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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 22 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 93 27 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 7.47% 6.38% 16.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.62% 7.56% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 72 25 140
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £76,500 £70,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -23.08%

All Process & 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 876 357 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 70.36% 84.40% 78.22%
Number of salaries quoted 580 224 506
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,221 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £28,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% -14.67%

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 17 July 2026.

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:

Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.98%) Azure
2 7 (7.53%) SaaS
3 6 (6.45%) AWS
4 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (4.30%) Serverless
4 4 (4.30%) Slack
5 1 (1.08%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) LTE
2 6 (6.45%) Bluetooth
2 6 (6.45%) Modbus
2 6 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.45%) Wireless
3 1 (1.08%) Firewall
3 1 (1.08%) VLAN
3 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.15%) Db2
2 2 (2.15%) Easytrieve
2 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Power BI
3 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) Storybook
3 2 (2.15%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.15%) Subversion
4 1 (1.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (8.60%) Finance
2 4 (4.30%) Retail
3 3 (3.23%) Law
3 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 3 (3.23%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.08%) Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Electronics
5 1 (1.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 66 (70.97%) Software Engineer
2 22 (23.66%) Senior
3 21 (22.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Lead
5 10 (10.75%) C++ Software Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Embedded Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) Mainframe Software Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (6.45%) Data Scientist
9 6 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
9 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Graduate
11 4 (4.30%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) PLC Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) PLC Software Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) .NET
2 6 (6.45%) Hugging Face
2 6 (6.45%) Node.js
2 6 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 6 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.38%) CSS
3 5 (5.38%) HTML
3 5 (5.38%) RESTful
4 4 (4.30%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (3.23%) HTML5
5 3 (3.23%) Sass
6 2 (2.15%) ISPF
6 2 (2.15%) J2EE
7 1 (1.08%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.08%) Middleware
7 1 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.08%) React
7 1 (1.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Mainframe
2 6 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.45%) Raspberry Pi
3 4 (4.30%) Robotics
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
6 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) zOS
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (12.90%) Roadmaps
2 10 (10.75%) Machine Learning
3 8 (8.60%) Project Management
3 8 (8.60%) SDLC
4 7 (7.53%) AI
4 7 (7.53%) Mentoring
5 6 (6.45%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (6.45%) CI/CD
5 6 (6.45%) Data Science
5 6 (6.45%) Deep Learning
5 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (6.45%) Statistics
6 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (4.30%) API Design
7 4 (4.30%) API Integration
7 4 (4.30%) Code Quality
7 4 (4.30%) Data Engineering
7 4 (4.30%) DataOps
7 4 (4.30%) LLM
8 3 (3.23%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.98%) Python
2 11 (11.83%) TypeScript
3 10 (10.75%) C#
3 10 (10.75%) C++
4 6 (6.45%) C
4 6 (6.45%) Embedded C
4 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.45%) SQL
5 2 (2.15%) Assembly Language
5 2 (2.15%) COBOL
5 2 (2.15%) Java
5 2 (2.15%) JCL
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) PHP
6 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.08%) CISSP
1 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Firmware
2 2 (2.15%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.08%) Docker
3 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.08%) Grafana
2 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.30%) Rockwell
1 4 (4.30%) Siemens
2 2 (2.15%) Atmel
2 2 (2.15%) IBM
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.08%) VMware