marketing
7 24 (9.231%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.077%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.154%) Games
10 2 (0.769%) Retail
10 2 (0.769%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.769%) Back Office
10 2 (0.769%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.385%) Legal
11 1 (0.385%) German Language
11 1 (0.385%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 79 (30.38%) Computer Science
2 33 (12.69%) Embedded Systems
3 24 (9.231%) Mathematics
4 18 (6.923%) Device Driver
5 9 (3.462%) STB
6 8 (3.077%) DTV
7 7 (2.692%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.923%) Physics
8 5 (1.923%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.923%) Open Source
9 3 (1.154%) iPhone
9 3 (1.154%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.154%) Firmware
9 3 (1.154%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.769%) Cryptography
10 2 (0.769%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 2 (0.769%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.769%) VHDL
11 1 (0.385%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.385%) MHEG
Operating Systems
1 92 (35.38%) Linux
2 58 (22.31%) Windows
3 13 (5.000%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (2.308%) Android
4 6 (2.308%) UNIX
5 3 (1.154%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.769%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.385%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.385%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.385%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.385%) Solaris
7 1 (0.385%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.92%) OO
2 50 (19.23%) Software Engineering
3 45 (17.31%) OOD
4 36 (13.85%) TDD
5 32 (12.31%) Automated Testing
6 23 (8.846%) Software Testing
7 22 (8.462%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (6.154%) Scrum
8 16 (6.154%) Multithreading
9 15 (5.769%) MVVM
9 15 (5.769%) Requirements Analysis
10 13 (5.000%) Software Architecture
11 12 (4.615%) UML
11 12 (4.615%) MVC
12 11 (4.231%) Analytics
13 10 (3.846%) Embedded Software Development
13 10 (3.846%) Validation
14 9 (3.462%) Migration
14 9 (3.462%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (3.462%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 147 (56.54%) C++
2 146 (56.15%) C#
3 73 (28.08%) C
4 47 (18.08%) SQL
5 39 (15.00%) Java
6 25 (9.615%) VB
7 24 (9.231%) MATLAB
8 16 (6.154%) Perl
9 10 (3.846%) Embedded C
10 9 (3.462%) VB.NET
10 9 (3.462%) Python
11 8 (3.077%) JavaScript
12 6 (2.308%) PHP
12 6 (2.308%) Assembly Language
13 5 (1.923%) Delphi
14 4 (1.538%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.769%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.385%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.385%) VB6
16 1 (0.385%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 100 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.769%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.385%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.385%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.462%) QA
2 5 (1.923%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.385%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (0.385%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.77%) Cisco
3 24 (9.231%) Oracle
4 9 (3.462%) Intel
5 8 (3.077%) MathWorks
6 3 (1.154%) Google
7 2 (0.769%) BEA
7 2 (0.769%) JBoss
8 1 (0.385%) Sun
8 1 (0.385%) HP
8 1 (0.385%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.385%) Apple
8 1 (0.385%) QNX
8 1 (0.385%) Teradata
Guildford, Surrey
Strong C or C++ programming skills... - Experience or knowledge in some of the following areas is a significant benefit: LINUX, scripting, embedded systems, IP networking protocols, IP and...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £25000 to £30000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Woking, South East
Excellent opportunity for a bright, enthusiastic Computer Science graduate to join a highly successful financial software house based in Surrey (GU). As a Graduate C++ Developer you will...
Client Server
Salary: £20k to £30k + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Description This company operates in the wireless software business... You will work on the design, development, maintenance and test of the GSM/UMTS/ HSPA and LTE extension of...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
This company operates in the wireless software business and enjoy established customer projects in the UMTS and LTE technology arena and we are looking to expand... You will...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent Salary + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey
Leading International Telecom company is recruiting for a hugely experienced UK based Delphi Software Engineer to join their development group in Engineering... - Guru level Delphi knowledge; there is...
Octad
Salary: From £25,000 to £45,000 per annum 20000-45000 + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013