Software Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 43 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 246 185 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.70% 6.44% 5.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.02% 7.30% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 194 97 84
10th Percentile £38,000 - £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,083 2,533 3,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 88.14% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 1,392 2,211
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +8 120 £52,500 -6.67% 17
Leicestershire 0 71 £45,000 +9.09% 13
Derbyshire -3 26 £53,750 +19.44% 6
Northamptonshire -7 24 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 242 (98.37%) Software Engineering
2 79 (32.11%) AWS
3 78 (31.71%) C#
4 64 (26.02%) .NET
5 62 (25.20%) Azure
6 56 (22.76%) Agile
7 53 (21.54%) Python
8 51 (20.73%) React
9 50 (20.33%) C
10 49 (19.92%) JavaScript
11 45 (18.29%) DevOps
12 41 (16.67%) C++
13 40 (16.26%) Linux
14 37 (15.04%) Security Cleared
15 34 (13.82%) SC Cleared
15 34 (13.82%) Actionable Insight
16 33 (13.41%) Mentoring
17 31 (12.60%) .NET Core
18 28 (11.38%) GeoServer
18 28 (11.38%) OpenLayers
18 28 (11.38%) QGIS
18 28 (11.38%) Leaflet
18 28 (11.38%) PostGIS
18 28 (11.38%) GIS
18 28 (11.38%) ESRI
18 28 (11.38%) ArcGIS
18 28 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (11.38%) Web Development
19 27 (10.98%) CSS
20 25 (10.16%) Java

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (11.38%) ArcGIS
1 28 (11.38%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.81%) CMS
2 2 (0.81%) JBoss
2 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Simulink
2 1 (0.41%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 79 (32.11%) AWS
2 62 (25.20%) Azure
3 12 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.47%) Serverless
5 6 (2.44%) GCP
6 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.22%) AWS IoT
7 3 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.22%) SaaS
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.81%) GitHub
8 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.81%) Heroku
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.69%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.07%) Wireless
3 8 (3.25%) Modbus
4 6 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.03%) Bluetooth
5 5 (2.03%) RS-232
5 5 (2.03%) RS-485
5 5 (2.03%) VoIP
5 5 (2.03%) ZigBee
6 3 (1.22%) Internet
6 3 (1.22%) MQTT
7 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.38%) GIS
1 28 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
1 28 (11.38%) QGIS
2 15 (6.10%) MySQL
3 9 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.22%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Git
2 13 (5.28%) JIRA
3 7 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.22%) JDeveloper
5 3 (1.22%) Subversion
6 2 (0.81%) CMake
6 2 (0.81%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.81%) Xcode
General
1 21 (8.54%) Electronics
2 14 (5.69%) Automotive
3 12 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.25%) Military
5 7 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.03%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.03%) Marketing
6 5 (2.03%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.63%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.63%) Aviation
7 4 (1.63%) Finance
7 4 (1.63%) Publishing
8 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.81%) Law
9 2 (0.81%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (26.02%) .NET
2 51 (20.73%) React
3 31 (12.60%) .NET Core
4 28 (11.38%) Leaflet
4 28 (11.38%) OpenLayers
4 28 (11.38%) PostGIS
5 27 (10.98%) CSS
6 21 (8.54%) Web Services
7 19 (7.72%) AngularJS
7 19 (7.72%) LAMP
8 18 (7.32%) .NET Framework
8 18 (7.32%) RESTful
9 15 (6.10%) Laravel
10 14 (5.69%) ASP.NET
11 10 (4.07%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (2.85%) Vue
13 5 (2.03%) Django
13 5 (2.03%) Express.js
13 5 (2.03%) Node.js
13 5 (2.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.07%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.44%) Graphic Design
3 6 (2.44%) IoT
4 5 (2.03%) ARM Cortex
4 5 (2.03%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (2.03%) Device Driver
4 5 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.03%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.81%) Arduino
5 2 (0.81%) CUDA
5 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.26%) Linux
2 11 (4.47%) Unix
3 9 (3.66%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.25%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.44%) Windows
6 5 (2.03%) Debian
6 5 (2.03%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (2.03%) ThreadX
7 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (98.37%) Software Engineering
2 56 (22.76%) Agile
3 45 (18.29%) DevOps
4 34 (13.82%) Actionable Insight
5 33 (13.41%) Mentoring
6 28 (11.38%) Web Development
7 22 (8.94%) OOP
8 21 (8.54%) MVC
9 17 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (6.10%) Microservices
11 14 (5.69%) Computer Science
12 13 (5.28%) Unit Testing
13 12 (4.88%) CI/CD
13 12 (4.88%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (4.47%) SDLC
15 10 (4.07%) Coaching
15 10 (4.07%) Software Testing
16 8 (3.25%) Design Patterns
16 8 (3.25%) TDD
17 7 (2.85%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.71%) C#
2 53 (21.54%) Python
3 50 (20.33%) C
4 49 (19.92%) JavaScript
5 41 (16.67%) C++
6 25 (10.16%) Java
6 25 (10.16%) SQL
7 22 (8.94%) TypeScript
8 19 (7.72%) PHP
9 12 (4.88%) Embedded C
10 9 (3.66%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.25%) Objective-C
12 7 (2.85%) Go
13 5 (2.03%) Embedded C++
13 5 (2.03%) VB
14 4 (1.63%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.63%) Ruby
15 3 (1.22%) Bash
15 3 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.94%) Degree
4 6 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.03%) PhD
6 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.22%) HNC
7 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.85%) MISRA
1 7 (2.85%) QA
2 3 (1.22%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.41%) JTAG
System Software
1 21 (8.54%) Firmware
2 16 (6.50%) Docker
3 8 (3.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (11.38%) ESRI
2 5 (2.03%) DevExpress
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle
3 3 (1.22%) SAP
4 2 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.41%) Xamarin