Software Engineering Jobs in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 186 371 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.01% 8.19% 8.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 10.33% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 57 299 128
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £76,750 £78,750 £84,125
England median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £72,573
% change year-on-year +8.80% -13.88% +3.68%

All Process and 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 2,457 3,591 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.58% 79.25% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 902 2,522 1,245
10th Percentile £25,513 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,162 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -12.55% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,525 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the East Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 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 -5 64 £59,000 +12.38% 147
Leicestershire +7 54 £70,000 +55.56% 168
Nottinghamshire -24 33 £65,000 +30.00% 227
Lincolnshire +35 21 £65,000 +52.94% 137
Derbyshire -7 14 £53,750 +7.50% 295
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (19.89%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 36 (19.35%) Simulink
2 3 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.54%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.54%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Magento
1 6 (3.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.72%) Azure
2 55 (29.57%) AWS
3 38 (20.43%) GCP
4 17 (9.14%) SaaS
5 6 (3.23%) BigCommerce
5 6 (3.23%) ChatGPT
6 5 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.08%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.08%) Serverless
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) WAN
2 2 (1.08%) LTE
2 2 (1.08%) Modbus
2 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.08%) Wireless
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.54%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.66%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.84%) MySQL
3 5 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.69%) Power BI
3 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (23.12%) JIRA
2 42 (22.58%) Bitbucket
3 41 (22.04%) Selenium
4 40 (21.51%) Cucumber
5 39 (20.97%) GitLab
5 39 (20.97%) Maven
5 39 (20.97%) SonarQube
5 39 (20.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.23%) Git
7 5 (2.69%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.15%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.08%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (1.08%) Postman
9 2 (1.08%) Subversion
10 1 (0.54%) Appium
10 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.54%) FitNesse
10 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.54%) Newman
10 1 (0.54%) Xcode
General
1 45 (24.19%) Finance
2 42 (22.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (20.97%) Banking
4 36 (19.35%) Automotive
5 35 (18.82%) Aerospace
6 18 (9.68%) Electronics
6 18 (9.68%) Social Skills
7 11 (5.91%) Retail
8 9 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.84%) Law
9 6 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.69%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Billing
11 2 (1.08%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (38.71%) Software Engineer
2 42 (22.58%) Principal Engineer
3 18 (9.68%) Software Assurance Engineer
4 17 (9.14%) Developer
4 17 (9.14%) Lead
5 14 (7.53%) Senior
6 11 (5.91%) Embedded Engineer
6 11 (5.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 11 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (4.30%) Software Developer
8 7 (3.76%) Lead Developer
8 7 (3.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Lead Software Developer
9 6 (3.23%) SaaS Developer
9 6 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) Business Systems Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) C# Developer
10 5 (2.69%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.81%) HTML
2 47 (25.27%) Spring
2 47 (25.27%) Spring Boot
3 46 (24.73%) React
4 42 (22.58%) CSS
5 40 (21.51%) Kafka
5 40 (21.51%) Redux
6 39 (20.97%) JPA
7 34 (18.28%) Hibernate
8 17 (9.14%) .NET
9 11 (5.91%) RESTful
10 7 (3.76%) REST
11 6 (3.23%) Jest
11 6 (3.23%) Material-UI
11 6 (3.23%) Web Services
12 5 (2.69%) CSS3
12 5 (2.69%) HTML5
12 5 (2.69%) Sass
13 4 (2.15%) Node.js
14 2 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.19%) Product Ownership
2 43 (23.12%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (3.23%) EPoS
3 6 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (2.69%) Replication
5 4 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (1.61%) IoT
6 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.08%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.54%) Lidar
8 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.54%) Robotics
8 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.84%) Linux
2 5 (2.69%) Windows
3 2 (1.08%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (65.59%) Agile
2 80 (43.01%) SDLC
3 63 (33.87%) Software Testing
4 55 (29.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (28.49%) Systems Engineering
6 52 (27.96%) CI/CD
7 47 (25.27%) Test Automation
8 45 (24.19%) Front End Development
9 44 (23.66%) Microservices
10 43 (23.12%) DevOps
11 42 (22.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 40 (21.51%) Containerisation
13 39 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (19.89%) Validation
15 35 (18.82%) TDD
16 34 (18.28%) Clean Code
17 24 (12.90%) Decision-Making
18 23 (12.37%) Waterfall
19 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
20 20 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.48%) SQL
2 59 (31.72%) JavaScript
3 54 (29.03%) Java
4 37 (19.89%) MATLAB
5 30 (16.13%) C#
6 16 (8.60%) Python
7 12 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.91%) C
9 9 (4.84%) C++
10 6 (3.23%) Delphi
10 6 (3.23%) Rust
11 2 (1.08%) Ada
11 2 (1.08%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.08%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) Bash
12 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (43.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 38 (20.43%) Degree
3 4 (2.15%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.12%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) MISRA
3 1 (0.54%) MISRA C
System Software
1 44 (23.66%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (23.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.15%) Ansible
3 2 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (20.97%) Solace
2 23 (12.37%) Siemens
3 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.61%) Atmel
4 2 (1.08%) Google
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.54%) Apple
5 1 (0.54%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow