Software Engineering Jobs in Derbyshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 19 44 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 4.46% 4.60% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 6.47% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9 36 17
10th Percentile £46,000 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £69,000
East Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 372 680 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 87.32% 71.06% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 178 475 236
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,450 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,863 £33,373
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £49,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,750 £62,500 £66,250
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Derbyshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Derbyshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Derbyshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +9 11 £53,750 +7.50% 33
Glossop - 3 - -
High Peak - 3 - -
Chesterfield -4 1 £65,000 +44.44% 25
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Internet
1 3 (15.79%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket
1 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
1 6 (31.58%) Maven
1 6 (31.58%) Selenium
1 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
1 6 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 10 (52.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (31.58%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Investment Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Software Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) PLC Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) PLC Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) CSS
1 6 (31.58%) HTML
1 6 (31.58%) JPA
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
1 6 (31.58%) React
1 6 (31.58%) Redux
1 6 (31.58%) Spring
1 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
2 5 (26.32%) REST
2 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) CSS3
3 4 (21.05%) Django
3 4 (21.05%) Flask
3 4 (21.05%) HTML5
3 4 (21.05%) Jest
3 4 (21.05%) Sass
4 3 (15.79%) Yocto
5 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.26%) .NET
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (31.58%) Product Ownership
3 4 (21.05%) IoT
4 3 (15.79%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
4 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
5 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 7 (36.84%) Microservices
6 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
6 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (31.58%) SDLC
7 5 (26.32%) User Experience
8 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
8 4 (21.05%) Migration
8 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
8 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
9 3 (15.79%) Feasibility Study
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (15.79%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 7 (36.84%) C
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) C++
5 4 (21.05%) C#
5 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Perl
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Solace
2 3 (15.79%) Atmel