Software Engineer Jobs in Leicester

Software Engineer
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Software Engineer salary in Leicester is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 46 63
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 47 38 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 7.82% 6.40% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.13% 6.95% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile - £34,375 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -31.25% +17.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £48,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £161,000 £56,250 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 578 547 532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 92.09% 97.61%
Number of salaries quoted 317 164 360
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,050
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -0.55% +6.47% -5.56%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Leicester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Leicester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Leicester over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Leicester

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Leicester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (72.34%) React
2 34 (72.34%) Actionable Insight
3 33 (70.21%) Python
4 31 (65.96%) JavaScript
4 31 (65.96%) AWS
4 31 (65.96%) DevOps
5 30 (63.83%) Azure
5 30 (63.83%) SC Cleared
5 30 (63.83%) Security Cleared
5 30 (63.83%) Agile
6 28 (59.57%) GIS
6 28 (59.57%) ESRI
6 28 (59.57%) ArcGIS
6 28 (59.57%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (59.57%) Web Development
6 28 (59.57%) PostGIS
6 28 (59.57%) Leaflet
6 28 (59.57%) QGIS
6 28 (59.57%) GeoServer
6 28 (59.57%) OpenLayers
7 26 (55.32%) .NET
8 24 (51.06%) CSS
8 24 (51.06%) .NET Core
9 20 (42.55%) C#
10 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.02%) Design Patterns
11 6 (12.77%) Clean Code
11 6 (12.77%) Serverless
11 6 (12.77%) Microservices

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 (59.57%) ArcGIS
1 28 (59.57%) GeoServer
2 2 (4.26%) JBoss
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
2 30 (63.83%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) Serverless
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) GIS
1 28 (59.57%) PostgreSQL
1 28 (59.57%) QGIS
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.38%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) JDeveloper
3 2 (4.26%) IntelliJ
General
1 2 (4.26%) Law
1 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
1 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (72.34%) React
2 28 (59.57%) Leaflet
2 28 (59.57%) OpenLayers
2 28 (59.57%) PostGIS
3 26 (55.32%) .NET
4 24 (51.06%) .NET Core
4 24 (51.06%) CSS
5 4 (8.51%) Django
5 4 (8.51%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) Node.js
6 3 (6.38%) Spring
7 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.26%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.26%) Java EE
7 2 (4.26%) JSON
7 2 (4.26%) SignalR
7 2 (4.26%) SOAP
7 2 (4.26%) Web Services
7 2 (4.26%) XML
7 2 (4.26%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
1 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (72.34%) Actionable Insight
3 31 (65.96%) DevOps
4 30 (63.83%) Agile
5 28 (59.57%) Web Development
6 8 (17.02%) Design Patterns
6 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.77%) Clean Code
7 6 (12.77%) Microservices
8 4 (8.51%) Code Quality
8 4 (8.51%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.51%) Unit Testing
9 3 (6.38%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.38%) Open Source
10 2 (4.26%) API Development
10 2 (4.26%) Data Design
10 2 (4.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 2 (4.26%) Front End Development
10 2 (4.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) Python
2 31 (65.96%) JavaScript
3 20 (42.55%) C#
4 6 (12.77%) Java
5 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.51%) Ruby
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) Go
7 3 (6.38%) Perl
8 2 (4.26%) C++
9 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (63.83%) SC Cleared
1 30 (63.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) ESRI
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle
15 Software Engineer jobs in Leicestershire