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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 23 108 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 4.73% 15.41% 18.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 18.72% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 19 80 48
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,525
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,750 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 -
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% +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 426 577 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 87.65% 82.31% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 264 289 205
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,750 £33,150
25th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £60,313 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,950
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 10 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Magento
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) SaaS
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) BigCommerce
7 1 (4.35%) OCI
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Law
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Software Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
4 5 (21.74%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Product Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Architect
6 3 (13.04%) C# Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) SaaS Architect
7 2 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Control Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
8 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
8 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
3 2 (8.70%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.35%) EPoS
4 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Roadmaps
3 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
3 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 5 (21.74%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Technical Debt
5 4 (17.39%) ERP
5 4 (17.39%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (13.04%) AI
6 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Product Management
6 3 (13.04%) SOA
6 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 1 (4.35%) Delphi
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle