The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Engineer
Rank 51 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 3 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 0.645% 1.758% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.667% 1.911% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £50,000 £31,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+58.73% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
450 471 487
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 96.77% 91.99% 97.21%
Number of salaries quoted 399 405 446
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Software Engineer
Wiltshire

Senior Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Senior Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Swindon Senior Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (75.00%) C
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
2 5 (62.50%) Subversion
3 4 (50.00%) Wireless
3 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Broadband
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 4 (50.00%) 3G
3 4 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (50.00%) 4G
4 3 (37.50%) OO
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (25.00%) Apache
5 2 (25.00%) LAMP
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 1 (12.50%) Music
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) jQuery
6 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
6 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
6 1 (12.50%) Lucene
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Lucene
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Broadband
1 4 (50.00%) 3G
1 4 (50.00%) Wireless
1 4 (50.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) OOD
4 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) Java
6 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
6 1 (12.50%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss