Software Engineering Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 686 749
Rank change year-on-year +185 +63 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 281 69 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 36 47
10th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,188 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,563 £96,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £103,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +31.25%

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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +105 213 £75,000 - 2
North of England +71 31 £82,500 +6.45% 1
South East +3 22 £65,000 -13.33% 5
North West +19 19 £82,500 +10.00% 1
Midlands +2 11 £70,500 -10.19% 4
Yorkshire +85 10 £80,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +30 10 £71,000 -20.45% 3
South West -23 4 £75,000 +3.45%
North East -4 2 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -10 1 £70,000 -9.68% 1
Software Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 280 (99.64%) Software Engineering
2 218 (77.58%) Law
3 213 (75.80%) Agile
3 213 (75.80%) Finance
4 212 (75.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (65.84%) CI/CD
6 180 (64.06%) Marketing
7 169 (60.14%) SDLC
8 168 (59.79%) Financial Institution
9 165 (58.72%) Computer Science
10 163 (58.01%) Mathematics
11 159 (56.58%) Cloud Native
12 134 (47.69%) Java
13 131 (46.62%) SQL
14 119 (42.35%) Continuous Delivery
15 112 (39.86%) NoSQL
16 109 (38.79%) Coaching
17 107 (38.08%) AWS
18 72 (25.62%) Mentoring
19 64 (22.78%) Python
20 59 (21.00%) Market Risk
20 59 (21.00%) NumPy
20 59 (21.00%) Pandas
21 57 (20.28%) Microservices
22 56 (19.93%) Spring Boot
22 56 (19.93%) Spring
23 55 (19.57%) Analytics
24 53 (18.86%) Apache Spark
24 53 (18.86%) Big Data
24 53 (18.86%) Performance Tuning

Software Engineering 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 53 (18.86%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (38.08%) AWS
2 14 (4.98%) Azure
3 6 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.36%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) Broadband
1 2 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (39.86%) NoSQL
2 53 (18.86%) Big Data
3 6 (2.14%) OLAP
3 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (6.05%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.91%) GitLab
3 10 (3.56%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) JUnit
General
1 218 (77.58%) Law
2 213 (75.80%) Finance
3 212 (75.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 180 (64.06%) Marketing
5 168 (59.79%) Financial Institution
6 53 (18.86%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (11.74%) Banking
8 27 (9.61%) Investment Banking
9 13 (4.63%) Social Skills
10 7 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.14%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.00%) NumPy
1 59 (21.00%) Pandas
2 56 (19.93%) Spring
2 56 (19.93%) Spring Boot
3 49 (17.44%) RESTful
4 24 (8.54%) .NET
5 7 (2.49%) Node.js
6 6 (2.14%) REST
7 4 (1.42%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.07%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.07%) React
9 1 (0.36%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 159 (56.58%) Cloud Native
2 59 (21.00%) Market Risk
3 49 (17.44%) Distributed Applications
4 10 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Android
1 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (99.64%) Software Engineering
2 213 (75.80%) Agile
3 185 (65.84%) CI/CD
4 169 (60.14%) SDLC
5 165 (58.72%) Computer Science
6 163 (58.01%) Mathematics
7 119 (42.35%) Continuous Delivery
8 109 (38.79%) Coaching
9 72 (25.62%) Mentoring
10 57 (20.28%) Microservices
11 55 (19.57%) Analytics
12 53 (18.86%) Performance Tuning
13 36 (12.81%) Scrum
14 26 (9.25%) Test Automation
15 25 (8.90%) DevOps
16 22 (7.83%) Project Delivery
16 22 (7.83%) Project Management
17 20 (7.12%) Roadmaps
18 18 (6.41%) Kanban
18 18 (6.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 134 (47.69%) Java
2 131 (46.62%) SQL
3 64 (22.78%) Python
4 53 (18.86%) Scala
5 8 (2.85%) C#
6 7 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (2.49%) SC Cleared
1 7 (2.49%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.14%) Degree
3 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.85%) Ansible
2 6 (2.14%) Grafana
3 4 (1.42%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
1 6 (2.14%) Splunk
2 2 (0.71%) Brio
2 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.36%) Google
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft