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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 62 40 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.98% 11.90% 15.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 13.51% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 48 38 120
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £49,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £75,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -14.16%

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 718 296 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 69.31% 88.10% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 444 180 488
10th Percentile £27,738 £24,649 £30,700
25th Percentile £33,688 £31,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £69,000 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -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 15 May 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 (1.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) SaaS
2 12 (19.35%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) AWS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (4.84%) Serverless
4 3 (4.84%) Slack
5 1 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) LTE
2 2 (3.23%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.23%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) Modbus
2 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.23%) DB2
2 2 (3.23%) Easytrieve
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Storybook
3 2 (3.23%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.23%) Subversion
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (8.06%) Finance
2 3 (4.84%) Games
2 3 (4.84%) Marketing
3 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (1.61%) Banking
4 1 (1.61%) Electronics
4 1 (1.61%) Law
4 1 (1.61%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (70.97%) Software Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Mainframe Software Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) PLC Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) PLC Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (4.84%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) Node.js
2 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.06%) CSS
3 5 (8.06%) HTML
4 4 (6.45%) .NET
4 4 (6.45%) Hugging Face
4 4 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 4 (6.45%) React
4 4 (6.45%) TensorFlow
5 3 (4.84%) HTML5
5 3 (4.84%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (4.84%) PySpark
5 3 (4.84%) RESTful
5 3 (4.84%) Sass
6 2 (3.23%) ISPF
6 2 (3.23%) J2EE
6 2 (3.23%) Laravel
6 2 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) Vue
6 2 (3.23%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (1.61%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
2 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
3 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
3 6 (9.68%) Project Management
4 5 (8.06%) AI
4 5 (8.06%) CI/CD
4 5 (8.06%) Clean Code
5 4 (6.45%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (6.45%) Code Quality
5 4 (6.45%) Data Science
5 4 (6.45%) Deep Learning
5 4 (6.45%) LLM
5 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (6.45%) SDLC
5 4 (6.45%) SOLID
5 4 (6.45%) Statistics
6 3 (4.84%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (4.84%) Design Patterns
6 3 (4.84%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) Python
2 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
3 7 (11.29%) SQL
4 6 (9.68%) C#
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.45%) C++
6 2 (3.23%) Assembly Language
6 2 (3.23%) C
6 2 (3.23%) COBOL
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.23%) Java
6 2 (3.23%) JCL
6 2 (3.23%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Firmware
1 2 (3.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Rockwell
1 4 (6.45%) Siemens
2 2 (3.23%) Atmel
2 2 (3.23%) IBM