Software Engineer Jobs in Staffordshire

Software Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

As of 16 July 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Software Engineer salary in Staffordshire.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 50 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 20 46 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.78% 4.06% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 4.17% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 0 25 4
10th Percentile - £39,850 -
25th Percentile - £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £61,500 £58,500
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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.

Permanent vacancies in Staffordshire with a recognized job title 543 1,104 464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.42% 97.35% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 261 763 370
10th Percentile £26,375 £23,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,751 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £43,875
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.83% +3.17%
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £63,850
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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
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 16 July 2025. 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
Stafford -3 5 - - 3
Stoke-on-Trent +13 3 - - 1
Software Engineer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities 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 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) QA
3 16 (80.00%) Selenium
3 16 (80.00%) JPA
3 16 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 16 (80.00%) Azure
3 16 (80.00%) AWS
3 16 (80.00%) Spring
3 16 (80.00%) Maven
3 16 (80.00%) JIRA
3 16 (80.00%) HTML
3 16 (80.00%) Java
3 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (80.00%) SQL
3 16 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 16 (80.00%) CSS
3 16 (80.00%) Finance
3 16 (80.00%) Agile
3 16 (80.00%) Banking
3 16 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 16 (80.00%) Kafka
3 16 (80.00%) Bitbucket
3 16 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (80.00%) Docker
3 16 (80.00%) DevOps
3 16 (80.00%) GitLab
3 16 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (80.00%) React
3 16 (80.00%) SonarQube
3 16 (80.00%) Spring Boot

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (5.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 16 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 16 (80.00%) GitLab
1 16 (80.00%) JIRA
1 16 (80.00%) Maven
1 16 (80.00%) Selenium
1 16 (80.00%) SonarQube
1 16 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (80.00%) Banking
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
1 16 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (45.00%) Corporate Banking
2 9 (45.00%) Investment Banking
2 9 (45.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) CSS
1 16 (80.00%) HTML
1 16 (80.00%) JPA
1 16 (80.00%) Kafka
1 16 (80.00%) React
1 16 (80.00%) Redux
1 16 (80.00%) Spring
1 16 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (45.00%) CSS3
2 9 (45.00%) HTML5
2 9 (45.00%) Jest
2 9 (45.00%) REST
2 9 (45.00%) RESTful
2 9 (45.00%) Sass
3 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 16 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 16 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (80.00%) Microservices
2 16 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 16 (80.00%) SDLC
2 16 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (45.00%) Migration
4 9 (45.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 9 (45.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 9 (45.00%) User Experience
5 7 (35.00%) Clean Code
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (35.00%) TDD
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Java
1 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (85.00%) QA
2 9 (45.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Solace
2 2 (10.00%) Rockwell
2 2 (10.00%) Siemens