Software Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Software Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 859 718 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.34% 7.55% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 7.82% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 681 391 516
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,646 9,184 10,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.40% 96.58% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,120 4,626 6,973
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £34,834 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Midlands +21 497 £60,000 - 116
East Midlands +1 362 £50,000 -9.09% 119
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (3.26%) ArcGIS
1 28 (3.26%) GeoServer
2 14 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.93%) CMS
3 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.81%) Confluence
5 6 (0.70%) Appian
6 5 (0.58%) NServiceBus
6 5 (0.58%) WinCC
7 4 (0.47%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) Liferay
8 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Simulink
2 8 (0.93%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.47%) CANalyzer
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (23.52%) Azure
2 168 (19.56%) AWS
3 71 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (4.89%) SaaS
5 41 (4.77%) GCP
6 28 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (3.26%) GitHub
7 26 (3.03%) Serverless
8 23 (2.68%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.75%) PaaS
10 14 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.05%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.93%) IaaS
14 7 (0.81%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Functions
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.10%) Bluetooth
2 18 (2.10%) Wireless
3 17 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.51%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.16%) RS-232
5 10 (1.16%) RS-485
5 10 (1.16%) ZigBee
6 7 (0.81%) Internet
7 6 (0.70%) Modbus
8 5 (0.58%) HTTP
8 5 (0.58%) MQTT
8 5 (0.58%) VoIP
9 4 (0.47%) 4G
9 4 (0.47%) GSM
9 4 (0.47%) J1939
10 3 (0.35%) 5G
11 2 (0.23%) DHCP
11 2 (0.23%) FlexRay
11 2 (0.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.12%) MySQL
2 44 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.26%) GIS
3 28 (3.26%) QGIS
4 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.51%) SQLite
6 12 (1.40%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 9 (1.05%) Power BI
8 8 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.70%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.70%) Redis
11 5 (0.58%) OLAP
12 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (8.03%) Git
2 46 (5.36%) JIRA
3 37 (4.31%) Visual Studio
4 19 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.98%) GitLab
6 15 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.05%) Postman
8 9 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.70%) Xcode
11 5 (0.58%) CANoe
11 5 (0.58%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.47%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.35%) CMake
13 3 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.35%) JDeveloper
13 3 (0.35%) Subversion
14 2 (0.23%) gulp
General
1 64 (7.45%) Automotive
1 64 (7.45%) Social Skills
2 58 (6.75%) Manufacturing
3 56 (6.52%) Finance
4 55 (6.40%) Electronics
5 40 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.44%) Law
6 21 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.44%) Retail
7 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.63%) Marketing
8 13 (1.51%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.05%) Publishing
10 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.70%) Aviation
11 6 (0.70%) Games
11 6 (0.70%) Legal
11 6 (0.70%) Social Housing
12 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 516 (60.07%) Software Engineer
2 194 (22.58%) Senior
3 155 (18.04%) Embedded Engineer
4 142 (16.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 119 (13.85%) Developer
6 118 (13.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 50 (5.82%) Lead
8 43 (5.01%) C# Software Engineer
9 37 (4.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 32 (3.73%) Software Developer
11 23 (2.68%) .NET Software Engineer
11 23 (2.68%) Full Stack Developer
11 23 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (2.56%) Software Manager
13 21 (2.44%) C++ Software Engineer
13 21 (2.44%) PLC Engineer
13 21 (2.44%) PLC Software Engineer
14 20 (2.33%) PHP Software Engineer
14 20 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
15 19 (2.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (24.33%) .NET
2 115 (13.39%) React
3 74 (8.61%) .NET Core
3 74 (8.61%) AngularJS
4 68 (7.92%) CSS
5 64 (7.45%) RESTful
6 55 (6.40%) HTML
7 49 (5.70%) ASP.NET
8 45 (5.24%) .NET Framework
9 37 (4.31%) Web Services
10 31 (3.61%) Node.js
11 28 (3.26%) Leaflet
11 28 (3.26%) OpenLayers
11 28 (3.26%) PostGIS
12 21 (2.44%) Blazor
13 20 (2.33%) SOAP
14 19 (2.21%) LAMP
15 18 (2.10%) Laravel
15 18 (2.10%) WPF
16 17 (1.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.54%) IoT
2 31 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
4 25 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 25 (2.91%) SCADA
5 24 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 22 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 22 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.10%) Operational Technology
8 15 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.05%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.05%) Device Driver
12 8 (0.93%) ARM Cortex
12 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 100 (11.64%) Linux
2 24 (2.79%) Windows
3 21 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.21%) Android
4 19 (2.21%) Embedded Linux
5 15 (1.75%) Unix
6 10 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
7 8 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.58%) Debian
8 5 (0.58%) ThreadX
9 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (31.90%) Agile
2 160 (18.63%) DevOps
3 110 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (9.90%) Scrum
5 83 (9.66%) CI/CD
6 80 (9.31%) Computer Science
6 80 (9.31%) Mentoring
7 64 (7.45%) SDLC
8 63 (7.33%) Full Stack Development
8 63 (7.33%) Microservices
9 54 (6.29%) Project Management
10 52 (6.05%) Containerisation
11 50 (5.82%) Web Development
12 47 (5.47%) MVC
12 47 (5.47%) User Experience
13 46 (5.36%) Continuous Integration
14 45 (5.24%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (5.24%) Roadmaps
15 38 (4.42%) Test Automation
16 35 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 250 (29.10%) C#
2 150 (17.46%) JavaScript
3 143 (16.65%) C
4 139 (16.18%) SQL
5 109 (12.69%) Python
6 105 (12.22%) C++
6 105 (12.22%) TypeScript
7 99 (11.53%) Java
8 44 (5.12%) PHP
9 36 (4.19%) Embedded C
10 28 (3.26%) VB
11 25 (2.91%) Go
12 18 (2.10%) Embedded C++
12 18 (2.10%) T-SQL
13 16 (1.86%) MATLAB
14 15 (1.75%) Assembly Language
15 12 (1.40%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.05%) Ladder Logic
16 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.05%) XAML
Qualifications
1 145 (16.88%) Degree
2 81 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 62 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.51%) HNC
8 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.93%) MCSE
10 7 (0.81%) PhD
11 6 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.70%) OCP
11 6 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.70%) PMP
12 5 (0.58%) CAPM
12 5 (0.58%) HND
12 5 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.19%) QA
2 18 (2.10%) MISRA
3 14 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.40%) AUTOSAR
5 11 (1.28%) ISO 26262
6 8 (0.93%) NCSC
7 5 (0.58%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.47%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) JTAG
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 89 (10.36%) Docker
2 54 (6.29%) Firmware
3 25 (2.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.26%) Terraform
3 10 (1.16%) Ansible
4 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.58%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.35%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.23%) Grafana
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.49%) Google
3 28 (3.26%) ESRI
4 22 (2.56%) Siemens
5 19 (2.21%) Xamarin
6 17 (1.98%) DevExpress
7 12 (1.40%) Apple
8 11 (1.28%) Oracle
8 11 (1.28%) SAP
9 10 (1.16%) Rockwell
10 8 (0.93%) Adobe
11 6 (0.70%) EMC
12 5 (0.58%) HP
13 4 (0.47%) Micro Focus
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.47%) QNX
13 4 (0.47%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.35%) UiPath
14 3 (0.35%) Zend