Wales Software Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Wales region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Cheltenham Chepstow Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport-on-Tay Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Teesside Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tyne and Wear UK Usk Uxbridge Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	25
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	82	128
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	5.456 %	6.394 %
Salaries quoted	82	119
Average minimum salary	£30,347	£32,512
Average salary	£34,673	£36,640
% change on same period last year	-5.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,000	£40,768
UK excluding London average salary	£36,102	£35,821
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	1503	2002
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.893 %
Salaries quoted	1399	1834
Average minimum salary	£31,522	£30,876
Average salary	£35,419	£34,258
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£39,317	£37,640
UK excluding London average salary	£38,454	£39,134
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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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 Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	-7	80	£34,663	-7.08 %
West Wales	-1	4	£37,500	-6.25 %
North Wales	-1	2	£29,500	+31.11 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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.

1 104 (75.36 %) C++ 2 97 (70.29 %) C 3 44 (31.88 %) Security Cleared 4 40 (28.99 %) UML 5 38 (27.54 %) Visual Studio 6 34 (24.64 %) TCP/IP 7 33 (23.91 %) OO 8 32 (23.19 %) UNIX 8 32 (23.19 %) SC Cleared 9 29 (21.01 %) Linux 9 29 (21.01 %) SQL Server 10 27 (19.57 %) Oracle 10 27 (19.57 %) Solaris 11 24 (17.39 %) Degree 12 22 (15.94 %) Assembly Language

13 20 (14.49 %) DTV 14 19 (13.77 %) OpenGL 14 19 (13.77 %) DirectX 14 19 (13.77 %) Embedded C 15 18 (13.04 %) MPEG 15 18 (13.04 %) Java 16 16 (11.59 %) C# 16 16 (11.59 %) Windows 17 15 (10.87 %) Education 18 13 (9.420 %) Embedded Linux 18 13 (9.420 %) SNMP 19 12 (8.696 %) Embedded C++ 19 12 (8.696 %) ISDN 19 12 (8.696 %) Software Engineering 20 11 (7.971 %) Multimedia

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 19 (13.77 %) OpenGL 1 19 (13.77 %) DirectX 2 11 (7.971 %) .NET 3 9 (6.522 %) ActiveX 4 6 (4.348 %) Java RMI 5 4 (2.899 %) HTML 6 2 (1.449 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (0.725 %) J2EE 7 1 (0.725 %) EJB 7 1 (0.725 %) JDBC 7 1 (0.725 %) SOAP 7 1 (0.725 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.725 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 2 (1.449 %) Quicktime 1 2 (1.449 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 34 (24.64 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (9.420 %) SNMP 3 12 (8.696 %) ISDN 4 10 (7.246 %) VoIP 4 10 (7.246 %) Q.931 4 10 (7.246 %) QSIG 5 7 (5.072 %) IGMP 5 7 (5.072 %) DVB 6 4 (2.899 %) HTTP 6 4 (2.899 %) TELNET 7 3 (2.174 %) OSPF 7 3 (2.174 %) BGP 7 3 (2.174 %) IPv4 8 2 (1.449 %) IPv6 8 2 (1.449 %) GPRS 8 2 (1.449 %) Internet 9 1 (0.725 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (21.01 %) SQL Server 2 2 (1.449 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (1.449 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (1.449 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 38 (27.54 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (4.348 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (2.899 %) Rational Rose 3 4 (2.899 %) Flash 4 3 (2.174 %) TestDirector 5 1 (0.725 %) Ant
General 1 15 (10.87 %) Education 2 11 (7.971 %) Multimedia 2 11 (7.971 %) Games 2 11 (7.971 %) Electronics 3 7 (5.072 %) Military 4 3 (2.174 %) Health 4 3 (2.174 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (2.174 %) Back Office 5 2 (1.449 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.725 %) Finance 6 1 (0.725 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 20 (14.49 %) DTV 2 18 (13.04 %) MPEG 3 10 (7.246 %) Firmware 4 9 (6.522 %) Streaming Video 4 9 (6.522 %) IPTV 5 8 (5.797 %) Computer Science 5 8 (5.797 %) CCTV 6 6 (4.348 %) STB 7 5 (3.623 %) Physics 8 4 (2.899 %) Human Factors 9 3 (2.174 %) Mathematics 9 3 (2.174 %) iDTV 10 2 (1.449 %) Cryptography 10 2 (1.449 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 32 (23.19 %) UNIX 2 29 (21.01 %) Linux 3 27 (19.57 %) Solaris 4 16 (11.59 %) Windows 5 13 (9.420 %) Embedded Linux 6 6 (4.348 %) Windows CE 7 3 (2.174 %) Windows XP 8 2 (1.449 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (31.88 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (28.99 %) UML 3 33 (23.91 %) OO 4 32 (23.19 %) SC Cleared 5 12 (8.696 %) Software Engineering 6 9 (6.522 %) Yourdon 7 7 (5.072 %) OOD 8 6 (4.348 %) Agile Software Development 9 5 (3.623 %) Quality Management 10 4 (2.899 %) Project Management 10 4 (2.899 %) Software Testing 11 3 (2.174 %) Programme Management 11 3 (2.174 %) OOA/OOD 11 3 (2.174 %) Integration Testing 12 2 (1.449 %) QMS 12 2 (1.449 %) Requirements Analysis 12 2 (1.449 %) Project Planning 13 1 (0.725 %) Extreme Programming 13 1 (0.725 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 104 (75.36 %) C++ 2 97 (70.29 %) C 3 22 (15.94 %) Assembly Language 4 19 (13.77 %) Embedded C 5 18 (13.04 %) Java 6 16 (11.59 %) C# 7 12 (8.696 %) Embedded C++ 8 4 (2.899 %) SQL 9 3 (2.174 %) VB 9 3 (2.174 %) VB.NET 10 2 (1.449 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (1.449 %) VB6 11 1 (0.725 %) Delphi 11 1 (0.725 %) Python	Qualifications 1 24 (17.39 %) Degree 2 5 (3.623 %) HNC 2 5 (3.623 %) HND 3 2 (1.449 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.449 %) PhD 4 1 (0.725 %) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.623 %) TickIT 1 5 (3.623 %) ISO9001 2 2 (1.449 %) JTAG 3 1 (0.725 %) ISO9000	Vendors 1 27 (19.57 %) Oracle 2 6 (4.348 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.449 %) QNX