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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7,793 10,059 19,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.26% 10.59% 15.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.76% 11.07% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,165 6,157 8,782
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +13.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.34% +15.13%

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 72,450 90,857 124,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.08% 95.70% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53,748 53,506 74,331
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £39,759 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £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 19 April 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 19 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 +2 2,236 £90,750 +3.71% 829
North of England +11 1,560 £60,000 -4.00% 305
South East -5 1,336 £57,500 -8.00% 362
South West +8 1,228 £55,000 -8.33% 262
North West +13 937 £60,000 -1.93% 181
Midlands +9 846 £55,000 -6.38% 227
East of England +3 523 £60,000 -7.69% 219
Yorkshire +8 501 £55,000 -15.38% 89
West Midlands +25 490 £60,000 - 114
East Midlands +2 356 £50,000 -9.09% 113
North East +13 122 £55,000 +4.76% 38
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
1 330 (4.23%) Apache
2 265 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.71%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.52%) GeoServer
5 154 (1.98%) Confluence
6 89 (1.14%) Apache Spark
7 37 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.45%) CMS
9 30 (0.38%) nginx
10 20 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 19 (0.24%) JBoss
12 18 (0.23%) Captiva
12 18 (0.23%) FileNet
13 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
14 16 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 16 (0.21%) WordPress
15 13 (0.17%) IIS
16 11 (0.14%) NServiceBus
17 10 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
17 10 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 118 (1.51%) Simulink
2 29 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 14 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 7 (0.090%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.077%) Trello
8 5 (0.064%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.051%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.038%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.038%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.038%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.026%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.026%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (0.13%) Magento
4 8 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.090%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.051%) Shopify
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.038%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.026%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.026%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.026%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.026%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.026%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.013%) Endur
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,225 (28.55%) AWS
2 1,741 (22.34%) Azure
3 746 (9.57%) GCP
4 377 (4.84%) Serverless
5 324 (4.16%) SaaS
6 298 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 237 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
8 217 (2.78%) GitHub
9 168 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
10 162 (2.08%) dbt
11 155 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 129 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 108 (1.39%) Snowflake
14 106 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 96 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 81 (1.04%) OpenShift
17 76 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
18 75 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
20 66 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 101 (1.30%) Wireless
3 65 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 65 (0.83%) Internet
4 60 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
5 51 (0.65%) HTTP
6 49 (0.63%) Bluetooth
6 49 (0.63%) RS-232
7 43 (0.55%) Network Security
8 38 (0.49%) RS-485
9 36 (0.46%) AMQP
10 30 (0.38%) Firewall
10 30 (0.38%) MQTT
11 26 (0.33%) 5G
12 21 (0.27%) 4G
12 21 (0.27%) ZigBee
13 18 (0.23%) J1939
14 17 (0.22%) Modbus
15 14 (0.18%) 3G
15 14 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 617 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 362 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 354 (4.54%) MySQL
4 235 (3.02%) GIS
5 220 (2.82%) Apache Ignite
6 196 (2.52%) QGIS
7 194 (2.49%) NoSQL
8 185 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 159 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
10 158 (2.03%) Dremio
11 157 (2.01%) Apache Arrow
12 144 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 134 (1.72%) Data Lake
14 132 (1.69%) Redis
15 113 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
16 98 (1.26%) Big Data
17 91 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 78 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 830 (10.65%) Git
2 356 (4.57%) JIRA
3 304 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 260 (3.34%) Visual Studio
5 217 (2.78%) GitLab
6 134 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 117 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 92 (1.18%) Subversion
9 65 (0.83%) Selenium
9 65 (0.83%) Sourcetree
10 58 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 57 (0.73%) LabVIEW
12 48 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
13 47 (0.60%) Postman
14 45 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 45 (0.58%) Cucumber
15 39 (0.50%) JUnit
16 37 (0.47%) CMake
17 36 (0.46%) Maven
17 36 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 1,271 (16.31%) Finance
2 1,111 (14.26%) Social Skills
3 506 (6.49%) Front Office
4 470 (6.03%) Banking
5 424 (5.44%) Electronics
6 369 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 287 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 244 (3.13%) Automotive
9 202 (2.59%) Public Sector
10 199 (2.55%) Games
11 194 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 187 (2.40%) Retail
13 184 (2.36%) Investment Banking
14 175 (2.25%) Aerospace
14 175 (2.25%) Marketing
15 144 (1.85%) Law
16 116 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
17 106 (1.36%) Legal
18 103 (1.32%) Tech for Good
19 97 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,562 (58.54%) Software Engineer
2 2,014 (25.84%) Senior
3 1,639 (21.03%) Developer
4 1,407 (18.05%) Senior Software Engineer
5 841 (10.79%) Embedded Engineer
6 782 (10.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 704 (9.03%) Lead
8 348 (4.47%) Software Developer
9 325 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 322 (4.13%) Senior Developer
11 300 (3.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 300 (3.85%) Python Engineer
12 281 (3.61%) C++ Software Engineer
13 278 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
14 273 (3.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 272 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
16 255 (3.27%) .NET Developer
17 248 (3.18%) Python Software Engineer
18 246 (3.16%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
19 233 (2.99%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,511 (19.39%) .NET
2 1,385 (17.77%) React
3 605 (7.76%) AngularJS
4 582 (7.47%) CSS
5 572 (7.34%) .NET Core
6 518 (6.65%) Node.js
7 445 (5.71%) HTML
8 350 (4.49%) RESTful
9 332 (4.26%) Spring
10 306 (3.93%) Vue
11 305 (3.91%) gRPC
12 293 (3.76%) ASP.NET
13 271 (3.48%) REST
14 252 (3.23%) Redux
15 251 (3.22%) Kafka
15 251 (3.22%) Protocol Buffers
16 225 (2.89%) Spring Boot
17 210 (2.69%) .NET Framework
18 205 (2.63%) PostGIS
19 200 (2.57%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 417 (5.35%) Fixed Income
2 366 (4.70%) Algorithms
3 355 (4.56%) Hedge funds
4 316 (4.05%) Equities
5 290 (3.72%) Derivative
6 276 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 257 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
8 247 (3.17%) IoT
9 232 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
10 229 (2.94%) Cloud Native
11 208 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
12 180 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
13 173 (2.22%) Product Ownership
14 168 (2.16%) Client/Server
15 164 (2.10%) Data Structures
16 140 (1.80%) Mobile App
17 115 (1.48%) Management Information System
18 105 (1.35%) Virtual Reality
19 81 (1.04%) Virtual Team
20 80 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,078 (13.83%) Linux
2 432 (5.54%) Windows
3 195 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
4 135 (1.73%) Android
5 125 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 107 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 66 (0.85%) Unix
8 46 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 44 (0.56%) Debian
10 42 (0.54%) CentOS
11 34 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 21 (0.27%) Windows Server
14 19 (0.24%) VMS
15 12 (0.15%) Windows 10
16 7 (0.090%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.077%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.064%) Windows Mobile
19 3 (0.038%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,819 (36.17%) Agile
2 1,442 (18.50%) DevOps
3 1,207 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
4 1,043 (13.38%) Computer Science
5 884 (11.34%) Full Stack Development
6 865 (11.10%) CI/CD
7 729 (9.35%) Mentoring
8 686 (8.80%) Microservices
9 623 (7.99%) Scrum
10 538 (6.90%) SDLC
11 507 (6.51%) TDD
12 492 (6.31%) Test Automation
13 485 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
14 479 (6.15%) Asset Management
15 438 (5.62%) Design Patterns
16 420 (5.39%) Actionable Insight
17 408 (5.24%) Containerisation
18 384 (4.93%) Machine Learning
19 378 (4.85%) Continuous Integration
20 377 (4.84%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 2,180 (27.97%) Python
2 1,889 (24.24%) C#
3 1,699 (21.80%) JavaScript
4 1,574 (20.20%) Java
5 1,080 (13.86%) C
6 1,070 (13.73%) TypeScript
7 1,046 (13.42%) SQL
8 968 (12.42%) C++
9 289 (3.71%) Go
10 273 (3.50%) PHP
11 231 (2.96%) Kotlin
12 218 (2.80%) Embedded C
13 204 (2.62%) Bash
14 202 (2.59%) Rust
15 143 (1.83%) MATLAB
16 122 (1.57%) Scala
17 110 (1.41%) Ruby
18 104 (1.33%) PowerShell
19 99 (1.27%) T-SQL
20 85 (1.09%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,551 (19.90%) Degree
2 1,094 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 682 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 521 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 232 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 204 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 160 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 105 (1.35%) PhD
9 48 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 37 (0.47%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.42%) HND
13 32 (0.41%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.35%) HNC
15 22 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
17 16 (0.21%) CISSP
17 16 (0.21%) ISTQB
18 14 (0.18%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (4.12%) QA
2 69 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 54 (0.69%) Data Quality
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 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
8 23 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
9 20 (0.26%) Def Stans
9 20 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.24%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.21%) IEC 61508
12 14 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.18%) PMO
13 13 (0.17%) NIST
14 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
14 11 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 11 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 779 (10.00%) Docker
2 218 (2.80%) Firmware
3 104 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 35 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 26 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.12%) KVM
8 8 (0.10%) HDFS
9 7 (0.090%) IAG
10 5 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.051%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.038%) OpenSIPS
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.013%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.013%) LXC
14 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) NFS
Systems Management
1 772 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 470 (6.03%) Terraform
3 193 (2.48%) Ansible
4 54 (0.69%) Grafana
5 37 (0.47%) Progress Chef
6 33 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.32%) Puppet
8 16 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.13%) Kibana
10 7 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.077%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.077%) Nessus
12 5 (0.064%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) Podman
12 5 (0.064%) SELinux
13 4 (0.051%) Istio
13 4 (0.051%) SCCM
14 3 (0.038%) logstash
Vendors
1 650 (8.34%) Microsoft
2 250 (3.21%) Google
3 207 (2.66%) ESRI
4 130 (1.67%) Oracle
5 75 (0.96%) SAP
6 62 (0.80%) IBM
7 58 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 51 (0.65%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.58%) Siemens
10 38 (0.49%) Adobe
10 38 (0.49%) Bloomberg
10 38 (0.49%) Databricks
11 34 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 29 (0.37%) Micro Focus
13 27 (0.35%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.31%) Apple
14 24 (0.31%) VMware
15 23 (0.30%) SaltStack
16 21 (0.27%) Lauterbach
16 21 (0.27%) Salesforce