Software Engineering Job Trends in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 31 72 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.72% 13.46% 16.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 14.55% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 27 54 44
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,625 £44,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £72,500 £83,875
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 447 495 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 82.47% 92.52% 85.12%
Number of salaries quoted 279 243 206
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £43,578
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £67,375 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Nottingham over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) SaaS
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
3 10 (32.26%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Law
3 4 (12.90%) Games
4 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Software Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Product Architect
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Architect
5 3 (9.68%) C# Architect
5 3 (9.68%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (9.68%) PySpark
2 3 (9.68%) Vue
3 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) CSS
3 2 (6.45%) Deno
3 2 (6.45%) DirectX
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) Laravel
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
3 2 (6.45%) OpenGL
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) REST
3 2 (6.45%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (6.45%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.45%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Agile
1 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
2 6 (19.35%) Microservices
2 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
2 6 (19.35%) Technical Debt
3 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (12.90%) Fintech
3 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
3 4 (12.90%) SOA
4 3 (9.68%) AI
4 3 (9.68%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (9.68%) ERP
4 3 (9.68%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (9.68%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) C#
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) PHP
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.23%) Java
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle