Software Engineering Jobs in Sheffield

Software Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 30 125 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 10.49% 11.76% 16.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.41% 13.95% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 30 115 41
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 -
25th Percentile £55,625 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,938 £61,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,375 £75,000 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +43.59% -11.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 896 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 91.96% 84.29% 98.49%
Number of salaries quoted 175 727 402
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,500 £24,015
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £80,000 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Sheffield.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Sheffield over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Sheffield

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) SaaS
4 5 (16.67%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.67%) dbt
7 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Law
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Online Betting
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) Head of Software Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Architect
6 2 (6.67%) C# Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Graduate
6 2 (6.67%) Graduate Java Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Robotics Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) React
2 6 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 5 (16.67%) Node.js
3 5 (16.67%) Redux
3 5 (16.67%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Robotics
4 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.33%) GNSS
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Roadmaps
3 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 5 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (13.33%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (13.33%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) KYC
6 4 (13.33%) OO
6 4 (13.33%) SDLC
6 4 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (13.33%) Test Management
7 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) DataOps
7 3 (10.00%) Parallel Computing
7 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) C#
1 10 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) C
4 3 (10.00%) C++
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) IEC 62304
2 1 (3.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Xamarin