Software Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Software Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 49 83
Rank change year-on-year -80 +34 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 133 432 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.00% 4.31% 3.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 4.59% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 67 307 181
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £80,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.00% +6.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,117 9,404 9,336
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 93.91% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,774 7,340 5,123
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,350
90th Percentile £77,350 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% -9.84% +1.67%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the Midlands

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
West Midlands -77 78 £55,000 - 76
East Midlands -48 55 £56,250 +7.14% 57
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 68 (51.13%) C#
3 49 (36.84%) .NET
4 47 (35.34%) Python
5 46 (34.59%) Agile
6 36 (27.07%) CI/CD
7 35 (26.32%) AWS
8 31 (23.31%) SQL
9 28 (21.05%) Degree
10 26 (19.55%) Azure
11 24 (18.05%) Git
11 24 (18.05%) Java
11 24 (18.05%) Windows
12 23 (17.29%) Computer Science
12 23 (17.29%) React
13 21 (15.79%) JavaScript
13 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
14 20 (15.04%) Linux
15 19 (14.29%) C++
15 19 (14.29%) Finance
15 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
16 18 (13.53%) MySQL
16 18 (13.53%) C
16 18 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
17 17 (12.78%) DevSecOps
17 17 (12.78%) Microservices
18 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
18 16 (12.03%) Mathematics

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (8.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) CANalyzer
1 1 (0.75%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.32%) AWS
2 26 (19.55%) Azure
3 9 (6.77%) Anthropic Claude
3 9 (6.77%) ChatGPT
4 7 (5.26%) GCP
5 6 (4.51%) Serverless
6 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.01%) SaaS
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.26%) Datadog
7 3 (2.26%) GitHub
7 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.26%) Supabase
7 3 (2.26%) Vercel
8 2 (1.50%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.50%) PaaS
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) MQTT
2 4 (3.01%) Network Security
3 2 (1.50%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.75%) RS-232
4 1 (0.75%) RS-485
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.53%) MySQL
2 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.77%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.50%) Big Data
8 2 (1.50%) DB2
8 2 (1.50%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.50%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Git
2 13 (9.77%) Bitbucket
2 13 (9.77%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) Appium
4 2 (1.50%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.50%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (1.50%) Xcode
5 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.75%) Newman
5 1 (0.75%) Subversion
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 12 (9.02%) Manufacturing
4 11 (8.27%) Law
5 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Retail
6 6 (4.51%) Automotive
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
7 5 (3.76%) Electronics
8 4 (3.01%) Advertising
8 4 (3.01%) Games
9 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.84%) .NET
2 23 (17.29%) React
3 13 (9.77%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.77%) WPF
4 11 (8.27%) .NET Core
4 11 (8.27%) RESTful
5 10 (7.52%) Kafka
6 8 (6.02%) CSS
6 8 (6.02%) HTML
6 8 (6.02%) Node.js
6 8 (6.02%) REST
7 7 (5.26%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.51%) Django
8 6 (4.51%) SOAP
9 5 (3.76%) Next.js
9 5 (3.76%) Vue
9 5 (3.76%) WCF
10 4 (3.01%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.01%) Flask
10 4 (3.01%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (6.77%) Embedded Systems
3 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.01%) IoT
7 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.26%) Lidar
7 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.50%) Replication
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.05%) Windows
2 20 (15.04%) Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.50%) Android
4 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 46 (34.59%) Agile
3 36 (27.07%) CI/CD
4 23 (17.29%) Computer Science
5 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 18 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (12.78%) DevSecOps
7 17 (12.78%) Microservices
8 16 (12.03%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (12.03%) Mathematics
8 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
9 15 (11.28%) Software Testing
10 14 (10.53%) Coaching
10 14 (10.53%) DevOps
11 12 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (9.02%) Scrum
12 11 (8.27%) Decision-Making
12 11 (8.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.13%) C#
2 47 (35.34%) Python
3 31 (23.31%) SQL
4 24 (18.05%) Java
5 21 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 19 (14.29%) C++
7 18 (13.53%) C
8 11 (8.27%) TypeScript
9 9 (6.77%) Rust
10 6 (4.51%) Bash
10 6 (4.51%) PHP
10 6 (4.51%) XAML
11 5 (3.76%) Perl
11 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.76%) Swift
12 4 (3.01%) Ada
12 4 (3.01%) Embedded C
12 4 (3.01%) Ruby
13 3 (2.26%) Go
14 2 (1.50%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Degree
2 13 (9.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (6.77%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.50%) PhD
8 1 (0.75%) HNC
8 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.01%) MISRA
2 3 (2.26%) JTAG
3 2 (1.50%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) Firmware
3 3 (2.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.27%) Ansible
3 8 (6.02%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (8.27%) Atlassian
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.76%) Databricks
4 3 (2.26%) Siemens
5 2 (1.50%) Apple
5 2 (1.50%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.50%) Sybase
5 2 (1.50%) Telerik
5 2 (1.50%) Twitter
6 1 (0.75%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle