Software Engineering Manager Jobs in England

Software Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in England is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 820 836
Rank change year-on-year +79 +16 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 101 109 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 82 77 201
10th Percentile £57,500 £66,150 £76,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £128,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £86,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% -17.62% +31.25%

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 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +120 32 £87,500 -12.50% 10
North of England +61 32 £81,250 +4.84% 4
South East +6 22 £65,000 -13.33% 4
North West +17 19 £82,500 +8.20% 2
Yorkshire +96 11 £77,500 -13.89% 2
Midlands +14 11 £70,500 -10.19% 4
West Midlands +31 10 £71,000 -20.45% 4
South West -27 4 £75,000 +3.45%
North East -6 2 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -15 1 £70,000 -9.68%
Software Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software Engineering Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 100 (99.01%) Software Engineering
2 64 (63.37%) Agile
3 31 (30.69%) Scrum
4 28 (27.72%) Test Automation
4 28 (27.72%) DevOps
5 25 (24.75%) .NET
5 25 (24.75%) Roadmaps
6 24 (23.76%) Mentoring
7 23 (22.77%) Project Management
8 21 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (20.79%) CI/CD
9 20 (19.80%) Project Delivery
9 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
9 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
9 20 (19.80%) People Management
10 19 (18.81%) Azure
10 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (17.82%) Kanban
12 15 (14.85%) Coaching
12 15 (14.85%) SQL
12 15 (14.85%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (13.86%) GitLab
13 14 (13.86%) SDLC
14 13 (12.87%) Software Delivery
14 13 (12.87%) QA
14 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (11.88%) Degree
16 11 (10.89%) Product Management
16 11 (10.89%) Technical Debt
17 10 (9.90%) Conflict Resolution

Software Engineering Manager 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.81%) Azure
2 7 (6.93%) AWS
3 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Stack
4 1 (0.99%) Cloudflare
4 1 (0.99%) GCP
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub
4 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) Broadband
1 2 (1.98%) HTTP
1 2 (1.98%) Internet
1 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) OLAP
2 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.98%) MySQL
2 2 (1.98%) Redis
3 1 (0.99%) Big Data
3 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.86%) GitLab
3 10 (9.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.93%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.94%) Law
4 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Finance
6 2 (1.98%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Retail
6 2 (1.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) .NET
2 9 (8.91%) React
3 8 (7.92%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.98%) CSS
5 2 (1.98%) Django
5 2 (1.98%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.98%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.98%) REST
5 2 (1.98%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.98%) Web Services
6 1 (0.99%) Express.js
6 1 (0.99%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) IoT
5 2 (1.98%) RISC-V
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (99.01%) Software Engineering
2 64 (63.37%) Agile
3 31 (30.69%) Scrum
4 28 (27.72%) DevOps
4 28 (27.72%) Test Automation
5 25 (24.75%) Roadmaps
6 24 (23.76%) Mentoring
7 23 (22.77%) Project Management
8 21 (20.79%) CI/CD
8 21 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (19.80%) People Management
9 20 (19.80%) Project Delivery
10 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (17.82%) Kanban
12 15 (14.85%) Coaching
12 15 (14.85%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (13.86%) SDLC
14 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (12.87%) Software Delivery
15 11 (10.89%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.85%) SQL
2 9 (8.91%) C#
2 9 (8.91%) Python
3 8 (7.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.93%) Java
4 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.95%) C++
7 2 (1.98%) C
7 2 (1.98%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.99%) Go
8 1 (0.99%) PHP
8 1 (0.99%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (11.88%) Degree
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.91%) Ansible
2 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.98%) Brio
2 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.99%) Google
3 1 (0.99%) NVIDIA