Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 66 34
Rank change year-on-year +35 -32 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4,822 4,247 11,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.61% 4.71% 8.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.94% 5.15% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,708 2,497 3,666
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,400 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 81,185 82,540 127,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.53% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,576 52,509 74,661
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,288 £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 £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +3 1,173 £93,750 +10.29% 457
North of England +51 987 £55,000 -8.33% 151
South East +38 926 £55,000 -12.00% 193
South West +34 854 £55,000 -8.33% 160
North West +56 564 £57,500 - 93
Midlands +42 539 £52,500 -4.55% 113
Yorkshire +46 348 £50,000 -16.67% 47
East of England +22 325 £60,000 - 126
West Midlands +54 294 £55,000 -4.35% 59
East Midlands +11 245 £52,500 - 53
North East +16 75 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4,777 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 1,479 (30.67%) Agile
3 1,472 (30.53%) Python
4 1,383 (28.68%) AWS
5 1,130 (23.43%) JavaScript
6 1,057 (21.92%) C#
7 1,031 (21.38%) Azure
8 974 (20.20%) Java
9 927 (19.22%) React
10 870 (18.04%) .NET
11 843 (17.48%) C
12 786 (16.30%) Degree
13 770 (15.97%) C++
14 767 (15.91%) Linux
15 695 (14.41%) Finance
15 695 (14.41%) TypeScript
16 685 (14.21%) Security Cleared
17 652 (13.52%) DevOps
18 585 (12.13%) SQL
19 564 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
20 528 (10.95%) Full Stack Development
21 499 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
22 498 (10.33%) Computer Science
23 488 (10.12%) Social Skills
24 485 (10.06%) GCP
25 413 (8.56%) AngularJS
26 402 (8.34%) SC Cleared
26 402 (8.34%) .NET Core
27 392 (8.13%) Microservices
28 382 (7.92%) Git

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
1 314 (6.51%) Apache
2 260 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.33%) ArcGIS
4 196 (4.06%) GeoServer
5 66 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 49 (1.02%) Confluence
7 18 (0.37%) Captiva
7 18 (0.37%) FileNet
7 18 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 16 (0.33%) CMS
9 11 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 9 (0.19%) JBoss
11 8 (0.17%) nginx
12 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
13 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.10%) Drupal
14 5 (0.10%) WinCC
15 4 (0.083%) Ethereum
16 3 (0.062%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 100 (2.07%) Simulink
2 27 (0.56%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.23%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Trello
5 5 (0.10%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.062%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.062%) Sketch
6 3 (0.062%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.041%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.021%) UXPin
8 1 (0.021%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (0.12%) Magento
4 3 (0.062%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.041%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.021%) Endur
6 1 (0.021%) Findur
6 1 (0.021%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,383 (28.68%) AWS
2 1,031 (21.38%) Azure
3 485 (10.06%) GCP
4 198 (4.11%) Serverless
5 134 (2.78%) dbt
6 115 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 114 (2.36%) SaaS
8 109 (2.26%) GitHub
9 104 (2.16%) Snowflake
10 93 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (0.91%) OpenShift
13 40 (0.83%) Power Platform
14 38 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (0.56%) Amazon S3
17 26 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (0.41%) Azure Functions
20 16 (0.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 74 (1.53%) Wireless
3 49 (1.02%) RS-232
4 42 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.85%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.81%) RS-485
7 36 (0.75%) Ethernet
7 36 (0.75%) Internet
8 30 (0.62%) HTTP
9 28 (0.58%) AMQP
10 27 (0.56%) MQTT
11 19 (0.39%) Modbus
12 18 (0.37%) ZigBee
13 14 (0.29%) J1939
14 13 (0.27%) 4G
14 13 (0.27%) Network Security
15 12 (0.25%) 3G
15 12 (0.25%) 5G
16 10 (0.21%) VoIP
17 7 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 499 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 234 (4.85%) Apache Ignite
3 229 (4.75%) GIS
4 196 (4.06%) MySQL
4 196 (4.06%) QGIS
5 177 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 133 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
7 131 (2.72%) Apache Arrow
7 131 (2.72%) Dremio
8 119 (2.47%) NoSQL
9 108 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 90 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 85 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 61 (1.27%) Redis
13 50 (1.04%) Big Data
14 39 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 37 (0.77%) DynamoDB
16 31 (0.64%) Hadoop
17 29 (0.60%) RDBMS
18 27 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 382 (7.92%) Git
2 170 (3.53%) JIRA
3 121 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 84 (1.74%) Cypress.io
4 84 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 78 (1.62%) GitLab
6 72 (1.49%) Subversion
7 33 (0.68%) LabVIEW
8 29 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 27 (0.56%) CMake
9 27 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
10 26 (0.54%) Selenium
11 24 (0.50%) Maven
12 23 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 22 (0.46%) ClearCase
13 22 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
14 21 (0.44%) JDeveloper
14 21 (0.44%) Plastic SCM
15 18 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
16 16 (0.33%) JUnit
General
1 695 (14.41%) Finance
2 488 (10.12%) Social Skills
3 375 (7.78%) Front Office
4 353 (7.32%) Electronics
5 313 (6.49%) Banking
6 204 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 194 (4.02%) Automotive
8 160 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
9 143 (2.97%) Aerospace
10 138 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 108 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 98 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 94 (1.95%) Retail
14 89 (1.85%) Marketing
15 80 (1.66%) Military
16 74 (1.53%) Tech for Good
17 64 (1.33%) Legal
18 62 (1.29%) Law
19 56 (1.16%) Health Technology
20 49 (1.02%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 927 (19.22%) React
2 870 (18.04%) .NET
3 413 (8.56%) AngularJS
4 402 (8.34%) .NET Core
5 336 (6.97%) CSS
6 305 (6.33%) Node.js
7 296 (6.14%) gRPC
8 247 (5.12%) Redux
9 246 (5.10%) Protocol Buffers
10 237 (4.91%) Vue
11 204 (4.23%) PostGIS
12 200 (4.15%) Leaflet
12 200 (4.15%) OpenLayers
13 193 (4.00%) ASP.NET
14 190 (3.94%) RESTful
15 181 (3.75%) Spring
16 177 (3.67%) HTML
17 153 (3.17%) Pandas
18 150 (3.11%) Material-UI
18 150 (3.11%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.51%) Fixed Income
2 296 (6.14%) Hedge funds
3 255 (5.29%) Equities
4 218 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 216 (4.48%) Derivative
6 195 (4.04%) Algorithms
7 179 (3.71%) IoT
8 174 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
9 111 (2.30%) Cloud Native
10 101 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 101 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 99 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
12 71 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 69 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.37%) Device Driver
15 64 (1.33%) Data Structures
16 55 (1.14%) Robotics
17 51 (1.06%) Product Ownership
18 42 (0.87%) SCADA
19 36 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 767 (15.91%) Linux
2 291 (6.03%) Windows
3 169 (3.50%) Embedded Linux
4 113 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 90 (1.87%) Android
6 77 (1.60%) Apple iOS
7 56 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 56 (1.16%) Unix
8 47 (0.97%) Debian
9 45 (0.93%) CentOS
10 30 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 3 (0.062%) VMS
15 3 (0.062%) Windows Server
16 2 (0.041%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.041%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.041%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,777 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 1,479 (30.67%) Agile
3 652 (13.52%) DevOps
4 564 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
5 528 (10.95%) Full Stack Development
6 498 (10.33%) Computer Science
7 392 (8.13%) Microservices
8 364 (7.55%) Asset Management
9 340 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
10 339 (7.03%) Investment Management
11 330 (6.84%) Mentoring
12 329 (6.82%) CI/CD
13 291 (6.03%) TDD
14 290 (6.01%) Test Automation
15 282 (5.85%) Web Development
16 271 (5.62%) Artificial Intelligence
17 242 (5.02%) SDLC
18 239 (4.96%) Machine Learning
19 232 (4.81%) Fintech
19 232 (4.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,472 (30.53%) Python
2 1,130 (23.43%) JavaScript
3 1,057 (21.92%) C#
4 974 (20.20%) Java
5 843 (17.48%) C
6 770 (15.97%) C++
7 695 (14.41%) TypeScript
8 585 (12.13%) SQL
9 198 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 189 (3.92%) Embedded C
11 165 (3.42%) Go
11 165 (3.42%) Rust
12 159 (3.30%) Bash
13 118 (2.45%) PHP
14 106 (2.20%) MATLAB
15 74 (1.53%) Scala
16 71 (1.47%) Ada
17 63 (1.31%) Perl
18 58 (1.20%) Ruby
19 54 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 786 (16.30%) Degree
2 685 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 402 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 248 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 100 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (1.33%) PhD
8 26 (0.54%) HND
9 21 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 17 (0.35%) HNC
11 12 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
12 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.15%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.10%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.062%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.062%) Sun Certification
16 1 (0.021%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (3.73%) QA
2 52 (1.08%) MISRA
3 47 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 34 (0.71%) GDPR
5 25 (0.52%) ISO 26262
6 23 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
7 21 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
8 15 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
8 15 (0.31%) PMO
9 12 (0.25%) Def Stans
9 12 (0.25%) ISO 13485
10 11 (0.23%) IEC 62304
11 10 (0.21%) MISRA C
12 9 (0.19%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.15%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
14 6 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.12%) JTAG
15 5 (0.10%) TickIT
16 2 (0.041%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 295 (6.12%) Docker
2 154 (3.19%) Firmware
3 77 (1.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.083%) Ceph
7 3 (0.062%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.041%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.021%) KVM
9 1 (0.021%) LXC
Systems Management
1 342 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 220 (4.56%) Terraform
3 113 (2.34%) Ansible
4 26 (0.54%) Puppet
5 17 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.25%) Grafana
7 8 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.10%) SELinux
9 4 (0.083%) Knative
9 4 (0.083%) Podman
9 4 (0.083%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.062%) Consul
10 3 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.062%) Packer
10 3 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.041%) Istio
11 2 (0.041%) Kibana
11 2 (0.041%) linkerd
11 2 (0.041%) MIIS
11 2 (0.041%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 213 (4.42%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.23%) ESRI
3 185 (3.84%) Google
4 89 (1.85%) Oracle
5 51 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 50 (1.04%) IBM
7 42 (0.87%) Siemens
8 39 (0.81%) SAP
9 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 26 (0.54%) SaltStack
10 25 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 22 (0.46%) Xamarin
12 21 (0.44%) Lauterbach
13 18 (0.37%) Kofax
13 18 (0.37%) Pega
14 16 (0.33%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.25%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.25%) F5
16 11 (0.23%) Cadence
17 10 (0.21%) Facebook