Software Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 537 534
Rank change year-on-year +108 -3 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 367 215 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.36% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.40% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 312 140 283
10th Percentile £40,878 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,425 £82,500 £79,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +21.67%

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 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +120 120 £62,500 -16.67% 12
Midlands +23 81 £65,000 - 17
South East +14 70 £65,000 -13.33% 12
North West +47 68 £62,500 -3.85% 9
West Midlands +22 56 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South West +11 49 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Yorkshire +99 33 £65,000 -27.78% 3
East Midlands +1 25 £65,000 +26.83% 6
North East +11 19 £55,000 -9.09%
Scotland -58 19 £72,900 +12.15% 3
East of England +9 15 £120,000 +37.14% 4
Wales +18 13 £60,000 -2.04% 5
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Software 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 Manager in the job title.

1 170 (46.32%) Agile
2 132 (35.97%) Software Engineering
3 84 (22.89%) Project Management
4 80 (21.80%) .NET
5 77 (20.98%) Social Skills
6 61 (16.62%) Degree
7 59 (16.08%) DevOps
8 51 (13.90%) Azure
8 51 (13.90%) Scrum
8 51 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (13.62%) C#
10 49 (13.35%) Project Delivery
11 45 (12.26%) Mentoring
12 40 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (10.90%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.35%) Test Automation
14 37 (10.08%) Computer Science
14 37 (10.08%) Software Delivery
15 35 (9.54%) People Management
15 35 (9.54%) SQL
16 34 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
17 31 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (8.45%) Coaching
18 30 (8.17%) PRINCE2
18 30 (8.17%) SDLC
19 29 (7.90%) JavaScript
20 27 (7.36%) Kanban
21 25 (6.81%) Microsoft
21 25 (6.81%) Asset Management
22 24 (6.54%) Security Cleared

Software 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 (1.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.09%) Sage 200
2 4 (1.09%) Sage 500
2 4 (1.09%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.90%) Azure
2 20 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (4.36%) SaaS
4 12 (3.27%) AWS
5 8 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.36%) GCP
7 4 (1.09%) Intacct
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.54%) GitHub
9 2 (0.54%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) Internet
2 2 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) DSL
3 1 (0.27%) VoIP
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.09%) OLAP
2 3 (0.82%) MySQL
2 3 (0.82%) Power BI
2 3 (0.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.36%) JIRA
3 12 (3.27%) Git
4 11 (3.00%) GitLab
5 5 (1.36%) Clang
6 4 (1.09%) Subversion
7 3 (0.82%) TestRail
8 2 (0.54%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.54%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (5.18%) Finance
4 17 (4.63%) Law
5 14 (3.81%) Aerospace
5 14 (3.81%) Marketing
6 9 (2.45%) Police
7 8 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.91%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 6 (1.63%) Electronics
10 4 (1.09%) Games
10 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Legal
10 4 (1.09%) Local Government
10 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.27%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.80%) .NET
2 12 (3.27%) RESTful
3 11 (3.00%) React
4 10 (2.72%) Node.js
4 10 (2.72%) SOAP
5 6 (1.63%) jQuery
6 5 (1.36%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.36%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.36%) LAMP
6 5 (1.36%) Laravel
6 5 (1.36%) LLVM
7 4 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.09%) ADO.NET
7 4 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.09%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.82%) Vue
8 3 (0.82%) WPF
9 2 (0.54%) Jest
9 2 (0.54%) NestJS
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.27%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.00%) LIMS
5 9 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.91%) 3D Graphics
6 7 (1.91%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (1.63%) RISC-V
8 5 (1.36%) NHS
8 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.09%) CMDB
9 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.09%) Tandem
10 3 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.54%) iPad
11 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.54%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.09%) Linux
2 8 (2.18%) Windows
3 4 (1.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (46.32%) Agile
2 132 (35.97%) Software Engineering
3 84 (22.89%) Project Management
4 59 (16.08%) DevOps
5 51 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (13.90%) Scrum
6 49 (13.35%) Project Delivery
7 45 (12.26%) Mentoring
8 40 (10.90%) Roadmaps
8 40 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (10.35%) Test Automation
10 37 (10.08%) Computer Science
10 37 (10.08%) Software Delivery
11 35 (9.54%) People Management
12 31 (8.45%) Coaching
12 31 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (8.17%) PRINCE2
13 30 (8.17%) SDLC
14 27 (7.36%) Kanban
15 25 (6.81%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.62%) C#
2 35 (9.54%) SQL
3 29 (7.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.36%) C
5 12 (3.27%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.00%) Python
7 9 (2.45%) PHP
7 9 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.63%) C++
8 6 (1.63%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.63%) Java
9 5 (1.36%) Fortran
10 1 (0.27%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 61 (16.62%) Degree
2 24 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.27%) PMP
3 23 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.54%) CISSP
7 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.72%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.27%) GRC
3 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.27%) MISRA
3 1 (0.27%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.27%) SLA
3 1 (0.27%) TickIT
System Software
1 10 (2.72%) Docker
2 7 (1.91%) Firmware
3 6 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.09%) Ansible
2 14 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.27%) Nessus
4 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.36%) Google
3 4 (1.09%) CheckPoint
3 4 (1.09%) Databricks
3 4 (1.09%) Sage
3 4 (1.09%) Snow
4 2 (0.54%) Adobe
4 2 (0.54%) Brio
4 2 (0.54%) Citrix
4 2 (0.54%) Computacenter
4 2 (0.54%) IBM
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.54%) Symantec
4 2 (0.54%) Veritas
4 2 (0.54%) VMware
5 1 (0.27%) IFS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP
5 1 (0.27%) Twitter
5 1 (0.27%) Veeam