Software Engineering Director Jobs

Director of Software Engineering
UK

The median Director of Software Engineering salary in the UK is £125,000 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 831 939 1235
Rank change year-on-year +108 +296 -321
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Director 83 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.013% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.015% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £75,500 £91,500 £107,000
25th Percentile £91,250 £112,500 £110,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £140,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £150,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £136,500 £165,000 £133,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £140,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +27.27% -22.81%

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 Director
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Director in the UK

Software Engineering Director
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Director in the UK

Software Engineering Director
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Director in the UK

Software Engineering Director
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering Director 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 +57 81 £95,000 -32.14% 1
Scotland - 76 - -
England +66 6 £125,000 -10.71% 4
Work from Home +59 3 £95,000 -33.33% 3
South West - 3 - -
London +137 1 £135,000 +1.89% 3
North of England +48 1 £125,000 -13.79% 1
North West +6 1 £125,000 -13.79% 1
Midlands -5 1 £65,000 -53.57%
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

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

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

1 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (96.39%) Finance
2 80 (96.39%) Decision-Making
3 79 (95.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (95.18%) Law
4 77 (92.77%) Cloud Native
5 76 (91.57%) Marketing
6 71 (85.54%) Machine Learning
7 63 (75.90%) Product Management
8 51 (61.45%) Artificial Intelligence
9 48 (57.83%) Python
9 48 (57.83%) Data Modelling
9 48 (57.83%) Databricks
10 45 (54.22%) Agile
11 42 (50.60%) AWS
11 42 (50.60%) Product Ownership
12 41 (49.40%) CI/CD
13 40 (48.19%) Analytics
14 38 (45.78%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (44.58%) Data Analysis
16 36 (43.37%) Java
17 34 (40.96%) Operational Stability
18 31 (37.35%) Apache
19 29 (34.94%) Mathematics
19 29 (34.94%) Computer Science
20 27 (32.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 27 (32.53%) Community of Practice
20 27 (32.53%) Big Data
20 27 (32.53%) Apache Spark
21 25 (30.12%) Technology Strategy

Software Engineering Director 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 31 (37.35%) Apache
2 27 (32.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.60%) AWS
2 4 (4.82%) Azure
3 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (32.53%) Big Data
2 17 (20.48%) Data Lake
2 17 (20.48%) DB2
2 17 (20.48%) MongoDB
2 17 (20.48%) Tableau
3 10 (12.05%) Flink
General
1 80 (96.39%) Finance
2 79 (95.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 79 (95.18%) Law
3 76 (91.57%) Marketing
4 20 (24.10%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (20.48%) Banking
5 17 (20.48%) Financial Institution
5 17 (20.48%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) Apache NiFi
2 17 (20.48%) Kafka
3 13 (15.66%) Spring
3 13 (15.66%) Spring Boot
4 11 (13.25%) React
5 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.61%) RESTful
6 3 (3.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (92.77%) Cloud Native
2 42 (50.60%) Product Ownership
3 21 (25.30%) Taxonomies
4 17 (20.48%) Management Information System
4 17 (20.48%) Public Cloud
5 10 (12.05%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (96.39%) Decision-Making
3 71 (85.54%) Machine Learning
4 63 (75.90%) Product Management
5 51 (61.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 48 (57.83%) Data Modelling
7 45 (54.22%) Agile
8 41 (49.40%) CI/CD
9 40 (48.19%) Analytics
10 38 (45.78%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (44.58%) Data Analysis
12 34 (40.96%) Operational Stability
13 29 (34.94%) Computer Science
13 29 (34.94%) Mathematics
14 27 (32.53%) Community of Practice
14 27 (32.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (30.12%) Technology Strategy
16 24 (28.92%) Culture Change
16 24 (28.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 24 (28.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 48 (57.83%) Python
2 36 (43.37%) Java
3 17 (20.48%) PL/SQL
3 17 (20.48%) Scala
3 17 (20.48%) SQL
4 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) SLA
2 1 (1.20%) QA
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (57.83%) Databricks
2 17 (20.48%) Alteryx
2 17 (20.48%) Cognos
2 17 (20.48%) Oracle
2 17 (20.48%) Sybase
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft