Software Engineering Jobs in Leicestershire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 56 89 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.90% 8.28% 8.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 9.36% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 51 15
10th Percentile - £27,500 -
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,750 £67,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £65,750 £76,250 £74,250
East Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 951 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 92.95% 88.47% 97.85%
Number of salaries quoted 168 530 253
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,225 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leicestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Leicestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Leicestershire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Lutterworth -9 23 £37,500 -31.82%
Hinckley - 22 - - 1
Leicester -2 7 £44,500 -11.00% 20
Market Harborough - 1 - -
Wigston - 1 - -
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 8 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (41.07%) Simulink
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) AWS
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 8 (14.29%) JIRA
2 6 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 6 (10.71%) GitLab
2 6 (10.71%) Maven
2 6 (10.71%) Selenium
2 6 (10.71%) SonarQube
2 6 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.57%) Appium
3 2 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Xcode
General
1 24 (42.86%) Aerospace
2 23 (41.07%) Automotive
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (3.57%) C# Developer
4 2 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile Software Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Senior
4 2 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Software Developer
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Android Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Android Software Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (1.79%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Lead
5 1 (1.79%) React Developer
5 1 (1.79%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) .NET
1 7 (12.50%) React
2 6 (10.71%) CSS
2 6 (10.71%) Hibernate
2 6 (10.71%) HTML
2 6 (10.71%) JPA
2 6 (10.71%) Kafka
2 6 (10.71%) Redux
2 6 (10.71%) Spring
2 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.93%) SOAP
4 4 (7.14%) RESTful
4 4 (7.14%) WPF
5 2 (3.57%) Web Services
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Android
2 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (83.93%) Agile
2 40 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 23 (41.07%) Systems Engineering
3 23 (41.07%) Validation
4 22 (39.29%) SDLC
5 15 (26.79%) Waterfall
6 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.29%) TDD
6 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (12.50%) Microservices
8 6 (10.71%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.71%) DevOps
8 6 (10.71%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (3.57%) Continuous Deployment
9 2 (3.57%) Cross-Platform Development
9 2 (3.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) MATLAB
2 9 (16.07%) C#
2 9 (16.07%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) XAML
6 2 (3.57%) C++
6 2 (3.57%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.57%) Swift
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Python
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) VB
7 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (71.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (30.36%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Siemens
2 6 (10.71%) Solace
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Apple
4 2 (3.57%) Atlassian