Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 65 36
Rank change year-on-year +32 -29 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4,660 4,409 10,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.49% 4.73% 8.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.82% 5.17% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,573 2,558 3,700
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,225
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £116,250 £118,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 +7 1,076 £95,000 +11.76% 424
North of England +53 992 £55,000 -8.33% 153
South East +37 885 £55,000 -12.00% 189
South West +32 839 £55,000 -8.33% 188
North West +62 572 £57,500 - 87
Midlands +36 529 £52,500 -4.55% 115
Yorkshire +43 345 £50,000 -16.67% 51
East of England +22 322 £60,000 - 135
West Midlands +42 283 £55,000 - 69
East Midlands +8 246 £52,500 - 46
North East +16 75 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4,616 (99.06%) Software Engineering
2 1,425 (30.58%) Agile
3 1,395 (29.94%) Python
4 1,311 (28.13%) AWS
5 1,088 (23.35%) JavaScript
6 1,045 (22.42%) C#
7 1,006 (21.59%) Azure
8 945 (20.28%) Java
9 903 (19.38%) React
10 850 (18.24%) .NET
11 831 (17.83%) C
12 772 (16.57%) Degree
13 746 (16.01%) C++
14 740 (15.88%) Linux
15 670 (14.38%) Security Cleared
16 654 (14.03%) Finance
17 641 (13.76%) DevOps
18 630 (13.52%) TypeScript
19 590 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
20 552 (11.85%) SQL
21 518 (11.12%) Full Stack Development
22 491 (10.54%) Computer Science
23 473 (10.15%) Social Skills
24 472 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
25 456 (9.79%) GCP
26 437 (9.38%) AngularJS
27 400 (8.58%) SC Cleared
28 395 (8.48%) .NET Core
29 387 (8.30%) Git
29 387 (8.30%) Microservices

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
1 255 (5.47%) Apache
2 209 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 209 (4.48%) ArcGIS
3 196 (4.21%) GeoServer
4 53 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.01%) Confluence
6 19 (0.41%) JBoss
7 18 (0.39%) Captiva
7 18 (0.39%) FileNet
7 18 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 17 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
9 16 (0.34%) CMS
10 9 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 8 (0.17%) nginx
12 6 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.11%) Drupal
13 5 (0.11%) WinCC
14 4 (0.086%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 94 (2.02%) Simulink
2 27 (0.58%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.24%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.13%) Trello
5 5 (0.11%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.064%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.064%) Sketch
6 3 (0.064%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.021%) UXPin
8 1 (0.021%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (0.13%) Magento
4 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.021%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,311 (28.13%) AWS
2 1,006 (21.59%) Azure
3 456 (9.79%) GCP
4 201 (4.31%) Serverless
5 114 (2.45%) SaaS
6 111 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 104 (2.23%) dbt
7 104 (2.23%) GitHub
8 95 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (1.55%) Snowflake
10 47 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (0.86%) Power Platform
12 39 (0.84%) OpenShift
13 36 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (0.52%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (0.41%) Azure Functions
18 16 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (0.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 74 (1.59%) Wireless
3 48 (1.03%) RS-232
4 42 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 40 (0.86%) Bluetooth
6 38 (0.82%) RS-485
7 37 (0.79%) Ethernet
8 36 (0.77%) Internet
9 30 (0.64%) HTTP
10 26 (0.56%) AMQP
11 24 (0.52%) MQTT
12 18 (0.39%) Modbus
12 18 (0.39%) ZigBee
13 14 (0.30%) 3G
13 14 (0.30%) 4G
13 14 (0.30%) J1939
14 13 (0.28%) Network Security
15 11 (0.24%) 5G
16 10 (0.21%) VoIP
17 8 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 229 (4.91%) GIS
3 205 (4.40%) MySQL
4 196 (4.21%) QGIS
5 183 (3.93%) Apache Ignite
6 178 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 104 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 104 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
7 104 (2.23%) Dremio
8 98 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 94 (2.02%) MongoDB
10 86 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 76 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 56 (1.20%) Redis
13 49 (1.05%) Big Data
14 36 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (0.64%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 27 (0.58%) RDBMS
18 26 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 387 (8.30%) Git
2 166 (3.56%) JIRA
3 120 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 74 (1.59%) GitLab
5 74 (1.59%) Subversion
6 67 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 33 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 30 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 29 (0.62%) CMake
10 25 (0.54%) Maven
10 25 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
11 24 (0.52%) Selenium
12 23 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.49%) ClearCase
13 22 (0.47%) IntelliJ
13 22 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
14 21 (0.45%) JDeveloper
14 21 (0.45%) Plastic SCM
15 17 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 654 (14.03%) Finance
2 473 (10.15%) Social Skills
3 346 (7.42%) Electronics
4 329 (7.06%) Front Office
5 290 (6.22%) Banking
6 197 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 193 (4.14%) Automotive
8 165 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
9 130 (2.79%) Aerospace
10 117 (2.51%) Public Sector
11 113 (2.42%) Investment Banking
12 91 (1.95%) Retail
13 88 (1.89%) Marketing
14 81 (1.74%) Military
15 76 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 67 (1.44%) Tech for Good
17 52 (1.12%) Health Technology
17 52 (1.12%) Legal
18 47 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 46 (0.99%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 903 (19.38%) React
2 850 (18.24%) .NET
3 437 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 395 (8.48%) .NET Core
5 340 (7.30%) CSS
6 296 (6.35%) Node.js
7 244 (5.24%) gRPC
8 234 (5.02%) Vue
9 222 (4.76%) Redux
10 204 (4.38%) PostGIS
11 202 (4.33%) RESTful
12 200 (4.29%) Leaflet
12 200 (4.29%) OpenLayers
13 199 (4.27%) Spring
14 197 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
15 192 (4.12%) ASP.NET
16 189 (4.06%) HTML
17 147 (3.15%) REST
18 140 (3.00%) Spring Boot
19 127 (2.73%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 312 (6.70%) Fixed Income
2 245 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 211 (4.53%) Equities
4 199 (4.27%) Algorithms
5 192 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 188 (4.03%) Derivative
7 175 (3.76%) IoT
8 173 (3.71%) Embedded Systems
9 101 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 100 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
11 93 (2.00%) Cloud Native
12 92 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
13 69 (1.48%) Client/Server
13 69 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.42%) Device Driver
15 60 (1.29%) Data Structures
16 55 (1.18%) Robotics
17 45 (0.97%) Product Ownership
18 38 (0.82%) SCADA
19 33 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 740 (15.88%) Linux
2 277 (5.94%) Windows
3 165 (3.54%) Embedded Linux
4 106 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 82 (1.76%) Android
6 74 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 57 (1.22%) Unix
8 49 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (0.97%) Debian
10 38 (0.82%) CentOS
11 29 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.13%) ThreadX
15 3 (0.064%) VMS
15 3 (0.064%) Windows Server
16 2 (0.043%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.043%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.043%) Rocky
16 2 (0.043%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,616 (99.06%) Software Engineering
2 1,425 (30.58%) Agile
3 641 (13.76%) DevOps
4 590 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
5 518 (11.12%) Full Stack Development
6 491 (10.54%) Computer Science
7 387 (8.30%) Microservices
8 368 (7.90%) Actionable Insight
9 353 (7.58%) Mentoring
10 312 (6.70%) Asset Management
11 308 (6.61%) CI/CD
12 284 (6.09%) Investment Management
13 283 (6.07%) TDD
13 283 (6.07%) Web Development
14 272 (5.84%) Test Automation
15 244 (5.24%) SDLC
16 229 (4.91%) Artificial Intelligence
17 225 (4.83%) Fintech
18 212 (4.55%) Scrum
19 207 (4.44%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,395 (29.94%) Python
2 1,088 (23.35%) JavaScript
3 1,045 (22.42%) C#
4 945 (20.28%) Java
5 831 (17.83%) C
6 746 (16.01%) C++
7 630 (13.52%) TypeScript
8 552 (11.85%) SQL
9 184 (3.95%) Embedded C
10 172 (3.69%) Kotlin
11 161 (3.45%) Rust
12 153 (3.28%) Go
13 151 (3.24%) Bash
14 116 (2.49%) PHP
15 104 (2.23%) MATLAB
16 71 (1.52%) Ruby
17 69 (1.48%) Ada
17 69 (1.48%) Scala
18 60 (1.29%) Perl
19 56 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 772 (16.57%) Degree
2 670 (14.38%) Security Cleared
3 400 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 244 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 122 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.23%) Master's Degree
7 67 (1.44%) PhD
8 62 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.56%) HND
10 21 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.39%) HNC
12 9 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.15%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.11%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.064%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.064%) Sun Certification
17 2 (0.043%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 1 (0.021%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.82%) QA
2 51 (1.09%) MISRA
3 34 (0.73%) GDPR
4 33 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 25 (0.54%) ISO 26262
6 23 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 21 (0.45%) AUTOSAR
8 15 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
9 13 (0.28%) PMO
10 12 (0.26%) Def Stans
10 12 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 11 (0.24%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.19%) MISRA C
13 8 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.15%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.13%) IEC 61508
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.11%) JTAG
16 5 (0.11%) TickIT
17 2 (0.043%) HIPAA
System Software
1 300 (6.44%) Docker
2 154 (3.30%) Firmware
3 76 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.064%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.064%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.021%) KVM
7 1 (0.021%) LXC
7 1 (0.021%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 315 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 200 (4.29%) Terraform
3 97 (2.08%) Ansible
4 24 (0.52%) Puppet
5 17 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.21%) Grafana
7 8 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.11%) SELinux
9 4 (0.086%) Podman
10 3 (0.064%) Consul
10 3 (0.064%) Packer
11 2 (0.043%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.043%) Istio
11 2 (0.043%) Kibana
11 2 (0.043%) linkerd
11 2 (0.043%) MIIS
11 2 (0.043%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.043%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.043%) Wonderware InTouch
12 1 (0.021%) SCCM
Vendors
1 204 (4.38%) ESRI
1 204 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 154 (3.30%) Google
3 86 (1.85%) Oracle
4 50 (1.07%) IBM
5 49 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 42 (0.90%) Siemens
7 41 (0.88%) SAP
8 26 (0.56%) Atlassian
9 25 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.52%) SaltStack
11 21 (0.45%) Lauterbach
12 20 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 18 (0.39%) Kofax
13 18 (0.39%) Pega
14 12 (0.26%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.26%) F5
14 12 (0.26%) Xilinx
15 11 (0.24%) Cadence
16 10 (0.21%) Apple