Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 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 31 71 32
Rank change year-on-year +40 -39 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,004 598 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.77% 4.24% 8.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.13% 4.70% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 732 366 688
10th Percentile £37,050 £35,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,379 12,711 19,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.19% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 11,667 8,030 12,417
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +61 395 £50,510 -17.20% 58
Hampshire +10 322 £53,500 -10.83% 47
Berkshire +74 186 £56,500 -24.67% 25
Surrey +6 172 £58,750 -9.62% 24
Oxfordshire +42 123 £51,020 -14.97% 28
Buckinghamshire -10 86 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Kent +30 55 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Sussex - 21 £45,000 - 6
West Sussex +16 19 £55,000 -8.33% 23
East Sussex -2 18 £42,500 -39.29% 3
Software Engineer
England

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

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 South East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 997 (99.30%) Software Engineering
2 303 (30.18%) Degree
3 293 (29.18%) Python
4 287 (28.59%) C++
5 278 (27.69%) C
6 243 (24.20%) Linux
7 221 (22.01%) C#
8 216 (21.51%) Agile
9 190 (18.92%) Security Cleared
10 173 (17.23%) Computer Science
11 172 (17.13%) .NET
12 168 (16.73%) JavaScript
13 153 (15.24%) SC Cleared
14 143 (14.24%) Windows
14 143 (14.24%) Java
14 143 (14.24%) Azure
15 142 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
16 137 (13.65%) Electronics
17 126 (12.55%) Mathematics
18 121 (12.05%) Social Skills
19 117 (11.65%) AWS
20 115 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
21 112 (11.16%) DevOps
21 112 (11.16%) Git
22 110 (10.96%) Algorithms
23 103 (10.26%) SQL
24 102 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence
25 101 (10.06%) React
26 75 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
27 71 (7.07%) Mentoring

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (2.89%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.89%) GeoServer
2 18 (1.79%) Apache
3 17 (1.69%) Confluence
4 6 (0.60%) nginx
4 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.100%) JBoss
6 1 (0.100%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (5.98%) Simulink
2 25 (2.49%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.70%) CANalyzer
4 5 (0.50%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.20%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.100%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.100%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.70%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.100%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 143 (14.24%) Azure
2 117 (11.65%) AWS
3 29 (2.89%) SaaS
4 20 (1.99%) GitHub
5 18 (1.79%) GCP
6 15 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (0.60%) IaaS
9 6 (0.60%) Serverless
10 5 (0.50%) Datadog
11 4 (0.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.20%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.20%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.100%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.100%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.100%) Azure Functions
14 1 (0.100%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.79%) Wireless
2 14 (1.39%) J1939
3 12 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.00%) Ethernet
4 10 (1.00%) RS-485
5 8 (0.80%) Internet
6 6 (0.60%) Bluetooth
6 6 (0.60%) RS-232
7 5 (0.50%) GPRS
8 4 (0.40%) 5G
8 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.30%) Modbus
10 2 (0.20%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.20%) MQTT
11 1 (0.100%) 4G
11 1 (0.100%) Broadband
11 1 (0.100%) HTTP
11 1 (0.100%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.100%) RTP
11 1 (0.100%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (3.88%) GIS
3 37 (3.69%) NoSQL
4 29 (2.89%) QGIS
5 25 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.09%) MySQL
7 10 (1.00%) Redis
7 10 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.60%) CouchDB
10 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.40%) Power BI
11 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.100%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.100%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 112 (11.16%) Git
2 43 (4.28%) JIRA
3 37 (3.69%) Visual Studio
4 35 (3.49%) Subversion
5 26 (2.59%) Jenkins
6 23 (2.29%) CMake
7 21 (2.09%) ClearCase
7 21 (2.09%) Plastic SCM
8 19 (1.89%) Vagrant
9 14 (1.39%) ClearQuest
10 12 (1.20%) GitLab
11 11 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.00%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.80%) TestRail
14 7 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 6 (0.60%) Gradle
16 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
17 2 (0.20%) GDB
17 2 (0.20%) JDeveloper
17 2 (0.20%) Sourcetree
General
1 137 (13.65%) Electronics
2 121 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 55 (5.48%) Manufacturing
4 52 (5.18%) Military
5 48 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (4.08%) Automotive
7 40 (3.98%) Finance
8 39 (3.88%) Aerospace
9 23 (2.29%) Tech for Good
10 16 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 15 (1.49%) Aviation
12 13 (1.29%) Retail
12 13 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.10%) Marketing
14 9 (0.90%) Law
15 8 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.60%) Legal
18 5 (0.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.13%) .NET
2 101 (10.06%) React
3 59 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 58 (5.78%) .NET Core
5 45 (4.48%) CSS
5 45 (4.48%) Qt
6 39 (3.88%) WPF
7 34 (3.39%) Middleware
8 33 (3.29%) ASP.NET
9 32 (3.19%) HTML
10 29 (2.89%) Leaflet
10 29 (2.89%) OpenLayers
10 29 (2.89%) PostGIS
11 27 (2.69%) Vue
12 26 (2.59%) STL
13 22 (2.19%) Spring
14 20 (1.99%) XML
15 18 (1.79%) .NET Framework
16 17 (1.69%) Django
16 17 (1.69%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 110 (10.96%) Algorithms
2 58 (5.78%) IoT
3 56 (5.58%) Embedded Systems
4 34 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (2.39%) Device Driver
6 22 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.09%) Robotics
8 20 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
8 20 (1.99%) Satnav
9 19 (1.89%) Analogue Electronics
9 19 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
10 16 (1.59%) FPGA
11 14 (1.39%) Acoustics
11 14 (1.39%) Raspberry Pi
12 12 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.20%) VHDL
13 10 (1.00%) Life Science
14 9 (0.90%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 243 (24.20%) Linux
2 143 (14.24%) Windows
3 48 (4.78%) Embedded Linux
4 37 (3.69%) Ubuntu
5 29 (2.89%) Android
6 23 (2.29%) CentOS
7 22 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.59%) Unix
9 11 (1.10%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (99.30%) Software Engineering
2 216 (21.51%) Agile
3 173 (17.23%) Computer Science
4 142 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (12.55%) Mathematics
6 112 (11.16%) DevOps
7 102 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 75 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
9 71 (7.07%) Mentoring
10 70 (6.97%) Full Stack Development
10 70 (6.97%) Physics
11 62 (6.18%) Machine Learning
11 62 (6.18%) SDLC
11 62 (6.18%) Software Testing
11 62 (6.18%) Test Automation
12 52 (5.18%) Signal Processing
13 46 (4.58%) Microservices
13 46 (4.58%) OO
13 46 (4.58%) Web Development
14 44 (4.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 293 (29.18%) Python
2 287 (28.59%) C++
3 278 (27.69%) C
4 221 (22.01%) C#
5 168 (16.73%) JavaScript
6 143 (14.24%) Java
7 103 (10.26%) SQL
8 44 (4.38%) Bash
9 42 (4.18%) MATLAB
10 40 (3.98%) Embedded C
11 34 (3.39%) Kotlin
12 33 (3.29%) TypeScript
13 30 (2.99%) Go
14 24 (2.39%) Fortran
15 21 (2.09%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.79%) Perl
17 17 (1.69%) Haskell
18 14 (1.39%) T-SQL
19 13 (1.29%) PHP
20 11 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 303 (30.18%) Degree
2 190 (18.92%) Security Cleared
3 153 (15.24%) SC Cleared
4 115 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (5.28%) Master's Degree
6 48 (4.78%) PhD
7 17 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.10%) HND
9 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.49%) QA
2 22 (2.19%) Software Quality Assurance
3 21 (2.09%) MISRA
4 15 (1.49%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.39%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.100%) GDPR
7 1 (0.100%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.100%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.100%) JTAG
System Software
1 50 (4.98%) Docker
2 39 (3.88%) Firmware
3 34 (3.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (3.39%) Terraform
2 32 (3.19%) Ansible
3 22 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.50%) SELinux
5 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.100%) Grafana
6 1 (0.100%) Kibana
Vendors
1 68 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.99%) ESRI
3 21 (2.09%) IBM
3 21 (2.09%) Lauterbach
4 18 (1.79%) Xilinx
5 15 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.10%) Oracle
6 11 (1.10%) SAP
7 8 (0.80%) Google
7 8 (0.80%) Siemens
8 7 (0.70%) Siebel
9 6 (0.60%) VMware
10 5 (0.50%) YouTube
11 4 (0.40%) Facebook
11 4 (0.40%) Instagram
11 4 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.40%) Renesas
12 3 (0.30%) IFS
12 3 (0.30%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.30%) Xamarin