DirectX Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft DirectX
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DirectX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 129 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 -21 -
Permanent jobs citing DirectX 6 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 0.043% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

DirectX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 211 379 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.19% 16.13% 23.11%
Number of salaries quoted 158 222 303
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,125 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £73,625 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -0.54% -3.18%

DirectX
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DirectX relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

DirectX job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DirectX
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DirectX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DirectX

DirectX
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DirectX within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Nottinghamshire +19 3 £75,000 +50.00%
Derbyshire - 2 £75,000 -
Leicestershire - 1 £75,000 -
DirectX
England

DirectX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
1 6 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (50.00%) 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (100.00%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) 3D Graphics
2 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CAD
1 6 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 6 (100.00%) Physics
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL