Software Engineering Jobs in Essex

Software Engineering
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 46 19
Rank change year-on-year +20 -27 +38
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 54 44 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 6.12% 5.12% 11.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.48% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54 10 11
10th Percentile £35,000 £55,125 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £62,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £68,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +61.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £62,188 £85,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £68,500 £86,250 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 803 892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 81.97% 93.37% 97.17%
Number of salaries quoted 586 363 426
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,550 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,991 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,610 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -4.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Essex

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Essex

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Essex over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Essex

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 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
Colchester +11 12 £40,000 - 2
Chelmsford +8 10 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Harwich - 9 £45,000 -
Saffron Walden -4 6 £42,500 -32.00%
Grays - 4 £60,000 -
Brentwood - 4 £65,000 - 2
Basildon -13 3 £60,000 - 6
Billericay -3 2 £50,000 -31.03%
Harlow -7 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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 6 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (5.56%) AWS KMS
2 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) Loggly
2 3 (5.56%) Rackspace Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.85%) GCP
3 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) GitLab
2 6 (11.11%) webpack
3 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.26%) LabVIEW
4 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.85%) Selenium
5 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Electronics
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Software Engineer
2 21 (38.89%) Developer
3 12 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Full Stack Web Developer
6 6 (11.11%) PHP Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 6 (11.11%) Web Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Lead
9 3 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
9 3 (5.56%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.70%) IT Manager
10 2 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (3.70%) Project Manager
11 1 (1.85%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) React
2 8 (14.81%) Symfony
3 7 (12.96%) .NET
3 7 (12.96%) Node.js
4 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) REST
6 1 (1.85%) CSS
6 1 (1.85%) Django
6 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.85%) HTML
6 1 (1.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
1 2 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
1 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
2 1 (1.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Alpine Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.67%) Agile
2 9 (16.67%) DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) Software Testing
4 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
4 7 (12.96%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (12.96%) Web Development
5 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
5 5 (9.26%) Design Patterns
5 5 (9.26%) Project Management
6 4 (7.41%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.56%) Physics
7 3 (5.56%) Roadmaps
7 3 (5.56%) Scrum
7 3 (5.56%) TDD
8 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis
8 2 (3.70%) E-Commerce
8 2 (3.70%) Integration Testing
8 2 (3.70%) Project Planning
8 2 (3.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) C#
2 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 8 (14.81%) PHP
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.11%) Rust
5 5 (9.26%) C++
5 5 (9.26%) MATLAB
6 4 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) HNC
1 6 (11.11%) HND
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Firmware
2 6 (11.11%) Docker
3 2 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Siemens
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) New Relic
3 3 (5.56%) Rackspace
3 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Remedy