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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 253 521 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.78% 8.51% 9.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 10.56% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 169 433 202
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66,295 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £86,250 £92,250
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 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 3,051 4,934 5,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 93.88% 80.62% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 3,705 2,213
10th Percentile £28,125 £25,809 £26,904
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £37,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £83,750
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 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 9 May 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 9 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
Cambridgeshire -2 90 £57,500 -11.54% 263
Norfolk +39 43 £54,000 +27.06% 14
Suffolk +2 39 £66,230 +32.46% 20
Hertfordshire -35 36 £57,500 -8.00% 45
Essex +6 33 £65,000 +44.44% 48
Bedfordshire -20 12 £75,000 +87.50% 17
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 13 (5.14%) Confluence
2 9 (3.56%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.79%) Apache
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 36 (14.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.55%) AWS
2 45 (17.79%) Azure
3 16 (6.32%) GCP
4 15 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (3.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (2.37%) Serverless
7 4 (1.58%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.19%) SaaS
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.79%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.40%) Figma
10 1 (0.40%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.16%) Bluetooth
1 8 (3.16%) Wireless
2 7 (2.77%) Modbus
2 7 (2.77%) Profibus
2 7 (2.77%) RS-232
2 7 (2.77%) RS-485
2 7 (2.77%) ZigBee
3 4 (1.58%) DHCP
3 4 (1.58%) DNS
3 4 (1.58%) Firewall
3 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.58%) VLAN
4 3 (1.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (7.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.98%) Redis
6 3 (1.19%) Big Data
6 3 (1.19%) MySQL
7 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.11%) JIRA
2 17 (6.72%) GitLab
3 14 (5.53%) Bitbucket
3 14 (5.53%) Cucumber
3 14 (5.53%) Maven
3 14 (5.53%) Selenium
3 14 (5.53%) SonarQube
3 14 (5.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (5.14%) Git
5 4 (1.58%) CppUnit
5 4 (1.58%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.19%) Moq
6 3 (1.19%) Subversion
6 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.79%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (0.79%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.79%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.40%) xUnit.net
General
1 47 (18.58%) Electronics
2 42 (16.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (10.28%) Finance
4 25 (9.88%) Manufacturing
4 25 (9.88%) Social Skills
5 23 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.32%) Banking
7 15 (5.93%) Automotive
8 10 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.77%) Retail
11 5 (1.98%) Law
12 4 (1.58%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.19%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Back Office
14 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Legal
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
14 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 142 (56.13%) Software Engineer
2 58 (22.92%) Senior
3 47 (18.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (13.44%) Developer
5 30 (11.86%) Trainer
6 28 (11.07%) Embedded Engineer
7 27 (10.67%) Principal Engineer
8 22 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Lead
10 19 (7.51%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 19 (7.51%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 18 (7.11%) Software Assurance Engineer
11 18 (7.11%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.56%) Robotics Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) C# Software Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) Graduate
14 6 (2.37%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.95%) HTML
2 35 (13.83%) .NET
3 29 (11.46%) React
4 24 (9.49%) Node.js
5 23 (9.09%) CSS
6 17 (6.72%) Kafka
7 16 (6.32%) Spring
7 16 (6.32%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.93%) Pandas
9 14 (5.53%) JPA
9 14 (5.53%) Redux
10 13 (5.14%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.35%) Middleware
12 9 (3.56%) .NET Framework
12 9 (3.56%) Keras
12 9 (3.56%) NumPy
12 9 (3.56%) PyTorch
12 9 (3.56%) scikit-learn
12 9 (3.56%) TensorFlow
12 9 (3.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.44%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.51%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.32%) Cyberattack
3 16 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
4 11 (4.35%) Robotics
5 6 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.19%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.79%) Device Driver
8 2 (0.79%) FPGA
8 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.79%) Replication
8 2 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.07%) Linux
2 21 (8.30%) Android
3 7 (2.77%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.98%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.19%) Windows
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.04%) Agile
2 61 (24.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 49 (19.37%) CI/CD
4 39 (15.42%) OO
5 38 (15.02%) Computer Science
6 37 (14.62%) Mathematics
7 36 (14.23%) Conversational UI
8 33 (13.04%) Code Quality
8 33 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (13.04%) TDD
9 31 (12.25%) DevOps
10 30 (11.86%) Containerisation
11 29 (11.46%) SDLC
12 28 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.67%) Test Automation
14 26 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (10.28%) Microservices
15 24 (9.49%) Statistics
16 22 (8.70%) OOP
16 22 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (38.74%) Python
2 97 (38.34%) C++
3 80 (31.62%) C#
4 77 (30.43%) JavaScript
5 66 (26.09%) SQL
6 62 (24.51%) Java
7 56 (22.13%) C
8 24 (9.49%) Rust
9 19 (7.51%) TypeScript
10 17 (6.72%) Go
11 15 (5.93%) Ada
12 11 (4.35%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.58%) Ada 95
13 4 (1.58%) Ruby
14 3 (1.19%) PHP
15 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 87 (34.39%) Degree
2 25 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.95%) PhD
7 5 (1.98%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.58%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.91%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) CDISC
2 1 (0.40%) JTAG
System Software
1 40 (15.81%) Docker
2 17 (6.72%) Firmware
3 13 (5.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (15.81%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.11%) Terraform
3 17 (6.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (14.23%) PayPal
2 14 (5.53%) Solace
3 10 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (0.79%) Facebook
4 2 (0.79%) Google
4 2 (0.79%) IBM
4 2 (0.79%) Rockwell
4 2 (0.79%) Siemens
4 2 (0.79%) Wonderware
4 2 (0.79%) YouTube
5 1 (0.40%) DevExpress