Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £61,500 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 125 267 220
Rank change year-on-year +142 -47 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,577 775 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.25% 1.25% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.40% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 932 467 515
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +54 412 £60,000 -7.69% 27
North of England +129 331 £62,500 -0.79% 42
South West +130 278 £62,500 -7.41% 45
South East +67 245 £66,250 -5.36% 50
North West +108 196 £60,000 -1.23% 26
Midlands +29 142 £60,000 - 26
Yorkshire +71 86 £62,500 -3.85% 10
East of England +37 81 £65,000 -7.14% 39
East Midlands +11 80 £60,000 +14.29% 12
West Midlands +26 62 £60,000 -11.11% 14
Wales +41 53 £50,000 +11.11% 4
North East +41 49 £60,000 -15.37% 6
Northern Ireland +42 35 - - 6
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,576 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 698 (44.26%) Agile
3 453 (28.73%) AWS
4 440 (27.90%) Python
5 391 (24.79%) Azure
6 355 (22.51%) JavaScript
7 352 (22.32%) .NET
8 349 (22.13%) Java
9 345 (21.88%) C#
10 321 (20.36%) Security Cleared
11 315 (19.97%) React
12 299 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
13 283 (17.95%) DevOps
14 267 (16.93%) SDLC
15 266 (16.87%) Linux
16 260 (16.49%) Finance
17 255 (16.17%) SC Cleared
18 250 (15.85%) C++
19 249 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 243 (15.41%) SQL
21 240 (15.22%) CSS
22 232 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
23 225 (14.27%) C
24 223 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
25 206 (13.06%) .NET Core
26 199 (12.62%) Web Development
27 194 (12.30%) Law
27 194 (12.30%) Operational Stability
28 193 (12.24%) Marketing
29 187 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior 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
1 184 (11.67%) ArcGIS
1 184 (11.67%) GeoServer
2 88 (5.58%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.46%) JBoss
3 23 (1.46%) Red Hat Fuse
4 18 (1.14%) FileNet
5 17 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 8 (0.51%) Confluence
7 1 (0.063%) CMS
7 1 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (1.01%) Simulink
2 15 (0.95%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.44%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.063%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.063%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 453 (28.73%) AWS
2 391 (24.79%) Azure
3 80 (5.07%) GCP
4 50 (3.17%) SaaS
5 36 (2.28%) Serverless
6 34 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (1.27%) Amazon S3
8 16 (1.01%) GitHub
9 14 (0.89%) Azure Functions
10 11 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.57%) npm
12 7 (0.44%) Azure API Management
12 7 (0.44%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.38%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.13%) Power Platform
16 1 (0.063%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 1 (0.063%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.74%) Kerberos
2 29 (1.84%) Wireless
3 27 (1.71%) Ethernet
3 27 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.46%) Network Security
4 23 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.40%) RS-232
6 14 (0.89%) J1939
6 14 (0.89%) Modbus
7 9 (0.57%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.32%) MQTT
9 4 (0.25%) Profibus
10 3 (0.19%) Internet
11 1 (0.063%) SNMP
11 1 (0.063%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 184 (11.67%) GIS
2 184 (11.67%) QGIS
3 109 (6.91%) NoSQL
4 57 (3.61%) Big Data
5 56 (3.55%) MySQL
6 52 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 42 (2.66%) Metadata
8 39 (2.47%) MongoDB
9 33 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.08%) CockroachDB
12 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.63%) Redis
13 8 (0.51%) SQLite
14 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
17 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 125 (7.93%) Git
2 66 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.36%) JIRA
4 48 (3.04%) Bitbucket
5 42 (2.66%) Artifactory
6 38 (2.41%) Subversion
7 33 (2.09%) Visual Studio
8 27 (1.71%) GitLab
9 23 (1.46%) IntelliJ
10 19 (1.20%) JUnit
11 18 (1.14%) CMake
12 14 (0.89%) ClearCase
12 14 (0.89%) Plastic SCM
13 13 (0.82%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.57%) Storybook
15 8 (0.51%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.51%) Maven
16 7 (0.44%) ClearQuest
16 7 (0.44%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 260 (16.49%) Finance
2 249 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 194 (12.30%) Law
4 193 (12.24%) Marketing
5 106 (6.72%) Social Skills
6 68 (4.31%) Manufacturing
7 59 (3.74%) Automotive
8 57 (3.61%) Electronics
9 55 (3.49%) Public Sector
10 53 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.60%) Military
12 39 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
13 29 (1.84%) Aviation
14 23 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 21 (1.33%) Banking
16 18 (1.14%) Retail
17 16 (1.01%) Games
18 15 (0.95%) Legal
19 14 (0.89%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (22.32%) .NET
2 315 (19.97%) React
3 240 (15.22%) CSS
4 206 (13.06%) .NET Core
5 184 (11.67%) Leaflet
5 184 (11.67%) OpenLayers
5 184 (11.67%) PostGIS
6 140 (8.88%) AngularJS
7 138 (8.75%) RESTful
8 95 (6.02%) HTML
9 92 (5.83%) JSON
10 90 (5.71%) ASP.NET
11 88 (5.58%) XML
12 80 (5.07%) Spring
12 80 (5.07%) Web Services
13 74 (4.69%) Node.js
14 65 (4.12%) .NET Framework
15 62 (3.93%) Vue
16 57 (3.61%) Kafka
17 51 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 55 (3.49%) Algorithms
3 42 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
3 42 (2.66%) Management Information System
3 42 (2.66%) Reference Data
4 39 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (2.47%) IoT
5 33 (2.09%) Device Driver
5 33 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
8 16 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 13 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (0.63%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.57%) Client/Server
11 9 (0.57%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.57%) GNSS
12 8 (0.51%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 266 (16.87%) Linux
2 100 (6.34%) Embedded Linux
3 85 (5.39%) Windows
4 42 (2.66%) Ubuntu
5 21 (1.33%) Unix
6 20 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.76%) Android
9 9 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.32%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,576 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 698 (44.26%) Agile
3 299 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
4 283 (17.95%) DevOps
5 267 (16.93%) SDLC
6 223 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
7 199 (12.62%) Web Development
8 194 (12.30%) Operational Stability
9 187 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 172 (10.91%) Microservices
11 156 (9.89%) Computer Science
12 155 (9.83%) CI/CD
13 151 (9.58%) Tech Ops
14 148 (9.38%) Machine Learning
15 122 (7.74%) Test Automation
16 120 (7.61%) Mentoring
17 110 (6.98%) Decision-Making
18 79 (5.01%) Full Stack Development
18 79 (5.01%) TDD
19 72 (4.57%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 440 (27.90%) Python
2 355 (22.51%) JavaScript
3 349 (22.13%) Java
4 345 (21.88%) C#
5 250 (15.85%) C++
6 243 (15.41%) SQL
7 225 (14.27%) C
8 135 (8.56%) TypeScript
9 75 (4.76%) Embedded C
10 58 (3.68%) Bash
11 56 (3.55%) Go
12 54 (3.42%) Scala
13 42 (2.66%) Prolog
13 42 (2.66%) SPARQL
14 30 (1.90%) Rust
15 25 (1.59%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.52%) Perl
17 16 (1.01%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.89%) Ruby
19 13 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 321 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 255 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 170 (10.78%) Degree
4 40 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.40%) HND
7 16 (1.01%) PhD
8 12 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.063%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 15 (0.95%) ISO 26262
2 15 (0.95%) MISRA
3 14 (0.89%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (0.89%) AUTOSAR
4 13 (0.82%) PMO
5 12 (0.76%) QA
6 8 (0.51%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.44%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.25%) DICOM
8 4 (0.25%) HL7
9 3 (0.19%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.063%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.063%) SEPA
System Software
1 77 (4.88%) Docker
2 45 (2.85%) Firmware
3 42 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 67 (4.25%) Terraform
3 5 (0.32%) Ansible
3 5 (0.32%) SELinux
4 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.13%) linkerd
6 2 (0.13%) MIIS
7 1 (0.063%) Grafana
7 1 (0.063%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 184 (11.67%) ESRI
2 27 (1.71%) Microsoft
3 23 (1.46%) Google
4 20 (1.27%) Oracle
5 14 (0.89%) IBM
5 14 (0.89%) Lauterbach
6 12 (0.76%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.70%) Xamarin
8 9 (0.57%) Dell
9 7 (0.44%) F5
10 5 (0.32%) Databricks
11 4 (0.25%) Facebook
11 4 (0.25%) Instagram
11 4 (0.25%) QNX
12 3 (0.19%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.19%) SAP
13 2 (0.13%) Cadence
13 2 (0.13%) IFS
13 2 (0.13%) RedGate
13 2 (0.13%) VMware