Software Engineering Jobs in the East of England

Software Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 -22
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 265 542 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.85% 8.87% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 11.52% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 184 437 139
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66,254 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -13.79% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,488 4,705 3,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 90.22% 77.02% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 3,364 1,800
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cambridgeshire -3 104 £55,000 -15.38% 143
Essex -8 44 £65,000 +18.18% 43
Suffolk -3 40 £66,230 +32.46% 10
Hertfordshire -35 36 £59,000 -9.23% 66
Norfolk +18 28 £54,000 +35.00% 9
Bedfordshire -24 13 £80,000 +60.00% 22
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (6.79%) Kinematics
2 13 (4.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) Appian
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 36 (13.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.02%) Azure
2 53 (20.00%) AWS
3 15 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (5.66%) GCP
4 9 (3.40%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (1.51%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.13%) SaaS
7 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.75%) Figma
7 2 (0.75%) MinIO
7 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.38%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.38%) Serverless
8 1 (0.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.64%) Broadband
2 4 (1.51%) DHCP
2 4 (1.51%) DNS
2 4 (1.51%) Firewall
2 4 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.51%) VLAN
3 3 (1.13%) Bluetooth
3 3 (1.13%) HTTP
3 3 (1.13%) Wireless
4 2 (0.75%) Modbus
4 2 (0.75%) Profibus
4 2 (0.75%) RS-232
4 2 (0.75%) RS-485
4 2 (0.75%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.38%) Internet
5 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.89%) Redis
6 4 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.13%) Big Data
8 2 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (8.30%) Git
2 18 (6.79%) JIRA
2 18 (6.79%) Selenium
3 17 (6.42%) GitLab
4 15 (5.66%) Bitbucket
4 15 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 15 (5.66%) Maven
4 15 (5.66%) SonarQube
4 15 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.51%) CppUnit
5 4 (1.51%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.13%) Subversion
6 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.75%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.75%) Moq
7 2 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.75%) Snyk
7 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (16.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (15.47%) Electronics
3 29 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 26 (9.81%) Manufacturing
5 25 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.06%) Finance
7 17 (6.42%) Banking
8 12 (4.53%) Automotive
9 11 (4.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.64%) Games
10 7 (2.64%) Retail
11 6 (2.26%) Law
12 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.13%) Military
13 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (43.77%) Software Engineer
2 51 (19.25%) Developer
3 50 (18.87%) Senior
4 31 (11.70%) Lead
4 31 (11.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 30 (11.32%) Trainer
6 23 (8.68%) Embedded Engineer
7 20 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (6.79%) Robotics Engineer
8 18 (6.79%) Software Developer
9 16 (6.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) Implementation Manager
12 10 (3.77%) Software Assurance Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) Support Manager
12 10 (3.77%) Technical Implementation Manager
12 10 (3.77%) Technical Manager
12 10 (3.77%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.87%) HTML
2 42 (15.85%) .NET
3 22 (8.30%) Node.js
4 20 (7.55%) CSS
4 20 (7.55%) React
5 19 (7.17%) Kafka
6 18 (6.79%) Middleware
7 16 (6.04%) Spring
7 16 (6.04%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.66%) JPA
8 15 (5.66%) Pandas
8 15 (5.66%) Redux
8 15 (5.66%) Vue
9 13 (4.91%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.15%) PyTorch
10 11 (4.15%) scikit-learn
10 11 (4.15%) TensorFlow
11 10 (3.77%) Web Services
11 10 (3.77%) YAML
12 9 (3.40%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.85%) Algorithms
2 22 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.55%) Robotics
4 18 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (5.66%) Cyberattack
6 9 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.64%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.13%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
11 2 (0.75%) FPGA
11 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Replication
11 2 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.19%) Linux
2 19 (7.17%) Android
3 5 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.51%) Windows
5 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (26.04%) Agile
2 62 (23.40%) Artificial Intelligence
3 58 (21.89%) CI/CD
4 43 (16.23%) Computer Science
5 41 (15.47%) OO
6 40 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.58%) Conversational UI
9 34 (12.83%) Mathematics
10 33 (12.45%) Code Quality
11 32 (12.08%) Microservices
12 31 (11.70%) Containerisation
13 28 (10.57%) DevOps
13 28 (10.57%) SDLC
14 27 (10.19%) Clean Code
14 27 (10.19%) Project Management
15 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 24 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (9.06%) Scrum
16 24 (9.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (39.25%) Python
2 101 (38.11%) C++
3 86 (32.45%) JavaScript
4 83 (31.32%) C#
5 63 (23.77%) SQL
6 51 (19.25%) C
6 51 (19.25%) Java
7 19 (7.17%) Rust
8 17 (6.42%) Go
9 14 (5.28%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.77%) VB.NET
11 9 (3.40%) Ada
11 9 (3.40%) Embedded C
12 4 (1.51%) Ruby
13 2 (0.75%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 89 (33.58%) Degree
2 26 (9.81%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.53%) PhD
6 11 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.64%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.92%) QA
2 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) CDISC
3 1 (0.38%) JTAG
3 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (15.09%) Docker
2 13 (4.91%) Firmware
3 8 (3.02%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (14.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.17%) Ansible
2 19 (7.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (13.58%) PayPal
2 22 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.66%) Solace
4 10 (3.77%) DevExpress
5 7 (2.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.75%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (0.75%) Black Duck
6 2 (0.75%) Facebook
6 2 (0.75%) IBM
6 2 (0.75%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.75%) Siemens
6 2 (0.75%) UiPath
6 2 (0.75%) VMware
6 2 (0.75%) Wonderware
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.38%) YouTube