Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 651 687 694
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 121 49 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.083% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.093% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 39 93
10th Percentile £38,075 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -35.29% +120.78%
75th Percentile £76,039 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £91,934 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,037 52,505 69,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.19% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 48,012 29,939 42,827
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,325 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Scotland +14 80 - -
South West +2 20 £72,500 +28.89% 1
North of England +24 13 £42,572 -14.86% 3
North West +10 13 £42,572 -14.86% 1
East of England - 4 £53,750 - 2
South East -17 3 £60,000 -22.58% 1
West Midlands +5 1 £52,500 +23.53%
Midlands -6 1 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Developer/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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (90.08%) Software Engineering
2 104 (85.95%) Agile
3 96 (79.34%) CI/CD
4 89 (73.55%) Java
5 86 (71.07%) Finance
5 86 (71.07%) AWS
6 82 (67.77%) SDLC
7 81 (66.94%) Algorithms
7 81 (66.94%) Python
8 80 (66.12%) Law
8 80 (66.12%) Visualisation
8 80 (66.12%) Artificial Intelligence
8 80 (66.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (66.12%) Machine Learning
8 80 (66.12%) Community of Practice
8 80 (66.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 80 (66.12%) Operational Stability
9 69 (57.02%) Apache Hive
9 69 (57.02%) NoSQL
9 69 (57.02%) Apache Spark
10 64 (52.89%) Microservices
10 64 (52.89%) Unix
11 63 (52.07%) Test Automation
12 62 (51.24%) Git
13 61 (50.41%) Open Source
13 61 (50.41%) SQL
14 60 (49.59%) Jenkins
15 57 (47.11%) Terraform
15 57 (47.11%) TDD
16 56 (46.28%) Hadoop

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 69 (57.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.31%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 86 (71.07%) AWS
2 7 (5.79%) Serverless
3 6 (4.96%) Azure
4 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.48%) npm
6 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.65%) GCP
6 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (57.02%) Apache Hive
1 69 (57.02%) NoSQL
2 56 (46.28%) Hadoop
2 56 (46.28%) HBase
3 22 (18.18%) Big Data
4 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.26%) MySQL
5 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.31%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (3.31%) GIS
6 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.31%) Redis
6 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.65%) Power BI
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (51.24%) Git
2 60 (49.59%) Jenkins
3 56 (46.28%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (4.96%) JIRA
5 5 (4.13%) Maven
6 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
General
1 86 (71.07%) Finance
2 80 (66.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (66.12%) Law
3 37 (30.58%) Legal
4 30 (24.79%) Marketing
5 19 (15.70%) Banking
6 13 (10.74%) Private Banking
7 6 (4.96%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.31%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.65%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.36%) AngularJS
1 21 (17.36%) Spring
2 16 (13.22%) Node.js
3 14 (11.57%) React
4 11 (9.09%) CSS
4 11 (9.09%) HTML
5 9 (7.44%) .NET
6 8 (6.61%) ASP.NET
6 8 (6.61%) RESTful
6 8 (6.61%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.96%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.96%) HTML5
8 5 (4.13%) Kafka
8 5 (4.13%) Vue
9 4 (3.31%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (3.31%) CSS3
9 4 (3.31%) GeoJSON
9 4 (3.31%) JSON
9 4 (3.31%) PostGIS
9 4 (3.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 81 (66.94%) Algorithms
2 14 (11.57%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.79%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.48%) NHS
4 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.65%) IoT
5 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (52.89%) Unix
2 14 (11.57%) Linux
3 10 (8.26%) Apple iOS
4 7 (5.79%) Windows
5 6 (4.96%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.08%) Software Engineering
2 104 (85.95%) Agile
3 96 (79.34%) CI/CD
4 82 (67.77%) SDLC
5 80 (66.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 80 (66.12%) Community of Practice
5 80 (66.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 80 (66.12%) Machine Learning
5 80 (66.12%) Operational Stability
5 80 (66.12%) Visualisation
6 64 (52.89%) Microservices
7 63 (52.07%) Test Automation
8 61 (50.41%) Open Source
9 57 (47.11%) TDD
10 56 (46.28%) Batch Processing
11 44 (36.36%) Risk Management
12 30 (24.79%) Full Stack Development
13 20 (16.53%) Design Patterns
13 20 (16.53%) Wealth Management
14 17 (14.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (73.55%) Java
2 81 (66.94%) Python
3 61 (50.41%) SQL
4 56 (46.28%) PL/SQL
5 16 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.44%) C#
7 6 (4.96%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.96%) Perl
7 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.96%) Ruby
7 6 (4.96%) Swift
8 4 (3.31%) Rust
9 2 (1.65%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.65%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 56 (46.28%) HDFS
2 6 (4.96%) Docker
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (47.11%) Terraform
2 12 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 56 (46.28%) Cloudera
1 56 (46.28%) Databricks
1 56 (46.28%) Informatica
2 6 (4.96%) Facebook
2 6 (4.96%) Oracle
3 4 (3.31%) ESRI
4 2 (1.65%) Google
4 2 (1.65%) QNX
4 2 (1.65%) VMware
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.83%) Splunk