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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 163 363 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.67% 8.38% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.26% 10.36% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 75 285 158
10th Percentile £38,544 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +3.57%

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 2,246 3,504 2,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 91.86% 80.91% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 975 2,487 1,325
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £32,070 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £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 1 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 1 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
Leicestershire +7 51 £37,500 -21.05% 37
Northamptonshire -13 43 £58,000 +10.48% 13
Nottinghamshire -16 42 £65,000 +30.00% 65
Lincolnshire +29 17 £65,000 +52.94% 17
Derbyshire +2 10 £52,500 +5.00% 35
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 3 (1.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 36 (22.09%) Simulink
2 3 (1.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.61%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Magento
1 5 (3.07%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.88%) AWS
2 20 (12.27%) SaaS
3 18 (11.04%) Azure
4 8 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (3.68%) ChatGPT
6 5 (3.07%) BigCommerce
7 4 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.45%) GCP
7 4 (2.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.23%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.23%) Serverless
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) WAN
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) LTE
3 1 (0.61%) Modbus
3 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) MySQL
1 9 (5.52%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.45%) Power BI
5 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.23%) MS Access
6 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (2.45%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.84%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.84%) Postman
3 3 (1.84%) Selenium
4 2 (1.23%) Appium
4 2 (1.23%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (1.23%) Storybook
4 2 (1.23%) Xcode
5 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) Newman
5 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 36 (22.09%) Aerospace
1 36 (22.09%) Automotive
2 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.66%) Electronics
4 15 (9.20%) Law
5 10 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.68%) Finance
7 5 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.07%) Retail
8 4 (2.45%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (25.77%) Principal Engineer
2 37 (22.70%) Software Engineer
3 22 (13.50%) Lead
4 21 (12.88%) Developer
5 18 (11.04%) Software Assurance Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Senior
7 10 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (5.52%) Analyst
8 9 (5.52%) Business Systems Analyst
8 9 (5.52%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.52%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (4.91%) SQL Analyst
10 7 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.68%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.11%) .NET
2 10 (6.13%) React
2 10 (6.13%) RESTful
3 8 (4.91%) HTML
3 8 (4.91%) Node.js
3 8 (4.91%) Spring
3 8 (4.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (4.91%) Web Services
4 6 (3.68%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.07%) SOAP
6 4 (2.45%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.45%) WPF
7 3 (1.84%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.84%) CSS
7 3 (1.84%) Redux
8 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.23%) JSP
8 2 (1.23%) Middleware
8 2 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.29%) Legacy Code
3 6 (3.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (3.07%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.07%) EPoS
5 4 (2.45%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Replication
6 3 (1.84%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Windows
2 8 (4.91%) Linux
3 3 (1.84%) Android
4 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (54.60%) Agile
2 64 (39.26%) Software Testing
3 53 (32.52%) Systems Engineering
4 45 (27.61%) SDLC
5 36 (22.09%) Validation
6 24 (14.72%) Decision-Making
6 24 (14.72%) Mentoring
7 23 (14.11%) Waterfall
8 20 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (11.66%) Software Assurance
10 16 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (8.59%) CI/CD
12 12 (7.36%) Microservices
12 12 (7.36%) Test Automation
13 11 (6.75%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (6.13%) Roadmaps
15 9 (5.52%) Computer Science
15 9 (5.52%) Mathematics
15 9 (5.52%) Requirements Gathering
15 9 (5.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.70%) C#
2 36 (22.09%) MATLAB
3 31 (19.02%) SQL
4 25 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.82%) Python
6 14 (8.59%) Java
7 13 (7.98%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.52%) C
8 9 (5.52%) C++
9 7 (4.29%) Rust
10 5 (3.07%) Delphi
11 4 (2.45%) XAML
12 3 (1.84%) Ada
13 2 (1.23%) Bash
13 2 (1.23%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.23%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.23%) Perl
13 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.23%) VB
13 2 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (49.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 40 (24.54%) Degree
3 6 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) QA
2 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.23%) MISRA
4 1 (0.61%) JTAG
4 1 (0.61%) MISRA C
System Software
1 6 (3.68%) Docker
2 5 (3.07%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.45%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (14.72%) Siemens
2 7 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.84%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.23%) Apple
4 2 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (0.61%) Atmel
5 1 (0.61%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) Parasoft