The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 39 37 52
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 16 21 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 3.326% 4.086% 0.835%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.970% 5.048% 1.143%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 3
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,750 £27,500 £43,200
10% offered a salary of more than £33,450 £50,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
403 416 350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 83.78% 80.93% 73.07%
Number of salaries quoted 346 362 331
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Wiltshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 25 (71.43%) C++
2 21 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 17 (48.57%) Degree
3 17 (48.57%) Automated Testing
4 16 (45.71%) Multithreading
5 15 (42.86%) CppUnit
5 15 (42.86%) GoogleTest
6 14 (40.00%) OO
7 10 (28.57%) Web Services
8 9 (25.71%) Perl
9 8 (22.86%) PHP
9 8 (22.86%) Linux
9 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (17.14%) STL
10 6 (17.14%) .NET
10 6 (17.14%) C#
10 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
11 5 (14.29%) MFC
11 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
11 5 (14.29%) Windows
12 4 (11.43%) C
12 4 (11.43%) Finance
13 3 (8.571%) Games
14 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
14 2 (5.714%) LAMP
14 2 (5.714%) Spring
14 2 (5.714%) XML
14 2 (5.714%) CSS
14 2 (5.714%) JSP
14 2 (5.714%) SOAP

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 10 (28.57%) Web Services
2 6 (17.14%) STL
2 6 (17.14%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
3 5 (14.29%) MFC
4 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.714%) LAMP
4 2 (5.714%) Spring
4 2 (5.714%) XML
4 2 (5.714%) CSS
4 2 (5.714%) JSP
4 2 (5.714%) SOAP
4 2 (5.714%) HTML
4 2 (5.714%) Ext JS
4 2 (5.714%) Node.js
5 1 (2.857%) REST
5 1 (2.857%) Backbone.js
5 1 (2.857%) JPA
5 1 (2.857%) RESTful
5 1 (2.857%) J2SE
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Simulink
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.857%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.857%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.714%) Big Data
2 1 (2.857%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.857%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.857%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 15 (42.86%) CppUnit
1 15 (42.86%) GoogleTest
2 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.857%) MSBuild
3 1 (2.857%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
2 3 (8.571%) Games
3 1 (2.857%) Marketing
3 1 (2.857%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Software Engineer
2 16 (45.71%) Graduate
2 16 (45.71%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 13 (37.14%) Developer
4 11 (31.43%) Software Developer
4 11 (31.43%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) C++/C# Developer
5 5 (14.29%) C++ Software Developer
5 5 (14.29%) C++ Developer
5 5 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (5.714%) PHP Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.714%) LAMP Developer
8 1 (2.857%) Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.714%) Open Source
3 1 (2.857%) CUDA
3 1 (2.857%) Social Media
3 1 (2.857%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.857%) Physics
3 1 (2.857%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Automated Testing
2 16 (45.71%) Multithreading
3 14 (40.00%) OO
4 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (5.714%) Test Automation
6 1 (2.857%) Pattern Recognition
6 1 (2.857%) Game Development
6 1 (2.857%) Signal Processing
6 1 (2.857%) Image Processing
6 1 (2.857%) OOD
6 1 (2.857%) Project Management
6 1 (2.857%) UML
6 1 (2.857%) OOP
6 1 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.857%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (2.857%) Business Development
6 1 (2.857%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.857%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) C++
2 9 (25.71%) Perl
3 8 (22.86%) PHP
4 6 (17.14%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) C
6 2 (5.714%) Java
6 2 (5.714%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.714%) Python
6 2 (5.714%) Scala
6 2 (5.714%) Clojure
6 2 (5.714%) R
7 1 (2.857%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.857%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.857%) Tcl
7 1 (2.857%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.857%) VC++
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.714%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) JTAG
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