The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire 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 22 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 46 33 71
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 29 60 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 3.299% 5.808% 1.671%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.440% 6.186% 1.719%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 14
Average salary £34,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,750 £30,050
10% offered a salary of more than £39,250 £57,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
843 970 1047
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 95.90% 93.90% 97.21%
Number of salaries quoted 754 831 958
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,250 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
South West

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Swindon +17 22 £34,000 -15.00%
Salisbury -6 1 - -
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 £37,500 -
Software Engineer
South West

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 62 (68.13%) C++
2 57 (62.64%) Computer Science
3 48 (52.75%) OO
4 45 (49.45%) Degree
5 42 (46.15%) Multithreading
6 34 (37.36%) C#
7 33 (36.26%) Software Engineering
8 31 (34.07%) STL
8 31 (34.07%) Windows
9 27 (29.67%) MFC
10 24 (26.37%) ATL
11 22 (24.18%) WPF
12 20 (21.98%) C
13 19 (20.88%) Automated Testing
14 17 (18.68%) SQL
15 15 (16.48%) .NET
15 15 (16.48%) XML
15 15 (16.48%) CppUnit
15 15 (16.48%) GoogleTest
16 13 (14.29%) MS Excel
17 12 (13.19%) OOP
18 11 (12.09%) Linux
18 11 (12.09%) MS Office
18 11 (12.09%) VB
19 10 (10.99%) QA
19 10 (10.99%) ISTQB
19 10 (10.99%) Requirements Analysis
19 10 (10.99%) VBScript
19 10 (10.99%) ISEB
20 7 (7.692%) Embedded C

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 31 (34.07%) STL
2 27 (29.67%) MFC
3 24 (26.37%) ATL
4 22 (24.18%) WPF
5 15 (16.48%) .NET
5 15 (16.48%) XML
6 7 (7.692%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.495%) HTML
8 4 (4.396%) JMS
8 4 (4.396%) SOAP
8 4 (4.396%) Web Services
9 3 (3.297%) CSS
9 3 (3.297%) Qt
10 2 (2.198%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (2.198%) jQuery
10 2 (2.198%) LAMP
10 2 (2.198%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.099%) J2EE
11 1 (1.099%) XHTML
11 1 (1.099%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.396%) Apache
2 2 (2.198%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.099%) CMS
3 1 (1.099%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.099%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 11 (12.09%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.396%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.396%) 4G
1 4 (4.396%) 3G
1 4 (4.396%) Wireless
1 4 (4.396%) Broadband
2 3 (3.297%) BSS
3 1 (1.099%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.198%) RDBMS
1 2 (2.198%) MySQL
2 1 (1.099%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.099%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.099%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) CppUnit
1 15 (16.48%) GoogleTest
2 6 (6.593%) Subversion
3 5 (5.495%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.495%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (3.297%) MSBuild
5 2 (2.198%) GNU Toolchain
5 2 (2.198%) NUnit
6 1 (1.099%) Ant
6 1 (1.099%) JUnit
6 1 (1.099%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.099%) MagicDraw
6 1 (1.099%) Selenium
6 1 (1.099%) Moq
6 1 (1.099%) LLVM
6 1 (1.099%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.099%) GCC
6 1 (1.099%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.099%) Git (software)
6 1 (1.099%) Mercurial
General
1 7 (7.692%) Games
2 5 (5.495%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.396%) Finance
4 2 (2.198%) Electronics
5 1 (1.099%) Front Office
5 1 (1.099%) Retail
5 1 (1.099%) Legal
5 1 (1.099%) Advertising
5 1 (1.099%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 57 (62.64%) Computer Science
2 4 (4.396%) Open Source
2 4 (4.396%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 3 (3.297%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (2.198%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.198%) CUDA
4 2 (2.198%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.099%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.099%) STB
5 1 (1.099%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.099%) Derivative
5 1 (1.099%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Windows
2 11 (12.09%) Linux
3 4 (4.396%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (3.297%) UNIX
5 1 (1.099%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.099%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) OO
2 42 (46.15%) Multithreading
3 33 (36.26%) Software Engineering
4 19 (20.88%) Automated Testing
5 12 (13.19%) OOP
6 10 (10.99%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (5.495%) Unit Testing
8 4 (4.396%) TDD
8 4 (4.396%) Validation
8 4 (4.396%) UML
9 3 (3.297%) OOD
9 3 (3.297%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (3.297%) Web Development
9 3 (3.297%) Game Development
9 3 (3.297%) Test Automation
10 2 (2.198%) Image Processing
10 2 (2.198%) Pattern Recognition
10 2 (2.198%) MVC
11 1 (1.099%) OOA/OOD
11 1 (1.099%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (68.13%) C++
2 34 (37.36%) C#
3 20 (21.98%) C
4 17 (18.68%) SQL
5 11 (12.09%) VB
6 10 (10.99%) VBScript
7 7 (7.692%) Embedded C
8 6 (6.593%) Java
9 5 (5.495%) Perl
10 4 (4.396%) Python
11 3 (3.297%) VBA
11 3 (3.297%) PHP
12 2 (2.198%) VC++
13 1 (1.099%) JavaScript
13 1 (1.099%) Delphi
13 1 (1.099%) ActionScript
13 1 (1.099%) MATLAB
13 1 (1.099%) Embedded C++
13 1 (1.099%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.099%) Ada
Qualifications
1 45 (49.45%) Degree
2 10 (10.99%) ISTQB
2 10 (10.99%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 1 (1.099%) SLA
2 1 (1.099%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.099%) JTAG
Vendors
1 2 (2.198%) JBoss
2 1 (1.099%) Oracle
2 1 (1.099%) Business Objects
2 1 (1.099%) Reuters
2 1 (1.099%) Atmel
2 1 (1.099%) Sitecore
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