Software Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 108 244 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.04% 5.55% 6.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 5.87% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 28 192 86
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.94% +0.98%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £76,625 £74,625 £83,750
England median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -14.29% +7.69%

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 2,534 4,160 2,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 94.55% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 3,019 1,342
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the East Midlands

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 Software Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Northamptonshire -6 40 £49,050 -6.57% 5
Leicestershire +16 38 £37,500 -16.67% 9
Derbyshire +3 14 £53,750 +2.38% 21
Nottinghamshire -41 10 £65,000 +23.81% 54
Lincolnshire - 6 £58,000 - 12
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (76.85%) Agile
2 75 (69.44%) Software Engineering
3 50 (46.30%) SQL
4 49 (45.37%) CI/CD
5 47 (43.52%) Test Automation
6 46 (42.59%) AWS
7 45 (41.67%) Java
8 44 (40.74%) Finance
9 43 (39.81%) JavaScript
9 43 (39.81%) Azure
9 43 (39.81%) Microservices
10 42 (38.89%) React
10 42 (38.89%) Bitbucket
10 42 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (38.89%) SDLC
10 42 (38.89%) Performance Optimisation
10 42 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (38.89%) JIRA
10 42 (38.89%) HTML
10 42 (38.89%) CSS
11 41 (37.96%) DevOps
12 40 (37.04%) Kubernetes
12 40 (37.04%) Docker
12 40 (37.04%) Spring Boot
12 40 (37.04%) Product Ownership
12 40 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (37.04%) SQL Server
12 40 (37.04%) Spring
12 40 (37.04%) Banking
12 40 (37.04%) QA

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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (34.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 34 (31.48%) Simulink
2 1 (0.93%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) AWS
2 43 (39.81%) Azure
3 36 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) WAN
2 2 (1.85%) LTE
2 2 (1.85%) Modbus
2 2 (1.85%) Network Security
2 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
4 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (38.89%) Bitbucket
1 42 (38.89%) JIRA
2 40 (37.04%) Cucumber
3 39 (36.11%) GitLab
3 39 (36.11%) Maven
3 39 (36.11%) Selenium
3 39 (36.11%) SonarQube
3 39 (36.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (6.48%) Git
5 4 (3.70%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.85%) Appium
6 2 (1.85%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.85%) Subversion
6 2 (1.85%) Xcode
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.93%) FitNesse
7 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.93%) Newman
General
1 44 (40.74%) Finance
2 40 (37.04%) Banking
2 40 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (31.48%) Aerospace
3 34 (31.48%) Automotive
4 5 (4.63%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (4.63%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.63%) Retail
5 4 (3.70%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (38.89%) CSS
1 42 (38.89%) HTML
1 42 (38.89%) React
2 40 (37.04%) Spring
2 40 (37.04%) Spring Boot
3 39 (36.11%) JPA
3 39 (36.11%) Kafka
3 39 (36.11%) Redux
4 34 (31.48%) Hibernate
5 12 (11.11%) .NET
6 9 (8.33%) RESTful
7 6 (5.56%) Jest
7 6 (5.56%) REST
8 5 (4.63%) CSS3
8 5 (4.63%) HTML5
8 5 (4.63%) Sass
9 4 (3.70%) SOAP
9 4 (3.70%) WPF
10 2 (1.85%) JSP
10 2 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (37.04%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.63%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.78%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.85%) IoT
5 2 (1.85%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.26%) Windows
2 6 (5.56%) Linux
3 2 (1.85%) Android
3 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.85%) Agile
2 75 (69.44%) Software Engineering
3 49 (45.37%) CI/CD
4 47 (43.52%) Test Automation
5 43 (39.81%) Microservices
6 42 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (38.89%) Performance Optimisation
6 42 (38.89%) SDLC
7 41 (37.96%) DevOps
8 39 (36.11%) Containerisation
8 39 (36.11%) Front End Development
8 39 (36.11%) Software Testing
9 37 (34.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (34.26%) TDD
10 34 (31.48%) Clean Code
10 34 (31.48%) Validation
11 33 (30.56%) Systems Engineering
12 14 (12.96%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.41%) Computer Science
13 8 (7.41%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.30%) SQL
2 45 (41.67%) Java
3 43 (39.81%) JavaScript
4 34 (31.48%) MATLAB
5 20 (18.52%) C#
6 13 (12.04%) Python
7 10 (9.26%) C
8 8 (7.41%) C++
9 6 (5.56%) Rust
9 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.70%) XAML
11 3 (2.78%) Ada
11 3 (2.78%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.85%) Bash
12 2 (1.85%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.85%) Perl
12 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.85%) Swift
13 1 (0.93%) Go
13 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (35.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (10.19%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (37.04%) QA
2 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.85%) MISRA
4 1 (0.93%) JTAG
4 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
System Software
1 40 (37.04%) Docker
2 6 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) Solace
2 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.85%) Apple
3 2 (1.85%) Atmel
4 1 (0.93%) Lauterbach
4 1 (0.93%) Parasoft