Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 9,500 5,393 9,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.47% 9.54% 13.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 9.99% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,412 3,088 4,754
10th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +4 2,998 £60,000 -7.69% 131
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
Wales +9 184 £50,000 - 28
North East +17 144 £55,000 +10.98% 34
Northern Ireland +1 110 £60,000 +20.00% 31
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 624 (6.57%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.16%) ArcGIS
3 284 (2.99%) GeoServer
4 201 (2.12%) Apache
5 123 (1.29%) Confluence
6 116 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 104 (1.09%) FileNet
8 32 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
9 24 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.22%) CMS
10 21 (0.22%) GemFire
11 18 (0.19%) Camunda
12 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 14 (0.15%) NServiceBus
14 13 (0.14%) nginx
15 12 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
16 11 (0.12%) CICS
16 11 (0.12%) WebSphere
17 10 (0.11%) IIS
17 10 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 145 (1.53%) Simulink
2 29 (0.31%) Stateflow
3 21 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.063%) Trello
10 5 (0.053%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.042%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.032%) GNU Octave
12 3 (0.032%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.021%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.021%) Sketch
13 2 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.011%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 34 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.095%) Magento
2 9 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.074%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.053%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.042%) Shopify
6 3 (0.032%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.032%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.021%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.021%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.021%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.021%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.011%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,472 (26.02%) AWS
2 1,393 (14.66%) Azure
3 329 (3.46%) GCP
4 277 (2.92%) SaaS
5 232 (2.44%) Serverless
6 220 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
7 201 (2.12%) GitHub
8 183 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 155 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.32%) Datadog
11 118 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 113 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 108 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
16 86 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
17 82 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
18 73 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 62 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
20 61 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 153 (1.61%) Wireless
2 121 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 92 (0.97%) Ethernet
4 89 (0.94%) Network Security
5 83 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 82 (0.86%) Kerberos
7 67 (0.71%) RS-232
8 54 (0.57%) Bluetooth
9 51 (0.54%) MQTT
10 47 (0.49%) Internet
11 44 (0.46%) HTTP
11 44 (0.46%) RS-485
12 35 (0.37%) AMQP
13 32 (0.34%) Modbus
14 24 (0.25%) ZigBee
15 23 (0.24%) 5G
16 22 (0.23%) 4G
17 19 (0.20%) Firewall
18 18 (0.19%) DSL
19 15 (0.16%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 868 (9.14%) NoSQL
2 555 (5.84%) Big Data
3 499 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 326 (3.43%) GIS
5 307 (3.23%) MySQL
6 284 (2.99%) QGIS
7 280 (2.95%) Hadoop
8 250 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 241 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 210 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
11 174 (1.83%) MongoDB
12 159 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 124 (1.31%) Apache Hive
14 98 (1.03%) HBase
15 97 (1.02%) Redis
16 76 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 74 (0.78%) Power BI
18 72 (0.76%) Metadata
19 69 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
20 56 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 837 (8.81%) Git
2 445 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 307 (3.23%) JIRA
4 275 (2.89%) Visual Studio
5 243 (2.56%) JUnit
6 181 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 155 (1.63%) GitLab
8 139 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 127 (1.34%) Jasmine
10 124 (1.31%) Selenium
11 93 (0.98%) Maven
12 88 (0.93%) Subversion
13 85 (0.89%) LabVIEW
14 84 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
15 66 (0.69%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
16 64 (0.67%) WebDriver
17 61 (0.64%) Sourcetree
18 60 (0.63%) Protractor
19 50 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 2,723 (28.66%) Finance
2 2,647 (27.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,364 (24.88%) Law
4 1,297 (13.65%) Marketing
5 1,070 (11.26%) Social Skills
6 725 (7.63%) Legal
7 521 (5.48%) Electronics
8 514 (5.41%) Banking
9 389 (4.09%) Manufacturing
10 356 (3.75%) Investment Banking
11 349 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
12 260 (2.74%) Automotive
13 258 (2.72%) Financial Institution
14 204 (2.15%) Aerospace
15 191 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
16 163 (1.72%) Games
17 147 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
18 144 (1.52%) Retail
19 141 (1.48%) Public Sector
20 99 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,662 (70.13%) Software Engineer
2 2,196 (23.12%) Senior
3 1,718 (18.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,284 (13.52%) Lead
5 1,141 (12.01%) Embedded Engineer
6 1,135 (11.95%) Developer
7 1,045 (11.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 951 (10.01%) Java Engineer
9 925 (9.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 916 (9.64%) Java Software Engineer
11 442 (4.65%) Full Stack Engineer
12 413 (4.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 405 (4.26%) Python Engineer
14 399 (4.20%) Python Software Engineer
15 387 (4.07%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 372 (3.92%) Big Data Engineer
16 372 (3.92%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 365 (3.84%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 362 (3.81%) Software Developer
19 344 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,396 (14.69%) React
2 1,389 (14.62%) .NET
3 886 (9.33%) Spring
4 812 (8.55%) CSS
5 797 (8.39%) AngularJS
6 619 (6.52%) HTML
7 551 (5.80%) .NET Core
8 515 (5.42%) Node.js
9 498 (5.24%) Spring Boot
10 470 (4.95%) Kafka
11 417 (4.39%) RESTful
12 301 (3.17%) REST
13 297 (3.13%) JSON
14 294 (3.09%) PostGIS
15 292 (3.07%) Web Services
16 288 (3.03%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.03%) OpenLayers
17 252 (2.65%) J2EE
18 249 (2.62%) Hibernate
19 245 (2.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,074 (11.31%) Algorithms
2 1,005 (10.58%) Cloud Native
3 304 (3.20%) Public Cloud
4 252 (2.65%) IoT
5 238 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
6 222 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 220 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 209 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 202 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 193 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 168 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 133 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 131 (1.38%) Reference Data
14 121 (1.27%) Cyberattack
15 108 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 91 (0.96%) Market Risk
17 83 (0.87%) Private Cloud
17 83 (0.87%) Robotics
18 79 (0.83%) Virtual Reality
19 78 (0.82%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1,184 (12.46%) Linux
2 438 (4.61%) Windows
3 246 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 185 (1.95%) Unix
5 138 (1.45%) Android
6 128 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 80 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 67 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 55 (0.58%) CentOS
10 39 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
11 37 (0.39%) Debian
12 17 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 14 (0.15%) Windows Server
14 8 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
14 8 (0.084%) VxWorks
15 6 (0.063%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.063%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 5 (0.053%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,238 (44.61%) Agile
2 2,454 (25.83%) SDLC
3 2,442 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 1,810 (19.05%) Operational Stability
5 1,713 (18.03%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,710 (18.00%) Machine Learning
7 1,376 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
8 1,286 (13.54%) Community of Practice
9 1,279 (13.46%) DevOps
10 1,230 (12.95%) Computer Science
11 962 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 921 (9.69%) Microservices
13 917 (9.65%) Full Stack Development
14 900 (9.47%) Visualisation
15 830 (8.74%) Mentoring
16 716 (7.54%) Risk Management
17 650 (6.84%) Test Automation
18 625 (6.58%) Decision-Making
19 603 (6.35%) Scrum
20 587 (6.18%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2,664 (28.04%) Java
2 2,461 (25.91%) Python
3 1,867 (19.65%) SQL
4 1,741 (18.33%) C#
5 1,558 (16.40%) JavaScript
6 1,251 (13.17%) C
7 1,099 (11.57%) C++
8 739 (7.78%) TypeScript
9 352 (3.71%) Scala
10 323 (3.40%) Embedded C
11 228 (2.40%) Go
12 221 (2.33%) PHP
13 193 (2.03%) Bash
14 149 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 132 (1.39%) MATLAB
16 125 (1.32%) Rust
17 120 (1.26%) Kotlin
18 103 (1.08%) T-SQL
19 84 (0.88%) Ada
20 73 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,464 (15.41%) Degree
2 1,174 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 735 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 445 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 204 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 180 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 177 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (1.15%) PhD
9 49 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 35 (0.37%) HND
12 33 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 26 (0.27%) HNC
14 22 (0.23%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.22%) ISTQB
16 16 (0.17%) CISSP
17 10 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.11%) DBS Check
18 9 (0.095%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (2.17%) QA
2 92 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 66 (0.69%) SLA
4 54 (0.57%) MISRA
5 34 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 34 (0.36%) PMO
6 33 (0.35%) GDPR
7 30 (0.32%) ISO 26262
8 26 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 24 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
10 22 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 21 (0.22%) Automotive SPICE
12 20 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 19 (0.20%) IEC 61508
14 14 (0.15%) NIST
15 12 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 11 (0.12%) IEC 62304
16 11 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 10 (0.11%) GRC
17 10 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 519 (5.46%) Docker
2 300 (3.16%) Firmware
3 131 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 98 (1.03%) HDFS
5 78 (0.82%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.074%) IAG
10 4 (0.042%) NFS
10 4 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.032%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.032%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.021%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.021%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 775 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 517 (5.44%) Terraform
3 193 (2.03%) Grafana
4 150 (1.58%) Ansible
5 93 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.36%) Puppet
7 33 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 26 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.23%) Kibana
10 21 (0.22%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 15 (0.16%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.074%) Graphite
13 6 (0.063%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.063%) Nessus
14 5 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.053%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.053%) Istio
14 5 (0.053%) Nagios
14 5 (0.053%) Suricata
Vendors
1 513 (5.40%) Microsoft
2 408 (4.29%) Oracle
3 296 (3.12%) ESRI
4 255 (2.68%) Databricks
5 200 (2.11%) Splunk
6 193 (2.03%) Google
7 164 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 85 (0.89%) Informatica
9 69 (0.73%) SAP
10 68 (0.72%) Cloudera
11 59 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 57 (0.60%) IBM
13 55 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 54 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 54 (0.57%) Xamarin
15 47 (0.49%) SaltStack
16 46 (0.48%) Siemens
17 42 (0.44%) Xilinx
18 29 (0.31%) Micro Focus
19 26 (0.27%) EMC