Software Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Software Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the Midlands is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 39 81
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 254 539 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.60% 4.54% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.90% 4.81% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 74 397 173
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,125 £76,450 £82,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 6,509 11,196 8,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.29% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 8,341 4,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 9 May 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 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
West Midlands -15 148 £60,000 +9.09% 101
East Midlands -27 106 £56,250 +7.14% 77
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 187 (73.62%) Agile
2 155 (61.02%) Software Engineering
3 112 (44.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 109 (42.91%) Software Testing
5 103 (40.55%) Automotive
6 100 (39.37%) MATLAB
6 100 (39.37%) Simulink
6 100 (39.37%) Validation
6 100 (39.37%) Aerospace
7 99 (38.98%) Systems Engineering
8 87 (34.25%) CI/CD
9 81 (31.89%) Azure
9 81 (31.89%) AWS
10 80 (31.50%) SQL
11 79 (31.10%) Java
12 76 (29.92%) Microservices
12 76 (29.92%) React
13 74 (29.13%) JavaScript
14 73 (28.74%) DevOps
15 72 (28.35%) JIRA
16 71 (27.95%) Kubernetes
17 70 (27.56%) Full-Stack Development
18 69 (27.17%) Docker
18 69 (27.17%) Test Automation
18 69 (27.17%) Bitbucket
18 69 (27.17%) Finance
19 68 (26.77%) Containerisation
20 66 (25.98%) HTML
20 66 (25.98%) SQL Server
20 66 (25.98%) CSS

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 59 (23.23%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.39%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.39%) WinCC
Applications
1 100 (39.37%) Simulink
2 1 (0.39%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 81 (31.89%) AWS
1 81 (31.89%) Azure
2 61 (24.02%) GCP
3 5 (1.97%) SaaS
4 4 (1.57%) GitHub
5 3 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.18%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.18%) Supabase
5 3 (1.18%) Vercel
6 2 (0.79%) Azure API Management
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.39%) Datadog
7 1 (0.39%) Serverless
7 1 (0.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) WAN
1 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.79%) LTE
2 2 (0.79%) Modbus
2 2 (0.79%) Network Security
2 2 (0.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.98%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.09%) MySQL
3 13 (5.12%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.79%) Big Data
7 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (28.35%) JIRA
2 69 (27.17%) Bitbucket
3 59 (23.23%) Cucumber
4 58 (22.83%) GitLab
4 58 (22.83%) Maven
4 58 (22.83%) Selenium
4 58 (22.83%) SonarQube
4 58 (22.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (7.87%) Git
6 4 (1.57%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.18%) Subversion
8 2 (0.79%) Appium
8 2 (0.79%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.79%) Xcode
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.39%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.39%) Newman
General
1 103 (40.55%) Automotive
2 100 (39.37%) Aerospace
3 69 (27.17%) Finance
4 64 (25.20%) Banking
5 60 (23.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.30%) Retail
7 15 (5.91%) Social Skills
8 12 (4.72%) Investment Banking
9 11 (4.33%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (3.15%) Law
11 5 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.57%) Games
13 3 (1.18%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.79%) Electronics
15 1 (0.39%) Back Office
15 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.92%) React
2 66 (25.98%) CSS
2 66 (25.98%) HTML
3 65 (25.59%) Spring
4 63 (24.80%) Kafka
5 59 (23.23%) Redux
5 59 (23.23%) Spring Boot
6 58 (22.83%) JPA
7 47 (18.50%) Hibernate
8 30 (11.81%) .NET
9 19 (7.48%) RESTful
10 15 (5.91%) REST
11 12 (4.72%) Jest
11 12 (4.72%) Sass
12 11 (4.33%) CSS3
12 11 (4.33%) HTML5
13 7 (2.76%) WPF
14 6 (2.36%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.36%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.36%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.02%) Enterprise Software
1 61 (24.02%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.94%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.76%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.57%) IoT
5 4 (1.57%) SCADA
6 3 (1.18%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.18%) Lidar
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.79%) Replication
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.39%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.09%) Windows
2 15 (5.91%) Linux
3 5 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) CentOS
5 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (73.62%) Agile
2 155 (61.02%) Software Engineering
3 109 (42.91%) Software Testing
4 100 (39.37%) Validation
5 99 (38.98%) Systems Engineering
6 87 (34.25%) CI/CD
7 76 (29.92%) Microservices
8 73 (28.74%) DevOps
9 70 (27.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 69 (27.17%) Test Automation
11 68 (26.77%) Containerisation
12 62 (24.41%) SDLC
13 61 (24.02%) Performance Optimisation
14 60 (23.62%) TDD
15 58 (22.83%) Front End Development
16 54 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (19.69%) Clean Code
18 22 (8.66%) Mentoring
19 19 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
20 16 (6.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.37%) MATLAB
2 80 (31.50%) SQL
3 79 (31.10%) Java
4 74 (29.13%) JavaScript
5 47 (18.50%) C#
6 22 (8.66%) Python
7 16 (6.30%) C
7 16 (6.30%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.15%) C++
9 7 (2.76%) PHP
10 6 (2.36%) Rust
11 5 (1.97%) Swift
12 4 (1.57%) Embedded C
12 4 (1.57%) Go
12 4 (1.57%) XAML
13 3 (1.18%) Ada
13 3 (1.18%) Ruby
14 2 (0.79%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.79%) Perl
14 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 112 (44.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (6.30%) Degree
3 4 (1.57%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) HNC
6 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (23.62%) QA
2 15 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.79%) MISRA
4 1 (0.39%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.39%) JTAG
4 1 (0.39%) MISRA C
System Software
1 69 (27.17%) Docker
2 6 (2.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (27.95%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.33%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (22.83%) Solace
2 11 (4.33%) Atlassian
3 5 (1.97%) Databricks
3 5 (1.97%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.79%) Apple
4 2 (0.79%) Atmel
4 2 (0.79%) Siemens
4 2 (0.79%) Twitter
5 1 (0.39%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.39%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.39%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.39%) Salesforce