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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 23 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 523 508 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.53% 9.61% 15.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 10.12% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 434 197 197
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,850 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £48,750 £47,500
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 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +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 4,937 5,022 6,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 80.56% 94.97% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,707 2,179 2,700
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +2 255 £65,000 -7.14% 121
Hertfordshire +28 154 £62,500 -10.71% 35
Essex +20 54 £45,000 -30.77% 20
Bedfordshire -7 24 £44,020 -21.74% 6
Norfolk -28 21 £42,500 -22.73% 11
Suffolk -4 15 £50,000 -23.08% 1
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 (1.15%) nginx
2 5 (0.96%) Apache
3 4 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.19%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (3.25%) Simulink
2 9 (1.72%) AutoCAD
3 6 (1.15%) Trello
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.19%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.19%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (13.96%) AWS
2 43 (8.22%) Azure
3 16 (3.06%) SaaS
4 12 (2.29%) Amazon S3
4 12 (2.29%) GitHub
4 12 (2.29%) Serverless
5 10 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.57%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.57%) AWS KMS
9 3 (0.57%) Loggly
9 3 (0.57%) Rackspace Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.50%) Wireless
2 18 (3.44%) Bluetooth
3 16 (3.06%) Ethernet
4 15 (2.87%) 5G
5 14 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.53%) LTE
7 8 (1.53%) Modbus
7 8 (1.53%) RS-232
8 6 (1.15%) 5G NR
8 6 (1.15%) 802.11
8 6 (1.15%) HTTP
8 6 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (0.76%) Internet
10 3 (0.57%) 4G
10 3 (0.57%) RS-422
10 3 (0.57%) RS-485
11 2 (0.38%) MQTT
11 2 (0.38%) NGN
11 2 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.59%) MySQL
3 17 (3.25%) Redis
4 10 (1.91%) GIS
4 10 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (1.15%) Power BI
8 4 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.76%) Spatial Data
8 4 (0.76%) Triplestore
9 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.57%) Big Data
9 3 (0.57%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (8.41%) Git
2 19 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.06%) GitLab
4 15 (2.87%) JIRA
5 14 (2.68%) LabVIEW
6 11 (2.10%) Rational Rhapsody
7 9 (1.72%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.15%) webpack
9 4 (0.76%) Subversion
9 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.57%) Rational Team Concert
10 3 (0.57%) Selenium
11 2 (0.38%) Appium
11 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 102 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 93 (17.78%) Electronics
3 41 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.93%) Automotive
5 29 (5.54%) Manufacturing
6 21 (4.02%) Aerospace
7 15 (2.87%) Finance
8 14 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.49%) Games
10 10 (1.91%) Military
11 7 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.34%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.15%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Local Government
14 4 (0.76%) Marketing
14 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.57%) Law
15 3 (0.57%) Welsh Language
16 2 (0.38%) French Language
Job Titles
1 325 (62.14%) Software Engineer
2 110 (21.03%) Embedded Engineer
3 108 (20.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 101 (19.31%) Developer
5 95 (18.16%) Senior
6 82 (15.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (7.65%) Software Developer
8 29 (5.54%) Lead
9 24 (4.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 22 (4.21%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 20 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
12 16 (3.06%) Full Stack Developer
12 16 (3.06%) PHP Developer
13 14 (2.68%) Web Developer
14 12 (2.29%) Ada Engineer
14 12 (2.29%) Ada Software Engineer
15 11 (2.10%) Python Engineer
16 10 (1.91%) Architect
16 10 (1.91%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 10 (1.91%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.33%) React
2 50 (9.56%) .NET
3 39 (7.46%) CSS
3 39 (7.46%) HTML
4 28 (5.35%) Node.js
5 17 (3.25%) REST
6 15 (2.87%) Laravel
7 13 (2.49%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.29%) Django
9 11 (2.10%) .NET Core
9 11 (2.10%) JSON
9 11 (2.10%) Kafka
9 11 (2.10%) Yocto
10 10 (1.91%) HTML5
11 9 (1.72%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.72%) Middleware
11 9 (1.72%) PyQt
11 9 (1.72%) Spring
12 8 (1.53%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.53%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.99%) Embedded Systems
2 46 (8.80%) Algorithms
3 34 (6.50%) IoT
4 23 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.02%) Client/Server
6 18 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
8 16 (3.06%) Robotics
9 14 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.72%) PCIe
10 9 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.53%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.53%) Device Driver
11 8 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.53%) RISC-V
12 7 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.34%) Sports Betting
13 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 98 (18.74%) Linux
2 25 (4.78%) Windows
3 18 (3.44%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (2.29%) Android
5 9 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (24.47%) Agile
2 97 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (13.58%) Computer Science
4 48 (9.18%) DevOps
5 46 (8.80%) Full Stack Development
6 42 (8.03%) Mentoring
7 41 (7.84%) Validation
8 39 (7.46%) Software Testing
9 35 (6.69%) SDLC
10 32 (6.12%) Systems Engineering
11 31 (5.93%) OO
11 31 (5.93%) OOP
12 29 (5.54%) Roadmaps
12 29 (5.54%) Test Automation
13 28 (5.35%) Design Patterns
14 27 (5.16%) CI/CD
14 27 (5.16%) Machine Learning
14 27 (5.16%) Open Source
15 26 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
15 26 (4.97%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 141 (26.96%) C
2 121 (23.14%) C#
3 118 (22.56%) Python
4 76 (14.53%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.38%) C++
6 52 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 41 (7.84%) Java
8 36 (6.88%) Ada
8 36 (6.88%) Embedded C
8 36 (6.88%) PHP
9 30 (5.74%) SQL
10 25 (4.78%) MATLAB
11 19 (3.63%) Kotlin
12 14 (2.68%) Rust
13 11 (2.10%) Go
13 11 (2.10%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.34%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.15%) Apex Code
15 6 (1.15%) Bash
15 6 (1.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (20.84%) Degree
2 84 (16.06%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.34%) HNC
7 6 (1.15%) HND
8 5 (0.96%) CCDA
8 5 (0.96%) CCDP
8 5 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.57%) PhD
9 3 (0.57%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.53%) IEC 62304
1 8 (1.53%) ISO 13485
2 5 (0.96%) MISRA
2 5 (0.96%) QA
3 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.38%) MISRA C
System Software
1 38 (7.27%) Docker
2 35 (6.69%) Firmware
3 10 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.63%) Terraform
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.38%) linkerd
6 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (2.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.10%) Siemens
3 8 (1.53%) IBM
4 7 (1.34%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.96%) Cisco
7 3 (0.57%) Cadence
7 3 (0.57%) New Relic
7 3 (0.57%) Rackspace
7 3 (0.57%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.38%) Interwoven
8 2 (0.38%) QNX
8 2 (0.38%) RedGate
8 2 (0.38%) Sybase
9 1 (0.19%) Google
9 1 (0.19%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle
9 1 (0.19%) Remedy
9 1 (0.19%) Xamarin