Software Engineer Jobs in Hertfordshire

Software Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £60,000 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 35 105 61
Rank change year-on-year +70 -44 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 88 35 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.49% 1.82% 4.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.83% 2.11% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 82 18 19
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £49,063 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,625 £71,250 £71,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,821 1,655 1,979
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 86.29% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 820 974
10th Percentile £25,809 £29,975 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,125 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Hertfordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Hertfordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Hertfordshire

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +26 43 £60,000 -7.69% 10
St Albans +10 10 £82,500 +3.13% 1
Rickmansworth +2 5 £60,000 -7.69%
Welwyn Garden City - 5 £48,500 - 3
Watford +23 2 £57,500 +21.05% 1
Borehamwood +2 2 £48,750 -11.36% 1
Hemel Hempstead -2 2 £65,000 +15.56% 1
Software Engineer
East of England

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

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 Hertfordshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 40 (45.45%) C
3 30 (34.09%) Ada
4 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
5 23 (26.14%) C#
5 23 (26.14%) Linux
6 22 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (23.86%) Validation
7 21 (23.86%) Electronics
8 20 (22.73%) C++
9 17 (19.32%) Agile
10 16 (18.18%) JavaScript
11 13 (14.77%) Software Testing
12 12 (13.64%) Python
13 11 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
13 11 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (12.50%) TDD
13 11 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (11.36%) DevOps
15 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
15 9 (10.23%) Middleware
15 9 (10.23%) UML
15 9 (10.23%) Rational Rhapsody
15 9 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
16 8 (9.09%) IBM
16 8 (9.09%) Firmware
16 8 (9.09%) Manufacturing
17 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
17 7 (7.95%) Shell Script

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Simulink
2 1 (1.14%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) AWS
2 1 (1.14%) Azure
2 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.41%) Bluetooth
2 3 (3.41%) Internet
2 3 (3.41%) Modbus
2 3 (3.41%) RS-232
2 3 (3.41%) RS-422
2 3 (3.41%) RS-485
2 3 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.27%) 5G
3 2 (2.27%) LTE
3 2 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Redis
2 3 (3.41%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Rational Rhapsody
2 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) Git
3 3 (3.41%) Rational Team Concert
4 2 (2.27%) Appium
4 2 (2.27%) Selenium
5 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.14%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.14%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.14%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) Redmine
5 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.14%) Subversion
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (23.86%) Electronics
2 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
4 8 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.82%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Military
7 3 (3.41%) Automotive
7 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Back Office
8 2 (2.27%) Finance
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Aviation
9 1 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Middleware
2 7 (7.95%) .NET
3 6 (6.82%) Node.js
4 5 (5.68%) Kafka
5 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.41%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.41%) CSS
6 3 (3.41%) HTML
6 3 (3.41%) Qt
7 2 (2.27%) Laravel
7 2 (2.27%) Playwright
7 2 (2.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.68%) Robotics
3 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.41%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.41%) IoT
3 3 (3.41%) PCIe
3 3 (3.41%) Sports Betting
4 2 (2.27%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.27%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.14%) Linux
2 7 (7.95%) Ubuntu
2 7 (7.95%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (23.86%) Validation
3 17 (19.32%) Agile
4 13 (14.77%) Software Testing
5 11 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 11 (12.50%) TDD
5 11 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
6 10 (11.36%) DevOps
7 9 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (10.23%) UML
8 6 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.68%) CI/CD
9 5 (5.68%) Code Quality
9 5 (5.68%) Computer Science
9 5 (5.68%) Mentoring
9 5 (5.68%) Scrum
9 5 (5.68%) Visualisation
10 4 (4.55%) Pair Programming
10 4 (4.55%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.45%) C
2 30 (34.09%) Ada
3 23 (26.14%) C#
4 20 (22.73%) C++
5 16 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.64%) Python
7 7 (7.95%) Java
7 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.68%) Embedded C
10 4 (4.55%) MATLAB
10 4 (4.55%) PHP
11 3 (3.41%) SQL
12 2 (2.27%) Embedded C++
13 1 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Def Stans
1 3 (3.41%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) IBM
2 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.14%) Atlassian