Software Engineer Jobs in East Sussex

Software Engineer
South East > East Sussex

The median Software Engineer salary in East Sussex is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 57 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 15 39 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 2.07% 4.17% 5.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 4.89% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 27
10th Percentile £33,750 £51,975 £29,415
25th Percentile £38,750 £55,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £46,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £51,500 £102,500 £73,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in East Sussex. 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 668 797 1,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 85.15% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 506 589 879
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,379 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in East Sussex

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in East Sussex

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in East Sussex

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in East Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in East Sussex over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in East Sussex

Software Engineer
Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 29 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
St Leonards-on-Sea - 10 £42,500 -
Crowborough - 2 £48,750 -
Eastbourne -4 1 £50,000 +0.25% 1
Brighton -8 1 - - 2
Lewes - 1 - -
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Sussex region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) C#
3 9 (60.00%) C++
3 9 (60.00%) Python
3 9 (60.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (60.00%) Git
4 7 (46.67%) JIRA
5 6 (40.00%) C
6 5 (33.33%) Finance
6 5 (33.33%) Electronics
6 5 (33.33%) MATLAB
6 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 5 (33.33%) OOP
6 5 (33.33%) Doxygen
6 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
6 5 (33.33%) Image Processing
6 5 (33.33%) Confluence
6 5 (33.33%) GitHub
6 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
6 5 (33.33%) OpenCV
6 5 (33.33%) GitLab
6 5 (33.33%) Cross-Platform Development
6 5 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
7 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (26.67%) Marketing
7 4 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) SAP
7 4 (26.67%) Programme Management

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) JIRA
3 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (33.33%) Electronics
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Marketing
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (13.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) Classic ASP
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (6.67%) LAMP
3 1 (6.67%) LINQ
3 1 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
3 1 (6.67%) WinForms
3 1 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Cross-Platform Development
2 5 (33.33%) Image Processing
2 5 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
2 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 5 (33.33%) OOP
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
3 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) C++
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) C
4 5 (33.33%) MATLAB
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) Embedded C
6 1 (6.67%) SQL
6 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Axosoft
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft