Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,470 8,897 23,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.47% 10.30% 16.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 10.78% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,610 5,467 8,654
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,290 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -12.14% +1.34% +15.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75,196 82,567 133,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.05% 95.58% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,702 49,145 73,289
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +1 2,467 £92,500 +2.78% 896
North of England +11 1,649 £57,500 -5.74% 324
South East +3 1,527 £57,500 -11.54% 321
South West +10 1,280 £55,000 -11.93% 235
North West +16 968 £60,000 -4.00% 202
Midlands +11 928 £55,000 -4.35% 233
East of England +9 563 £60,000 -7.69% 181
Yorkshire +13 548 £55,000 -12.00% 88
West Midlands +25 524 £60,000 - 113
East Midlands +5 404 £50,000 -9.09% 119
North East +9 133 £55,000 +13.34% 38
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 531 (6.27%) Apache
2 463 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.49%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.31%) GeoServer
5 143 (1.69%) Confluence
6 114 (1.35%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.33%) nginx
9 27 (0.32%) CMS
10 14 (0.17%) NServiceBus
10 14 (0.17%) WordPress
11 12 (0.14%) IIS
11 12 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.094%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.083%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.083%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.071%) Appian
14 6 (0.071%) Drupal
14 6 (0.071%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.071%) WinCC
Applications
1 140 (1.65%) Simulink
2 29 (0.34%) Stateflow
3 19 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 12 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.12%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.071%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.071%) Trello
10 5 (0.059%) GNU Octave
11 4 (0.047%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.047%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.035%) Sketch
12 3 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.035%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.024%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.012%) UXPin
14 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 43 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 7 (0.083%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.071%) Siebel CRM
6 4 (0.047%) Shopify
7 3 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.035%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.035%) Endur
8 2 (0.024%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.024%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.024%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.024%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.024%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.024%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.012%) Findur
9 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.012%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.012%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.012%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,490 (29.40%) AWS
2 1,818 (21.46%) Azure
3 820 (9.68%) GCP
4 364 (4.30%) Serverless
5 322 (3.80%) SaaS
6 311 (3.67%) dbt
7 301 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 258 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 244 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 216 (2.55%) GitHub
11 168 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 160 (1.89%) Power Platform
13 129 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 95 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 88 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
15 88 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
16 76 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
17 72 (0.85%) OpenShift
18 70 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
19 68 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 98 (1.16%) Wireless
3 67 (0.79%) Ethernet
4 64 (0.76%) Internet
5 60 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 54 (0.64%) Network Security
7 52 (0.61%) HTTP
8 51 (0.60%) RS-232
9 45 (0.53%) Bluetooth
10 41 (0.48%) AMQP
10 41 (0.48%) RS-485
11 33 (0.39%) MQTT
12 31 (0.37%) Firewall
13 23 (0.27%) 5G
14 22 (0.26%) 4G
14 22 (0.26%) ZigBee
15 18 (0.21%) Modbus
16 16 (0.19%) DNS
16 16 (0.19%) J1939
17 14 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 405 (4.78%) Apache Ignite
3 346 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 339 (4.00%) MySQL
5 307 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
6 304 (3.59%) Dremio
7 297 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
8 287 (3.39%) Data Lake
9 258 (3.05%) NoSQL
10 236 (2.79%) GIS
11 196 (2.31%) QGIS
12 174 (2.05%) Relational Database
13 135 (1.59%) Redis
14 120 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
15 119 (1.40%) MongoDB
16 96 (1.13%) DynamoDB
17 91 (1.07%) Big Data
17 91 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
18 73 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
19 68 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 829 (9.79%) Git
2 324 (3.83%) JIRA
3 267 (3.15%) Visual Studio
4 264 (3.12%) Jenkins
5 240 (2.83%) GitLab
6 136 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 122 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 86 (1.02%) Subversion
9 66 (0.78%) Selenium
10 64 (0.76%) Sourcetree
11 62 (0.73%) LabVIEW
12 53 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 52 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
14 49 (0.58%) JUnit
14 49 (0.58%) Postman
15 38 (0.45%) Cucumber
16 36 (0.43%) CMake
17 34 (0.40%) SonarQube
18 33 (0.39%) CircleCI
19 32 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 1,358 (16.03%) Finance
2 1,176 (13.88%) Social Skills
3 658 (7.77%) Front Office
4 556 (6.56%) Banking
5 483 (5.70%) Electronics
6 378 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 333 (3.93%) Manufacturing
8 316 (3.73%) Investment Banking
9 257 (3.03%) Automotive
10 226 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 199 (2.35%) Aerospace
12 195 (2.30%) Public Sector
12 195 (2.30%) Retail
13 192 (2.27%) Law
14 184 (2.17%) Games
15 170 (2.01%) Marketing
16 130 (1.53%) Legal
17 116 (1.37%) Tech for Good
18 105 (1.24%) Telecoms
19 104 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5,187 (61.24%) Software Engineer
2 2,246 (26.52%) Senior
3 1,684 (19.88%) Developer
4 1,641 (19.37%) Senior Software Engineer
5 988 (11.66%) Embedded Engineer
6 928 (10.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 870 (10.27%) Lead
8 405 (4.78%) Python Engineer
9 391 (4.62%) Software Developer
10 364 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 359 (4.24%) Java Engineer
12 354 (4.18%) Python Software Engineer
13 347 (4.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 341 (4.03%) Senior Developer
15 325 (3.84%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 323 (3.81%) C++ Software Engineer
17 308 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
18 301 (3.55%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
19 271 (3.20%) Python Developer
20 261 (3.08%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,572 (18.56%) .NET
2 1,387 (16.38%) React
3 595 (7.02%) .NET Core
4 582 (6.87%) CSS
5 571 (6.74%) AngularJS
6 497 (5.87%) Node.js
7 485 (5.73%) gRPC
8 432 (5.10%) Protocol Buffers
9 427 (5.04%) HTML
10 342 (4.04%) Pandas
11 338 (3.99%) RESTful
12 328 (3.87%) NumPy
13 319 (3.77%) Vue
14 318 (3.75%) Spring
15 300 (3.54%) ASP.NET
16 297 (3.51%) SciPy
17 294 (3.47%) Redux
18 292 (3.45%) REST
19 254 (3.00%) Kafka
20 235 (2.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 583 (6.88%) Fixed Income
2 527 (6.22%) Hedge funds
3 475 (5.61%) Equities
4 423 (4.99%) Derivative
5 407 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 374 (4.42%) Algorithms
7 265 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 255 (3.01%) IoT
9 247 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
10 237 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
11 207 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
12 202 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
13 176 (2.08%) Client/Server
14 175 (2.07%) Product Ownership
15 165 (1.95%) Data Structures
16 142 (1.68%) Mobile App
17 128 (1.51%) Management Information System
18 87 (1.03%) Robotics
19 86 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
20 79 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,135 (13.40%) Linux
2 467 (5.51%) Windows
3 220 (2.60%) Embedded Linux
4 145 (1.71%) Android
5 129 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 123 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 63 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 59 (0.70%) Unix
9 58 (0.68%) CentOS
10 51 (0.60%) Debian
11 34 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 24 (0.28%) Windows Server
14 17 (0.20%) VMS
15 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.071%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.071%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.059%) Windows Embedded Compact
18 5 (0.059%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,984 (35.23%) Agile
2 1,441 (17.01%) DevOps
3 1,190 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
4 1,111 (13.12%) Computer Science
5 937 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
6 913 (10.78%) CI/CD
7 721 (8.51%) Mentoring
8 702 (8.29%) Microservices
9 645 (7.62%) Asset Management
10 626 (7.39%) Scrum
11 576 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 549 (6.48%) SDLC
13 542 (6.40%) Test Automation
14 528 (6.23%) Investment Management
15 520 (6.14%) TDD
16 483 (5.70%) Machine Learning
17 399 (4.71%) Design Patterns
18 392 (4.63%) Open Source
19 382 (4.51%) Continuous Integration
19 382 (4.51%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2,444 (28.85%) Python
2 1,934 (22.83%) C#
3 1,858 (21.94%) JavaScript
4 1,734 (20.47%) Java
5 1,270 (14.99%) TypeScript
6 1,141 (13.47%) C
7 1,111 (13.12%) SQL
8 1,067 (12.60%) C++
9 288 (3.40%) Kotlin
10 282 (3.33%) PHP
11 269 (3.18%) Go
12 237 (2.80%) Embedded C
13 203 (2.40%) Rust
14 200 (2.36%) Bash
15 160 (1.89%) Scala
16 145 (1.71%) MATLAB
17 107 (1.26%) PowerShell
18 94 (1.11%) T-SQL
19 85 (1.00%) Ada
20 69 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,632 (19.27%) Degree
2 1,157 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 690 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 555 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 247 (2.92%) Master's Degree
6 210 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 186 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 118 (1.39%) PhD
9 50 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 42 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 42 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 33 (0.39%) HND
13 28 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (0.31%) HNC
15 23 (0.27%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.24%) CISSP
18 16 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
19 12 (0.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (3.59%) QA
2 124 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 66 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 49 (0.58%) MISRA
5 32 (0.38%) GDPR
6 29 (0.34%) ISO 26262
7 25 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
8 22 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
8 22 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
10 20 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 19 (0.22%) ISO 13485
12 17 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.19%) IEC 61508
13 16 (0.19%) PMO
14 15 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 15 (0.18%) NIST
15 14 (0.17%) NCSC
16 11 (0.13%) IEC 62304
16 11 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 716 (8.45%) Docker
2 221 (2.61%) Firmware
3 107 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 48 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.39%) Active Directory
6 22 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 7 (0.083%) HDFS
8 7 (0.083%) IAG
9 6 (0.071%) Ceph
10 5 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.047%) NFS
11 4 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.035%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.035%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.012%) LXC
14 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 762 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 512 (6.04%) Terraform
3 225 (2.66%) Ansible
4 49 (0.58%) Grafana
5 33 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 30 (0.35%) Puppet
7 29 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.083%) Kibana
11 6 (0.071%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.071%) Knative
11 6 (0.071%) Nessus
12 5 (0.059%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.059%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.059%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.059%) Nagios
12 5 (0.059%) SELinux
12 5 (0.059%) Suricata
13 4 (0.047%) Istio
Vendors
1 657 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 292 (3.45%) Google
3 207 (2.44%) ESRI
4 94 (1.11%) Oracle
5 64 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 55 (0.65%) Xamarin
7 50 (0.59%) SAP
8 47 (0.55%) IBM
9 44 (0.52%) Siemens
10 41 (0.48%) Bloomberg
11 39 (0.46%) Databricks
12 38 (0.45%) Xilinx
13 37 (0.44%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.34%) Micro Focus
15 28 (0.33%) SaltStack
16 24 (0.28%) EMC
17 23 (0.27%) VMware
18 22 (0.26%) Adobe
19 21 (0.25%) Lauterbach
20 20 (0.24%) Splunk