Software Engineering Job Trends in the East of England

Software Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 47 8
Rank change year-on-year +41 -39 +17
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 819 168 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.79% 5.03% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.93% 5.85% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 651 115 221
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -3.57%

All Process & 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 5,878 2,874 3,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.28% 86.13% 76.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,292 1,545 1,529
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,878 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -18.18% +1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,833 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Engineering

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 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 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
Cambridgeshire +8 447 £74,000 +34.55% 451
Hertfordshire +41 139 £70,000 -12.50% 74
Bedfordshire +28 83 £60,000 -29.41% 75
Essex +3 79 £60,000 -7.69% 53
Suffolk +45 38 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Norfolk 0 33 £80,000 +105.13% 15
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
1 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.24%) WinCC
2 1 (0.12%) Artix
2 1 (0.12%) CMS
2 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.12%) SAS
2 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Simulink
2 5 (0.61%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) SAP ERP
1 7 (0.85%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 32 (3.91%) Azure
2 26 (3.17%) AWS
3 13 (1.59%) GCP
4 9 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (0.85%) SaaS
6 5 (0.61%) GitHub
7 4 (0.49%) Azure Functions
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (0.49%) Serverless
8 3 (0.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.24%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.24%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.24%) Google Gemini
9 2 (0.24%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.24%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.22%) Wireless
2 9 (1.10%) Profibus
3 8 (0.98%) MQTT
4 7 (0.85%) Bluetooth
4 7 (0.85%) Modbus
4 7 (0.85%) RS-232
4 7 (0.85%) RS-485
4 7 (0.85%) ZigBee
5 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.49%) RFID
7 2 (0.24%) 4G
7 2 (0.24%) 5G
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.24%) HTTP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
8 1 (0.12%) Broadband
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
8 1 (0.12%) RS-422
8 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 7 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (0.85%) MySQL
3 7 (0.85%) SAP BW
4 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.61%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.37%) Redis
6 3 (0.37%) SQLite
7 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.12%) Big Data
8 1 (0.12%) GIS
8 1 (0.12%) Power BI
8 1 (0.12%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 21 (2.56%) Git
2 6 (0.73%) GitLab
2 6 (0.73%) LabVIEW
2 6 (0.73%) Moq
2 6 (0.73%) PetaLinux
2 6 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.61%) JIRA
4 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.24%) MLflow
6 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 64 (7.81%) Electronics
2 59 (7.20%) Manufacturing
3 51 (6.23%) Social Skills
4 45 (5.49%) Aerospace
5 29 (3.54%) Finance
6 28 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (2.56%) Aviation
8 21 (2.56%) Tech for Good
9 18 (2.20%) Automotive
10 15 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Law
13 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.73%) Swedish Language
14 5 (0.61%) Agriculture
14 5 (0.61%) Front Office
14 5 (0.61%) Military
14 5 (0.61%) Retail
15 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 620 (75.70%) Software Engineer
2 245 (29.91%) Senior
3 209 (25.52%) Senior Software Engineer
4 119 (14.53%) Embedded Engineer
5 105 (12.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 76 (9.28%) C++ Software Engineer
7 70 (8.55%) Principal Engineer
8 60 (7.33%) Developer
9 58 (7.08%) Principal Software Engineer
10 51 (6.23%) Lead
11 49 (5.98%) C# Software Engineer
12 47 (5.74%) Python Engineer
13 43 (5.25%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 42 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
14 42 (5.13%) Python Software Engineer
15 41 (5.01%) Linux Engineer
16 40 (4.88%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 38 (4.64%) Robotics Software Engineer
18 32 (3.91%) Python Developer
19 27 (3.30%) Embedded Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.62%) .NET
2 15 (1.83%) React
3 14 (1.71%) RESTful
4 12 (1.47%) FastAPI
4 12 (1.47%) Yocto
5 11 (1.34%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.22%) Kafka
6 10 (1.22%) Node.js
6 10 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (1.22%) REST
7 9 (1.10%) WPF
8 8 (0.98%) CSS
8 8 (0.98%) Entity Framework
9 7 (0.85%) HTML
9 7 (0.85%) Middleware
9 7 (0.85%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.85%) Swagger
10 6 (0.73%) STL
10 6 (0.73%) XML
10 6 (0.73%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 96 (11.72%) Robotics
2 63 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 54 (6.59%) Algorithms
4 44 (5.37%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.47%) Device Driver
7 12 (1.47%) FPGA
7 12 (1.47%) IoT
8 9 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.10%) NHS
9 7 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.73%) Acoustics
10 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.61%) 3D Printing
11 5 (0.61%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.61%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.61%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.61%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 100 (12.21%) Linux
2 47 (5.74%) Embedded Linux
3 20 (2.44%) Windows
4 7 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.61%) VxWorks
6 4 (0.49%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (15.02%) AI
2 93 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (6.47%) Agile
5 43 (5.25%) Computer Science
6 37 (4.52%) DevOps
7 34 (4.15%) CI/CD
8 33 (4.03%) Mentoring
9 32 (3.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (3.91%) Test Automation
10 30 (3.66%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (3.54%) Validation
12 22 (2.69%) TDD
13 21 (2.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (2.56%) OO
14 20 (2.44%) Code Quality
14 20 (2.44%) Roadmaps
15 17 (2.08%) Machine Learning
15 17 (2.08%) Software Architecture
16 16 (1.95%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 186 (22.71%) C++
2 151 (18.44%) Python
3 104 (12.70%) C#
4 63 (7.69%) C
5 44 (5.37%) Rust
6 30 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.42%) SQL
8 25 (3.05%) JavaScript
9 17 (2.08%) Java
10 16 (1.95%) MATLAB
11 11 (1.34%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.22%) Embedded C++
13 9 (1.10%) PHP
14 7 (0.85%) VB
15 6 (0.73%) Ada
15 6 (0.73%) XAML
16 5 (0.61%) Clojure
16 5 (0.61%) Delphi
17 4 (0.49%) Erlang
17 4 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (11.36%) Degree
2 43 (5.25%) Security Cleared
3 30 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.73%) PhD
9 2 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.24%) HND
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.69%) QA
2 14 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.49%) PMO
4 2 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.12%) DO-254
5 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.12%) MISRA
5 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (4.52%) Firmware
2 30 (3.66%) Docker
3 14 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.61%) QEMU
5 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Functional Safety
2 3 (0.37%) Grafana
2 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (2.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (1.71%) RedGate
3 7 (0.85%) SAP
4 5 (0.61%) Foundry
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle
5 4 (0.49%) Siemens
6 3 (0.37%) Databricks
6 3 (0.37%) Google
6 3 (0.37%) Informatica
6 3 (0.37%) Palantir
6 3 (0.37%) Rockwell
7 2 (0.24%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.24%) AVEVA
7 2 (0.24%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.24%) Telerik
7 2 (0.24%) Wonderware
8 1 (0.12%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.12%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.12%) Yahoo!