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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 26 131 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 5.73% 16.05% 18.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 20.40% 20.72%
Number of salaries quoted 24 102 57
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -37.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £70,000 -
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -33.33% +25.00%

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 385 642 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 84.80% 78.68% 90.75%
Number of salaries quoted 253 337 249
10th Percentile £27,250 £35,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Nottingham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Magento
1 2 (7.69%) Shopify
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) SaaS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (15.38%) ChatGPT
6 3 (11.54%) AWS
7 2 (7.69%) BigCommerce
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) PaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) LTE
1 2 (7.69%) Modbus
1 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.69%) Eclipse
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Lead
3 7 (26.92%) Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Control Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
1 4 (15.38%) Material-UI
1 4 (15.38%) RESTful
1 4 (15.38%) Spring
1 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
1 4 (15.38%) Web Services
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Replication
2 4 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.69%) EPoS
4 2 (7.69%) IoT
4 2 (7.69%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Customer Experience
4 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
4 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
4 5 (19.23%) ETL
4 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (19.23%) Technology Roadmap
4 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
5 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) C#
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) C
5 2 (7.69%) Delphi
5 2 (7.69%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Atmel
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle