Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,911 6,381 8,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.66% 10.41% 12.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.01% 10.88% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,005 3,493 4,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +2 3,075 £60,000 -7.69% 148
North of England +10 1,558 £60,000 -2.44% 319
South East -2 1,376 £57,500 -11.54% 418
South West +7 1,232 £55,000 -9.09% 252
North West +11 928 £60,000 -4.00% 193
Midlands +9 859 £55,000 -6.78% 252
East of England +5 518 £60,000 -7.69% 251
Yorkshire +9 504 £55,000 -10.57% 101
West Midlands +20 497 £60,000 - 124
East Midlands +2 362 £50,000 -9.09% 127
Wales +8 182 £50,000 - 26
North East +9 126 £55,000 +12.82% 29
Northern Ireland +1 112 £60,000 +26.32% 33
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 659 (7.40%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.37%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.19%) GeoServer
4 205 (2.30%) Apache
5 142 (1.59%) Confluence
6 120 (1.35%) FileNet
7 119 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
8 32 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 28 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 27 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 25 (0.28%) JBoss
12 23 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
13 22 (0.25%) Captiva
13 22 (0.25%) CMS
14 21 (0.24%) GemFire
15 20 (0.22%) Camunda
16 19 (0.21%) Tomcat
17 16 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
18 13 (0.15%) IIS
18 13 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 125 (1.40%) Simulink
2 29 (0.33%) Stateflow
3 17 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 6 (0.067%) Trello
9 4 (0.045%) Doxygen
10 3 (0.034%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.034%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.034%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.022%) Sketch
11 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.011%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.10%) Magento
2 9 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.090%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.045%) Shopify
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.034%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.022%) SAP FI-GL
7 2 (0.022%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,476 (27.79%) AWS
2 1,362 (15.28%) Azure
3 365 (4.10%) GCP
4 289 (3.24%) SaaS
5 277 (3.11%) Serverless
6 218 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 208 (2.33%) GitHub
8 189 (2.12%) Amazon S3
9 155 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.40%) Datadog
11 120 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 108 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
13 106 (1.19%) Power Platform
14 95 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
16 91 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
17 85 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
18 68 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 56 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
20 53 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 165 (1.85%) Wireless
2 119 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 93 (1.04%) Ethernet
4 84 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 82 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 68 (0.76%) Network Security
7 66 (0.74%) RS-232
8 57 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 46 (0.52%) Internet
9 46 (0.52%) MQTT
10 40 (0.45%) RS-485
11 39 (0.44%) HTTP
12 32 (0.36%) Modbus
13 31 (0.35%) AMQP
14 24 (0.27%) 5G
15 23 (0.26%) 4G
16 21 (0.24%) ZigBee
17 18 (0.20%) DSL
17 18 (0.20%) Firewall
17 18 (0.20%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 838 (9.40%) NoSQL
2 594 (6.67%) Big Data
3 466 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 325 (3.65%) GIS
5 305 (3.42%) MySQL
6 296 (3.32%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.19%) QGIS
8 278 (3.12%) Relational Database
9 257 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 229 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
11 184 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 162 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 133 (1.49%) Apache Hive
14 103 (1.16%) HBase
15 89 (1.00%) Redis
16 76 (0.85%) Data Lake
17 74 (0.83%) RDBMS
18 72 (0.81%) Metadata
19 66 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
20 63 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 884 (9.92%) Git
2 476 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 347 (3.89%) JIRA
4 279 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 238 (2.67%) JUnit
6 198 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 156 (1.75%) GitLab
8 148 (1.66%) Cypress.io
9 125 (1.40%) Jasmine
10 123 (1.38%) Selenium
11 96 (1.08%) Maven
12 95 (1.07%) Subversion
13 86 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
14 79 (0.89%) LabVIEW
15 67 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 66 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
17 64 (0.72%) WebDriver
18 61 (0.68%) Sourcetree
19 60 (0.67%) Protractor
20 57 (0.64%) Cucumber
General
1 2,822 (31.67%) Finance
2 2,628 (29.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,438 (27.36%) Law
4 1,358 (15.24%) Marketing
5 1,035 (11.61%) Social Skills
6 738 (8.28%) Legal
7 569 (6.39%) Banking
8 465 (5.22%) Electronics
9 362 (4.06%) Investment Banking
10 343 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 332 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
12 269 (3.02%) Financial Institution
13 233 (2.61%) Automotive
14 203 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
15 178 (2.00%) Games
16 177 (1.99%) Aerospace
17 171 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
18 163 (1.83%) Public Sector
19 134 (1.50%) Retail
20 99 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,220 (69.80%) Software Engineer
2 2,047 (22.97%) Senior
3 1,589 (17.83%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,194 (13.40%) Lead
5 1,119 (12.56%) Developer
6 1,007 (11.30%) Java Engineer
7 1,002 (11.24%) Embedded Engineer
8 976 (10.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 901 (10.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 862 (9.67%) Lead Software Engineer
11 451 (5.06%) Full Stack Engineer
12 423 (4.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 406 (4.56%) Python Engineer
14 401 (4.50%) Python Software Engineer
15 390 (4.38%) Big Data Engineer
15 390 (4.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 354 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
17 343 (3.85%) Software Developer
18 340 (3.82%) AWS Software Engineer
19 336 (3.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,453 (16.31%) React
2 1,324 (14.86%) .NET
3 935 (10.49%) Spring
4 826 (9.27%) AngularJS
5 809 (9.08%) CSS
6 616 (6.91%) HTML
7 535 (6.00%) .NET Core
8 532 (5.97%) Node.js
9 513 (5.76%) Spring Boot
10 493 (5.53%) Kafka
11 433 (4.86%) RESTful
12 329 (3.69%) JSON
13 299 (3.36%) Web Services
14 295 (3.31%) REST
15 294 (3.30%) PostGIS
16 288 (3.23%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.23%) OpenLayers
17 273 (3.06%) J2EE
18 272 (3.05%) Hibernate
19 233 (2.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,099 (12.33%) Algorithms
2 1,030 (11.56%) Cloud Native
3 333 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 244 (2.74%) IoT
5 231 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
6 224 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 223 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 211 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 204 (2.29%) Data Structures
10 195 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 158 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 135 (1.51%) Reference Data
13 127 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 104 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 99 (1.11%) Private Cloud
16 98 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
17 93 (1.04%) Market Risk
18 82 (0.92%) Device Driver
19 74 (0.83%) Robotics
20 71 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,140 (12.79%) Linux
2 431 (4.84%) Windows
3 225 (2.52%) Embedded Linux
4 196 (2.20%) Unix
5 125 (1.40%) Android
6 110 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 76 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 59 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 42 (0.47%) CentOS
10 38 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
11 31 (0.35%) Debian
12 28 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 10 (0.11%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
15 6 (0.067%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.067%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.056%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.056%) Windows Mobile
17 4 (0.045%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,216 (47.31%) Agile
2 2,510 (28.17%) CI/CD
3 2,505 (28.11%) SDLC
4 1,878 (21.08%) Operational Stability
5 1,692 (18.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,598 (17.93%) Machine Learning
7 1,332 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
8 1,319 (14.80%) Community of Practice
9 1,287 (14.44%) DevOps
10 1,192 (13.38%) Computer Science
11 1,013 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 963 (10.81%) Microservices
13 908 (10.19%) Visualisation
14 898 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
15 733 (8.23%) Risk Management
16 718 (8.06%) Mentoring
17 649 (7.28%) Decision-Making
18 641 (7.19%) Test Automation
19 638 (7.16%) Scrum
20 588 (6.60%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,768 (31.06%) Java
2 2,436 (27.34%) Python
3 1,867 (20.95%) SQL
4 1,696 (19.03%) C#
5 1,557 (17.47%) JavaScript
6 1,213 (13.61%) C
7 1,002 (11.24%) C++
8 706 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 360 (4.04%) Scala
10 306 (3.43%) Embedded C
11 263 (2.95%) Go
12 227 (2.55%) Bash
13 216 (2.42%) PHP
14 154 (1.73%) PL/SQL
15 126 (1.41%) Rust
16 125 (1.40%) MATLAB
17 124 (1.39%) Ruby
18 104 (1.17%) Kotlin
19 103 (1.16%) T-SQL
20 87 (0.98%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,404 (15.76%) Degree
2 1,125 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 731 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 412 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 197 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 181 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 136 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 97 (1.09%) PhD
9 53 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.38%) HND
12 30 (0.34%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.28%) HNC
14 19 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.18%) ISTQB
16 15 (0.17%) CISSP
17 12 (0.13%) DBS Check
18 11 (0.12%) OCP
18 11 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
19 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (2.66%) QA
2 97 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.82%) SLA
4 56 (0.63%) MISRA
5 47 (0.53%) GDPR
6 36 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 34 (0.38%) PMO
8 30 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 30 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 26 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
10 25 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 23 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
11 23 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
12 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 13 (0.15%) NIST
15 10 (0.11%) GRC
15 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
15 10 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 9 (0.10%) MISRA C
System Software
1 532 (5.97%) Docker
2 299 (3.36%) Firmware
3 131 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 102 (1.14%) HDFS
5 79 (0.89%) Active Directory
6 13 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.079%) IAG
8 7 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.034%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.034%) NFS
10 3 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.011%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 784 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 513 (5.76%) Terraform
3 202 (2.27%) Grafana
4 134 (1.50%) Ansible
5 103 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 28 (0.31%) Puppet
8 26 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.25%) Kibana
10 21 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.16%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.079%) Graphite
13 6 (0.067%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.067%) Nessus
14 5 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.056%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.056%) Istio
14 5 (0.056%) SELinux
15 4 (0.045%) Nagios
Vendors
1 508 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 474 (5.32%) Oracle
3 296 (3.32%) ESRI
4 268 (3.01%) Databricks
5 203 (2.28%) Google
6 198 (2.22%) Splunk
7 165 (1.85%) Dynatrace
8 94 (1.05%) SAP
9 87 (0.98%) Informatica
10 79 (0.89%) IBM
11 72 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 57 (0.64%) Alteryx
13 55 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 55 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 53 (0.59%) Xamarin
15 46 (0.52%) Siemens
16 44 (0.49%) Pega
17 43 (0.48%) SaltStack
18 34 (0.38%) Dell
19 32 (0.36%) ServiceNow