Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 70 30
Rank change year-on-year +42 -40 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,732 3,603 12,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.09% 4.36% 9.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.43% 4.78% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 2,313 3,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +18 1,374 £95,000 +8.57% 423
North of England +69 1,194 £55,000 -8.33% 158
South East +42 1,107 £53,500 -14.40% 178
South West +49 1,003 £57,500 -4.17% 168
North West +77 703 £57,500 -4.17% 107
Midlands +49 650 £52,500 -4.55% 118
Yorkshire +54 401 £50,000 -20.00% 35
East of England +41 385 £60,000 - 114
West Midlands +51 332 £55,000 -4.35% 58
East Midlands +35 318 £50,000 +5.26% 59
North East +41 90 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5,688 (99.23%) Software Engineering
2 1,714 (29.90%) Agile
3 1,671 (29.15%) Python
4 1,558 (27.18%) AWS
5 1,251 (21.82%) JavaScript
6 1,148 (20.03%) C#
7 1,086 (18.95%) Java
8 1,064 (18.56%) Azure
9 953 (16.63%) React
10 922 (16.09%) C
11 917 (16.00%) .NET
12 904 (15.77%) C++
13 874 (15.25%) Degree
14 834 (14.55%) TypeScript
15 815 (14.22%) Linux
16 794 (13.85%) Finance
17 749 (13.07%) Security Cleared
18 666 (11.62%) DevOps
19 651 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
20 605 (10.55%) SQL
21 592 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
22 571 (9.96%) Computer Science
23 550 (9.60%) Social Skills
24 542 (9.46%) GCP
25 537 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
26 456 (7.96%) Front Office
27 454 (7.92%) Asset Management
28 447 (7.80%) Mentoring
29 444 (7.75%) Fixed Income
30 432 (7.54%) Electronics

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 415 (7.24%) Apache
2 358 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 202 (3.52%) ArcGIS
4 189 (3.30%) GeoServer
5 77 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 51 (0.89%) Confluence
7 18 (0.31%) CMS
8 14 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.14%) nginx
10 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.087%) Drupal
12 4 (0.070%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.070%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.052%) WinCC
14 2 (0.035%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.017%) JBoss
15 1 (0.017%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.017%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.017%) WordPress
Applications
1 105 (1.83%) Simulink
2 26 (0.45%) Stateflow
3 17 (0.30%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.19%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.10%) Trello
7 5 (0.087%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.052%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.052%) Sketch
8 3 (0.052%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.035%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.035%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.035%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.035%) Revit
10 1 (0.017%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.017%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.16%) Ripple
3 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.10%) Magento
5 4 (0.070%) C-CURE
5 4 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.070%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.017%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Ripple XRP
6 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.017%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,558 (27.18%) AWS
2 1,064 (18.56%) Azure
3 542 (9.46%) GCP
4 212 (3.70%) dbt
5 185 (3.23%) Serverless
6 177 (3.09%) Snowflake
7 122 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 116 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (1.87%) SaaS
10 106 (1.85%) GitHub
11 59 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (0.77%) Power Platform
13 43 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (0.73%) OpenShift
15 38 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
18 29 (0.51%) Amazon S3
19 25 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
20 23 (0.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 72 (1.26%) Wireless
3 52 (0.91%) RS-232
4 44 (0.77%) RS-485
4 44 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.72%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.68%) Ethernet
7 37 (0.65%) Internet
8 32 (0.56%) HTTP
9 31 (0.54%) AMQP
10 29 (0.51%) MQTT
11 26 (0.45%) Network Security
12 21 (0.37%) Modbus
13 19 (0.33%) ZigBee
14 15 (0.26%) 4G
15 14 (0.24%) J1939
16 13 (0.23%) 3G
16 13 (0.23%) 5G
17 11 (0.19%) VoIP
18 6 (0.10%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 327 (5.70%) Apache Ignite
3 223 (3.89%) GIS
4 210 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 208 (3.63%) Apache Arrow
5 208 (3.63%) Dremio
6 198 (3.45%) MySQL
7 189 (3.30%) QGIS
8 186 (3.24%) SQL Server
9 180 (3.14%) Data Lake
10 148 (2.58%) NoSQL
11 81 (1.41%) Relational Database
12 77 (1.34%) MongoDB
13 73 (1.27%) Redis
14 70 (1.22%) DynamoDB
15 53 (0.92%) Big Data
16 36 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
17 34 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (0.59%) Hadoop
18 29 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 392 (6.84%) Git
2 154 (2.69%) JIRA
3 117 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 96 (1.67%) GitLab
5 91 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 88 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 73 (1.27%) Subversion
8 40 (0.70%) LabVIEW
9 29 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.47%) CMake
11 25 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.40%) Maven
13 22 (0.38%) ClearCase
14 21 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
14 21 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
14 21 (0.37%) Selenium
14 21 (0.37%) Vagrant
15 20 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.31%) JUnit
17 17 (0.30%) Gatling
General
1 794 (13.85%) Finance
2 550 (9.60%) Social Skills
3 456 (7.96%) Front Office
4 432 (7.54%) Electronics
5 365 (6.37%) Banking
6 264 (4.61%) Manufacturing
7 222 (3.87%) Automotive
8 207 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 185 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 170 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
11 159 (2.77%) Aerospace
12 105 (1.83%) Retail
13 101 (1.76%) Public Sector
14 93 (1.62%) Legal
15 88 (1.54%) Marketing
16 87 (1.52%) Military
17 86 (1.50%) Tech for Good
18 83 (1.45%) Law
19 63 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 59 (1.03%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 953 (16.63%) React
2 917 (16.00%) .NET
3 431 (7.52%) AngularJS
4 405 (7.07%) .NET Core
5 388 (6.77%) gRPC
6 345 (6.02%) CSS
7 339 (5.91%) Protocol Buffers
8 312 (5.44%) Node.js
9 259 (4.52%) Redux
10 252 (4.40%) Vue
11 229 (4.00%) Pandas
12 225 (3.93%) NumPy
13 208 (3.63%) SciPy
14 197 (3.44%) PostGIS
14 197 (3.44%) RESTful
15 194 (3.38%) Spring
16 193 (3.37%) ASP.NET
16 193 (3.37%) Leaflet
16 193 (3.37%) OpenLayers
17 186 (3.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 444 (7.75%) Fixed Income
2 372 (6.49%) Hedge funds
3 329 (5.74%) Equities
4 284 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 283 (4.94%) Derivative
6 210 (3.66%) Algorithms
7 190 (3.31%) Embedded Systems
8 183 (3.19%) IoT
9 129 (2.25%) Cloud Native
10 128 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 120 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 107 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
13 81 (1.41%) Cyberattack
14 72 (1.26%) Client/Server
15 68 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 65 (1.13%) Device Driver
17 63 (1.10%) Product Ownership
17 63 (1.10%) Robotics
18 62 (1.08%) Data Structures
19 48 (0.84%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 815 (14.22%) Linux
2 312 (5.44%) Windows
3 187 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
4 117 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 101 (1.76%) Android
6 77 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 64 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (0.94%) CentOS
9 52 (0.91%) Debian
9 52 (0.91%) Unix
10 35 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
11 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.10%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.087%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 4 (0.070%) Windows Server
16 3 (0.052%) VMS
17 2 (0.035%) FreeBSD
17 2 (0.035%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.035%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,688 (99.23%) Software Engineering
2 1,714 (29.90%) Agile
3 666 (11.62%) DevOps
4 651 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
5 592 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
6 571 (9.96%) Computer Science
7 454 (7.92%) Asset Management
8 447 (7.80%) Mentoring
9 414 (7.22%) Microservices
10 403 (7.03%) Investment Management
11 375 (6.54%) CI/CD
12 374 (6.52%) Machine Learning
13 340 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence
14 308 (5.37%) Test Automation
15 302 (5.27%) TDD
16 294 (5.13%) Actionable Insight
17 288 (5.02%) SDLC
18 273 (4.76%) Web Development
19 269 (4.69%) Fintech
20 253 (4.41%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,671 (29.15%) Python
2 1,251 (21.82%) JavaScript
3 1,148 (20.03%) C#
4 1,086 (18.95%) Java
5 922 (16.09%) C
6 904 (15.77%) C++
7 834 (14.55%) TypeScript
8 605 (10.55%) SQL
9 229 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 212 (3.70%) Embedded C
11 175 (3.05%) Rust
12 162 (2.83%) Go
13 159 (2.77%) Bash
14 126 (2.20%) Scala
15 124 (2.16%) PHP
16 111 (1.94%) MATLAB
17 70 (1.22%) Ada
18 53 (0.92%) PowerShell
19 51 (0.89%) T-SQL
20 50 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 874 (15.25%) Degree
2 749 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 429 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 279 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 176 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 124 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 77 (1.34%) PhD
8 61 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.47%) HND
10 24 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.26%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.26%) HNC
12 8 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.14%) Chartered Engineer
12 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.12%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.070%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.070%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.052%) Sun Certification
16 2 (0.035%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (2.90%) QA
2 72 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 47 (0.82%) MISRA
4 25 (0.44%) ISO 26262
5 22 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
6 19 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
7 17 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
7 17 (0.30%) GDPR
8 16 (0.28%) PMO
9 14 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 13 (0.23%) IEC 62304
11 12 (0.21%) ISO 13485
12 10 (0.17%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.16%) MISRA C
14 8 (0.14%) IEC 61508
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.10%) JTAG
16 6 (0.10%) TickIT
17 3 (0.052%) MiFID
System Software
1 323 (5.64%) Docker
2 168 (2.93%) Firmware
3 87 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 28 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.087%) Ceph
7 3 (0.052%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.035%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.017%) KVM
9 1 (0.017%) LXC
Systems Management
1 384 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 255 (4.45%) Terraform
3 142 (2.48%) Ansible
4 31 (0.54%) Puppet
5 18 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 15 (0.26%) Grafana
7 6 (0.10%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.087%) Knative
8 5 (0.087%) SELinux
9 4 (0.070%) Podman
9 4 (0.070%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.052%) Consul
10 3 (0.052%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.052%) Kibana
10 3 (0.052%) Packer
10 3 (0.052%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.035%) Istio
11 2 (0.035%) linkerd
11 2 (0.035%) MIIS
12 1 (0.017%) Argo
Vendors
1 251 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 212 (3.70%) Google
3 197 (3.44%) ESRI
4 54 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 43 (0.75%) Oracle
6 40 (0.70%) Siemens
7 32 (0.56%) IBM
8 29 (0.51%) SaltStack
9 28 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 25 (0.44%) Xamarin
11 24 (0.42%) SAP
12 22 (0.38%) Xilinx
13 21 (0.37%) Lauterbach
14 15 (0.26%) Databricks
15 13 (0.23%) F5
16 12 (0.21%) DevExpress
17 11 (0.19%) Cadence
18 10 (0.17%) Facebook
19 9 (0.16%) Synopsys
20 8 (0.14%) Allen-Bradley