The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Designer
Rank - - 200
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Designer 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £75,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +76.47%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5285 5056 4779
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 95.29% 96.82% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4191 4201 4021
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Designer
England

Software Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Software Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Designer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Designer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Software Designer Salary Trend

Software Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Software Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
3 9 (64.29%) .NET
4 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
4 8 (57.14%) VB.NET
5 7 (50.00%) Finance
5 7 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (50.00%) FTP
5 7 (50.00%) XML
5 7 (50.00%) Waterfall
6 6 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (35.71%) Agile Project Management
7 5 (35.71%) OO
7 5 (35.71%) SQL
7 5 (35.71%) Project Management
8 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
8 4 (28.57%) C#
8 4 (28.57%) VB
8 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (28.57%) Data Management
8 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (21.43%) VB6
9 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
9 3 (21.43%) Rational Application Developer
9 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
9 3 (21.43%) VBScript
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle Reports

Software Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Software Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (64.29%) .NET
2 7 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 3 (21.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
2 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (21.43%) Rational Application Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (35.71%) Agile Project Management
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Management
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) OOP
5 3 (21.43%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (14.29%) Master Data Management
7 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.143%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.143%) Scrum
7 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) VB.NET
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) VB
4 3 (21.43%) VB6
4 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) VBScript
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft