Software Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Software Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 864 687 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.27% 7.43% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 7.70% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 684 370 514
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £85,000
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
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,744 8,924 10,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.98% 96.52% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 4,510 6,907
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,834 £38,362 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,270 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the Midlands

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands +21 506 £60,000 - 98
East Midlands +2 358 £50,000 -9.09% 115
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 28 (3.24%) ArcGIS
1 28 (3.24%) GeoServer
2 13 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.93%) CMS
4 7 (0.81%) Confluence
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.69%) Appian
6 5 (0.58%) NServiceBus
6 5 (0.58%) WinCC
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) Liferay
8 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (1.62%) Simulink
2 8 (0.93%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.46%) CANalyzer
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (23.15%) Azure
2 167 (19.33%) AWS
3 68 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (4.75%) SaaS
5 40 (4.63%) GCP
6 28 (3.24%) GitHub
7 27 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (2.89%) Serverless
9 22 (2.55%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (1.62%) PaaS
11 10 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.04%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.93%) IaaS
14 7 (0.81%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Functions
14 7 (0.81%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (2.08%) Bluetooth
3 17 (1.97%) Wireless
4 15 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.27%) Ethernet
6 10 (1.16%) RS-232
6 10 (1.16%) RS-485
6 10 (1.16%) ZigBee
7 6 (0.69%) Internet
7 6 (0.69%) Modbus
8 5 (0.58%) MQTT
8 5 (0.58%) VoIP
9 4 (0.46%) GSM
9 4 (0.46%) HTTP
9 4 (0.46%) J1939
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) 5G
10 2 (0.23%) FlexRay
10 2 (0.23%) GPRS
10 2 (0.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.75%) MySQL
4 28 (3.24%) GIS
4 28 (3.24%) QGIS
5 16 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 16 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.50%) SQLite
7 11 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.04%) Power BI
10 8 (0.93%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.69%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.69%) Redis
13 5 (0.58%) OLAP
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (7.99%) Git
2 46 (5.32%) JIRA
3 36 (4.17%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.85%) GitLab
6 14 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.93%) Postman
10 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.69%) Xcode
12 5 (0.58%) CANoe
13 4 (0.46%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.46%) SoapUI
14 3 (0.35%) CMake
14 3 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.35%) JDeveloper
14 3 (0.35%) Subversion
15 2 (0.23%) gulp
General
1 62 (7.18%) Automotive
1 62 (7.18%) Social Skills
2 56 (6.48%) Manufacturing
3 55 (6.37%) Finance
4 54 (6.25%) Electronics
5 40 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.43%) Law
6 21 (2.43%) Retail
7 18 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 14 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.39%) Marketing
10 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.93%) Publishing
12 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.69%) Aviation
13 6 (0.69%) Games
13 6 (0.69%) Legal
13 6 (0.69%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 522 (60.42%) Software Engineer
2 195 (22.57%) Senior
3 154 (17.82%) Embedded Engineer
4 143 (16.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 120 (13.89%) Developer
6 117 (13.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 51 (5.90%) Lead
8 43 (4.98%) C# Software Engineer
9 39 (4.51%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 32 (3.70%) Software Developer
11 25 (2.89%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (2.66%) C++ Software Engineer
12 23 (2.66%) Full Stack Developer
13 22 (2.55%) .NET Software Engineer
13 22 (2.55%) PLC Engineer
13 22 (2.55%) PLC Software Engineer
13 22 (2.55%) Software Manager
14 20 (2.31%) SCADA Engineer
14 20 (2.31%) SCADA Software Engineer
14 20 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (23.96%) .NET
2 114 (13.19%) React
3 73 (8.45%) .NET Core
3 73 (8.45%) AngularJS
4 68 (7.87%) CSS
5 62 (7.18%) RESTful
6 55 (6.37%) HTML
7 47 (5.44%) ASP.NET
8 44 (5.09%) .NET Framework
9 35 (4.05%) Web Services
10 31 (3.59%) Node.js
11 28 (3.24%) Leaflet
11 28 (3.24%) OpenLayers
11 28 (3.24%) PostGIS
12 21 (2.43%) Blazor
13 19 (2.20%) LAMP
14 18 (2.08%) Laravel
14 18 (2.08%) SOAP
14 18 (2.08%) WPF
15 17 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.51%) IoT
2 31 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.24%) SCADA
4 25 (2.89%) Mobile App
5 24 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 22 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.31%) Operational Technology
9 18 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.16%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.04%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.04%) Device Driver
15 8 (0.93%) ARM Cortex
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.81%) Data Structures
16 7 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 99 (11.46%) Linux
2 25 (2.89%) Windows
3 21 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.20%) Embedded Linux
5 17 (1.97%) Android
6 15 (1.74%) Unix
7 10 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
8 8 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.58%) Debian
9 5 (0.58%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (31.60%) Agile
2 160 (18.52%) DevOps
3 109 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (9.72%) Scrum
5 81 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 81 (9.38%) Computer Science
6 78 (9.03%) Mentoring
7 63 (7.29%) Full Stack Development
7 63 (7.29%) SDLC
8 61 (7.06%) Microservices
9 54 (6.25%) Project Management
10 50 (5.79%) Containerisation
11 49 (5.67%) Web Development
12 46 (5.32%) MVC
12 46 (5.32%) User Experience
13 45 (5.21%) Roadmaps
14 44 (5.09%) Continuous Integration
15 40 (4.63%) Actionable Insight
15 40 (4.63%) Test Automation
16 33 (3.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 247 (28.59%) C#
2 150 (17.36%) JavaScript
3 140 (16.20%) C
4 139 (16.09%) SQL
5 107 (12.38%) C++
5 107 (12.38%) Python
6 106 (12.27%) TypeScript
7 98 (11.34%) Java
8 41 (4.75%) PHP
9 36 (4.17%) Embedded C
10 28 (3.24%) VB
11 25 (2.89%) Go
12 18 (2.08%) Embedded C++
12 18 (2.08%) T-SQL
13 16 (1.85%) MATLAB
14 15 (1.74%) Assembly Language
15 10 (1.16%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.04%) Ladder Logic
16 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.04%) XAML
Qualifications
1 144 (16.67%) Degree
2 84 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 62 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.39%) HNC
8 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.81%) MCSE
11 6 (0.69%) OCP
11 6 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.69%) PhD
11 6 (0.69%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) PMP
12 5 (0.58%) CAPM
12 5 (0.58%) HND
12 5 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.05%) QA
2 18 (2.08%) MISRA
3 14 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
5 11 (1.27%) ISO 26262
6 8 (0.93%) NCSC
7 5 (0.58%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.46%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.23%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) JTAG
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (10.07%) Docker
2 53 (6.13%) Firmware
3 25 (2.89%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.13%) Terraform
3 9 (1.04%) Ansible
4 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.58%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.35%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 77 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.47%) Google
3 28 (3.24%) ESRI
4 22 (2.55%) Siemens
5 19 (2.20%) Xamarin
6 17 (1.97%) DevExpress
7 12 (1.39%) Oracle
8 10 (1.16%) Apple
8 10 (1.16%) Rockwell
9 9 (1.04%) SAP
10 8 (0.93%) Adobe
11 6 (0.69%) EMC
12 5 (0.58%) HP
13 4 (0.46%) Micro Focus
13 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.46%) QNX
13 4 (0.46%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.35%) UiPath
14 3 (0.35%) Zend