Software Development Manager Jobs in England

Software Development Manager
UK > England

The median Software Development Manager salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 839 868
Rank change year-on-year +168 +29 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 166 111 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 141 100 224
10th Percentile £53,250 £57,100 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +13.21%

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 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +154 57 £81,750 -6.57% 6
Midlands +45 39 £68,500 +5.38% 2
South East +28 30 £100,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +38 26 £75,000 +3.45% 1
West Midlands +36 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands - 19 £68,500 - 2
North West 0 11 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire +83 9 £75,000 -16.67% 1
East of England +29 7 £120,000 +92.00% 1
North East +8 6 £80,000 +42.86%
South West -11 6 £60,000 -21.31%
Software Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Software Development 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 England region featuring Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 94 (56.63%) Agile
2 47 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 42 (25.30%) .NET
4 37 (22.29%) Java
4 37 (22.29%) SDLC
5 36 (21.69%) Mentoring
6 34 (20.48%) C#
7 33 (19.88%) Roadmaps
8 31 (18.67%) People Management
9 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (17.47%) Social Skills
10 29 (17.47%) Business Transformation
10 29 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (16.87%) SQL Server
12 25 (15.06%) Relational Database
13 24 (14.46%) Games
14 23 (13.86%) Scrum
14 23 (13.86%) TIBCO
14 23 (13.86%) OpenLink
14 23 (13.86%) Endur
14 23 (13.86%) Sybase
14 23 (13.86%) VB
14 23 (13.86%) Oracle
14 23 (13.86%) Microsoft Exchange
14 23 (13.86%) Data Modelling
14 23 (13.86%) RDBMS
14 23 (13.86%) Swaptions
14 23 (13.86%) Creative Thinking
15 22 (13.25%) IT Strategy
16 21 (12.65%) Azure

Software Development Manager 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 23 (13.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.61%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (13.86%) Endur
2 6 (3.61%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.65%) Azure
2 5 (3.01%) AWS
2 5 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (3.01%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.20%) SaaS
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.60%) GitHub
4 1 (0.60%) IaaS
4 1 (0.60%) PaaS
4 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.87%) SQL Server
2 25 (15.06%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.86%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.42%) OLAP
5 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Cypress.io
1 7 (4.22%) Git
1 7 (4.22%) Selenium
1 7 (4.22%) SoapUI
2 4 (2.41%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.46%) Games
3 17 (10.24%) Marketing
4 13 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.83%) Finance
5 10 (6.02%) Law
6 6 (3.61%) Back Office
7 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.30%) .NET
2 7 (4.22%) React
3 5 (3.01%) LAMP
3 5 (3.01%) Laravel
4 4 (2.41%) Jest
5 3 (1.81%) Node.js
5 3 (1.81%) RESTful
5 3 (1.81%) Vue
5 3 (1.81%) Web Services
6 2 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (1.20%) CSS3
6 2 (1.20%) HTML
6 2 (1.20%) HTML5
6 2 (1.20%) jQuery
7 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.60%) Nuxt
7 1 (0.60%) React Native
7 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.60%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.86%) Swaptions
2 15 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.22%) 3D Graphics
3 7 (4.22%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.22%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.61%) PropTech
4 6 (3.61%) RISC-V
5 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.41%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.81%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.60%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 4 (2.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (56.63%) Agile
2 47 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 37 (22.29%) SDLC
4 36 (21.69%) Mentoring
5 33 (19.88%) Roadmaps
6 31 (18.67%) People Management
7 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (17.47%) Business Transformation
8 29 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (13.86%) Creative Thinking
9 23 (13.86%) Data Modelling
9 23 (13.86%) Scrum
10 22 (13.25%) IT Strategy
11 21 (12.65%) Project Delivery
12 19 (11.45%) Technology Strategy
13 18 (10.84%) Project Management
14 17 (10.24%) Strategic Roadmap
14 17 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
15 15 (9.04%) DevOps
16 13 (7.83%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.29%) Java
2 34 (20.48%) C#
3 23 (13.86%) VB
4 19 (11.45%) SQL
5 11 (6.63%) PHP
6 10 (6.02%) C
6 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.82%) Python
8 6 (3.61%) C++
8 6 (3.61%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.60%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 15 (9.04%) Degree
2 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.20%) CISSP
3 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (7.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (13.86%) OpenLink
1 23 (13.86%) Oracle
1 23 (13.86%) Sybase
1 23 (13.86%) TIBCO
2 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe
4 1 (0.60%) IFS
4 1 (0.60%) Marketo
4 1 (0.60%) Motorola
4 1 (0.60%) SAP
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.60%) Twitter