Development Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 393 432
Rank change year-on-year +112 +39 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 99 18 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 37 14 30
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,100 £33,320
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,063 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £70,000 £76,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £65,000 £59,923
% change year-on-year -18.46% +8.47% -0.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +82 75 £37,500 -12.79% 9
Buckinghamshire +39 61 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 14 £37,500 - 5
West Sussex +43 10 £60,000 - 2
Sussex - 7 £50,000 -
Kent - 5 £55,000 - 4
East Sussex +13 1 - -
Hampshire -17 1 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Development Engineer
England

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Development 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 South East region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (73.74%) Degree
2 66 (66.67%) Electronics
3 61 (61.62%) Manufacturing
3 61 (61.62%) EMC
3 61 (61.62%) Firmware
3 61 (61.62%) Project Planning
3 61 (61.62%) Schematic Capture
3 61 (61.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 61 (61.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.19%) Python
5 19 (19.19%) C++
6 17 (17.17%) Use Case
7 11 (11.11%) Multithreading
7 11 (11.11%) Git
7 11 (11.11%) Physics
7 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 11 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (11.11%) Cross-Platform Development
8 10 (10.10%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 10 (10.10%) Unreal Engine
8 10 (10.10%) DevOps
8 10 (10.10%) Mathematics
8 10 (10.10%) Windows
8 10 (10.10%) Subversion
8 10 (10.10%) Games
9 7 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (7.07%) GitHub
10 6 (6.06%) SDET
10 6 (6.06%) Technical Leadership

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Doxygen
1 1 (1.01%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.07%) GitHub
2 6 (6.06%) AWS
2 6 (6.06%) Azure
2 6 (6.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Bluetooth
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Git
2 10 (10.10%) Subversion
3 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 66 (66.67%) Electronics
2 61 (61.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 61 (61.62%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.10%) Games
4 6 (6.06%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 10 (10.10%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (1.01%) LAMP
2 1 (1.01%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Life Science
2 5 (5.05%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Windows
2 6 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.62%) Project Planning
1 61 (61.62%) Schematic Capture
2 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.17%) Use Case
4 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 11 (11.11%) Cross-Platform Development
4 11 (11.11%) Multithreading
4 11 (11.11%) Physics
5 10 (10.10%) DevOps
5 10 (10.10%) Mathematics
6 7 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (6.06%) Coaching
7 6 (6.06%) Mentoring
7 6 (6.06%) Open Source
7 6 (6.06%) SDET
7 6 (6.06%) Software Engineering
7 6 (6.06%) Software Testing
7 6 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (6.06%) Test Automation
7 6 (6.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) C++
1 19 (19.19%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) Bash
2 6 (6.06%) Ruby
3 2 (2.02%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.01%) C
4 1 (1.01%) C#
4 1 (1.01%) Java
Qualifications
1 73 (73.74%) Degree
2 11 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 61 (61.62%) Embedded Firmware
1 61 (61.62%) Firmware
Vendors
1 61 (61.62%) EMC
2 1 (1.01%) Xilinx