Software Developer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the East Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 83 86
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 95 22 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.25% 1.49% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.59% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 87 18 76
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +27.91% -4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,688 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -6.96%

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 3,989 1,388 3,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.04% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 943 2,968
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,298
90th Percentile £77,375 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Software Developer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the East Midlands

Software Developer
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 Software Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +12 31 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Leicestershire -10 25 £45,000 +12.50% 6
Lincolnshire -15 16 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Northamptonshire - 14 £60,000 - 2
Derbyshire -17 9 £50,000 - 3
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 49 (51.58%) C#
2 39 (41.05%) .NET
3 35 (36.84%) Azure
4 32 (33.68%) AWS
5 31 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (21.05%) SQL
7 16 (16.84%) Python
8 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
9 13 (13.68%) PHP
9 13 (13.68%) React
9 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.63%) Agile
10 12 (12.63%) Amazon S3
10 12 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
10 12 (12.63%) Node.js
10 12 (12.63%) Serverless
11 11 (11.58%) HTML
12 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
12 9 (9.47%) SDLC
13 8 (8.42%) Computer Science
14 6 (6.32%) Logistics
15 5 (5.26%) Change Management
15 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
15 5 (5.26%) MVC
15 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
15 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
16 4 (4.21%) API Integration
16 4 (4.21%) C++
16 4 (4.21%) Git

Software Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) Azure
2 32 (33.68%) AWS
3 12 (12.63%) Amazon S3
3 12 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (12.63%) Serverless
4 2 (2.11%) GCP
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.05%) GitHub
5 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) MySQL
3 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) JIRA
3 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) JUnit
3 1 (1.05%) Selenium
3 1 (1.05%) Subversion
3 1 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.05%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (41.05%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) React
3 12 (12.63%) Node.js
4 11 (11.58%) HTML
5 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.16%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.16%) CSS
6 3 (3.16%) jQuery
6 3 (3.16%) RESTful
7 2 (2.11%) Laravel
7 2 (2.11%) REST
8 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.05%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.05%) Flask
8 1 (1.05%) Kafka
8 1 (1.05%) pytest
8 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
3 12 (12.63%) Agile
3 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
4 9 (9.47%) SDLC
5 8 (8.42%) Computer Science
6 6 (6.32%) Logistics
7 5 (5.26%) Change Management
7 5 (5.26%) MVC
8 4 (4.21%) API Integration
9 3 (3.16%) DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Microservices
9 3 (3.16%) OO
9 3 (3.16%) OOP
9 3 (3.16%) Roadmaps
10 2 (2.11%) CI/CD
10 2 (2.11%) Clean Code
10 2 (2.11%) Containerisation
10 2 (2.11%) Project Management
10 2 (2.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) C#
2 20 (21.05%) SQL
3 16 (16.84%) Python
4 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.68%) PHP
6 4 (4.21%) C++
6 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.16%) Java
8 1 (1.05%) Delphi
8 1 (1.05%) Go
8 1 (1.05%) Rust
8 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.16%) Degree
2 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.11%) Zend
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle