Software Development Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Development Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Development Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 658 658 713
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 109 86 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 107 73 110
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,725
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,250 £71,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.76% -5.33% +11.11%

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 66,635 54,775 67,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 89.22% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,217 31,082 42,983
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 £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Development Manager
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 Software Development Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands +17 38 £68,500 +5.38% 3
South East +26 27 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North of England +36 26 £75,000 +7.14% 1
West Midlands +25 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -3 18 £66,750 +13.62% 3
North West +8 11 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire +81 9 £75,000 -16.67% 1
East of England +8 7 £120,000 -
North East 0 6 £80,000 +42.86%
South West -8 6 £60,000 -17.24% 1
Wales +13 5 £45,000 -25.00%
Software Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Software Development 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 60 (55.05%) Agile
2 38 (34.86%) .NET
3 33 (30.28%) Software Engineering
4 28 (25.69%) C#
5 23 (21.10%) People Management
6 17 (15.60%) Mentoring
7 16 (14.68%) SQL
7 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
8 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
8 15 (13.76%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (12.84%) Azure
10 13 (11.93%) DevOps
10 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (11.01%) Scrum
11 12 (11.01%) Project Management
11 12 (11.01%) SDLC
12 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
13 10 (9.17%) Docker
13 10 (9.17%) Degree
13 10 (9.17%) Kubernetes
14 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (8.26%) QA
14 9 (8.26%) Coaching
14 9 (8.26%) OLAP
14 9 (8.26%) PHP
14 9 (8.26%) Law
15 8 (7.34%) Containerisation
15 8 (7.34%) Collaborative Culture
16 7 (6.42%) Roadmaps

Software Development Manager 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 5 (4.59%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.84%) Azure
2 5 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.67%) AWS
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.92%) GitHub
5 1 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) OLAP
2 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.83%) MySQL
3 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.67%) Selenium
2 4 (3.67%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.83%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.83%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Law
3 5 (4.59%) Finance
4 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Retail
5 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (34.86%) .NET
2 5 (4.59%) LAMP
2 5 (4.59%) Laravel
2 5 (4.59%) React
3 3 (2.75%) Jest
3 3 (2.75%) Vue
4 2 (1.83%) CSS
4 2 (1.83%) CSS3
4 2 (1.83%) HTML
4 2 (1.83%) HTML5
4 2 (1.83%) jQuery
4 2 (1.83%) Node.js
4 2 (1.83%) RESTful
4 2 (1.83%) Web Services
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.92%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.42%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (5.50%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (5.50%) RISC-V
4 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.75%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) FMCG
6 1 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (55.05%) Agile
2 33 (30.28%) Software Engineering
3 23 (21.10%) People Management
4 17 (15.60%) Mentoring
5 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
6 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (11.93%) DevOps
7 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (11.01%) Project Management
8 12 (11.01%) Scrum
8 12 (11.01%) SDLC
9 9 (8.26%) Coaching
10 8 (7.34%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (7.34%) Containerisation
11 7 (6.42%) Change Management
11 7 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (6.42%) ERP
11 7 (6.42%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.42%) SOLID
11 7 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.69%) C#
2 16 (14.68%) SQL
3 9 (8.26%) PHP
4 7 (6.42%) C
4 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) Embedded C
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) C++
6 5 (4.59%) Java
7 4 (3.67%) Python
8 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.17%) Degree
2 2 (1.83%) CISSP
2 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.92%) IFS
2 1 (0.92%) SAP
2 1 (0.92%) Twitter