Software Manager
UK

The median Software Manager salary in the UK is £65,000 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 455 655 584
Rank change year-on-year +200 -71 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 530 318 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.34% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 446 226 661
10th Percentile £44,000 £49,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +9.85% +5.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Manager.

Salary trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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
England +229 485 £65,000 -16.13% 81
UK excluding London +113 368 £65,000 -10.34% 60
Work from Home +115 197 £65,000 -15.03% 50
London +188 148 £100,000 +11.11% 23
North of England +122 120 £62,500 -16.67% 10
Midlands +32 81 £65,000 - 19
South East +16 70 £65,000 -13.33% 12
North West +48 68 £62,500 -3.85% 7
West Midlands +44 56 £60,000 -7.69% 12
South West +8 49 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire +92 33 £65,000 -27.78% 3
East Midlands +6 25 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Scotland -52 20 £73,950 +13.77% 3
North East +12 19 £55,000 -9.09%
East of England +4 15 £120,000 +37.14% 4
Wales +26 13 £60,000 -2.04% 3

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 264 (49.81%) Agile
2 216 (40.75%) Software Engineering
3 119 (22.45%) .NET
4 104 (19.62%) Social Skills
5 97 (18.30%) DevOps
6 96 (18.11%) Azure
7 93 (17.55%) Project Management
8 88 (16.60%) C#
9 78 (14.72%) Mentoring
10 76 (14.34%) Finance
10 76 (14.34%) Degree
11 73 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (13.58%) Roadmaps
13 69 (13.02%) SDLC
14 66 (12.45%) Scrum
14 66 (12.45%) JavaScript
15 63 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (10.94%) Asset Management
17 57 (10.75%) People Management
18 54 (10.19%) QA
19 53 (10.00%) Project Delivery
20 52 (9.81%) React
21 51 (9.62%) AWS
22 50 (9.43%) TypeScript
23 48 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
24 47 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
25 45 (8.49%) Computer Science
26 44 (8.30%) Java
27 40 (7.55%) TDD
27 40 (7.55%) Coaching

Software Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.13%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.19%) CMS
3 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (4.34%) Endur
2 5 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.75%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.75%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.75%) Sage 500
3 4 (0.75%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.11%) Azure
2 51 (9.62%) AWS
3 37 (6.98%) GCP
4 21 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (3.96%) SaaS
5 8 (1.51%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.75%) Intacct
8 3 (0.57%) GitHub
8 3 (0.57%) IaaS
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.38%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.38%) PaaS
9 2 (0.38%) Serverless
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.19%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.19%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) HTTP
2 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) DSL
3 1 (0.19%) VoIP
3 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.28%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.53%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.15%) RDBMS
4 15 (2.83%) OLAP
5 4 (0.75%) MySQL
6 3 (0.57%) Power BI
7 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.38%) Redis
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (5.09%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.77%) JIRA
3 14 (2.64%) GitLab
4 13 (2.45%) Git
5 5 (0.94%) Clang
6 4 (0.75%) Subversion
7 3 (0.57%) TestRail
8 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.34%) Finance
3 48 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.04%) Front Office
4 32 (6.04%) Marketing
5 27 (5.09%) Games
6 17 (3.21%) Law
7 14 (2.64%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.08%) Legal
8 11 (2.08%) Retail
9 9 (1.70%) Police
10 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.13%) Electronics
12 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.94%) Back Office
13 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (22.45%) .NET
2 52 (9.81%) React
3 37 (6.98%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.79%) Vue
5 35 (6.60%) .NET Core
6 32 (6.04%) Redux
7 13 (2.45%) RESTful
8 12 (2.26%) Node.js
9 10 (1.89%) SOAP
10 7 (1.32%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.13%) jQuery
12 5 (0.94%) LAMP
12 5 (0.94%) Laravel
12 5 (0.94%) LLVM
12 5 (0.94%) Web Services
13 4 (0.75%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.75%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.75%) CSS
13 4 (0.75%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.04%) Derivative
1 32 (6.04%) Equities
1 32 (6.04%) Fixed Income
1 32 (6.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 32 (6.04%) Hedge funds
2 24 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.15%) Swaptions
4 18 (3.40%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.45%) LIMS
7 12 (2.26%) FMCG
8 11 (2.08%) Client/Server
9 9 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.51%) RISC-V
11 7 (1.32%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.13%) NHS
12 6 (1.13%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.21%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Windows
3 5 (0.94%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (49.81%) Agile
2 216 (40.75%) Software Engineering
3 97 (18.30%) DevOps
4 93 (17.55%) Project Management
5 78 (14.72%) Mentoring
6 73 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (13.58%) Roadmaps
8 69 (13.02%) SDLC
9 66 (12.45%) Scrum
10 63 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 58 (10.94%) Asset Management
12 57 (10.75%) People Management
13 53 (10.00%) Project Delivery
14 47 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (8.49%) Computer Science
16 40 (7.55%) Coaching
16 40 (7.55%) Software Delivery
16 40 (7.55%) TDD
17 39 (7.36%) Test Automation
18 35 (6.60%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 88 (16.60%) C#
2 66 (12.45%) JavaScript
3 50 (9.43%) TypeScript
4 44 (8.30%) Java
5 39 (7.36%) SQL
6 25 (4.72%) Python
7 23 (4.34%) C
8 22 (4.15%) VB
9 13 (2.45%) PHP
10 10 (1.89%) C++
11 9 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.51%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.94%) Fortran
14 2 (0.38%) Go
14 2 (0.38%) Rust
15 1 (0.19%) Delphi
15 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 76 (14.34%) Degree
2 24 (4.53%) PMP
2 24 (4.53%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) CISSP
7 2 (0.38%) MCP
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.19%) QA
2 5 (0.94%) NCSC
3 4 (0.75%) SLA
4 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.19%) GRC
5 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.19%) MISRA
5 1 (0.19%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.19%) TickIT
System Software
1 13 (2.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.32%) Firmware
3 6 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.02%) Ansible
1 16 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.94%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.91%) Oracle
3 23 (4.34%) OpenLink
4 22 (4.15%) Sybase
4 22 (4.15%) TIBCO
5 8 (1.51%) Google
6 5 (0.94%) Snow
7 4 (0.75%) Adobe
7 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.75%) Databricks
7 4 (0.75%) Sage
8 3 (0.57%) IBM
9 2 (0.38%) Brio
9 2 (0.38%) Citrix
9 2 (0.38%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.38%) SAP
9 2 (0.38%) Symantec
9 2 (0.38%) Veritas
9 2 (0.38%) VMware