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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 26 111 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.54% 15.59% 19.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 19.07% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 22 82 52
10th Percentile £45,250 £41,250 £43,075
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,188 £65,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,375 £70,000 -
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +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 415 582 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 88.49% 81.74% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 254 289 213
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £59,913 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,125 £80,250 £84,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.95% -6.82% -

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 27 October 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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) SaaS
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Azure
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) BigCommerce
7 1 (3.85%) OCI
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LTE
1 1 (3.85%) Modbus
1 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Lead
4 6 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Product Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Architect
6 3 (11.54%) C# Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.54%) SaaS Architect
7 2 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Control Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 2 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) EPoS
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) IoT
4 1 (3.85%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 5 (19.23%) Microservices
5 5 (19.23%) Technical Debt
5 5 (19.23%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (15.38%) ERP
6 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (11.54%) AI
7 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (11.54%) Product Management
7 3 (11.54%) SOA
7 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) C#
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Ruby
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Delphi
5 1 (3.85%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Atmel