Software Engineer Job Trends in Coventry

Software Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Software Engineer salary in Coventry is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 3 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 1.54% 2.02% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 2.14% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £47,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £64,250
90th Percentile - - £70,550
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 177 187 276
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.44% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 79 95 245
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £77,500 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Coventry

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Coventry.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Coventry

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Coventry region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Foundry

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Palantir
1 1 (33.33%) Solace