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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 56 41 120
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.76% 11.85% 14.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 13.36% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 115
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,500
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% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,750 £80,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -15.25%

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 681 307 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 69.99% 88.73% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 412 193 484
10th Percentile £27,513 £24,649 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £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 28 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 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) SaaS
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) Serverless
4 1 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) LTE
2 2 (3.57%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.57%) HTTP
2 2 (3.57%) Modbus
2 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) DB2
2 2 (3.57%) Easytrieve
3 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) Storybook
3 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.57%) Subversion
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (7.14%) Finance
1 4 (7.14%) Games
2 3 (5.36%) Marketing
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Law
3 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.57%) Retail
3 2 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (66.07%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Mainframe Software Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
4 4 (7.14%) Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) PLC Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) PLC Software Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Data Scientist
5 3 (5.36%) Lead Data Scientist
5 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) .NET
3 5 (8.93%) CSS
3 5 (8.93%) HTML
4 4 (7.14%) React
5 3 (5.36%) HTML5
5 3 (5.36%) Hugging Face
5 3 (5.36%) PySpark
5 3 (5.36%) PyTorch
5 3 (5.36%) RESTful
5 3 (5.36%) Sass
5 3 (5.36%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.57%) DirectX
6 2 (3.57%) ISPF
6 2 (3.57%) J2EE
6 2 (3.57%) Laravel
6 2 (3.57%) OpenGL
6 2 (3.57%) REST
6 2 (3.57%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Robotics
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
2 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (8.93%) Clean Code
3 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
3 5 (8.93%) Project Management
4 4 (7.14%) Code Quality
4 4 (7.14%) Machine Learning
4 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (7.14%) SOLID
5 3 (5.36%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (5.36%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (5.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (5.36%) Customer Experience
5 3 (5.36%) Data Analytics
5 3 (5.36%) Data Science
5 3 (5.36%) Decision-Making
5 3 (5.36%) Design Patterns
5 3 (5.36%) Fintech
5 3 (5.36%) LLM
5 3 (5.36%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) SQL
4 7 (12.50%) C#
5 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) Assembly Language
6 2 (3.57%) C
6 2 (3.57%) COBOL
6 2 (3.57%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.57%) Java
6 2 (3.57%) JCL
6 2 (3.57%) PHP
6 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Firmware
1 2 (3.57%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Rockwell
1 4 (7.14%) Siemens
2 2 (3.57%) Atmel
2 2 (3.57%) IBM