Software Engineering Director Jobs in England

Director of Software Engineering
UK > England

The median Director of Software Engineering salary in England is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 933 1141
Rank change year-on-year +115 +208 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Director 5 17 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.018% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.020% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £105,500
25th Percentile £78,125 £112,500 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £140,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £115,625 £150,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £125,750 £175,000 -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £140,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +21.74% +4.55%

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 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Software Engineering Director
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Director in England

Software Engineering Director
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Director in England

Software Engineering Director
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Director in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Director in England

Software Engineering Director
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 Director within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
South West - 3 - -
North of England +37 1 £125,000 -10.71%
West Midlands +20 1 £65,000 -53.57%
North West +12 1 £125,000 -13.79%
Midlands -5 1 £65,000 -53.57%
Software Engineering Director
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 across the England region featuring Software Engineering Director in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Product Management
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 3 (60.00%) Minimum Viable Product
3 3 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Law
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack

Software Engineering Director 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Law
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Minimum Viable Product
3 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
3 3 (60.00%) Product Management
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft