Software Developer Jobs in Essex

Software Developer
East of England > Essex

The median Software Developer salary in Essex is £44,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 68 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 20 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 2.28% 2.35% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.98% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 11
10th Percentile £41,000 £34,312 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £36,733 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% +40.32%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £55,625
90th Percentile £53,550 £71,250 £68,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Essex with a recognized job title 827 671 873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 78.94% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 676 374 432
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Essex

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Essex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in Essex.

Salary trend for Software Developer in Essex

Software Developer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Saffron Walden - 15 £42,500 -
Colchester -3 1 £47,500 -13.64%
Harlow - 1 £50,000 -
Software Developer
East of England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Essex region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) C#
2 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (55.00%) .NET
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) SQL
5 7 (35.00%) Clean Code
6 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (25.00%) Git
7 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket
7 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 4 (20.00%) REST
8 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (20.00%) WPF
8 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (20.00%) Web Development
9 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (15.00%) Windows
9 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (15.00%) AWS
9 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (15.00%) Ansible
9 3 (15.00%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (15.00%) DevOps
9 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (15.00%) Loggly
2 3 (15.00%) Rackspace Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) WPF
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) HTML5
5 1 (5.00%) jQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Clean Code
3 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) Web Development
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Product Backlog
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) TDD
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.00%) CRM
7 1 (5.00%) ERP
7 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) C#
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) VB.NET
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) New Relic
2 3 (15.00%) Rackspace
2 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy