Software Engineer Jobs in Essex

Software Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Software Engineer salary in Essex is £56,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 28 32 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 3.17% 3.71% 5.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.36% 4.69% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28 5 7
10th Percentile - £49,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £85,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +126.67% +1.19%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £50,625
90th Percentile £79,125 - £55,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +22.22%

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 833 683 853
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 79.23% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 682 379 427
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 £47,972
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.98% +1.47%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Essex

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Essex

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Essex over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Essex

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Harwich - 9 £45,000 -
Chelmsford +4 6 £51,250 +2.50%
Grays - 4 £60,000 -
Brentwood - 4 £65,000 - 1
Basildon -12 3 £60,000 - 2
Saffron Walden -9 1 £70,000 +12.00%
Software Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) Siemens
3 9 (32.14%) AutoCAD
4 6 (21.43%) HNC
4 6 (21.43%) HND
4 6 (21.43%) Linux
5 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Firmware
7 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.71%) C#
8 2 (7.14%) C++
8 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
8 2 (7.14%) Project Management
8 2 (7.14%) Electronics
8 2 (7.14%) LabVIEW
8 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 2 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
8 2 (7.14%) High-Frequency Trading
8 2 (7.14%) Analytics
8 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 1 (3.57%) Coaching
9 1 (3.57%) Microservices
9 1 (3.57%) GCP
9 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (3.57%) DevOps
9 1 (3.57%) Google
9 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Management

Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (7.14%) Electronics
1 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
4 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.14%) Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.14%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (3.57%) Agile
6 1 (3.57%) Coaching
6 1 (3.57%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Event-Driven
6 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (3.57%) Microservices
6 1 (3.57%) Product Vision
6 1 (3.57%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.57%) Scrum
6 1 (3.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) C#
2 2 (7.14%) C++
2 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) HNC
1 6 (21.43%) HND
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Siemens
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft