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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 52 41 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 6.50% 12.06% 15.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 13.58% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 45 39 107
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £81,250
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -8.70%

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 585 302 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 73.13% 88.82% 83.29%
Number of salaries quoted 358 193 459
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,649 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,474 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%

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 4 April 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 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) SaaS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) AWS
4 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) LTE
2 2 (3.85%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.85%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) Modbus
2 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) DB2
2 2 (3.85%) Easytrieve
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) Storybook
3 2 (3.85%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.85%) Subversion
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Games
2 4 (7.69%) Law
3 3 (5.77%) Marketing
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Electronics
5 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Software Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Mainframe Software Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Developer
4 4 (7.69%) PLC Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) PLC Software Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) .NET Architect
6 2 (3.85%) C# Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Principal Java Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) .NET
2 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
2 6 (11.54%) Node.js
3 5 (9.62%) CSS
3 5 (9.62%) HTML
4 4 (7.69%) React
5 3 (5.77%) HTML5
5 3 (5.77%) PySpark
5 3 (5.77%) RESTful
5 3 (5.77%) Sass
6 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.85%) Deno
6 2 (3.85%) DirectX
6 2 (3.85%) J2EE
6 2 (3.85%) Laravel
6 2 (3.85%) OpenGL
6 2 (3.85%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (3.85%) Vue
6 2 (3.85%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.85%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (3.85%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Raspberry Pi
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) zOS
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
2 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (9.62%) Agile
3 5 (9.62%) Clean Code
3 5 (9.62%) Microservices
3 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (7.69%) AI
4 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 4 (7.69%) Code Quality
4 4 (7.69%) Event-Driven
4 4 (7.69%) SOLID
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Debt
5 3 (5.77%) Analytics
5 3 (5.77%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (5.77%) Customer Experience
5 3 (5.77%) Data Analytics
5 3 (5.77%) Decision-Making
5 3 (5.77%) Design Patterns
5 3 (5.77%) DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) C#
2 10 (19.23%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.54%) Python
6 2 (3.85%) Assembly Language
6 2 (3.85%) C
6 2 (3.85%) COBOL
6 2 (3.85%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.85%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) JCL
6 2 (3.85%) PHP
6 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Firmware
1 2 (3.85%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Rockwell
1 4 (7.69%) Siemens
2 2 (3.85%) Atmel
2 2 (3.85%) IBM