Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 139 126
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 59 5 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.91% 0.22% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.23% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 49 4 34
10th Percentile £45,000 £64,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £68,125 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 -
90th Percentile - £73,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 6,034 2,172 3,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 93.74% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,916 1,264 2,018
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
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 Senior Software Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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 +9 36 £60,000 -14.29% 22
Leicestershire -29 8 £70,000 - 1
Derbyshire +2 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Lincolnshire - 7 £55,000 - 1
Northamptonshire - 1 £60,000 - 3
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Senior 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (40.68%) .NET
2 24 (40.68%) C#
3 12 (20.34%) C++
4 11 (18.64%) Agile
4 11 (18.64%) AWS
5 9 (15.25%) SDLC
6 7 (11.86%) Azure
6 7 (11.86%) QA
7 5 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 4 (6.78%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (6.78%) Laravel
8 4 (6.78%) PHP
8 4 (6.78%) SaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Visualisation
8 4 (6.78%) WPF
9 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Engineering
9 3 (5.08%) Ethernet
9 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
9 3 (5.08%) Mentoring
9 3 (5.08%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.39%) C
10 2 (3.39%) CSS
10 2 (3.39%) Front End Development
10 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (3.39%) HTML

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) SaaS
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Ethernet
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (1.69%) Legal
1 1 (1.69%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (40.68%) .NET
2 4 (6.78%) Laravel
2 4 (6.78%) WPF
3 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.39%) CSS
3 2 (3.39%) HTML
3 2 (3.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) AI Agents
1 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (18.64%) Agile
3 9 (15.25%) SDLC
4 5 (8.47%) CI/CD
5 4 (6.78%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (6.78%) Visualisation
6 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Engineering
6 3 (5.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (5.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.39%) Front End Development
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (3.39%) Microservices
8 1 (1.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (1.69%) DevOps
8 1 (1.69%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.69%) Service-Level Objective
8 1 (1.69%) Sprint Planning
8 1 (1.69%) Sprint Retrospective
8 1 (1.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) C#
2 12 (20.34%) C++
3 4 (6.78%) PHP
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.39%) C
6 1 (1.69%) Java
6 1 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA