The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills 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 Engineering over the 3 months to 23 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 102 75 114
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +39
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 75 102 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.064% 3.178% 1.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.643% 4.113% 1.767%
Number of salaries quoted 47 69 35
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,800 £25,300 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2838 2480 2151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 78.12% 77.26% 71.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2202 2043 1797
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +3 69 £36,000 -10.00%
Wakefield -11 4 £40,000 -
Bradford -13 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Halifax - 1 - -
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 103 (68.67%) .NET
2 88 (58.67%) OO
3 84 (56.00%) C#
4 81 (54.00%) Degree
5 77 (51.33%) Agile Software Development
6 52 (34.67%) Web Services
6 52 (34.67%) .NET Framework
7 49 (32.67%) SQL
8 43 (28.67%) WCF
9 35 (23.33%) SQL Server
9 35 (23.33%) XML
9 35 (23.33%) TDD
10 33 (22.00%) Finance
10 33 (22.00%) Computer Science
11 31 (20.67%) NHS
12 30 (20.00%) ASP.NET
12 30 (20.00%) VB.NET
12 30 (20.00%) MVC
13 29 (19.33%) Java
13 29 (19.33%) SQL Server 2008
14 26 (17.33%) Visual Studio
15 25 (16.67%) Service Management
16 24 (16.00%) Management Information System
16 24 (16.00%) QA
17 23 (15.33%) SQL Server 2005
17 23 (15.33%) HTML
17 23 (15.33%) RDBMS
18 22 (14.67%) XAML
18 22 (14.67%) Razor View Engine
19 20 (13.33%) Java EE

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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
1 103 (68.67%) .NET
2 52 (34.67%) Web Services
2 52 (34.67%) .NET Framework
3 43 (28.67%) WCF
4 35 (23.33%) XML
5 30 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 23 (15.33%) HTML
7 22 (14.67%) Razor View Engine
8 20 (13.33%) Java EE
9 18 (12.00%) J2EE
9 18 (12.00%) Middleware
10 17 (11.33%) WebSphere
10 17 (11.33%) JSP
10 17 (11.33%) Hibernate
10 17 (11.33%) Spring
11 15 (10.00%) WPF
12 9 (6.000%) CAML
13 7 (4.667%) WinForms
14 6 (4.000%) REST
14 6 (4.000%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.000%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (5.333%) Apache
4 6 (4.000%) IIS
5 4 (2.667%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 12 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 9 (6.000%) InfoPath
3 4 (2.667%) MS Office
4 3 (2.000%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.000%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.667%) FTP
2 1 (0.667%) Intranet
2 1 (0.667%) DVB
2 1 (0.667%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.667%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 29 (19.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (15.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 23 (15.33%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.333%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Visual Studio
2 8 (5.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (4.000%) Git (software)
3 6 (4.000%) Subversion
4 1 (0.667%) JUnit
4 1 (0.667%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.667%) Rational Application Developer
4 1 (0.667%) TestComplete
General
1 33 (22.00%) Finance
2 10 (6.667%) Electronics
3 3 (2.000%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.667%) Front Office
4 1 (0.667%) Back Office
4 1 (0.667%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 83 (55.33%) Developer
2 56 (37.33%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.00%) Software Developer
4 20 (13.33%) Applications Developer
5 17 (11.33%) J2EE Software Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (10.67%) C# Developer
7 15 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 14 (9.333%) .NET Software Developer
8 14 (9.333%) C# Software Developer
8 14 (9.333%) .NET Software Engineer
8 14 (9.333%) C# Software Engineer
8 14 (9.333%) Team Leader
9 13 (8.667%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.333%) Architect
10 11 (7.333%) Web Developer
11 10 (6.667%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (6.000%) SharePoint Developer
13 8 (5.333%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.00%) Computer Science
2 31 (20.67%) NHS
3 24 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 18 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.667%) DTV
5 1 (0.667%) MPEG
5 1 (0.667%) STB
5 1 (0.667%) Streaming Video
5 1 (0.667%) Wiki
5 1 (0.667%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.333%) Linux
2 7 (4.667%) Windows
3 5 (3.333%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.667%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (58.67%) OO
2 77 (51.33%) Agile Software Development
3 35 (23.33%) TDD
4 30 (20.00%) MVC
5 25 (16.67%) Service Management
6 18 (12.00%) UML
7 17 (11.33%) OOA/OOD
8 13 (8.667%) Waterfall
9 11 (7.333%) Multithreading
10 10 (6.667%) Workflow
10 10 (6.667%) Project Management
11 8 (5.333%) Unit Testing
12 6 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
12 6 (4.000%) Scrum
12 6 (4.000%) CRM
13 5 (3.333%) E-Commerce
13 5 (3.333%) Agile Project Management
14 4 (2.667%) Business Development
14 4 (2.667%) Data Management
14 4 (2.667%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 84 (56.00%) C#
2 49 (32.67%) SQL
3 30 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 29 (19.33%) Java
5 22 (14.67%) XAML
6 19 (12.67%) C
6 19 (12.67%) C++
7 17 (11.33%) Scala
7 17 (11.33%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.333%) Embedded C
8 11 (7.333%) Embedded C++
9 9 (6.000%) PHP
10 2 (1.333%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.667%) Perl
11 1 (0.667%) VC++
11 1 (0.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 81 (54.00%) Degree
2 1 (0.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.00%) QA
2 5 (3.333%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.33%) TIBCO
2 17 (11.33%) JBoss
3 6 (4.000%) Oracle
4 1 (0.667%) Lombardi
4 1 (0.667%) DevExpress
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E-Resourcing
Salary: £27500 - £45000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
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
Using Visual studio you will deliver ASP.NET web applications written in C#/VB.Net and SQL Server, and to maintain and upgrade existing solutions... Proven ability to...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: £excellent + 20% bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Using Visual studio you will deliver ASP.NET web applications written in C#/VB.Net and SQL Server, and to maintain and upgrade existing solutions... Proven ability to...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: £excellent + 20% bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Software Developer - Visual C++, C, OOD, OOA, SQL, SQL ServerMy client require a Software Developer with C++, C or Visual C++ skills to join their large development team...
IQ Resourcing
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
West Yorkshire
My client needs someone with strong SW Development methodologies - Waterfall, Agile, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development etc. It is essential you have worked in an embedded Linux C/...
OCC Computing
Salary: Market related
Posted: 8 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Key Technical Skills ASP.NET web applications with C# MVC (desirable) HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery. Web Services / WCF. Your core responsibilities will include: Undertaking software development, translating requirements...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £45000.00 per annum + 20% Bonus, pension etc
Posted: 22 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
Leeds, Yorkshire
The ideal candidate must have good experience/knowledge in PHP5, MySQL, HTML and CSS... If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
West Yorkshire
My client needs someone with strong SW Development methodologies - Waterfall, Agile, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development etc. It is essential you have worked in an embedded Linux C/...
OCC Computing
Salary: Market related
Posted: 1 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
A varied role, your main responsibilities will include: *Support and Maintenance of complex software applications *Problem resolution *Work with the development teams to improve systems and services *Provide...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + oncall, good benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013