Software Engineer Job Trends in Derbyshire

Software Engineer
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Derbyshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 26 30
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 16 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 3.56% 4.81% 3.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.72% 4.97% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £44,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £46,250 -
90th Percentile £74,500 £50,375 £60,000
East Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 430 463 310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.86% 99.04%
Number of salaries quoted 217 240 168
10th Percentile £25,525 £26,225 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £44,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% -11.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £54,000 £54,063 £58,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £61,250 £66,625
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Derbyshire.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Derbyshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Derbyshire

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
Derby -4 10 £60,000 +23.08% 8
Glossop - 3 - -
High Peak - 3 - -
Software Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 1 November 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 Derbyshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Java
3 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 9 (56.25%) AWS
4 9 (56.25%) Azure
4 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
4 9 (56.25%) Python
5 8 (50.00%) DevOps
5 8 (50.00%) Docker
6 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (43.75%) JPA
6 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
6 7 (43.75%) Microservices
6 7 (43.75%) React
6 7 (43.75%) Spring
6 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
7 6 (37.50%) Bitbucket
7 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
7 6 (37.50%) CSS
7 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
7 6 (37.50%) Front End Development
7 6 (37.50%) GitLab
7 6 (37.50%) HTML
7 6 (37.50%) JIRA
7 6 (37.50%) Kafka
7 6 (37.50%) Maven
7 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 6 (37.50%) GitLab
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
1 6 (37.50%) Maven
1 6 (37.50%) Selenium
1 6 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 6 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) JPA
1 7 (43.75%) React
1 7 (43.75%) Spring
1 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
2 6 (37.50%) CSS
2 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) Redux
3 5 (31.25%) RESTful
4 4 (25.00%) CSS3
4 4 (25.00%) HTML5
4 4 (25.00%) Jest
4 4 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (25.00%) Sass
5 3 (18.75%) Django
5 3 (18.75%) Flask
5 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (18.75%) Yocto
6 1 (6.25%) OpenID
6 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) IoT
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 8 (50.00%) DevOps
6 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
6 7 (43.75%) Microservices
7 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
7 6 (37.50%) Front End Development
7 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (37.50%) SDLC
8 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
8 5 (31.25%) Migration
9 4 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 4 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (25.00%) User Experience
10 3 (18.75%) Analytics
10 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
10 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
1 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
5 3 (18.75%) C
5 3 (18.75%) C#
5 3 (18.75%) C++
5 3 (18.75%) PHP
5 3 (18.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Solace
2 3 (18.75%) Atmel
12 Software Engineer jobs in Derbyshire