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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 24 107 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 4.76% 15.37% 17.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 18.45% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 20 79 47
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,500 £67,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £87,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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 440 580 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 87.30% 83.33% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 279 293 204
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,550 £35,375
25th Percentile £28,750 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,125
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% - -

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 November 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) SaaS
2 11 (45.83%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) BigCommerce
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Law
3 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Software Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Lead
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Software Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Product Architect
6 3 (12.50%) .NET Architect
6 3 (12.50%) C# Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (12.50%) SaaS Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
7 2 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 2 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Control Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 2 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) DirectX
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) OpenGL
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (4.17%) EPoS
4 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.67%) ERP
6 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) SOA
6 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) Product Management
7 3 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) Delphi
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle