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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 126 110
Rank change year-on-year -11 -16 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 5 49 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.22% 1.23% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 1.30% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4 34 8
10th Percentile £64,750 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £68,125 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £67,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £67,500 £69,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,176 3,773 1,626
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 94.78% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 2,022 1,132
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,950 £73,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer 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
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 18 September 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 -15 3 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Leicestershire +36 1 - - 1
Derbyshire - 1 £65,000 - 3
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (20.00%) Simulink
4 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (20.00%) Automotive
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform