Software Engineering Jobs in Hertfordshire

Software Engineering
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 19 47
Rank change year-on-year -32 +28 -26
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 38 156 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.63% 7.82% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 9.88% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23 139 63
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £72,600 £80,000 £93,500
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 780 1,579 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 95.12% 79.15% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 415 1,250 735
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,809 £28,770
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Hertfordshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Hertfordshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Hertfordshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Stevenage -8 18 £60,000 -4.00% 33
Hatfield - 3 - - 1
Watford +6 1 - - 21
Borehamwood +5 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 £55,000 +13.40% 3
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Potters Bar - 1 - -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.26%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) MinIO
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Broadband
1 3 (7.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) CppUnit
1 4 (10.53%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Subversion
3 2 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (5.26%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) Snyk
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) Moq
4 1 (2.63%) MSTest
4 1 (2.63%) NUnit
4 1 (2.63%) xUnit.net
General
1 19 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Electronics
5 5 (13.16%) Finance
6 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (7.89%) Games
7 3 (7.89%) Retail
8 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 2 (5.26%) Automotive
8 2 (5.26%) Military
9 1 (2.63%) Back Office
9 1 (2.63%) Law
9 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Lead
2 7 (18.42%) Software Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Project Leader
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Software Project Leader
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Software Verification Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Verification Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) .NET
2 7 (18.42%) Node.js
2 7 (18.42%) Pandas
3 4 (10.53%) CSS
3 4 (10.53%) CSS3
3 4 (10.53%) HTML
3 4 (10.53%) HTML5
4 3 (7.89%) D3.js
4 3 (7.89%) DOM
4 3 (7.89%) jQuery
4 3 (7.89%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (7.89%) Sass
4 3 (7.89%) Vue
5 2 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.63%) NHibernate
6 1 (2.63%) Ninject
6 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Cyberattack
2 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Smartphone
3 3 (7.89%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) FPGA
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Robotics
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Verilog
5 1 (2.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Agile
2 18 (47.37%) Validation
3 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.95%) Verification and Validation
5 9 (23.68%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (23.68%) OO
5 9 (23.68%) Unit Testing
6 8 (21.05%) Kanban
6 8 (21.05%) Scrum
6 8 (21.05%) Secure Coding
6 8 (21.05%) UML
7 7 (18.42%) Android Development
7 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
7 7 (18.42%) DevOps
7 7 (18.42%) Line Management
7 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
7 7 (18.42%) OOP
7 7 (18.42%) OWASP
7 7 (18.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) C++
2 18 (47.37%) C
3 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
4 10 (26.32%) Python
5 9 (23.68%) Ada
6 8 (21.05%) Java
7 7 (18.42%) Go
7 7 (18.42%) Rust
8 4 (10.53%) SQL
9 3 (7.89%) C#
10 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) DV Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 6 (15.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (15.79%) Firmware
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Ansible
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (5.26%) Black Duck
2 2 (5.26%) IBM
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) UiPath
2 2 (5.26%) VMware