Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,775 8,387 23,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.62% 9.95% 16.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 10.42% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,729 5,396 8,650
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £121,875 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,375 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -13.75% +1.34% +15.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +2 2,504 £91,500 +1.67% 995
North of England +14 1,782 £57,500 -6.12% 339
South East +5 1,590 £55,000 -14.73% 328
South West +11 1,317 £55,000 -11.93% 239
North West +16 1,079 £60,000 -6.25% 229
Midlands +16 952 £55,000 -4.35% 243
East of England +14 569 £60,000 -7.69% 186
Yorkshire +12 559 £55,000 -10.57% 80
West Midlands +27 527 £60,000 - 120
East Midlands +8 425 £50,000 -9.09% 122
North East +17 144 £55,000 +10.98% 34
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 541 (6.17%) Apache
2 473 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.40%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.23%) GeoServer
5 139 (1.58%) Confluence
6 115 (1.31%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.34%) CMS
9 28 (0.32%) nginx
10 14 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 14 (0.16%) WordPress
11 12 (0.14%) IIS
11 12 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.091%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.080%) Ethereum
14 6 (0.068%) Appian
14 6 (0.068%) Drupal
14 6 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.068%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.068%) WinCC
Applications
1 144 (1.64%) Simulink
2 29 (0.33%) Stateflow
3 19 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.068%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.068%) Trello
10 5 (0.057%) GNU Octave
11 4 (0.046%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.034%) Sketch
12 3 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.034%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.023%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.011%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 43 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.10%) Magento
4 7 (0.080%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.057%) Ripple
5 5 (0.057%) Siebel CRM
6 4 (0.046%) Shopify
7 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.034%) Endur
7 3 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.023%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.023%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.023%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.023%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.023%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.023%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.011%) Ripple XRP
9 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.011%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,523 (28.75%) AWS
2 1,832 (20.88%) Azure
3 830 (9.46%) GCP
4 360 (4.10%) Serverless
5 326 (3.72%) SaaS
6 321 (3.66%) dbt
7 305 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 268 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 245 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 217 (2.47%) GitHub
11 168 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 161 (1.83%) Power Platform
13 129 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 97 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 88 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
15 88 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
16 76 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
17 73 (0.83%) OpenShift
18 71 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
19 70 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 97 (1.11%) Wireless
3 67 (0.76%) Ethernet
4 65 (0.74%) Internet
5 59 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (0.66%) Network Security
7 52 (0.59%) HTTP
7 52 (0.59%) RS-232
8 44 (0.50%) Bluetooth
9 43 (0.49%) RS-485
10 42 (0.48%) AMQP
11 33 (0.38%) MQTT
12 31 (0.35%) Firewall
13 23 (0.26%) 5G
14 22 (0.25%) 4G
14 22 (0.25%) ZigBee
15 19 (0.22%) Modbus
16 16 (0.18%) DNS
17 15 (0.17%) J1939
18 14 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 415 (4.73%) Apache Ignite
3 350 (3.99%) MySQL
4 339 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 317 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
6 314 (3.58%) Dremio
7 307 (3.50%) Apache Arrow
8 297 (3.38%) Data Lake
9 267 (3.04%) NoSQL
10 236 (2.69%) GIS
11 196 (2.23%) QGIS
12 169 (1.93%) Relational Database
13 135 (1.54%) Redis
14 123 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
15 122 (1.39%) MongoDB
16 103 (1.17%) DynamoDB
17 92 (1.05%) Big Data
18 91 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
19 73 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
20 70 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 826 (9.41%) Git
2 318 (3.62%) JIRA
3 265 (3.02%) Visual Studio
4 262 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 240 (2.74%) GitLab
6 135 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 119 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 88 (1.00%) Subversion
9 68 (0.77%) Selenium
10 65 (0.74%) LabVIEW
11 64 (0.73%) Sourcetree
12 53 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 52 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
14 50 (0.57%) JUnit
15 49 (0.56%) Postman
16 38 (0.43%) Cucumber
17 36 (0.41%) CMake
18 34 (0.39%) SonarQube
19 33 (0.38%) CircleCI
20 32 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 1,388 (15.82%) Finance
2 1,187 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 666 (7.59%) Front Office
4 571 (6.51%) Banking
5 496 (5.65%) Electronics
6 380 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
7 348 (3.97%) Manufacturing
8 346 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 326 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 261 (2.97%) Automotive
11 204 (2.32%) Aerospace
12 198 (2.26%) Law
13 196 (2.23%) Public Sector
13 196 (2.23%) Retail
14 181 (2.06%) Games
15 171 (1.95%) Marketing
16 138 (1.57%) Legal
17 120 (1.37%) Tech for Good
18 109 (1.24%) Telecoms
19 100 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5,390 (61.42%) Software Engineer
2 2,317 (26.40%) Senior
3 1,699 (19.36%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,687 (19.23%) Developer
5 1,031 (11.75%) Embedded Engineer
6 973 (11.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 923 (10.52%) Lead
8 421 (4.80%) Python Engineer
9 412 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
10 394 (4.49%) Software Developer
11 370 (4.22%) Python Software Engineer
12 368 (4.19%) Java Engineer
13 352 (4.01%) Senior Developer
14 348 (3.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 339 (3.86%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 325 (3.70%) C++ Software Engineer
17 317 (3.61%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 315 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
19 289 (3.29%) Architect
20 270 (3.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,578 (17.98%) .NET
2 1,389 (15.83%) React
3 595 (6.78%) .NET Core
4 581 (6.62%) CSS
5 571 (6.51%) AngularJS
6 496 (5.65%) gRPC
7 487 (5.55%) Node.js
8 442 (5.04%) Protocol Buffers
9 428 (4.88%) HTML
10 352 (4.01%) Pandas
11 342 (3.90%) RESTful
12 337 (3.84%) NumPy
13 324 (3.69%) Spring
14 316 (3.60%) Vue
15 307 (3.50%) SciPy
16 302 (3.44%) ASP.NET
17 299 (3.41%) REST
18 293 (3.34%) Redux
19 255 (2.91%) Kafka
20 236 (2.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 592 (6.75%) Fixed Income
2 537 (6.12%) Hedge funds
3 484 (5.52%) Equities
4 432 (4.92%) Derivative
5 416 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 375 (4.27%) Algorithms
7 267 (3.04%) Cloud Native
8 256 (2.92%) IoT
9 248 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 243 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
11 213 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
12 206 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
13 178 (2.03%) Product Ownership
14 176 (2.01%) Client/Server
15 165 (1.88%) Data Structures
16 143 (1.63%) Mobile App
17 128 (1.46%) Cyberattack
18 127 (1.45%) Management Information System
19 93 (1.06%) Robotics
20 82 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1,155 (13.16%) Linux
2 470 (5.36%) Windows
3 225 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
4 151 (1.72%) Android
5 136 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 125 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 66 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 61 (0.70%) CentOS
9 60 (0.68%) Unix
10 52 (0.59%) Debian
11 35 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 24 (0.27%) Windows Server
14 17 (0.19%) VMS
15 14 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.091%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.068%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.068%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.057%) Windows Embedded Compact
18 5 (0.057%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,129 (35.66%) Agile
2 1,453 (16.56%) DevOps
3 1,303 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
4 1,124 (12.81%) Computer Science
5 951 (10.84%) Full Stack Development
6 917 (10.45%) CI/CD
7 850 (9.69%) Mentoring
8 702 (8.00%) Microservices
9 658 (7.50%) Asset Management
10 627 (7.15%) Scrum
11 617 (7.03%) Machine Learning
12 596 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 559 (6.37%) SDLC
14 546 (6.22%) Test Automation
15 536 (6.11%) Investment Management
16 524 (5.97%) TDD
17 397 (4.52%) User Experience
18 392 (4.47%) Open Source
19 390 (4.44%) Design Patterns
20 388 (4.42%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2,481 (28.27%) Python
2 1,945 (22.17%) C#
3 1,877 (21.39%) JavaScript
4 1,763 (20.09%) Java
5 1,290 (14.70%) TypeScript
6 1,154 (13.15%) C
7 1,127 (12.84%) SQL
8 1,093 (12.46%) C++
9 293 (3.34%) Kotlin
10 289 (3.29%) PHP
11 270 (3.08%) Go
12 239 (2.72%) Embedded C
13 210 (2.39%) Rust
14 194 (2.21%) Bash
15 168 (1.91%) Scala
16 145 (1.65%) MATLAB
17 107 (1.22%) PowerShell
18 94 (1.07%) T-SQL
19 83 (0.95%) Ada
20 61 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,647 (18.77%) Degree
2 1,161 (13.23%) Security Cleared
3 694 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 560 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 253 (2.88%) Master's Degree
6 217 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 182 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (1.37%) PhD
9 50 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 41 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 41 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 33 (0.38%) HND
13 27 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 27 (0.31%) HNC
14 23 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 22 (0.25%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.23%) CISSP
17 16 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
18 12 (0.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (3.37%) QA
2 128 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 65 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 47 (0.54%) MISRA
5 32 (0.36%) GDPR
6 28 (0.32%) ISO 26262
7 24 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
8 23 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.25%) Def Stans
10 21 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
11 20 (0.23%) ISO 13485
11 20 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 18 (0.21%) IEC 61508
13 17 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.18%) PMO
15 15 (0.17%) NIST
16 14 (0.16%) NCSC
17 12 (0.14%) IEC 62304
18 11 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 11 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 725 (8.26%) Docker
2 224 (2.55%) Firmware
3 111 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 49 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 22 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.10%) KVM
8 7 (0.080%) HDFS
8 7 (0.080%) IAG
9 6 (0.068%) Ceph
10 5 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.046%) NFS
11 4 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.034%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.034%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.011%) LXC
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 778 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 520 (5.93%) Terraform
3 229 (2.61%) Ansible
4 49 (0.56%) Grafana
5 33 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 32 (0.36%) Puppet
7 29 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.091%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.080%) Kibana
11 6 (0.068%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.068%) Knative
11 6 (0.068%) Nessus
12 5 (0.057%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.057%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.057%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.057%) Nagios
12 5 (0.057%) SELinux
12 5 (0.057%) Suricata
13 4 (0.046%) Istio
Vendors
1 658 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 293 (3.34%) Google
3 207 (2.36%) ESRI
4 85 (0.97%) Oracle
5 64 (0.73%) Red Hat
6 55 (0.63%) Xamarin
7 52 (0.59%) SAP
8 46 (0.52%) IBM
9 44 (0.50%) Siemens
10 42 (0.48%) Xilinx
11 41 (0.47%) Bloomberg
12 39 (0.44%) Databricks
13 38 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.33%) Micro Focus
14 29 (0.33%) SaltStack
15 26 (0.30%) EMC
16 23 (0.26%) VMware
17 21 (0.24%) Adobe
17 21 (0.24%) Lauterbach
17 21 (0.24%) Salesforce