Software Engineering Manager Jobs

Software Engineering Manager
UK

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £77,500 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 607 850 897
Rank change year-on-year +243 +47 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 319 102 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 87 72 225
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,100 £76,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £121,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £125,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +20.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in the UK

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering Manager.

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in the UK

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in the UK

Software Engineering Manager
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering Manager within the UK 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
UK excluding London +189 282 £75,000 - 17
Scotland +107 213 £80,000 +6.67% 3
England +90 106 £75,000 -16.67% 25
London +146 37 £87,500 -20.45% 10
Work from Home +56 37 £75,000 -23.08% 15
North of England +69 30 £82,500 +8.20% 2
South East +7 25 £65,000 -13.33% 6
North West +22 18 £82,500 +26.92% 1
Yorkshire +83 10 £80,000 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +15 10 £71,000 -9.55% 1
Midlands -4 10 £71,000 -9.55% 3
South West -25 4 £75,000 +3.45% 3
North East -5 2 £70,000 +7.69%

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Software Engineering Manager 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 featuring Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 318 (99.69%) Software Engineering
2 229 (71.79%) Agile
3 214 (67.08%) Law
4 213 (66.77%) Finance
5 209 (65.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 185 (57.99%) CI/CD
7 178 (55.80%) SDLC
7 178 (55.80%) Marketing
8 167 (52.35%) Computer Science
9 165 (51.72%) Financial Institution
10 161 (50.47%) Mathematics
11 157 (49.22%) Cloud Native
12 138 (43.26%) Java
13 129 (40.44%) SQL
14 117 (36.68%) Continuous Delivery
15 112 (35.11%) Coaching
16 110 (34.48%) NoSQL
17 109 (34.17%) AWS
18 78 (24.45%) Mentoring
19 73 (22.88%) Python
20 58 (18.18%) Market Risk
20 58 (18.18%) NumPy
20 58 (18.18%) Pandas
20 58 (18.18%) Microservices
21 55 (17.24%) Spring Boot
21 55 (17.24%) Spring
22 54 (16.93%) Analytics
23 53 (16.61%) Big Data
24 52 (16.30%) Performance Tuning
24 52 (16.30%) Scala

Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 52 (16.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 109 (34.17%) AWS
2 19 (5.96%) Azure
3 5 (1.57%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.31%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.31%) GCP
5 1 (0.31%) GitHub
5 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.31%) IaaS
5 1 (0.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) Broadband
1 2 (0.63%) HTTP
1 2 (0.63%) Internet
1 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (34.48%) NoSQL
2 53 (16.61%) Big Data
3 5 (1.57%) OLAP
3 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.63%) MySQL
4 2 (0.63%) Redis
5 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (6.27%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.39%) GitLab
3 10 (3.13%) JIRA
4 5 (1.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 214 (67.08%) Law
2 213 (66.77%) Finance
3 209 (65.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 178 (55.80%) Marketing
5 165 (51.72%) Financial Institution
6 52 (16.30%) Influencing Skills
7 32 (10.03%) Banking
8 27 (8.46%) Investment Banking
9 20 (6.27%) Social Skills
10 7 (2.19%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.57%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Legal
13 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
14 1 (0.31%) Esports
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.18%) NumPy
1 58 (18.18%) Pandas
2 55 (17.24%) Spring
2 55 (17.24%) Spring Boot
3 49 (15.36%) RESTful
4 24 (7.52%) .NET
5 11 (3.45%) React
6 9 (2.82%) Node.js
7 7 (2.19%) REST
8 5 (1.57%) Django
9 4 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.63%) CSS
10 2 (0.63%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.63%) HTML
10 2 (0.63%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (0.63%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (0.63%) Web Services
11 1 (0.31%) Express.js
11 1 (0.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 157 (49.22%) Cloud Native
2 58 (18.18%) Market Risk
3 49 (15.36%) Distributed Applications
4 10 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.57%) IoT
6 5 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.63%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.63%) RISC-V
10 1 (0.31%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.31%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Android
2 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (99.69%) Software Engineering
2 229 (71.79%) Agile
3 185 (57.99%) CI/CD
4 178 (55.80%) SDLC
5 167 (52.35%) Computer Science
6 161 (50.47%) Mathematics
7 117 (36.68%) Continuous Delivery
8 112 (35.11%) Coaching
9 78 (24.45%) Mentoring
10 58 (18.18%) Microservices
11 54 (16.93%) Analytics
12 52 (16.30%) Performance Tuning
13 35 (10.97%) Scrum
14 28 (8.78%) DevOps
15 27 (8.46%) Test Automation
16 24 (7.52%) Roadmaps
17 22 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (6.90%) Project Delivery
17 22 (6.90%) Project Management
18 19 (5.96%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (43.26%) Java
2 129 (40.44%) SQL
3 73 (22.88%) Python
4 52 (16.30%) Scala
5 9 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.51%) C#
6 8 (2.51%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.57%) C++
9 2 (0.63%) C
9 2 (0.63%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.63%) Go
9 2 (0.63%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) Rust
10 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (3.45%) Degree
2 7 (2.19%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.19%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.82%) Ansible
2 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.57%) Grafana
4 4 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (1.57%) Dynatrace
1 5 (1.57%) Splunk
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.63%) Brio
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.31%) Google
4 1 (0.31%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.31%) OpenLink