Software Engineering Jobs in Leicester

Software Engineering
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 11 61 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 6.75% 9.95% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 11.38% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10 29 15
10th Percentile £33,750 £27,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,063 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £73,438 £75,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £78,900 £93,500 £63,750
Leicestershire median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% +5.88% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 536 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 84.66% 87.44% 99.23%
Number of salaries quoted 88 284 172
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,313 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,563 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,375 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.47%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leicester

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Leicester

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leicester over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Leicester

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GNU Octave
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MS Access
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Algorithm Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Software Manager
4 1 (9.09%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) WPF
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) JPA
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Lidar
3 1 (9.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) SDLC
2 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) People Management
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) KYC
4 2 (18.18%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Physics
4 2 (18.18%) Product Management
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) XAML
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) VB
4 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Solace