Software Engineering Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 51 47 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 6.19% 9.65% 15.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 10.56% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 48 42 134
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,375
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -11.76%
75th Percentile £83,125 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £78,750
East Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 620 445 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 75.24% 91.38% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 385 261 637
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £25,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,474 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £71,250
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham +3 47 £65,000 - 18
Worksop - 1 £90,000 - 1
Mansfield - 1 £75,000 -
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (3.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) SaaS
2 17 (33.33%) Azure
3 12 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.96%) OCI
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) LTE
2 4 (7.84%) Bluetooth
2 4 (7.84%) Modbus
2 4 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (7.84%) Wireless
3 2 (3.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Eclipse
2 4 (7.84%) Subversion
3 3 (5.88%) Storybook
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (13.73%) Law
2 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Games
4 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
4 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (54.90%) Software Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) PLC Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) PLC Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Product Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Architect
6 3 (5.88%) C# Architect
6 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 6 (11.76%) Node.js
3 5 (9.80%) CSS
3 5 (9.80%) HTML
3 5 (9.80%) React
4 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.88%) DirectX
4 3 (5.88%) HTML5
4 3 (5.88%) OpenGL
4 3 (5.88%) PySpark
4 3 (5.88%) RESTful
4 3 (5.88%) Sass
5 2 (3.92%) Bootstrap
5 2 (3.92%) Deno
5 2 (3.92%) Laravel
5 2 (3.92%) Redux
5 2 (3.92%) REST
5 2 (3.92%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (3.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Raspberry Pi
2 3 (5.88%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
2 7 (13.73%) Agile
2 7 (13.73%) Microservices
3 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven
3 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (11.76%) Technical Debt
4 5 (9.80%) Clean Code
4 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (7.84%) AI
5 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
5 4 (7.84%) Code Quality
5 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
5 4 (7.84%) SOLID
6 3 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (5.88%) Customer Experience
6 3 (5.88%) Design Patterns
6 3 (5.88%) Incident Management
6 3 (5.88%) Mathematics
6 3 (5.88%) Physics
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) C#
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.73%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) C
5 4 (7.84%) Embedded C
6 3 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) Java
7 2 (3.92%) PHP
7 2 (3.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Atmel
1 4 (7.84%) Rockwell
1 4 (7.84%) Siemens
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle