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 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 10 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 9,221 5,810 9,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.46% 10.00% 13.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.11% 10.47% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,269 3,158 4,752
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,450 £85,000
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
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 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 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 +3 3,027 £60,000 -7.69% 127
North of England +11 1,635 £57,500 -6.50% 323
South East +3 1,516 £57,500 -11.54% 327
South West +9 1,272 £55,000 -11.96% 235
North West +16 963 £60,000 -4.00% 202
Midlands +11 919 £55,000 -4.35% 231
East of England +9 559 £60,000 -7.69% 176
Yorkshire +11 540 £55,000 -12.00% 89
West Midlands +26 521 £60,000 - 111
East Midlands +8 398 £50,000 -9.09% 119
Wales +9 185 £50,000 - 24
North East +8 132 £55,000 +13.34% 36
Northern Ireland +1 110 £60,000 +20.00% 38
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
1 640 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.25%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.08%) GeoServer
4 204 (2.21%) Apache
5 127 (1.38%) Confluence
6 117 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
7 105 (1.14%) FileNet
8 32 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 24 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.23%) GemFire
11 19 (0.21%) Camunda
12 18 (0.20%) CMS
13 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.15%) NServiceBus
15 13 (0.14%) nginx
15 13 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 11 (0.12%) CICS
16 11 (0.12%) IIS
17 10 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 140 (1.52%) Simulink
2 29 (0.31%) Stateflow
3 20 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.098%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.065%) Trello
10 5 (0.054%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.043%) Doxygen
12 3 (0.033%) GNU Octave
12 3 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.033%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.022%) Sketch
13 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.098%) Magento
2 9 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.076%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.076%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.043%) Shopify
5 3 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.022%) C-CURE
6 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.011%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,486 (26.96%) AWS
2 1,374 (14.90%) Azure
3 331 (3.59%) GCP
4 276 (2.99%) SaaS
5 251 (2.72%) Serverless
6 213 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 200 (2.17%) GitHub
8 185 (2.01%) Amazon S3
9 154 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.36%) Datadog
11 117 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (1.20%) Power Platform
13 109 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
16 88 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
17 86 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
18 68 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 59 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
20 58 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 151 (1.64%) Wireless
2 117 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 92 (1.00%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.90%) Network Security
5 82 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 81 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
7 64 (0.69%) RS-232
8 54 (0.59%) Bluetooth
9 49 (0.53%) MQTT
10 47 (0.51%) Internet
11 43 (0.47%) HTTP
12 40 (0.43%) RS-485
13 34 (0.37%) AMQP
14 31 (0.34%) Modbus
15 23 (0.25%) 5G
16 22 (0.24%) ZigBee
17 21 (0.23%) 4G
18 20 (0.22%) Firewall
19 19 (0.21%) DSL
20 16 (0.17%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 867 (9.40%) NoSQL
2 572 (6.20%) Big Data
3 488 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 326 (3.54%) GIS
5 299 (3.24%) MySQL
6 289 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.08%) QGIS
8 263 (2.85%) Relational Database
9 255 (2.77%) SQL Server
10 215 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 173 (1.88%) MongoDB
12 158 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 129 (1.40%) Apache Hive
14 100 (1.08%) HBase
15 99 (1.07%) Redis
16 78 (0.85%) Data Lake
17 72 (0.78%) Metadata
17 72 (0.78%) Power BI
18 68 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
19 61 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 859 (9.32%) Git
2 450 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 314 (3.41%) JIRA
4 277 (3.00%) Visual Studio
5 242 (2.62%) JUnit
6 184 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 156 (1.69%) GitLab
8 140 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 129 (1.40%) Jasmine
10 122 (1.32%) Selenium
11 94 (1.02%) Maven
12 87 (0.94%) Subversion
13 85 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
14 82 (0.89%) LabVIEW
15 66 (0.72%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
16 64 (0.69%) WebDriver
17 61 (0.66%) Sourcetree
18 60 (0.65%) Protractor
19 50 (0.54%) Mockito
General
1 2,753 (29.86%) Finance
2 2,581 (27.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,408 (26.11%) Law
4 1,325 (14.37%) Marketing
5 1,056 (11.45%) Social Skills
6 733 (7.95%) Legal
7 525 (5.69%) Banking
8 503 (5.45%) Electronics
9 370 (4.01%) Manufacturing
10 360 (3.90%) Investment Banking
11 344 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
12 263 (2.85%) Financial Institution
13 250 (2.71%) Automotive
14 199 (2.16%) Aerospace
15 195 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 166 (1.80%) Games
17 154 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
18 141 (1.53%) Retail
19 137 (1.49%) Public Sector
20 96 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,499 (70.48%) Software Engineer
2 2,139 (23.20%) Senior
3 1,675 (18.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,242 (13.47%) Lead
5 1,125 (12.20%) Developer
6 1,088 (11.80%) Embedded Engineer
7 990 (10.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 961 (10.42%) Java Engineer
9 928 (10.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 890 (9.65%) Lead Software Engineer
11 449 (4.87%) Full Stack Engineer
12 420 (4.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 408 (4.42%) Python Engineer
14 402 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
15 382 (4.14%) Big Data Engineer
15 382 (4.14%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 371 (4.02%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 357 (3.87%) Software Developer
18 351 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
19 347 (3.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,422 (15.42%) React
2 1,374 (14.90%) .NET
3 892 (9.67%) Spring
4 815 (8.84%) CSS
5 806 (8.74%) AngularJS
6 620 (6.72%) HTML
7 550 (5.96%) .NET Core
8 535 (5.80%) Node.js
9 504 (5.47%) Spring Boot
10 477 (5.17%) Kafka
11 413 (4.48%) RESTful
12 297 (3.22%) JSON
13 295 (3.20%) REST
14 294 (3.19%) PostGIS
15 291 (3.16%) Web Services
16 288 (3.12%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.12%) OpenLayers
17 254 (2.75%) J2EE
18 250 (2.71%) Hibernate
19 243 (2.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,088 (11.80%) Algorithms
2 1,019 (11.05%) Cloud Native
3 316 (3.43%) Public Cloud
4 249 (2.70%) IoT
5 231 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
6 222 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 220 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 210 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 197 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 197 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 165 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 134 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 128 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
13 107 (1.16%) Mobile App
14 92 (1.00%) Market Risk
15 87 (0.94%) Private Cloud
16 83 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
17 77 (0.84%) Device Driver
18 75 (0.81%) Robotics
19 70 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,161 (12.59%) Linux
2 433 (4.70%) Windows
3 238 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
4 185 (2.01%) Unix
5 132 (1.43%) Android
6 120 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 78 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 64 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.56%) CentOS
10 38 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
11 36 (0.39%) Debian
12 17 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 15 (0.16%) Windows Server
14 13 (0.14%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
15 8 (0.087%) VxWorks
16 6 (0.065%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.065%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 5 (0.054%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,154 (45.05%) Agile
2 2,484 (26.94%) SDLC
3 2,476 (26.85%) CI/CD
4 1,846 (20.02%) Operational Stability
5 1,716 (18.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,605 (17.41%) Machine Learning
7 1,305 (14.15%) Community of Practice
8 1,290 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
9 1,281 (13.89%) DevOps
10 1,222 (13.25%) Computer Science
11 978 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 939 (10.18%) Microservices
13 916 (9.93%) Full Stack Development
14 906 (9.83%) Visualisation
15 725 (7.86%) Risk Management
16 702 (7.61%) Mentoring
17 652 (7.07%) Test Automation
18 639 (6.93%) Decision-Making
19 614 (6.66%) Scrum
20 583 (6.32%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2,701 (29.29%) Java
2 2,469 (26.78%) Python
3 1,870 (20.28%) SQL
4 1,720 (18.65%) C#
5 1,573 (17.06%) JavaScript
6 1,226 (13.30%) C
7 1,058 (11.47%) C++
8 732 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 362 (3.93%) Scala
10 317 (3.44%) Embedded C
11 246 (2.67%) Go
12 215 (2.33%) PHP
13 213 (2.31%) Bash
14 154 (1.67%) PL/SQL
15 130 (1.41%) MATLAB
16 121 (1.31%) Rust
17 119 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 104 (1.13%) T-SQL
19 94 (1.02%) Ruby
20 86 (0.93%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,437 (15.58%) Degree
2 1,166 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 733 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 439 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 197 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 181 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 169 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 106 (1.15%) PhD
9 50 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 35 (0.38%) HND
12 34 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.27%) HNC
14 21 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.23%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.17%) CISSP
16 11 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.11%) DBS Check
18 9 (0.098%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (2.46%) QA
2 94 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 70 (0.76%) SLA
4 56 (0.61%) MISRA
5 35 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 35 (0.38%) PMO
6 33 (0.36%) GDPR
7 31 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 25 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
8 25 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 22 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
9 22 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
10 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
11 17 (0.18%) IEC 61508
12 16 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 14 (0.15%) NIST
14 12 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 10 (0.11%) GRC
15 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
15 10 (0.11%) MISRA C
System Software
1 510 (5.53%) Docker
2 295 (3.20%) Firmware
3 126 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 100 (1.08%) HDFS
5 79 (0.86%) Active Directory
6 15 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.076%) IAG
10 4 (0.043%) NFS
10 4 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.033%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.033%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 769 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 511 (5.54%) Terraform
3 194 (2.10%) Grafana
4 145 (1.57%) Ansible
5 93 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 31 (0.34%) Puppet
8 26 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.24%) Kibana
10 21 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.076%) Graphite
13 6 (0.065%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.065%) Nessus
14 5 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.054%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.054%) Istio
14 5 (0.054%) Nagios
14 5 (0.054%) Suricata
Vendors
1 512 (5.55%) Microsoft
2 439 (4.76%) Oracle
3 296 (3.21%) ESRI
4 262 (2.84%) Databricks
5 201 (2.18%) Splunk
6 194 (2.10%) Google
7 165 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 86 (0.93%) Informatica
9 70 (0.76%) Cloudera
10 69 (0.75%) SAP
11 59 (0.64%) IBM
11 59 (0.64%) Red Hat
12 56 (0.61%) Alteryx
13 54 (0.59%) Xamarin
14 53 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.50%) SaltStack
15 46 (0.50%) Siemens
16 38 (0.41%) Xilinx
17 29 (0.31%) Micro Focus
18 28 (0.30%) Pega