Software Engineering Job Trends in Suffolk

Software Engineering
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 36 39 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 7.16% 7.86% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 8.06% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 15
10th Percentile - £66,206 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £66,225 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £66,230 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.51% +32.46% -23.08%
75th Percentile - £66,274 £55,000
90th Percentile - £66,295 -
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 380 484 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 75.55% 97.58% 83.54%
Number of salaries quoted 195 259 257
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £66,100 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.92% +65.25% +3.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £66,253 £53,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £66,340 £61,250
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Suffolk over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Suffolk

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Woodbridge - 29 £50,000 - 1
Haverhill - 2 £50,000 -
Ipswich -9 1 £115,000 +76.92% 9
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) GCP
1 3 (8.33%) GitHub
2 2 (5.56%) Apigee
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (94.44%) Software Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Graduate
5 1 (2.78%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (2.78%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Django
1 2 (5.56%) Flask
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) gRPC
2 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.78%) NHS
2 1 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 4 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Agile
4 2 (5.56%) API Design
4 2 (5.56%) API Development
4 2 (5.56%) API Integration
4 2 (5.56%) Design Patterns
4 2 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (5.56%) Mentoring
4 2 (5.56%) SDLC
4 2 (5.56%) Secure Coding
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (5.56%) Test Automation
4 2 (5.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (2.78%) Clean Code
5 1 (2.78%) Containerisation
5 1 (2.78%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.78%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (2.78%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) Go
3 1 (2.78%) Scala
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Google
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.56%) Pega
2 1 (2.78%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) Typelevel