Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in England is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 602 518
Rank change year-on-year +86 -84 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 334 348 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.38% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.42% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 328 328 761
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +16.92%
75th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £126,250
90th Percentile £153,750 £151,250 £133,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £92,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +18.92% -2.63% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,478 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,133 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +107 296 £110,000 +7.32% 7
South West -18 19 £72,500 +26.09% 3
North of England +28 13 £42,572 -14.86% 1
North West +16 13 £42,572 -14.86% 1
East of England - 3 £55,000 - 1
South East +16 2 £60,000 -22.58%
West Midlands +14 1 £52,500 +40.00%
Midlands -2 1 £52,500 +31.25% 1
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Developer/Software Engineer 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 England region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 323 (96.71%) Software Engineering
2 302 (90.42%) AWS
3 297 (88.92%) Agile
4 291 (87.13%) Front Office
5 290 (86.83%) Finance
6 286 (85.63%) GCP
7 284 (85.03%) Fixed Income
7 284 (85.03%) Asset Management
8 279 (83.53%) TypeScript
9 259 (77.54%) Python
10 256 (76.65%) Investment Management
11 246 (73.65%) React
12 223 (66.77%) Hedge funds
13 217 (64.97%) Redux
14 207 (61.98%) JavaScript
15 200 (59.88%) Azure
16 188 (56.29%) Equities
17 183 (54.79%) Full Stack Development
18 182 (54.49%) gRPC
18 182 (54.49%) Apache Airflow
18 182 (54.49%) Protocol Buffers
19 170 (50.90%) Apache
19 170 (50.90%) Apache Ignite
20 159 (47.60%) Banking
21 145 (43.41%) Derivative
22 144 (43.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 121 (36.23%) Material-UI
24 116 (34.73%) AngularJS
25 113 (33.83%) Vue
26 99 (29.64%) PostgreSQL

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 182 (54.49%) Apache Airflow
2 170 (50.90%) Apache
3 4 (1.20%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 302 (90.42%) AWS
2 286 (85.63%) GCP
3 200 (59.88%) Azure
4 67 (20.06%) dbt
5 40 (11.98%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.40%) Serverless
7 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.90%) npm
7 3 (0.90%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (50.90%) Apache Ignite
2 99 (29.64%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (20.06%) Amazon Athena
3 67 (20.06%) Apache Arrow
3 67 (20.06%) Dremio
4 40 (11.98%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.19%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.99%) MySQL
8 4 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.20%) GIS
8 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.20%) Redis
8 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.60%) Big Data
9 2 (0.60%) Power BI
10 1 (0.30%) KDB
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (16.47%) Cypress.io
2 6 (1.80%) Git
2 6 (1.80%) JIRA
3 5 (1.50%) Maven
4 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 291 (87.13%) Front Office
2 290 (86.83%) Finance
3 159 (47.60%) Banking
4 62 (18.56%) Investment Banking
5 43 (12.87%) Back Office
6 6 (1.80%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.20%) Retail
8 3 (0.90%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.60%) Automotive
9 2 (0.60%) Electronics
9 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.60%) Wearables
10 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (73.65%) React
2 217 (64.97%) Redux
3 182 (54.49%) gRPC
3 182 (54.49%) Protocol Buffers
4 121 (36.23%) Material-UI
5 116 (34.73%) AngularJS
6 113 (33.83%) Vue
7 96 (28.74%) .NET
8 79 (23.65%) Pandas
9 67 (20.06%) NumPy
9 67 (20.06%) SciPy
10 57 (17.07%) Node.js
11 51 (15.27%) .NET Core
12 48 (14.37%) ASP.NET
13 39 (11.68%) ASP.NET Core
14 19 (5.69%) GraphQL
15 12 (3.59%) HTML
15 12 (3.59%) Spring
15 12 (3.59%) Spring Boot
16 11 (3.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 284 (85.03%) Fixed Income
2 223 (66.77%) Hedge funds
3 188 (56.29%) Equities
4 145 (43.41%) Derivative
5 144 (43.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.10%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.20%) IoT
8 3 (0.90%) NHS
8 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.60%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.49%) Linux
2 10 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.40%) Unix
3 8 (2.40%) Windows
4 6 (1.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (96.71%) Software Engineering
2 297 (88.92%) Agile
3 284 (85.03%) Asset Management
4 256 (76.65%) Investment Management
5 183 (54.79%) Full Stack Development
6 91 (27.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 91 (27.25%) Automated Trading
6 91 (27.25%) Machine Learning
7 89 (26.65%) Fintech
8 45 (13.47%) Analytics
8 45 (13.47%) DevOps
9 43 (12.87%) Line Management
9 43 (12.87%) TDD
10 42 (12.57%) Performance Attribution
11 35 (10.48%) Mentoring
12 18 (5.39%) Risk Analytics
13 16 (4.79%) CI/CD
13 16 (4.79%) User Experience
14 12 (3.59%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 12 (3.59%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 279 (83.53%) TypeScript
2 259 (77.54%) Python
3 207 (61.98%) JavaScript
4 96 (28.74%) C#
5 94 (28.14%) Java
6 86 (25.75%) SQL
7 24 (7.19%) Kotlin
8 15 (4.49%) Ruby
9 9 (2.69%) Scala
10 7 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.80%) Perl
11 6 (1.80%) Swift
12 4 (1.20%) Rust
13 2 (0.60%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (2.69%) Degree
2 6 (1.80%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.87%) QA
2 3 (0.90%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.60%) GDPR
3 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.60%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.30%) EMIR
4 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (3.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.60%) Firmware
2 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (27.84%) Google
2 6 (1.80%) Facebook
3 5 (1.50%) Oracle
4 4 (1.20%) ESRI
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.60%) QNX
5 2 (0.60%) VMware