Software Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Software Engineer
England > East of England

The median Software Engineer salary in the East of England is £66,206 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 24 65
Rank change year-on-year -61 +41 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 119 394 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.38% 5.87% 3.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.60% 6.24% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 90 312 82
10th Percentile £46,925 £40,000 £40,925
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,188 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -
75th Percentile £66,254 £72,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £72,750 £84,875 £81,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +4.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 3,301 6,316 3,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 94.03% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,641 4,799 2,008
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,792 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +0.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the East of England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Suffolk +11 37 £66,230 +55.84% 9
Cambridgeshire -26 30 £55,000 -15.38% 144
Norfolk +20 19 £54,000 +35.00% 12
Essex -4 15 £65,000 +8.33% 59
Bedfordshire -13 11 £70,000 +40.00% 25
Hertfordshire -41 7 £56,250 -6.25% 75
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 East of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 58 (48.74%) Python
3 57 (47.90%) SQL
4 55 (46.22%) Degree
5 53 (44.54%) JavaScript
6 50 (42.02%) C++
7 48 (40.34%) HTML
8 46 (38.66%) C#
9 44 (36.97%) Artificial Intelligence
10 36 (30.25%) PayPal
10 36 (30.25%) Chatbot
10 36 (30.25%) Conversational UI
11 31 (26.05%) Java
12 30 (25.21%) Agile
13 29 (24.37%) Code Quality
14 27 (22.69%) SDLC
15 25 (21.01%) DevOps
15 25 (21.01%) CI/CD
16 24 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (19.33%) Kubernetes
17 23 (19.33%) Azure
18 22 (18.49%) Docker
19 21 (17.65%) Test Automation
20 20 (16.81%) AWS
20 20 (16.81%) C
21 19 (15.97%) TDD
21 19 (15.97%) Microservices
21 19 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
22 18 (15.13%) React
22 18 (15.13%) JIRA

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 13 (10.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache
Applications
1 36 (30.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.33%) Azure
2 20 (16.81%) AWS
3 14 (11.76%) GCP
4 4 (3.36%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Bluetooth
1 3 (2.52%) Modbus
1 3 (2.52%) Profibus
1 3 (2.52%) RS-232
1 3 (2.52%) RS-485
1 3 (2.52%) Wireless
1 3 (2.52%) ZigBee
2 2 (1.68%) DHCP
2 2 (1.68%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.20%) Redis
5 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.68%) Big Data
6 2 (1.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) JIRA
2 16 (13.45%) GitLab
3 15 (12.61%) Bitbucket
3 15 (12.61%) Cucumber
3 15 (12.61%) Maven
3 15 (12.61%) Selenium
3 15 (12.61%) SonarQube
3 15 (12.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (4.20%) Git
5 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.68%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.68%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.68%) Moq
6 2 (1.68%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.84%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (14.29%) Banking
2 16 (13.45%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (9.24%) Automotive
4 11 (9.24%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.40%) Electronics
6 6 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.84%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (40.34%) HTML
2 18 (15.13%) CSS
2 18 (15.13%) React
3 17 (14.29%) Kafka
4 15 (12.61%) JPA
4 15 (12.61%) Redux
4 15 (12.61%) Spring
4 15 (12.61%) Spring Boot
5 13 (10.92%) Hibernate
6 7 (5.88%) Node.js
7 6 (5.04%) .NET
8 5 (4.20%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.20%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.20%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.20%) REST
9 4 (3.36%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.36%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (2.52%) CSS3
10 3 (2.52%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.92%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.36%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.68%) FPGA
5 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.68%) Replication
5 2 (1.68%) Robotics
5 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.84%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.84%) Verilog
6 1 (0.84%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.52%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.68%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (36.97%) Artificial Intelligence
3 36 (30.25%) Conversational UI
4 30 (25.21%) Agile
5 29 (24.37%) Code Quality
6 27 (22.69%) SDLC
7 25 (21.01%) CI/CD
7 25 (21.01%) DevOps
8 24 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (17.65%) Test Automation
10 19 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (15.97%) Microservices
10 19 (15.97%) TDD
11 17 (14.29%) Front End Development
12 16 (13.45%) Containerisation
13 15 (12.61%) Computer Science
13 15 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.76%) Clean Code
15 12 (10.08%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.74%) Python
2 57 (47.90%) SQL
3 53 (44.54%) JavaScript
4 50 (42.02%) C++
5 46 (38.66%) C#
6 31 (26.05%) Java
7 20 (16.81%) C
8 9 (7.56%) Embedded C
8 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.88%) Rust
10 5 (4.20%) Ada
11 4 (3.36%) Ruby
12 2 (1.68%) Go
12 2 (1.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 55 (46.22%) Degree
2 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.68%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.13%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) CDISC
System Software
1 22 (18.49%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Firmware
3 3 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (19.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Ansible
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (30.25%) PayPal
2 15 (12.61%) Solace
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.84%) Facebook
4 1 (0.84%) Google
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