Software Developer Jobs in the East of England

Software Developer
England > East of England

The median Software Developer salary in the East of England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 137 120
Rank change year-on-year +56 -17 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 157 98 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.59% 1.78% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 2.11% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 134 53 126
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% +20.99%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 5,701 4,643 5,991
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 84.34% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,351 2,311 2,891
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £35,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the East of England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Software Developer in the East of England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the East of England

Software Developer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cambridgeshire +58 68 £60,000 +2.13% 13
Norfolk -1 42 £42,500 -15.00% 4
Hertfordshire +9 21 £55,000 -18.52% 3
Essex +8 20 £44,000 +3.53% 3
Suffolk -12 6 £50,000 -4.76%
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software Developer 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 of England region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 82 (52.23%) C#
2 59 (37.58%) .NET
3 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
4 44 (28.03%) SQL
5 40 (25.48%) Software Engineering
6 36 (22.93%) C
7 32 (20.38%) JavaScript
8 29 (18.47%) IoT
9 28 (17.83%) Agile
10 27 (17.20%) SQL Server
10 27 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (15.92%) Linux
11 25 (15.92%) Azure
12 23 (14.65%) Degree
12 23 (14.65%) ASP.NET
13 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
13 22 (14.01%) .NET Framework
14 21 (13.38%) Git
14 21 (13.38%) Python
15 18 (11.46%) CSS
15 18 (11.46%) HTML
16 17 (10.83%) .NET Core
16 17 (10.83%) DevOps
16 17 (10.83%) Code Quality
17 16 (10.19%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (10.19%) Scrum
17 16 (10.19%) AWS
18 15 (9.55%) Internet
18 15 (9.55%) MVC
18 15 (9.55%) C++

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (3.18%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.92%) Azure
2 16 (10.19%) AWS
3 8 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.10%) SaaS
4 5 (3.18%) GitHub
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.91%) AWS KMS
6 3 (1.91%) Loggly
6 3 (1.91%) Rackspace Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.64%) GCP
7 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.55%) Internet
2 5 (3.18%) Wireless
3 2 (1.27%) 4G
3 2 (1.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (5.73%) Redis
4 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.18%) MySQL
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Git
2 7 (4.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.18%) Moq
3 5 (3.18%) NUnit
4 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.27%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.64%) GCC
General
1 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (6.37%) Automotive
4 9 (5.73%) Electronics
5 7 (4.46%) Games
5 7 (4.46%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.18%) Finance
7 4 (2.55%) Billing
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Publishing
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Police
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (37.58%) .NET
2 23 (14.65%) ASP.NET
3 22 (14.01%) .NET Framework
4 18 (11.46%) CSS
4 18 (11.46%) HTML
5 17 (10.83%) .NET Core
6 15 (9.55%) ASP.NET Web API
7 13 (8.28%) REST
8 9 (5.73%) jQuery
9 8 (5.10%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.82%) Spring
10 6 (3.82%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.18%) LINQ
11 5 (3.18%) LINQ to SQL
11 5 (3.18%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (3.18%) WPF
12 4 (2.55%) HTML5
12 4 (2.55%) Web Services
13 3 (1.91%) XML
13 3 (1.91%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.47%) IoT
2 11 (7.01%) Algorithms
2 11 (7.01%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.37%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.73%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.46%) Blog
5 7 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (4.46%) Raspberry Pi
6 4 (2.55%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.55%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.91%) Hackathon
7 3 (1.91%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.64%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.92%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Android
3 11 (7.01%) Apple iOS
4 8 (5.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.48%) Software Engineering
2 28 (17.83%) Agile
3 27 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (10.83%) Code Quality
4 17 (10.83%) DevOps
5 16 (10.19%) Scrum
6 15 (9.55%) MVC
7 12 (7.64%) Computer Science
8 11 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (7.01%) SDLC
9 10 (6.37%) Clean Code
10 9 (5.73%) Microservices
10 9 (5.73%) Web Development
11 8 (5.10%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.10%) Design Patterns
11 8 (5.10%) Embedded Software Development
12 7 (4.46%) Business Development
12 7 (4.46%) Commercial Awareness
12 7 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (4.46%) Multithreaded Programming
Programming Languages
1 82 (52.23%) C#
2 44 (28.03%) SQL
3 36 (22.93%) C
4 32 (20.38%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.38%) Python
6 15 (9.55%) C++
7 12 (7.64%) Java
8 11 (7.01%) Embedded C
9 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.82%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.18%) Rust
12 4 (2.55%) PHP
12 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.91%) Cython
13 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.27%) Ada
14 2 (1.27%) Go
14 2 (1.27%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Degree
2 15 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (9.55%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Firmware
3 4 (2.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.82%) F5
3 3 (1.91%) New Relic
3 3 (1.91%) Rackspace
3 3 (1.91%) SolarWinds
3 3 (1.91%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.27%) QNX
5 1 (0.64%) Google
5 1 (0.64%) Remedy