Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in England is £107,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 617 505
Rank change year-on-year +88 -112 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 314 345 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.40% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 308 323 778
10th Percentile £65,000 £59,041 £60,875
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £126,250
90th Percentile £153,750 £151,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +26.67%

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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +114 276 £110,000 +10.00% 6
South West -11 19 £71,991 +25.20% 2
North of England +28 13 £42,572 -14.86%
North West +8 13 £42,572 -14.86%
East of England +26 3 £55,000 +15.79% 2
South East +22 2 £60,000 -22.58%
West Midlands +24 1 £52,500 +40.00%
Midlands +3 1 £52,500 +31.25% 2
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 303 (96.50%) Software Engineering
2 280 (89.17%) AWS
3 275 (87.58%) Agile
4 271 (86.31%) Front Office
5 270 (85.99%) Finance
6 266 (84.71%) GCP
7 264 (84.08%) Asset Management
8 259 (82.48%) TypeScript
9 257 (81.85%) Fixed Income
10 236 (75.16%) Python
11 233 (74.20%) Investment Management
12 224 (71.34%) React
13 210 (66.88%) JavaScript
14 196 (62.42%) Hedge funds
14 196 (62.42%) Redux
15 183 (58.28%) Azure
16 169 (53.82%) Equities
17 164 (52.23%) Full Stack Development
18 157 (50.00%) gRPC
18 157 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
18 157 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
19 143 (45.54%) Apache
19 143 (45.54%) Apache Ignite
20 141 (44.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 141 (44.90%) Derivative
21 136 (43.31%) Banking
22 119 (37.90%) AngularJS
23 116 (36.94%) Vue
24 103 (32.80%) Material-UI
25 99 (31.53%) C#

Developer/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
1 157 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (45.54%) Apache
3 4 (1.27%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 280 (89.17%) AWS
2 266 (84.71%) GCP
3 183 (58.28%) Azure
4 64 (20.38%) dbt
5 32 (10.19%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.55%) Serverless
7 3 (0.96%) npm
8 2 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (45.54%) Apache Ignite
2 75 (23.89%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (20.38%) Amazon Athena
3 64 (20.38%) Apache Arrow
3 64 (20.38%) Dremio
4 32 (10.19%) Data Lake
5 15 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.18%) MySQL
8 4 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.27%) GIS
8 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.27%) Redis
8 4 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.64%) Big Data
9 2 (0.64%) Power BI
10 1 (0.32%) KDB
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (13.06%) Cypress.io
2 6 (1.91%) Git
2 6 (1.91%) JIRA
3 5 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.59%) Maven
4 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 271 (86.31%) Front Office
2 270 (85.99%) Finance
3 136 (43.31%) Banking
4 61 (19.43%) Investment Banking
5 42 (13.38%) Back Office
6 7 (2.23%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.27%) Retail
8 2 (0.64%) Automotive
8 2 (0.64%) Electronics
8 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.64%) Wearables
9 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (71.34%) React
2 196 (62.42%) Redux
3 157 (50.00%) gRPC
3 157 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 119 (37.90%) AngularJS
5 116 (36.94%) Vue
6 103 (32.80%) Material-UI
7 99 (31.53%) .NET
8 78 (24.84%) Pandas
9 64 (20.38%) NumPy
9 64 (20.38%) SciPy
10 53 (16.88%) Node.js
11 51 (16.24%) .NET Core
12 50 (15.92%) ASP.NET
13 42 (13.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 21 (6.69%) GraphQL
15 13 (4.14%) HTML
16 11 (3.50%) CSS
16 11 (3.50%) RESTful
17 10 (3.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 257 (81.85%) Fixed Income
2 196 (62.42%) Hedge funds
3 169 (53.82%) Equities
4 141 (44.90%) Derivative
4 141 (44.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.27%) IoT
7 3 (0.96%) NHS
7 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.64%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.78%) Linux
2 10 (3.18%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.55%) Unix
4 7 (2.23%) Windows
5 6 (1.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (96.50%) Software Engineering
2 275 (87.58%) Agile
3 264 (84.08%) Asset Management
4 233 (74.20%) Investment Management
5 164 (52.23%) Full Stack Development
6 90 (28.66%) Fintech
7 69 (21.97%) Artificial Intelligence
7 69 (21.97%) Automated Trading
7 69 (21.97%) Machine Learning
8 56 (17.83%) Analytics
9 47 (14.97%) DevOps
10 46 (14.65%) TDD
11 40 (12.74%) Performance Attribution
12 36 (11.46%) Mentoring
13 35 (11.15%) Line Management
14 20 (6.37%) Risk Analytics
15 16 (5.10%) Data Architecture
16 14 (4.46%) User Experience
17 13 (4.14%) CI/CD
18 12 (3.82%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 259 (82.48%) TypeScript
2 236 (75.16%) Python
3 210 (66.88%) JavaScript
4 99 (31.53%) C#
5 95 (30.25%) Java
6 80 (25.48%) SQL
7 26 (8.28%) Kotlin
8 17 (5.41%) Ruby
9 11 (3.50%) Scala
10 6 (1.91%) Perl
10 6 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.91%) Swift
11 4 (1.27%) Rust
12 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.64%) C++
13 2 (0.64%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (3.18%) Degree
2 6 (1.91%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.96%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.64%) Postgraduate
4 2 (0.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.65%) QA
2 3 (0.96%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.64%) GDPR
3 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.64%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 12 (3.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.64%) Firmware
2 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (22.61%) Google
2 6 (1.91%) Facebook
3 5 (1.59%) Oracle
4 4 (1.27%) ESRI
5 2 (0.64%) QNX
5 2 (0.64%) VMware
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft