Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Software Engineer Skill Set in Staffordshire
Period
to 20 January 2021

The median annual salary for a Software Engineer was £45,000 in advertised job vacancies in Staffordshire during the 6 months to 20 January 2021.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Software Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire
6 months to
20 Jan 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 34 66 63
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.28% 0.92% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 0.93% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 7
Median annual salary £45,000 £40,750 £37,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +10.43% +8.67% -9.09%
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £29,850
90th Percentile £55,500 £45,875 £43,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.09% +14.12% +6.25%

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire
Permanent vacancies in Staffordshire with a recognized job title 251 537 611
% of permanent IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 98.35% 98.39%
Number of salaries quoted 213 483 551
Median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.06% +6.76%
10th Percentile £21,300 £20,500 £23,500
90th Percentile £59,800 £53,500 £57,000
West Midlands median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Staffordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Staffordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 20 January 2021.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Staffordshire

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 20 January 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Stoke-on-Trent +23 3 £45,000 - 1
Stafford - 1 - - 1
Software Engineer
West Midlands

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 20 January 2021, Software Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Staffordshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Law
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (33.33%) Go
4 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Haskell
4 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Flex
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 2 (33.33%) C++
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) C
4 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 2 (33.33%) WinForms

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in Staffordshire by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSTest
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (83.33%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Flex
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (16.67%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) EPoS
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SDET
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Haskell
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft