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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7,889 9,724 20,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.26% 10.54% 15.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 11.03% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,241 5,917 8,700
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

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 73,078 88,196 126,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,838 52,122 73,896
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,910 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 4 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 4 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 +2 2,288 £91,500 +4.57% 889
North of England +10 1,557 £60,000 -2.44% 296
South East -3 1,376 £57,500 -11.54% 355
South West +7 1,232 £55,000 -9.09% 242
North West +11 928 £60,000 -4.00% 177
Midlands +8 859 £55,000 -6.78% 234
East of England +4 518 £60,000 -7.69% 210
Yorkshire +9 503 £55,000 -10.57% 93
West Midlands +21 497 £60,000 - 116
East Midlands +1 362 £50,000 -9.09% 117
North East +11 126 £55,000 +12.82% 30
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
1 394 (4.99%) Apache
2 323 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.67%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.48%) GeoServer
5 154 (1.95%) Confluence
6 101 (1.28%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.39%) CMS
9 29 (0.37%) nginx
10 19 (0.24%) JBoss
10 19 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.23%) Captiva
11 18 (0.23%) FileNet
12 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 15 (0.19%) WordPress
14 13 (0.16%) IIS
15 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 12 (0.15%) NServiceBus
16 11 (0.14%) Jupyter
17 10 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 125 (1.58%) Simulink
2 29 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 15 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 10 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.13%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.076%) Trello
8 5 (0.063%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.051%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.051%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.038%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.013%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 39 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 8 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.089%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.051%) Shopify
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.038%) Endur
7 3 (0.038%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.025%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.025%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.025%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.025%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.025%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,281 (28.91%) AWS
2 1,754 (22.23%) Azure
3 756 (9.58%) GCP
4 383 (4.85%) Serverless
5 319 (4.04%) SaaS
6 298 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 241 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
8 217 (2.75%) GitHub
9 201 (2.55%) dbt
10 168 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 160 (2.03%) Snowflake
12 156 (1.98%) Power Platform
13 132 (1.67%) Amazon S3
14 105 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 91 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
16 82 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (1.03%) OpenShift
18 75 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
19 65 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
20 61 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 114 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 104 (1.32%) Wireless
3 65 (0.82%) Internet
4 64 (0.81%) Ethernet
5 60 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 51 (0.65%) HTTP
6 51 (0.65%) RS-232
7 48 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 46 (0.58%) Network Security
9 40 (0.51%) RS-485
10 38 (0.48%) AMQP
11 32 (0.41%) MQTT
12 30 (0.38%) Firewall
13 24 (0.30%) 5G
14 23 (0.29%) 4G
15 21 (0.27%) ZigBee
16 18 (0.23%) DNS
16 18 (0.23%) J1939
16 18 (0.23%) Modbus
17 15 (0.19%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 349 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 338 (4.28%) MySQL
4 277 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
5 235 (2.98%) GIS
6 212 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 198 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
8 197 (2.50%) Dremio
9 196 (2.48%) Apache Arrow
9 196 (2.48%) QGIS
10 185 (2.35%) Data Lake
11 184 (2.33%) Relational Database
12 127 (1.61%) Redis
13 121 (1.53%) MongoDB
14 110 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.20%) Big Data
16 90 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
17 84 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
18 77 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
19 64 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 825 (10.46%) Git
2 359 (4.55%) JIRA
3 296 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 266 (3.37%) Visual Studio
5 223 (2.83%) GitLab
6 137 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 126 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 95 (1.20%) Subversion
9 66 (0.84%) Selenium
10 64 (0.81%) Sourcetree
11 59 (0.75%) LabVIEW
12 55 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 49 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
14 46 (0.58%) Postman
15 43 (0.55%) Cucumber
16 42 (0.53%) Artifactory
16 42 (0.53%) JUnit
17 40 (0.51%) SonarQube
18 37 (0.47%) CMake
19 34 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 1,266 (16.05%) Finance
2 1,115 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 548 (6.95%) Front Office
4 469 (5.94%) Banking
5 436 (5.53%) Electronics
6 352 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 298 (3.78%) Manufacturing
8 241 (3.05%) Automotive
9 221 (2.80%) Investment Banking
10 208 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 205 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 200 (2.54%) Games
13 182 (2.31%) Retail
14 178 (2.26%) Aerospace
14 178 (2.26%) Marketing
15 161 (2.04%) Law
16 120 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 117 (1.48%) Legal
18 108 (1.37%) Tech for Good
19 98 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,669 (59.18%) Software Engineer
2 2,063 (26.15%) Senior
3 1,633 (20.70%) Developer
4 1,461 (18.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 879 (11.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 817 (10.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 744 (9.43%) Lead
8 354 (4.49%) Software Developer
9 337 (4.27%) Java Engineer
10 329 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 326 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 305 (3.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 292 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
14 289 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
15 288 (3.65%) C++ Software Engineer
16 287 (3.64%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 279 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
18 259 (3.28%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
19 256 (3.25%) .NET Developer
20 241 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,510 (19.14%) .NET
2 1,374 (17.42%) React
3 582 (7.38%) .NET Core
4 566 (7.17%) AngularJS
5 564 (7.15%) CSS
6 493 (6.25%) Node.js
7 406 (5.15%) HTML
8 358 (4.54%) gRPC
9 329 (4.17%) RESTful
10 328 (4.16%) Spring
11 305 (3.87%) Vue
12 304 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
13 288 (3.65%) ASP.NET
14 266 (3.37%) Redux
14 266 (3.37%) REST
15 246 (3.12%) Kafka
16 230 (2.92%) Pandas
17 224 (2.84%) Spring Boot
18 219 (2.78%) NumPy
19 217 (2.75%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 472 (5.98%) Fixed Income
2 423 (5.36%) Hedge funds
3 370 (4.69%) Equities
4 361 (4.58%) Algorithms
5 336 (4.26%) Derivative
6 318 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 252 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 249 (3.16%) IoT
9 248 (3.14%) Cloud Native
10 236 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
11 210 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
12 182 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
13 169 (2.14%) Client/Server
14 166 (2.10%) Product Ownership
15 164 (2.08%) Data Structures
16 135 (1.71%) Mobile App
17 121 (1.53%) Management Information System
18 105 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
19 84 (1.06%) Private Cloud
20 83 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,109 (14.06%) Linux
2 446 (5.65%) Windows
3 202 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
4 135 (1.71%) Android
5 120 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 117 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 67 (0.85%) Unix
8 54 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 49 (0.62%) CentOS
10 46 (0.58%) Debian
11 33 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.29%) Windows Server
14 18 (0.23%) VMS
15 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.076%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.076%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.063%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.051%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,815 (35.68%) Agile
2 1,432 (18.15%) DevOps
3 1,194 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 1,061 (13.45%) Computer Science
5 876 (11.10%) CI/CD
6 866 (10.98%) Full Stack Development
7 723 (9.16%) Mentoring
8 683 (8.66%) Microservices
9 629 (7.97%) Scrum
10 525 (6.65%) Asset Management
11 519 (6.58%) SDLC
12 515 (6.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 507 (6.43%) Test Automation
14 498 (6.31%) TDD
15 430 (5.45%) Design Patterns
15 430 (5.45%) Investment Management
16 421 (5.34%) Machine Learning
17 420 (5.32%) Actionable Insight
18 397 (5.03%) Containerisation
19 377 (4.78%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,254 (28.57%) Python
2 1,894 (24.01%) C#
3 1,715 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 1,609 (20.40%) Java
5 1,109 (14.06%) C
6 1,104 (13.99%) TypeScript
7 1,069 (13.55%) SQL
8 996 (12.63%) C++
9 286 (3.63%) Go
10 277 (3.51%) PHP
11 245 (3.11%) Kotlin
12 222 (2.81%) Embedded C
13 206 (2.61%) Bash
14 203 (2.57%) Rust
15 139 (1.76%) MATLAB
16 124 (1.57%) Scala
17 108 (1.37%) PowerShell
18 103 (1.31%) Ruby
19 97 (1.23%) T-SQL
20 86 (1.09%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,573 (19.94%) Degree
2 1,104 (13.99%) Security Cleared
3 684 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 530 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 231 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 203 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 168 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 101 (1.28%) PhD
9 46 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 39 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.42%) HND
13 32 (0.41%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.34%) HNC
15 22 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 19 (0.24%) CISSP
18 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
18 16 (0.20%) ISTQB
19 12 (0.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (3.98%) QA
2 78 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 67 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 51 (0.65%) MISRA
5 47 (0.60%) GDPR
6 30 (0.38%) ISO 26262
6 30 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 26 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
8 23 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
8 23 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 21 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 20 (0.25%) Def Stans
11 19 (0.24%) ISO 13485
12 17 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
14 14 (0.18%) NIST
14 14 (0.18%) PMO
15 12 (0.15%) NCSC
16 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
16 11 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 742 (9.41%) Docker
2 220 (2.79%) Firmware
3 105 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 35 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.42%) Active Directory
6 23 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.10%) HDFS
9 7 (0.089%) IAG
10 5 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.038%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.038%) NFS
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.025%) Ceph
13 2 (0.025%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.013%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.013%) LXC
14 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 766 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 498 (6.31%) Terraform
3 206 (2.61%) Ansible
4 57 (0.72%) Grafana
5 36 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 36 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.34%) Puppet
7 16 (0.20%) Functional Safety
8 9 (0.11%) Kibana
9 8 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.076%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.076%) Nessus
11 5 (0.063%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.063%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.063%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.063%) SELinux
12 4 (0.051%) Istio
12 4 (0.051%) Nagios
12 4 (0.051%) Podman
12 4 (0.051%) Suricata
Vendors
1 645 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 271 (3.44%) Google
3 207 (2.62%) ESRI
4 128 (1.62%) Oracle
5 74 (0.94%) SAP
6 62 (0.79%) IBM
7 60 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 53 (0.67%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.57%) Siemens
10 40 (0.51%) Bloomberg
10 40 (0.51%) Databricks
11 37 (0.47%) Atlassian
12 33 (0.42%) Adobe
13 29 (0.37%) Micro Focus
13 29 (0.37%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.33%) Xilinx
15 25 (0.32%) SaltStack
15 25 (0.32%) VMware
16 23 (0.29%) Apple
17 22 (0.28%) EMC