Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 67 33
Rank change year-on-year +38 -34 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,198 4,050 12,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.85% 4.68% 8.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 5.12% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 2,367 3,725
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +10 1,281 £95,000 +11.76% 470
North of England +56 1,046 £55,000 -8.33% 171
South East +40 1,004 £55,000 -12.00% 175
South West +38 908 £55,000 -8.33% 154
North West +62 594 £57,500 - 113
Midlands +51 587 £52,500 -4.55% 112
Yorkshire +49 373 £50,000 -16.67% 43
East of England +26 356 £60,000 - 112
West Midlands +51 315 £55,000 -4.35% 56
East Midlands +26 272 £52,500 +10.53% 55
North East +18 79 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5,152 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 1,586 (30.51%) Python
3 1,567 (30.15%) Agile
4 1,492 (28.70%) AWS
5 1,200 (23.09%) JavaScript
6 1,099 (21.14%) C#
7 1,054 (20.28%) Azure
8 1,029 (19.80%) Java
9 943 (18.14%) React
10 897 (17.26%) .NET
11 859 (16.53%) C
12 824 (15.85%) Degree
13 814 (15.66%) C++
14 781 (15.03%) Linux
15 770 (14.81%) TypeScript
16 738 (14.20%) Finance
17 725 (13.95%) Security Cleared
18 667 (12.83%) DevOps
19 581 (11.18%) SQL
20 577 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
21 566 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
22 532 (10.23%) Computer Science
23 531 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
24 517 (9.95%) GCP
25 516 (9.93%) Social Skills
26 427 (8.21%) Front Office
27 426 (8.20%) AngularJS
28 419 (8.06%) SC Cleared
29 417 (8.02%) Asset Management
30 414 (7.96%) Fixed Income

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 381 (7.33%) Apache
2 325 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.02%) ArcGIS
4 196 (3.77%) GeoServer
5 74 (1.42%) Apache Spark
6 51 (0.98%) Confluence
7 15 (0.29%) CMS
8 13 (0.25%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.15%) nginx
10 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.096%) Drupal
12 4 (0.077%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.077%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.077%) WinCC
13 3 (0.058%) Captiva
13 3 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.058%) FileNet
13 3 (0.058%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.038%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.019%) JBoss
Applications
1 104 (2.00%) Simulink
2 27 (0.52%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.21%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Trello
5 5 (0.096%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.058%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.058%) Sketch
6 3 (0.058%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.038%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.019%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.019%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.019%) UXPin
8 1 (0.019%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
4 6 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.038%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.019%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Findur
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.019%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,492 (28.70%) AWS
2 1,054 (20.28%) Azure
3 517 (9.95%) GCP
4 196 (3.77%) Serverless
5 181 (3.48%) dbt
6 145 (2.79%) Snowflake
7 119 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
8 110 (2.12%) SaaS
9 109 (2.10%) GitHub
10 104 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (0.79%) OpenShift
13 40 (0.77%) Power Platform
14 35 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
15 30 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
16 27 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (0.52%) Amazon S3
17 26 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (0.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 71 (1.37%) Wireless
3 49 (0.94%) RS-232
4 43 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 40 (0.77%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.75%) RS-485
7 38 (0.73%) Ethernet
8 36 (0.69%) Internet
9 31 (0.60%) HTTP
10 30 (0.58%) AMQP
11 28 (0.54%) MQTT
12 19 (0.37%) Modbus
12 19 (0.37%) ZigBee
13 15 (0.29%) Network Security
14 14 (0.27%) J1939
15 13 (0.25%) 4G
16 12 (0.23%) 3G
16 12 (0.23%) 5G
17 11 (0.21%) VoIP
18 7 (0.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 531 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 294 (5.66%) Apache Ignite
3 230 (4.42%) GIS
4 197 (3.79%) MySQL
5 196 (3.77%) QGIS
6 182 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 179 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
8 177 (3.41%) Apache Arrow
8 177 (3.41%) Dremio
9 148 (2.85%) Data Lake
10 139 (2.67%) NoSQL
11 89 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 79 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 70 (1.35%) Redis
14 55 (1.06%) DynamoDB
15 50 (0.96%) Big Data
16 33 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 33 (0.63%) Hadoop
17 28 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
18 24 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 393 (7.56%) Git
2 158 (3.04%) JIRA
3 119 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.77%) GitLab
5 87 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 87 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 69 (1.33%) Subversion
7 35 (0.67%) LabVIEW
8 29 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 27 (0.52%) CMake
10 24 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.42%) ClearCase
11 22 (0.42%) Maven
12 21 (0.40%) Plastic SCM
12 21 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
12 21 (0.40%) Selenium
13 19 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (0.37%) Vagrant
14 17 (0.33%) JUnit
15 14 (0.27%) JDeveloper
General
1 738 (14.20%) Finance
2 516 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 427 (8.21%) Front Office
4 386 (7.43%) Electronics
5 337 (6.48%) Banking
6 231 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 206 (3.96%) Automotive
8 178 (3.42%) Investment Banking
9 164 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
10 154 (2.96%) Aerospace
11 103 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 100 (1.92%) Retail
13 90 (1.73%) Marketing
14 80 (1.54%) Military
15 78 (1.50%) Tech for Good
16 74 (1.42%) Legal
17 71 (1.37%) Law
18 57 (1.10%) Health Technology
19 54 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 943 (18.14%) React
2 897 (17.26%) .NET
3 426 (8.20%) AngularJS
4 404 (7.77%) .NET Core
5 355 (6.83%) gRPC
6 340 (6.54%) CSS
7 317 (6.10%) Node.js
8 306 (5.89%) Protocol Buffers
9 258 (4.96%) Redux
10 248 (4.77%) Vue
11 204 (3.92%) PostGIS
12 200 (3.85%) Leaflet
12 200 (3.85%) OpenLayers
12 200 (3.85%) Pandas
13 196 (3.77%) NumPy
14 194 (3.73%) ASP.NET
15 192 (3.69%) RESTful
16 183 (3.52%) Spring
17 179 (3.44%) HTML
18 177 (3.41%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 414 (7.96%) Fixed Income
2 342 (6.58%) Hedge funds
3 301 (5.79%) Equities
4 256 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 254 (4.89%) Derivative
6 200 (3.85%) Algorithms
7 180 (3.46%) IoT
8 177 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
9 122 (2.35%) Cloud Native
10 116 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 107 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
12 106 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.37%) Client/Server
14 69 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.25%) Device Driver
16 64 (1.23%) Data Structures
17 58 (1.12%) Robotics
18 54 (1.04%) Product Ownership
19 42 (0.81%) SCADA
20 40 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 781 (15.03%) Linux
2 300 (5.77%) Windows
3 178 (3.42%) Embedded Linux
4 119 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 94 (1.81%) Android
6 76 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 62 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 51 (0.98%) CentOS
8 51 (0.98%) Debian
9 49 (0.94%) Unix
10 30 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.12%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 4 (0.077%) Windows Server
15 3 (0.058%) VMS
16 2 (0.038%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.038%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.038%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,152 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 1,567 (30.15%) Agile
3 667 (12.83%) DevOps
4 577 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
5 566 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
6 532 (10.23%) Computer Science
7 417 (8.02%) Asset Management
8 412 (7.93%) Microservices
9 382 (7.35%) Investment Management
10 365 (7.02%) CI/CD
11 342 (6.58%) Mentoring
12 323 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
13 307 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence
14 301 (5.79%) Test Automation
15 299 (5.75%) TDD
16 280 (5.39%) Web Development
17 275 (5.29%) Machine Learning
18 268 (5.16%) SDLC
19 249 (4.79%) Fintech
20 238 (4.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,586 (30.51%) Python
2 1,200 (23.09%) JavaScript
3 1,099 (21.14%) C#
4 1,029 (19.80%) Java
5 859 (16.53%) C
6 814 (15.66%) C++
7 770 (14.81%) TypeScript
8 581 (11.18%) SQL
9 218 (4.19%) Kotlin
10 198 (3.81%) Embedded C
11 166 (3.19%) Go
12 165 (3.17%) Bash
13 160 (3.08%) Rust
14 122 (2.35%) PHP
15 107 (2.06%) MATLAB
16 106 (2.04%) Scala
17 70 (1.35%) Ada
18 59 (1.14%) Perl
19 53 (1.02%) T-SQL
20 52 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 824 (15.85%) Degree
2 725 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 419 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 269 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 112 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 72 (1.39%) PhD
8 61 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.48%) HND
10 24 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.31%) HNC
12 15 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.15%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.13%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.077%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.058%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.058%) Sun Certification
17 1 (0.019%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.44%) QA
2 64 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 49 (0.94%) MISRA
4 24 (0.46%) ISO 26262
5 22 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
5 22 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
6 19 (0.37%) GDPR
7 16 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
7 16 (0.31%) PMO
8 12 (0.23%) Def Stans
8 12 (0.23%) ISO 13485
9 11 (0.21%) IEC 62304
10 10 (0.19%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.13%) ISO 9000
13 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
13 6 (0.12%) JTAG
14 5 (0.096%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.096%) TickIT
15 2 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 300 (5.77%) Docker
2 156 (3.00%) Firmware
3 79 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.096%) Ceph
7 3 (0.058%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.038%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.019%) KVM
9 1 (0.019%) LXC
Systems Management
1 348 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 241 (4.64%) Terraform
3 129 (2.48%) Ansible
4 28 (0.54%) Puppet
5 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 15 (0.29%) Grafana
7 7 (0.13%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.096%) Knative
8 5 (0.096%) SELinux
9 4 (0.077%) Podman
9 4 (0.077%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.058%) Consul
10 3 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.058%) Kibana
10 3 (0.058%) Packer
10 3 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.038%) Istio
11 2 (0.038%) linkerd
11 2 (0.038%) MIIS
12 1 (0.019%) Argo
Vendors
1 235 (4.52%) Microsoft
2 205 (3.94%) Google
3 204 (3.92%) ESRI
4 62 (1.19%) Oracle
5 54 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 41 (0.79%) Siemens
7 35 (0.67%) IBM
8 28 (0.54%) SaltStack
9 26 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 24 (0.46%) Xamarin
11 23 (0.44%) SAP
12 21 (0.40%) Lauterbach
13 20 (0.38%) Xilinx
14 13 (0.25%) Databricks
15 12 (0.23%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.23%) F5
16 11 (0.21%) Cadence
17 10 (0.19%) Facebook
17 10 (0.19%) ServiceNow
18 9 (0.17%) Synopsys