Software Developer Jobs in the East Midlands

Software Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the East Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 110 112
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 15 94 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.55% 1.81% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.92% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 85 50
10th Percentile £37,581 £36,350 £35,875
25th Percentile £54,688 £40,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% +41.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £50,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 -
England median annual salary £64,000 £54,784 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.82% -4.72% +4.55%

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 2,603 4,891 2,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 94.33% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 3,263 1,251
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -15.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £63,875
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the East Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Developer 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 12 July 2025.

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 12 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
Lincolnshire +10 8 £65,000 +62.50% 1
Nottinghamshire -2 5 £70,000 +62.79% 17
Leicestershire +21 1 £42,500 - 6
Derbyshire +5 1 - -
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 11 (73.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Line Management
4 9 (60.00%) Front End Development
4 9 (60.00%) SaaS
5 8 (53.33%) Shopify
5 8 (53.33%) Data Privacy
5 8 (53.33%) Logistics
5 8 (53.33%) Degree
5 8 (53.33%) Performance Management
5 8 (53.33%) Magento
5 8 (53.33%) Retail
5 8 (53.33%) EPoS
5 8 (53.33%) Delphi
5 8 (53.33%) HTML
5 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
5 8 (53.33%) ERP
5 8 (53.33%) SDLC
5 8 (53.33%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
5 8 (53.33%) BigCommerce
6 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (40.00%) .NET
7 5 (33.33%) Agile
8 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (26.67%) Azure
8 4 (26.67%) AWS
9 3 (20.00%) Finance

Software Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Magento
1 8 (53.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) SaaS
2 8 (53.33%) BigCommerce
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 8 (53.33%) Organisational Skills
1 8 (53.33%) Retail
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Tech for Good
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) React
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) JWT
4 1 (6.67%) Next.js
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) EPoS
2 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
2 2 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Line Management
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 8 (53.33%) Data Privacy
3 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
3 8 (53.33%) ERP
3 8 (53.33%) Logistics
3 8 (53.33%) Performance Management
3 8 (53.33%) SDLC
4 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
7 2 (13.33%) OO
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
7 2 (13.33%) OWASP
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 11 (73.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (53.33%) Delphi
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft