Wales Software Engineering Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carmarthenshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grampian Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Lothian Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Usk Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	70
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	43
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	2.953 %	3.373 %
Salaries quoted	29	42
Average minimum salary	£32,241	£30,205
Average salary	£33,828	£33,818
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Average maximum salary	£35,414	£37,432
UK excluding London average salary	£36,537	£37,161
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Processes & Methodologies Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	982	1275
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.636 %	0.569 %
Salaries quoted	893	1160
Average minimum salary	£34,175	£35,085
Average salary	£38,648	£38,869
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Average maximum salary	£43,121	£42,652
UK excluding London average salary	£42,986	£44,543
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering 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 Engineering 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	-8	25	£35,680	+4.79 %
West Wales	-	3	£17,000	-
North Wales	+5	1	£38,000	+65.21 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 29 (49.15 %) Test Scripting 1 29 (49.15 %) Security Cleared 2 28 (47.46 %) ISEB 3 27 (45.76 %) RUP 4 19 (32.20 %) Degree 5 10 (16.95 %) C 6 9 (15.25 %) Education 7 8 (13.56 %) DVB 7 8 (13.56 %) .NET 7 8 (13.56 %) UNIX 7 8 (13.56 %) Linux 7 8 (13.56 %) Embedded C 8 7 (11.86 %) TCP/IP 8 7 (11.86 %) Microsoft 9 6 (10.17 %) HNC

9 6 (10.17 %) HND 9 6 (10.17 %) C# 9 6 (10.17 %) ISO9001 9 6 (10.17 %) TickIT 9 6 (10.17 %) Quality Management 9 6 (10.17 %) Manufacturing 9 6 (10.17 %) Embedded Linux 9 6 (10.17 %) Computer Science 9 6 (10.17 %) Integration Testing 10 5 (8.475 %) SQL Server 10 5 (8.475 %) Flash 11 4 (6.780 %) ActionScript 11 4 (6.780 %) OOP 11 4 (6.780 %) Adobe 11 4 (6.780 %) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 8 (13.56 %) .NET 2 4 (6.780 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.695 %) ASP 3 1 (1.695 %) HTML	Applications 1 4 (6.780 %) MS Visio 2 3 (5.085 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.56 %) DVB 2 7 (11.86 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.695 %) TELNET 3 1 (1.695 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.695 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (8.475 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) Flash	General 1 9 (15.25 %) Education 2 6 (10.17 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (3.390 %) Electronics 3 2 (3.390 %) Health 4 1 (1.695 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 28 (47.46 %) Analyst 2 26 (44.07 %) Tester 2 26 (44.07 %) Test Analyst 2 26 (44.07 %) Test Engineer 3 12 (20.34 %) Software Engineer 4 6 (10.17 %) Developer 4 6 (10.17 %) Quality Engineer 5 4 (6.780 %) Graduate 5 4 (6.780 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (6.780 %) C# Developer 5 4 (6.780 %) Graduate Developer 5 4 (6.780 %) Graduate CSharp Developer 6 3 (5.085 %) Author 6 3 (5.085 %) Technical Author 7 2 (3.390 %) Junior 7 2 (3.390 %) Test Manager 7 2 (3.390 %) Project Manager 7 2 (3.390 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 8 1 (1.695 %) Requirements Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.17 %) Computer Science 2 3 (5.085 %) STB 2 3 (5.085 %) iDTV 3 1 (1.695 %) Mathematics 3 1 (1.695 %) Physics 3 1 (1.695 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 8 (13.56 %) UNIX 1 8 (13.56 %) Linux 2 6 (10.17 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (1.695 %) Windows 3 1 (1.695 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (49.15 %) Test Scripting 1 29 (49.15 %) Security Cleared 2 27 (45.76 %) RUP 3 6 (10.17 %) Quality Management 3 6 (10.17 %) Integration Testing 4 4 (6.780 %) OOP 4 4 (6.780 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (6.780 %) Programme Management 4 4 (6.780 %) Content Management 4 4 (6.780 %) Web Development 5 3 (5.085 %) Document Management 5 3 (5.085 %) UML 6 2 (3.390 %) OO 6 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 6 2 (3.390 %) Test Management 6 2 (3.390 %) Use Case 6 2 (3.390 %) QMS 7 1 (1.695 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (1.695 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 10 (16.95 %) C 2 8 (13.56 %) Embedded C 3 6 (10.17 %) C# 4 4 (6.780 %) ActionScript 5 3 (5.085 %) C++ 5 3 (5.085 %) Java 6 1 (1.695 %) Assembly Language 6 1 (1.695 %) SQL 6 1 (1.695 %) VB	Qualifications 1 28 (47.46 %) ISEB 2 19 (32.20 %) Degree 3 6 (10.17 %) HNC 3 6 (10.17 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.17 %) ISO9001 1 6 (10.17 %) TickIT 2 1 (1.695 %) JTAG	Vendors 1 7 (11.86 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.780 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.695 %) Sybase 3 1 (1.695 %) Oracle