Software Engineering Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 156 89 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.64% 5.99% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 6.74% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 123 73 279
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £79,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,106 1,321 3,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 72.47% 88.96% 80.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,828 900 2,467
10th Percentile £27,588 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £56,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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 -2 57 £65,000 - 17
Derbyshire -7 28 £55,000 +4.76% 18
Northamptonshire -2 27 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Leicestershire -29 26 £65,000 +73.33% 13
Lincolnshire -19 18 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.31%) AWS
2 22 (14.10%) Azure
3 16 (10.26%) SaaS
4 11 (7.05%) Amazon S3
4 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (7.05%) Serverless
5 3 (1.92%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.28%) GCP
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub
7 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) LTE
2 4 (2.56%) Bluetooth
2 4 (2.56%) Modbus
2 4 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.56%) Wireless
3 2 (1.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.64%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.56%) Redis
4 2 (1.28%) DB2
4 2 (1.28%) Easytrieve
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) Subversion
3 4 (2.56%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.92%) Storybook
5 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.64%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.64%) JUnit
5 1 (0.64%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (7.05%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.77%) Marketing
3 8 (5.13%) Games
3 8 (5.13%) Manufacturing
3 8 (5.13%) Retail
4 5 (3.21%) Law
5 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.92%) Electronics
5 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Automotive
7 1 (0.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 108 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 37 (23.72%) Senior
3 25 (16.03%) Embedded Engineer
3 25 (16.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 25 (16.03%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (13.46%) Developer
5 13 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 10 (6.41%) AWS Developer
6 10 (6.41%) Lead
6 10 (6.41%) Node.js Developer
6 10 (6.41%) Python Developer
6 10 (6.41%) React Developer
7 9 (5.77%) Mainframe Software Engineer
7 9 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) PLC Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) PLC Software Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Qt Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.10%) Node.js
2 19 (12.18%) React
3 17 (10.90%) .NET
4 15 (9.62%) HTML
5 10 (6.41%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.49%) Qt
7 6 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.85%) DirectX
7 6 (3.85%) OpenGL
8 5 (3.21%) CSS
9 4 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.92%) HTML5
10 3 (1.92%) PySpark
10 3 (1.92%) REST
10 3 (1.92%) RESTful
10 3 (1.92%) Sass
10 3 (1.92%) WPF
11 2 (1.28%) Deno
11 2 (1.28%) Redux
11 2 (1.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Mainframe
2 6 (3.85%) 3D Graphics
2 6 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.56%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (1.92%) CCTV
5 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) SCADA
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.64%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
7 1 (0.64%) Robotics
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
3 2 (1.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
3 11 (7.05%) Agile
3 11 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (6.41%) CI/CD
4 10 (6.41%) DevOps
4 10 (6.41%) Roadmaps
5 9 (5.77%) Software Testing
6 7 (4.49%) E-Commerce
6 7 (4.49%) Mathematics
6 7 (4.49%) Physics
6 7 (4.49%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (3.85%) CAD
7 6 (3.85%) Clean Code
7 6 (3.85%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (3.85%) Emotional Intelligence
7 6 (3.85%) Mobile Application Development
7 6 (3.85%) Presales
7 6 (3.85%) Software Delivery
7 6 (3.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (19.23%) SQL
2 27 (17.31%) C#
3 25 (16.03%) Python
4 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.26%) C++
6 14 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.41%) C
8 6 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.21%) Java
10 4 (2.56%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.92%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (1.92%) VB
12 2 (1.28%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.28%) COBOL
12 2 (1.28%) JCL
12 2 (1.28%) PHP
12 2 (1.28%) VBA
13 1 (0.64%) Delphi
13 1 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (6.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.85%) Degree
3 3 (1.92%) HND
4 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Firmware
2 3 (1.92%) Docker
3 2 (1.28%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Grafana
2 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.56%) Atmel
1 4 (2.56%) Rockwell
1 4 (2.56%) Siemens
2 2 (1.28%) IBM
3 1 (0.64%) Databricks
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle