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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 85 49 84
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 96 152 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.599% 4.713% 2.437%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.725% 4.844% 2.523%
Number of salaries quoted 84 140 59
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,250 £43,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3523 3138 2854
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 95.37% 97.30% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2832 2619 2391
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Leeds -45 62 £40,000 +14.28%
Bradford 0 12 £42,500 -2.29%
Wakefield +3 8 £35,000 +26.12%
Halifax - 6 £22,500 -
Huddersfield - 2 £27,500 -
Castleford - 2 £35,000 -
Pontefract - 2 £35,000 -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 108 (45.19%) Java
2 99 (41.42%) C++
3 96 (40.17%) Linux
4 85 (35.56%) .NET
5 73 (30.54%) C#
6 67 (28.03%) Agile Software Development
7 66 (27.62%) C
8 64 (26.78%) OO
9 59 (24.69%) SQL
10 57 (23.85%) Software Engineering
11 56 (23.43%) Degree
12 49 (20.50%) J2EE
13 46 (19.25%) Apache
14 45 (18.83%) JavaScript
15 41 (17.15%) Embedded C
16 38 (15.90%) PHP
17 37 (15.48%) Embedded C++
18 36 (15.06%) Web Services
19 32 (13.39%) XML
20 31 (12.97%) UNIX
20 31 (12.97%) Spring
21 30 (12.55%) Electronics
22 29 (12.13%) CSS
22 29 (12.13%) Java EE
23 28 (11.72%) Hibernate
23 28 (11.72%) HTML
23 28 (11.72%) MySQL
24 26 (10.88%) JSP
24 26 (10.88%) MS Excel
24 26 (10.88%) Subversion

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 85 (35.56%) .NET
2 49 (20.50%) J2EE
3 36 (15.06%) Web Services
4 32 (13.39%) XML
5 31 (12.97%) Spring
6 29 (12.13%) Java EE
6 29 (12.13%) CSS
7 28 (11.72%) HTML
7 28 (11.72%) Hibernate
8 26 (10.88%) JSP
9 25 (10.46%) WebSphere
10 19 (7.950%) .NET Framework
10 19 (7.950%) Middleware
11 18 (7.531%) ASP.NET
12 17 (7.113%) WCF
12 17 (7.113%) HTML5
12 17 (7.113%) CSS3
13 16 (6.695%) WPF
14 14 (5.858%) Symfony
15 10 (4.184%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 46 (19.25%) Apache
2 14 (5.858%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (5.439%) Amazon AWS
4 11 (4.603%) CloudFront
4 11 (4.603%) Route 53
4 11 (4.603%) Amazon ELB
4 11 (4.603%) Amazon S3
4 11 (4.603%) Drupal
4 11 (4.603%) Magento
4 11 (4.603%) nginx
5 8 (3.347%) GlassFish
5 8 (3.347%) CICS
6 7 (2.929%) CMS
7 6 (2.510%) Tomcat
8 5 (2.092%) WordPress
9 3 (1.255%) IIS
10 1 (0.418%) WinCC
10 1 (0.418%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (10.88%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.674%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.674%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.418%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.787%) Internet
2 20 (8.368%) HTTP
3 19 (7.950%) TCP/IP
4 17 (7.113%) DVB
5 16 (6.695%) UPnP
6 9 (3.766%) Broadband
6 9 (3.766%) DHCP
7 6 (2.510%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.510%) GPRS
7 6 (2.510%) GSM
8 4 (1.674%) ZigBee
8 4 (1.674%) 3G
8 4 (1.674%) Wireless
9 3 (1.255%) NAS
9 3 (1.255%) SAN
10 2 (0.837%) DNS
11 1 (0.418%) VPN
11 1 (0.418%) Firewall
11 1 (0.418%) Cisco PIX
11 1 (0.418%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.72%) MySQL
2 22 (9.205%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.205%) RDBMS
3 14 (5.858%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.092%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.674%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.255%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.837%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.418%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.418%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.418%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.418%) GIS
8 1 (0.418%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 26 (10.88%) Subversion
2 15 (6.276%) JUnit
3 11 (4.603%) Git (software)
3 11 (4.603%) NUnit
4 8 (3.347%) MSTest
5 5 (2.092%) Maven
5 5 (2.092%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.092%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 5 (2.092%) Eclipse
5 5 (2.092%) Hudson
6 3 (1.255%) Selenium
7 2 (0.837%) JProfiler
General
1 30 (12.55%) Electronics
2 12 (5.021%) Telecoms
3 10 (4.184%) Publishing
4 6 (2.510%) Games
4 6 (2.510%) Finance
5 5 (2.092%) Back Office
5 5 (2.092%) Marketing
6 3 (1.255%) Automotive
7 2 (0.837%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.418%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.418%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.531%) STB
2 17 (7.113%) MPEG
2 17 (7.113%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.695%) Digital Media
3 16 (6.695%) IPTV
3 16 (6.695%) Device Driver
4 13 (5.439%) Computer Science
5 11 (4.603%) Smartphone
5 11 (4.603%) Blackberry
6 8 (3.347%) Mainframe
6 8 (3.347%) W3C
6 8 (3.347%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.929%) Open Source
8 5 (2.092%) Firmware
8 5 (2.092%) Online Games
9 4 (1.674%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.255%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.837%) Telematics
11 2 (0.837%) Social Media
11 2 (0.837%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 96 (40.17%) Linux
2 31 (12.97%) UNIX
3 24 (10.04%) Windows
4 22 (9.205%) Embedded Linux
5 14 (5.858%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.021%) Windows Phone
6 12 (5.021%) Android
7 5 (2.092%) Windows Phone 8
8 3 (1.255%) CentOS
8 3 (1.255%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.255%) openSUSE
8 3 (1.255%) SUSE
8 3 (1.255%) Debian
9 1 (0.418%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.418%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.418%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.418%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.418%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.03%) Agile Software Development
2 64 (26.78%) OO
3 57 (23.85%) Software Engineering
4 25 (10.46%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (8.368%) Scrum
6 19 (7.950%) TDD
6 19 (7.950%) Project Management
7 18 (7.531%) UML
8 17 (7.113%) OOA/OOD
8 17 (7.113%) Unit Testing
9 14 (5.858%) E-Commerce
10 10 (4.184%) Multithreading
11 9 (3.766%) Kanban
11 9 (3.766%) MVC
12 8 (3.347%) Service Delivery
12 8 (3.347%) ETL
12 8 (3.347%) PRINCE2
12 8 (3.347%) Software Testing
12 8 (3.347%) Feature Driven Development
12 8 (3.347%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.19%) Java
2 99 (41.42%) C++
3 73 (30.54%) C#
4 66 (27.62%) C
5 59 (24.69%) SQL
6 45 (18.83%) JavaScript
7 41 (17.15%) Embedded C
8 38 (15.90%) PHP
9 37 (15.48%) Embedded C++
10 17 (7.113%) Scala
11 14 (5.858%) VB.NET
12 12 (5.021%) Perl
13 9 (3.766%) Objective-C
14 8 (3.347%) COBOL
15 6 (2.510%) VB
16 5 (2.092%) Python
16 5 (2.092%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.674%) Bash shell
18 2 (0.837%) VB6
18 2 (0.837%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (23.43%) Degree
2 8 (3.347%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.510%) ISEB
3 6 (2.510%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.092%) QA
1 5 (2.092%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.837%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.837%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.255%) Puppet
2 1 (0.418%) OpenView
2 1 (0.418%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (0.418%) Cacti
2 1 (0.418%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 21 (8.787%) Oracle
2 20 (8.368%) JBoss
3 17 (7.113%) TIBCO
4 14 (5.858%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.603%) Percona
6 10 (4.184%) Apple
6 10 (4.184%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.674%) Atmel
8 2 (0.837%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.418%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.418%) HP
9 1 (0.418%) Siemens
9 1 (0.418%) Cisco
9 1 (0.418%) Allen-Bradley
Leeds, West Yorkshire
KEYWORDS: C# / .NET / C#.NET / Agile / WCF / WPF / Leeds / West Yorkshire / Yorkshire / York / Bradford / Harrogate / Skipton / Sheffield. Talented C# Software Engineers required for growing organisation based in Leeds...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Plus pension, health, holidays
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
C, C++, SQL Leeds c. £35,000 - £45,000 dependent on experience plus bonus and benefits We are looking for a C/C++ Software Engineer to join the...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus, benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
As an embedded software engineer you'll be working primarily on embedded linux based projects; utilising your skills in C++ or Java to develop high quality embedded applications...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £45000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 2 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
As an embedded software engineer you'll be working primarily on embedded linux based projects; utilising your skills in C++ or Java to develop high quality embedded applications...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
High calibre Embedded Software Engineers will find this role represents a rewarding, challenging and stimulating opportunity to expand your skillset and play a key role within a compact...
JAM
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Embedded Software Engineer - Essentials: - Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of Embedded Systems and Embedded Software - Low level embedded software knowledge down to driver level - Embedded C/C++ - RTOS...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
KEYWORDS: Java/JEE/JEE/Leeds/West Yorkshire/North Yorkshire/Harrogate/York/South Yorkshire/Agile/Spring/Hibernate... Key Skills & Experience Required: - Proven Java and / or JEE Software Engineering experience -...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Plus pension, holidays
Posted: 17 May 2013