Software Manager Jobs in the South East

Software Manager
England > South East

The median Software Manager salary in the South East is £66,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 310 376
Rank change year-on-year -21 +66 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 74 99 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.65% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 62 53 103
10th Percentile £44,000 £51,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £99,375 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £99,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £68,500 £77,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% -9.41% +25.93%

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 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
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 Software Manager within the South East 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
Hampshire -6 24 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Thames Valley -10 20 £90,000 +12.50% 5
West Sussex +51 11 £65,000 +10.64%
Surrey +20 11 £97,500 +92.12%
Berkshire +18 10 £105,000 +31.25% 1
Oxfordshire -12 8 £53,750 -17.31% 4
Sussex - 5 £100,000 -
East Sussex +11 4 £100,000 +25.00%
Buckinghamshire -17 2 £100,000 +48.15%
Software Manager
England

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software 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 South East region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 52 (70.27%) Agile
2 35 (47.30%) Software Engineering
3 27 (36.49%) DevOps
4 25 (33.78%) Test Automation
5 24 (32.43%) Project Management
6 21 (28.38%) C#
7 20 (27.03%) Scrum
8 19 (25.68%) .NET
8 19 (25.68%) Jenkins
9 17 (22.97%) SQL
10 16 (21.62%) Mentoring
10 16 (21.62%) QA
11 15 (20.27%) Kanban
11 15 (20.27%) Azure
11 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (20.27%) Project Delivery
11 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
12 14 (18.92%) Roadmaps
12 14 (18.92%) JIRA
12 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (17.57%) Software Delivery
14 11 (14.86%) GitLab
14 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
14 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
14 11 (14.86%) Aerospace
15 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (13.51%) Requirements Management
15 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
15 10 (13.51%) Product Management
15 10 (13.51%) Ansible

Software Manager 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) Azure
2 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.70%) AWS
3 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Broadband
1 2 (2.70%) Internet
2 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.70%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.35%) MySQL
3 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.92%) JIRA
3 11 (14.86%) GitLab
4 7 (9.46%) Cypress.io
4 7 (9.46%) Selenium
4 7 (9.46%) SoapUI
5 4 (5.41%) Git
6 3 (4.05%) TestRail
7 2 (2.70%) Burp Suite
7 2 (2.70%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Aerospace
3 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) .NET
2 4 (5.41%) Jest
2 4 (5.41%) React
3 3 (4.05%) WPF
4 1 (1.35%) JSON
4 1 (1.35%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.46%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.05%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.35%) Blog
5 1 (1.35%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.35%) FMCG
5 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.35%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (70.27%) Agile
2 35 (47.30%) Software Engineering
3 27 (36.49%) DevOps
4 25 (33.78%) Test Automation
5 24 (32.43%) Project Management
6 20 (27.03%) Scrum
7 16 (21.62%) Mentoring
8 15 (20.27%) Kanban
8 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.27%) Project Delivery
9 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (18.92%) Roadmaps
10 13 (17.57%) Software Delivery
11 10 (13.51%) CI/CD
11 10 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (13.51%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (13.51%) Conflict Resolution
11 10 (13.51%) Product Management
11 10 (13.51%) Requirements Management
11 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) C#
2 17 (22.97%) SQL
3 9 (12.16%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.46%) C++
4 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.76%) Python
6 4 (5.41%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) Degree
3 2 (2.70%) CISSP
3 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.62%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Ansible
2 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.35%) IFS
3 1 (1.35%) SAP