Software Engineering Jobs in the East of England

Software Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 27 7
Rank change year-on-year +13 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 600 402 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.89% 8.53% 16.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.46% 9.05% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 490 175 200
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,236 4,443 6,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 77.60% 94.27% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 2,007 2,807
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,875 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the East of England

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +5 281 £65,000 -3.70% 97
Hertfordshire +31 167 £65,000 -3.70% 42
Essex +30 67 £51,000 -21.54% 17
Norfolk -14 34 £40,000 -27.27% 8
Bedfordshire +2 33 £48,039 -12.66% 6
Suffolk -9 17 £50,000 -13.79% 2
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (1.00%) nginx
2 4 (0.67%) Apache
2 4 (0.67%) WordPress
3 1 (0.17%) CMS
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (2.83%) Simulink
2 9 (1.50%) AutoCAD
3 6 (1.00%) Trello
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (13.33%) AWS
2 46 (7.67%) Azure
3 18 (3.00%) SaaS
4 13 (2.17%) Serverless
5 11 (1.83%) Amazon S3
5 11 (1.83%) GitHub
6 9 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.50%) AWS KMS
11 3 (0.50%) Loggly
11 3 (0.50%) Rackspace Cloud
12 2 (0.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.67%) Wireless
2 17 (2.83%) Bluetooth
3 16 (2.67%) Ethernet
4 15 (2.50%) 5G
4 15 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.67%) Modbus
7 8 (1.33%) LTE
8 7 (1.17%) RS-232
9 6 (1.00%) 5G NR
9 6 (1.00%) 802.11
9 6 (1.00%) HTTP
9 6 (1.00%) Software-Defined Radio
10 5 (0.83%) RS-422
10 5 (0.83%) RS-485
11 4 (0.67%) Internet
12 3 (0.50%) 4G
12 3 (0.50%) Firewall
12 3 (0.50%) Network Security
12 3 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.67%) MySQL
3 17 (2.83%) Redis
4 10 (1.67%) GIS
4 10 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (1.00%) Power BI
6 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.67%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.67%) Triplestore
8 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.50%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.33%) Big Data
9 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 45 (7.50%) Git
2 17 (2.83%) GitLab
2 17 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.67%) JIRA
4 13 (2.17%) LabVIEW
5 10 (1.67%) Rational Rhapsody
5 10 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.00%) webpack
7 4 (0.67%) Rational Team Concert
7 4 (0.67%) Subversion
7 4 (0.67%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.50%) Selenium
9 2 (0.33%) Appium
9 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 107 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.17%) Electronics
3 40 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.33%) Automotive
5 31 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 24 (4.00%) Aerospace
7 15 (2.50%) Finance
8 14 (2.33%) Games
8 14 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.83%) Military
10 8 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.33%) Legal
11 7 (1.17%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.17%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 4 (0.67%) Marketing
14 3 (0.50%) Law
14 3 (0.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 385 (64.17%) Software Engineer
2 134 (22.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 132 (22.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 121 (20.17%) Senior
5 110 (18.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 106 (17.67%) Developer
7 42 (7.00%) Software Developer
8 33 (5.50%) Lead
9 31 (5.17%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 29 (4.83%) C++ Software Engineer
10 29 (4.83%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 16 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
11 16 (2.67%) PHP Developer
12 15 (2.50%) Python Engineer
13 14 (2.33%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (2.33%) Web Developer
14 12 (2.00%) Ada Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) Ada Software Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) Full Stack Engineer
15 10 (1.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.83%) React
2 57 (9.50%) .NET
3 42 (7.00%) CSS
3 42 (7.00%) HTML
4 31 (5.17%) Node.js
5 19 (3.17%) REST
6 15 (2.50%) Laravel
7 13 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 13 (2.17%) Kafka
8 12 (2.00%) Django
8 12 (2.00%) HTML5
9 11 (1.83%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.83%) JSON
9 11 (1.83%) Spring
10 10 (1.67%) Flask
10 10 (1.67%) Yocto
11 9 (1.50%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.50%) CSS3
11 9 (1.50%) Middleware
11 9 (1.50%) PyQt
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.50%) Embedded Systems
2 45 (7.50%) Algorithms
3 34 (5.67%) IoT
4 23 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (3.50%) Client/Server
7 18 (3.00%) Robotics
8 17 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (2.33%) Mobile App
10 13 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.50%) PCIe
13 8 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.33%) RISC-V
14 7 (1.17%) Blockchain
14 7 (1.17%) Device Driver
14 7 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.17%) Sports Betting
15 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
15 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 107 (17.83%) Linux
2 30 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
3 26 (4.33%) Windows
4 10 (1.67%) Android
5 9 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Unix
9 1 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (22.33%) Agile
2 102 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 57 (9.50%) Full Stack Development
5 51 (8.50%) DevOps
6 47 (7.83%) Software Testing
7 42 (7.00%) Mentoring
8 41 (6.83%) Validation
9 35 (5.83%) Systems Engineering
10 34 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 34 (5.67%) SDLC
10 34 (5.67%) Test Automation
11 31 (5.17%) OO
11 31 (5.17%) OOP
12 30 (5.00%) CI/CD
13 29 (4.83%) Design Patterns
13 29 (4.83%) Machine Learning
14 27 (4.50%) Code Quality
14 27 (4.50%) Open Source
14 27 (4.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 146 (24.33%) C
2 130 (21.67%) C#
3 127 (21.17%) Python
4 81 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 78 (13.00%) C++
6 64 (10.67%) TypeScript
7 42 (7.00%) Embedded C
7 42 (7.00%) Java
8 36 (6.00%) PHP
9 35 (5.83%) Ada
10 34 (5.67%) SQL
11 25 (4.17%) MATLAB
12 19 (3.17%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.33%) Rust
14 11 (1.83%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.67%) Go
16 7 (1.17%) Embedded C++
17 6 (1.00%) Apex Code
17 6 (1.00%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.83%) Bash
Qualifications
1 112 (18.67%) Degree
2 86 (14.33%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.17%) HNC
7 6 (1.00%) HND
8 5 (0.83%) CCDA
8 5 (0.83%) CCDP
8 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.67%) PhD
10 3 (0.50%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.33%) IEC 62304
1 8 (1.33%) ISO 13485
2 5 (0.83%) MISRA
2 5 (0.83%) QA
3 3 (0.50%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.33%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.17%) DO-254
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (6.33%) Docker
2 36 (6.00%) Firmware
3 8 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.00%) Ansible
4 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.33%) linkerd
6 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (2.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.83%) Siemens
3 8 (1.33%) IBM
3 8 (1.33%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.00%) Cisco
4 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.50%) Cadence
5 3 (0.50%) New Relic
5 3 (0.50%) Rackspace
5 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.33%) Interwoven
6 2 (0.33%) QNX
6 2 (0.33%) RedGate
6 2 (0.33%) Sybase
7 1 (0.17%) EMC
7 1 (0.17%) Google
7 1 (0.17%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle
7 1 (0.17%) Remedy