Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London 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 15 67 36
Rank change year-on-year +52 -31 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,539 2,775 5,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 4.78% 7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.31% 5.36% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,335 1,399 2,136
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,800 £82,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +20 2,453 £60,000 -7.69% 76
North of England +56 1,046 £55,000 -8.33% 171
South East +40 1,004 £55,000 -12.00% 174
South West +38 908 £55,000 -8.33% 153
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
Wales +26 113 £50,000 +20.11% 17
North East +18 79 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Northern Ireland +6 72 £90,000 +50.00% 22
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6,499 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,079 (47.09%) Agile
3 2,144 (32.79%) Finance
4 2,117 (32.37%) Java
5 2,086 (31.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2,071 (31.67%) SDLC
7 1,971 (30.14%) Law
8 1,934 (29.58%) Python
9 1,922 (29.39%) CI/CD
10 1,867 (28.55%) AWS
11 1,747 (26.72%) Operational Stability
12 1,469 (22.47%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,393 (21.30%) Machine Learning
14 1,314 (20.09%) SQL
15 1,253 (19.16%) Community of Practice
16 1,189 (18.18%) JavaScript
17 1,128 (17.25%) React
18 1,076 (16.46%) C#
19 973 (14.88%) Algorithms
20 952 (14.56%) Marketing
21 917 (14.02%) C
22 912 (13.95%) Azure
23 904 (13.82%) Linux
24 854 (13.06%) .NET
25 839 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
26 831 (12.71%) C++
27 826 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
28 817 (12.49%) Visualisation
29 793 (12.13%) Degree
30 783 (11.97%) Security Cleared

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 550 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.54%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.34%) GeoServer
4 161 (2.46%) Apache
5 115 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 105 (1.61%) FileNet
7 35 (0.54%) Confluence
8 32 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.32%) GemFire
10 19 (0.29%) Camunda
11 13 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 12 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.17%) CICS
13 11 (0.17%) CMS
13 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.11%) Captiva
14 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
15 6 (0.092%) nginx
15 6 (0.092%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.076%) SharePoint
Applications
1 104 (1.59%) Simulink
2 27 (0.41%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.17%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.092%) Trello
5 5 (0.076%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.061%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.046%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.046%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.031%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.031%) Sketch
9 1 (0.015%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.015%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
2 6 (0.092%) Magento
3 3 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.031%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.015%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.015%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.015%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,867 (28.55%) AWS
2 912 (13.95%) Azure
3 257 (3.93%) GCP
4 188 (2.88%) Serverless
5 142 (2.17%) GitHub
6 133 (2.03%) Amazon S3
7 120 (1.84%) SaaS
8 109 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (1.67%) Datadog
9 97 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
10 82 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
12 63 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
13 57 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
16 50 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
17 42 (0.64%) BlazeMeter
18 37 (0.57%) OpenShift
19 36 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (1.39%) Wireless
2 83 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.25%) Kerberos
4 63 (0.96%) Ethernet
5 62 (0.95%) RS-232
5 62 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 48 (0.73%) Network Security
7 46 (0.70%) Bluetooth
8 39 (0.60%) RS-485
9 32 (0.49%) Modbus
10 29 (0.44%) AMQP
11 28 (0.43%) MQTT
12 19 (0.29%) ZigBee
13 17 (0.26%) Internet
14 14 (0.21%) J1939
15 13 (0.20%) 4G
16 12 (0.18%) 3G
16 12 (0.18%) 5G
17 11 (0.17%) HTTP
17 11 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (10.19%) NoSQL
2 465 (7.11%) Big Data
3 431 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 318 (4.86%) GIS
5 284 (4.34%) QGIS
6 280 (4.28%) Hadoop
7 198 (3.03%) MySQL
8 197 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
9 182 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 165 (2.52%) SQL Server
11 153 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 140 (2.14%) MongoDB
13 128 (1.96%) Apache Hive
14 100 (1.53%) HBase
15 78 (1.19%) Redis
16 67 (1.02%) Metadata
17 50 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
18 48 (0.73%) Data Lake
19 39 (0.60%) CockroachDB
19 39 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 521 (7.97%) Git
2 354 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 211 (3.23%) JUnit
4 162 (2.48%) JIRA
5 120 (1.84%) Jasmine
6 104 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 103 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 89 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 85 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
10 78 (1.19%) Maven
11 75 (1.15%) Selenium
12 70 (1.07%) Subversion
13 66 (1.01%) Artifactory
13 66 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
14 64 (0.98%) GitLab
15 62 (0.95%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.92%) Protractor
17 50 (0.76%) Mockito
18 40 (0.61%) LabVIEW
19 36 (0.55%) Gradle
General
1 2,144 (32.79%) Finance
2 2,086 (31.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,971 (30.14%) Law
4 952 (14.56%) Marketing
5 696 (10.64%) Legal
6 580 (8.87%) Social Skills
7 420 (6.42%) Banking
8 402 (6.15%) Electronics
9 299 (4.57%) Investment Banking
10 268 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 215 (3.29%) Automotive
12 168 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
13 164 (2.51%) Aerospace
14 138 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
15 87 (1.33%) Retail
16 82 (1.25%) Military
17 81 (1.24%) Public Sector
18 75 (1.15%) Financial Institution
18 75 (1.15%) Tech for Good
19 71 (1.09%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,128 (17.25%) React
2 854 (13.06%) .NET
3 698 (10.67%) Spring
4 666 (10.19%) AngularJS
5 627 (9.59%) CSS
6 417 (6.38%) .NET Core
6 417 (6.38%) HTML
7 411 (6.29%) Kafka
8 402 (6.15%) Node.js
9 348 (5.32%) Spring Boot
10 292 (4.47%) PostGIS
11 288 (4.40%) Leaflet
11 288 (4.40%) OpenLayers
12 269 (4.11%) RESTful
13 253 (3.87%) J2EE
14 237 (3.62%) JSON
15 227 (3.47%) Web Services
16 218 (3.33%) Hibernate
17 208 (3.18%) REST
18 177 (2.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 973 (14.88%) Algorithms
2 664 (10.15%) Cloud Native
3 252 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 178 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
5 170 (2.60%) IoT
6 162 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 135 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 129 (1.97%) Reference Data
9 128 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 105 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 104 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 77 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 75 (1.15%) Device Driver
14 68 (1.04%) Product Ownership
15 65 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
16 57 (0.87%) Robotics
17 56 (0.86%) Mobile App
18 43 (0.66%) Legacy Code
18 43 (0.66%) Private Cloud
19 40 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 904 (13.82%) Linux
2 304 (4.65%) Windows
3 200 (3.06%) Embedded Linux
4 179 (2.74%) Unix
5 112 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 98 (1.50%) Android
7 63 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 51 (0.78%) CentOS
10 36 (0.55%) Debian
11 34 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.12%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.092%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.076%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.076%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 3 (0.046%) VMS
18 2 (0.031%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,499 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,079 (47.09%) Agile
3 2,071 (31.67%) SDLC
4 1,922 (29.39%) CI/CD
5 1,747 (26.72%) Operational Stability
6 1,469 (22.47%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,393 (21.30%) Machine Learning
8 1,253 (19.16%) Community of Practice
9 839 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 826 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 817 (12.49%) Visualisation
12 724 (11.07%) DevOps
13 712 (10.89%) Microservices
14 684 (10.46%) Risk Management
15 667 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
16 628 (9.60%) Computer Science
17 469 (7.17%) Decision-Making
18 445 (6.81%) Test Automation
19 419 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
20 412 (6.30%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 2,117 (32.37%) Java
2 1,934 (29.58%) Python
3 1,314 (20.09%) SQL
4 1,189 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1,076 (16.46%) C#
6 917 (14.02%) C
7 831 (12.71%) C++
8 486 (7.43%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.31%) Scala
10 244 (3.73%) Embedded C
11 198 (3.03%) Go
12 185 (2.83%) Bash
13 135 (2.06%) PL/SQL
14 107 (1.64%) MATLAB
15 100 (1.53%) Rust
16 94 (1.44%) Kotlin
17 83 (1.27%) PHP
18 71 (1.09%) Ada
19 69 (1.06%) T-SQL
20 68 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 793 (12.13%) Degree
2 783 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 493 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 245 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 135 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 135 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 79 (1.21%) PhD
7 58 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (0.44%) HND
9 25 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.26%) HNC
11 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.12%) Chartered Engineer
13 7 (0.11%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.092%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.046%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Developer
16 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.015%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (1.90%) QA
2 61 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.86%) MISRA
4 42 (0.64%) SLA
5 35 (0.54%) PMO
6 33 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 26 (0.40%) ISO 26262
8 22 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
8 22 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
9 21 (0.32%) GDPR
10 18 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
12 12 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 10 (0.15%) IEC 62304
13 10 (0.15%) MISRA C
14 8 (0.12%) JTAG
15 7 (0.11%) IEC 61508
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.092%) WAI
17 5 (0.076%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 255 (3.90%) Docker
2 179 (2.74%) Firmware
3 100 (1.53%) HDFS
4 80 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.04%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.031%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.031%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 513 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 363 (5.55%) Terraform
3 157 (2.40%) Grafana
4 84 (1.28%) Ansible
5 63 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.43%) Puppet
7 26 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.34%) Kibana
9 21 (0.32%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 19 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.11%) Graphite
12 6 (0.092%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.076%) SELinux
14 3 (0.046%) Podman
15 2 (0.031%) Istio
15 2 (0.031%) linkerd
15 2 (0.031%) MIIS
16 1 (0.015%) CA Endevor
16 1 (0.015%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 394 (6.03%) Oracle
2 292 (4.47%) ESRI
3 210 (3.21%) Databricks
4 168 (2.57%) Splunk
5 167 (2.55%) Microsoft
6 145 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 133 (2.03%) Google
8 86 (1.32%) Informatica
9 70 (1.07%) Cloudera
10 49 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 46 (0.70%) IBM
11 46 (0.70%) SaltStack
12 45 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 43 (0.66%) Siemens
14 39 (0.60%) Alteryx
15 27 (0.41%) SAP
16 26 (0.40%) Pega
17 22 (0.34%) Xamarin
18 21 (0.32%) Lauterbach
19 20 (0.31%) Xilinx