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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,409 8,943 23,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.46% 10.33% 16.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.24% 10.81% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,576 5,492 8,698
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 £97,290 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -12.14% +0.80% +15.75%

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 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
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 £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 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 0 2,452 £92,500 +2.78% 896
North of England +11 1,635 £57,500 -6.50% 321
South East +3 1,516 £57,500 -11.54% 327
South West +9 1,272 £55,000 -11.96% 237
North West +16 963 £60,000 -4.00% 200
Midlands +11 919 £55,000 -4.35% 230
East of England +9 559 £60,000 -7.69% 174
Yorkshire +11 540 £55,000 -12.00% 89
West Midlands +26 521 £60,000 - 111
East Midlands +8 398 £50,000 -9.09% 118
North East +8 132 £55,000 +13.34% 36
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
1 532 (6.33%) Apache
2 464 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.51%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.33%) GeoServer
5 143 (1.70%) Confluence
6 115 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.33%) nginx
9 27 (0.32%) CMS
10 14 (0.17%) NServiceBus
10 14 (0.17%) WordPress
11 12 (0.14%) IIS
11 12 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.095%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.083%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.083%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.071%) Appian
14 6 (0.071%) Drupal
14 6 (0.071%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.071%) WinCC
Applications
1 140 (1.66%) Simulink
2 29 (0.34%) Stateflow
3 18 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 12 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.12%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.071%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.071%) Trello
10 5 (0.059%) GNU Octave
11 4 (0.048%) Doxygen
12 3 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.036%) Sketch
12 3 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.036%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.024%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.012%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 43 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 7 (0.083%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.083%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.036%) Endur
7 2 (0.024%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.024%) CiviCRM
7 2 (0.024%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.024%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.024%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.012%) Findur
8 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.012%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.012%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.012%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,480 (29.49%) AWS
2 1,812 (21.55%) Azure
3 820 (9.75%) GCP
4 371 (4.41%) Serverless
5 321 (3.82%) SaaS
6 312 (3.71%) dbt
7 297 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 257 (3.06%) Snowflake
9 244 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 214 (2.54%) GitHub
11 168 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 160 (1.90%) Power Platform
13 128 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 95 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 88 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
16 85 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 76 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
18 72 (0.86%) OpenShift
19 70 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
20 67 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 113 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 97 (1.15%) Wireless
3 67 (0.80%) Ethernet
4 64 (0.76%) Internet
5 59 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 52 (0.62%) HTTP
6 52 (0.62%) Network Security
7 51 (0.61%) RS-232
8 45 (0.54%) Bluetooth
9 41 (0.49%) AMQP
10 40 (0.48%) RS-485
11 32 (0.38%) Firewall
11 32 (0.38%) MQTT
12 23 (0.27%) 5G
13 22 (0.26%) ZigBee
14 21 (0.25%) 4G
15 18 (0.21%) Modbus
16 16 (0.19%) DNS
16 16 (0.19%) J1939
17 14 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 406 (4.83%) Apache Ignite
3 343 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 337 (4.01%) MySQL
5 308 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
6 305 (3.63%) Dremio
7 298 (3.54%) Apache Arrow
8 287 (3.41%) Data Lake
9 255 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 236 (2.81%) GIS
11 196 (2.33%) QGIS
12 179 (2.13%) Relational Database
13 134 (1.59%) Redis
14 119 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
15 116 (1.38%) MongoDB
16 93 (1.11%) DynamoDB
17 91 (1.08%) Big Data
18 90 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
19 72 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
20 68 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 836 (9.94%) Git
2 326 (3.88%) JIRA
3 267 (3.18%) Visual Studio
4 265 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 239 (2.84%) GitLab
6 136 (1.62%) Cypress.io
7 122 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 87 (1.03%) Subversion
9 66 (0.78%) Selenium
10 64 (0.76%) Sourcetree
11 62 (0.74%) LabVIEW
12 53 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 52 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
14 49 (0.58%) Postman
15 48 (0.57%) JUnit
16 38 (0.45%) Cucumber
17 36 (0.43%) CMake
18 33 (0.39%) SonarQube
19 32 (0.38%) CircleCI
19 32 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 1,355 (16.11%) Finance
2 1,165 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 659 (7.84%) Front Office
4 561 (6.67%) Banking
5 477 (5.67%) Electronics
6 372 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 329 (3.91%) Manufacturing
8 317 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 254 (3.02%) Automotive
10 226 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 199 (2.37%) Aerospace
12 193 (2.30%) Retail
13 192 (2.28%) Law
14 190 (2.26%) Public Sector
15 185 (2.20%) Games
16 171 (2.03%) Marketing
17 128 (1.52%) Legal
18 116 (1.38%) Tech for Good
19 105 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
20 102 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5,152 (61.27%) Software Engineer
2 2,229 (26.51%) Senior
3 1,674 (19.91%) Developer
4 1,630 (19.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 976 (11.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 916 (10.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 863 (10.26%) Lead
8 400 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 390 (4.64%) Software Developer
10 359 (4.27%) Java Engineer
10 359 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
11 352 (4.19%) Python Software Engineer
12 348 (4.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 337 (4.01%) Senior Developer
14 323 (3.84%) C++ Software Engineer
15 322 (3.83%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 308 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
17 298 (3.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 270 (3.21%) Python Developer
19 260 (3.09%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,565 (18.61%) .NET
2 1,385 (16.47%) React
3 593 (7.05%) .NET Core
4 579 (6.89%) CSS
5 571 (6.79%) AngularJS
6 501 (5.96%) Node.js
7 486 (5.78%) gRPC
8 433 (5.15%) Protocol Buffers
9 423 (5.03%) HTML
10 341 (4.06%) Pandas
11 335 (3.98%) RESTful
12 328 (3.90%) NumPy
13 319 (3.79%) Vue
14 317 (3.77%) Spring
15 298 (3.54%) ASP.NET
15 298 (3.54%) SciPy
16 292 (3.47%) Redux
17 288 (3.42%) REST
18 255 (3.03%) Kafka
19 234 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 583 (6.93%) Fixed Income
2 527 (6.27%) Hedge funds
3 475 (5.65%) Equities
4 422 (5.02%) Derivative
5 407 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 373 (4.44%) Algorithms
7 262 (3.12%) Cloud Native
8 255 (3.03%) IoT
9 245 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
10 236 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
11 203 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
12 200 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
13 176 (2.09%) Client/Server
14 171 (2.03%) Product Ownership
15 165 (1.96%) Data Structures
16 141 (1.68%) Mobile App
17 127 (1.51%) Management Information System
18 87 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
19 84 (1.00%) Robotics
20 80 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,128 (13.41%) Linux
2 463 (5.51%) Windows
3 218 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 143 (1.70%) Android
5 128 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 122 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 63 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 58 (0.69%) CentOS
8 58 (0.69%) Unix
9 51 (0.61%) Debian
10 34 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
11 25 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 24 (0.29%) Windows Server
13 17 (0.20%) VMS
14 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.095%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.071%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.071%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.059%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 5 (0.059%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,980 (35.44%) Agile
2 1,444 (17.17%) DevOps
3 1,195 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 1,104 (13.13%) Computer Science
5 927 (11.02%) Full Stack Development
6 910 (10.82%) CI/CD
7 714 (8.49%) Mentoring
8 706 (8.40%) Microservices
9 646 (7.68%) Asset Management
10 627 (7.46%) Scrum
11 573 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
12 544 (6.47%) SDLC
13 540 (6.42%) Test Automation
14 528 (6.28%) Investment Management
15 519 (6.17%) TDD
16 481 (5.72%) Machine Learning
17 407 (4.84%) Design Patterns
18 395 (4.70%) Open Source
19 385 (4.58%) Continuous Integration
20 378 (4.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,436 (28.97%) Python
2 1,925 (22.89%) C#
3 1,858 (22.10%) JavaScript
4 1,737 (20.66%) Java
5 1,261 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 1,132 (13.46%) C
7 1,104 (13.13%) SQL
8 1,055 (12.55%) C++
9 287 (3.41%) Kotlin
10 282 (3.35%) PHP
11 272 (3.23%) Go
12 235 (2.79%) Embedded C
13 205 (2.44%) Bash
14 198 (2.35%) Rust
15 159 (1.89%) Scala
16 144 (1.71%) MATLAB
17 106 (1.26%) PowerShell
18 94 (1.12%) T-SQL
19 85 (1.01%) Ada
20 77 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,618 (19.24%) Degree
2 1,153 (13.71%) Security Cleared
3 691 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 552 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 245 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 206 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 186 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (1.39%) PhD
9 50 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 42 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 42 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 33 (0.39%) HND
13 28 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (0.31%) HNC
15 23 (0.27%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.24%) CISSP
18 16 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
19 12 (0.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (3.70%) QA
2 124 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 66 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 49 (0.58%) MISRA
5 32 (0.38%) GDPR
6 29 (0.34%) ISO 26262
7 25 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
8 22 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
8 22 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
9 20 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 19 (0.23%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.19%) IEC 61508
12 16 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 16 (0.19%) PMO
13 15 (0.18%) NIST
14 13 (0.15%) NCSC
15 11 (0.13%) IEC 62304
15 11 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 711 (8.46%) Docker
2 220 (2.62%) Firmware
3 106 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 47 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.39%) Active Directory
6 23 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 7 (0.083%) HDFS
8 7 (0.083%) IAG
9 6 (0.071%) Ceph
10 5 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.048%) NFS
11 4 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.036%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.036%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.012%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.012%) LXC
13 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 754 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 508 (6.04%) Terraform
3 222 (2.64%) Ansible
4 49 (0.58%) Grafana
5 32 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 29 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.34%) Puppet
7 15 (0.18%) Functional Safety
8 8 (0.095%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.083%) Kibana
10 6 (0.071%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.071%) Knative
10 6 (0.071%) Nessus
11 5 (0.059%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.059%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.059%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.059%) Nagios
11 5 (0.059%) SELinux
11 5 (0.059%) Suricata
12 4 (0.048%) Istio
Vendors
1 655 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 291 (3.46%) Google
3 207 (2.46%) ESRI
4 102 (1.21%) Oracle
5 64 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 55 (0.65%) Xamarin
7 51 (0.61%) SAP
8 48 (0.57%) IBM
9 44 (0.52%) Siemens
10 41 (0.49%) Bloomberg
11 39 (0.46%) Databricks
12 38 (0.45%) Xilinx
13 36 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.34%) Micro Focus
15 28 (0.33%) SaltStack
16 24 (0.29%) EMC
16 24 (0.29%) VMware
17 22 (0.26%) Adobe
18 21 (0.25%) Lauterbach
19 20 (0.24%) Splunk