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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 66 34
Rank change year-on-year +35 -32 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4,824 4,237 11,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.63% 4.70% 8.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.96% 5.14% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 2,487 3,695
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
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 £80,375 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +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 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
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 £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 13 May 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 13 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 +6 1,177 £95,000 +11.76% 473
North of England +51 986 £55,000 -8.33% 165
South East +37 925 £55,000 -12.00% 201
South West +33 854 £55,000 -8.33% 166
North West +57 563 £57,500 - 100
Midlands +39 538 £52,500 -4.55% 124
Yorkshire +48 348 £50,000 -16.67% 53
East of England +23 326 £60,000 - 124
West Midlands +46 294 £55,000 -4.35% 64
East Midlands +14 244 £52,500 - 59
North East +17 75 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 4,779 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 1,485 (30.78%) Agile
3 1,479 (30.66%) Python
4 1,389 (28.79%) AWS
5 1,134 (23.51%) JavaScript
6 1,055 (21.87%) C#
7 1,032 (21.39%) Azure
8 974 (20.19%) Java
9 928 (19.24%) React
10 869 (18.01%) .NET
11 842 (17.45%) C
12 787 (16.31%) Degree
13 768 (15.92%) C++
14 764 (15.84%) Linux
15 701 (14.53%) Finance
15 701 (14.53%) TypeScript
16 685 (14.20%) Security Cleared
17 650 (13.47%) DevOps
18 584 (12.11%) SQL
19 565 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
20 531 (11.01%) Full Stack Development
21 503 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
22 498 (10.32%) Computer Science
23 491 (10.18%) GCP
24 489 (10.14%) Social Skills
25 413 (8.56%) AngularJS
26 402 (8.33%) SC Cleared
27 401 (8.31%) .NET Core
28 391 (8.11%) Microservices
29 383 (7.94%) Front Office

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
1 322 (6.67%) Apache
2 268 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.33%) ArcGIS
4 196 (4.06%) GeoServer
5 66 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 49 (1.02%) Confluence
7 18 (0.37%) Captiva
7 18 (0.37%) FileNet
7 18 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 16 (0.33%) CMS
9 11 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 8 (0.17%) JBoss
10 8 (0.17%) nginx
11 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.10%) Drupal
13 5 (0.10%) WinCC
14 4 (0.083%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.062%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 100 (2.07%) Simulink
2 27 (0.56%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.23%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Trello
5 5 (0.10%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.062%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.062%) Sketch
6 3 (0.062%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.041%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.021%) UXPin
8 1 (0.021%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.041%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.041%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.021%) Endur
5 1 (0.021%) Findur
5 1 (0.021%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,389 (28.79%) AWS
2 1,032 (21.39%) Azure
3 491 (10.18%) GCP
4 198 (4.10%) Serverless
5 138 (2.86%) dbt
6 115 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 114 (2.36%) SaaS
8 109 (2.26%) GitHub
9 108 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 93 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (0.91%) OpenShift
13 40 (0.83%) Power Platform
14 38 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (0.56%) Amazon S3
17 26 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (0.41%) Azure Functions
20 16 (0.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 84 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 74 (1.53%) Wireless
3 49 (1.02%) RS-232
4 42 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.85%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.81%) RS-485
7 37 (0.77%) Ethernet
7 37 (0.77%) Internet
8 31 (0.64%) HTTP
9 28 (0.58%) AMQP
10 27 (0.56%) MQTT
11 20 (0.41%) Modbus
12 18 (0.37%) ZigBee
13 14 (0.29%) J1939
14 13 (0.27%) 4G
14 13 (0.27%) Network Security
15 12 (0.25%) 3G
15 12 (0.25%) 5G
16 10 (0.21%) VoIP
17 7 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 503 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 242 (5.02%) Apache Ignite
3 229 (4.75%) GIS
4 196 (4.06%) MySQL
4 196 (4.06%) QGIS
5 177 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 137 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
7 135 (2.80%) Apache Arrow
7 135 (2.80%) Dremio
8 119 (2.47%) NoSQL
9 112 (2.32%) Data Lake
10 90 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 85 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 61 (1.26%) Redis
13 50 (1.04%) Big Data
14 39 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 37 (0.77%) DynamoDB
16 31 (0.64%) Hadoop
17 29 (0.60%) RDBMS
18 26 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 381 (7.90%) Git
2 170 (3.52%) JIRA
3 122 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 83 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 79 (1.64%) GitLab
7 72 (1.49%) Subversion
8 33 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 29 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.56%) CMake
10 27 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
11 26 (0.54%) Selenium
12 23 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.48%) Maven
13 22 (0.46%) ClearCase
13 22 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
14 21 (0.44%) JDeveloper
14 21 (0.44%) Plastic SCM
15 18 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
16 16 (0.33%) JUnit
General
1 701 (14.53%) Finance
2 489 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 383 (7.94%) Front Office
4 355 (7.36%) Electronics
5 321 (6.65%) Banking
6 204 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 195 (4.04%) Automotive
8 159 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
9 143 (2.96%) Aerospace
10 142 (2.94%) Investment Banking
11 108 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 98 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 94 (1.95%) Retail
14 89 (1.84%) Marketing
15 80 (1.66%) Military
16 74 (1.53%) Tech for Good
17 64 (1.33%) Legal
18 62 (1.29%) Law
19 56 (1.16%) Health Technology
20 49 (1.02%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 928 (19.24%) React
2 869 (18.01%) .NET
3 413 (8.56%) AngularJS
4 401 (8.31%) .NET Core
5 336 (6.97%) CSS
6 305 (6.32%) Node.js
7 304 (6.30%) gRPC
8 254 (5.27%) Protocol Buffers
9 251 (5.20%) Redux
10 237 (4.91%) Vue
11 204 (4.23%) PostGIS
12 200 (4.15%) Leaflet
12 200 (4.15%) OpenLayers
13 192 (3.98%) ASP.NET
14 190 (3.94%) RESTful
15 178 (3.69%) Spring
16 176 (3.65%) HTML
17 157 (3.25%) Pandas
18 154 (3.19%) Material-UI
18 154 (3.19%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 370 (7.67%) Fixed Income
2 304 (6.30%) Hedge funds
3 263 (5.45%) Equities
4 222 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 220 (4.56%) Derivative
6 195 (4.04%) Algorithms
7 180 (3.73%) IoT
8 174 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
9 109 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 101 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 101 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 97 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 71 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 69 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.37%) Device Driver
15 64 (1.33%) Data Structures
16 55 (1.14%) Robotics
17 51 (1.06%) Product Ownership
18 43 (0.89%) SCADA
19 37 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 764 (15.84%) Linux
2 290 (6.01%) Windows
3 169 (3.50%) Embedded Linux
4 113 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 90 (1.87%) Android
6 77 (1.60%) Apple iOS
7 56 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 56 (1.16%) Unix
8 47 (0.97%) Debian
9 45 (0.93%) CentOS
10 30 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 4 (0.083%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 3 (0.062%) VMS
15 3 (0.062%) Windows Server
16 2 (0.041%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.041%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.041%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,779 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 1,485 (30.78%) Agile
3 650 (13.47%) DevOps
4 565 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
5 531 (11.01%) Full Stack Development
6 498 (10.32%) Computer Science
7 391 (8.11%) Microservices
8 372 (7.71%) Asset Management
9 344 (7.13%) Investment Management
10 340 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
11 329 (6.82%) CI/CD
11 329 (6.82%) Mentoring
12 291 (6.03%) TDD
13 289 (5.99%) Test Automation
14 282 (5.85%) Web Development
15 275 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence
16 243 (5.04%) Machine Learning
17 242 (5.02%) SDLC
18 232 (4.81%) Fintech
18 232 (4.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,479 (30.66%) Python
2 1,134 (23.51%) JavaScript
3 1,055 (21.87%) C#
4 974 (20.19%) Java
5 842 (17.45%) C
6 768 (15.92%) C++
7 701 (14.53%) TypeScript
8 584 (12.11%) SQL
9 198 (4.10%) Kotlin
10 190 (3.94%) Embedded C
11 163 (3.38%) Go
12 162 (3.36%) Rust
13 159 (3.30%) Bash
14 118 (2.45%) PHP
15 106 (2.20%) MATLAB
16 74 (1.53%) Scala
17 71 (1.47%) Ada
18 63 (1.31%) Perl
19 58 (1.20%) Ruby
20 54 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 787 (16.31%) Degree
2 685 (14.20%) Security Cleared
3 402 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 248 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 100 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (1.33%) PhD
8 26 (0.54%) HND
9 21 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 17 (0.35%) HNC
11 12 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
12 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.15%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.10%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.062%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.062%) Sun Certification
16 1 (0.021%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.71%) QA
2 52 (1.08%) MISRA
3 47 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 34 (0.70%) GDPR
5 25 (0.52%) ISO 26262
6 23 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
7 21 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
8 15 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
8 15 (0.31%) PMO
9 12 (0.25%) Def Stans
9 12 (0.25%) ISO 13485
10 11 (0.23%) IEC 62304
11 10 (0.21%) MISRA C
12 9 (0.19%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.15%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
14 6 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.12%) JTAG
15 5 (0.10%) TickIT
16 2 (0.041%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 295 (6.12%) Docker
2 154 (3.19%) Firmware
3 77 (1.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.083%) Ceph
7 3 (0.062%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.041%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.021%) KVM
9 1 (0.021%) LXC
Systems Management
1 338 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 219 (4.54%) Terraform
3 113 (2.34%) Ansible
4 26 (0.54%) Puppet
5 17 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.25%) Grafana
7 8 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.10%) SELinux
9 4 (0.083%) Knative
9 4 (0.083%) Podman
9 4 (0.083%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.062%) Consul
10 3 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.062%) Packer
10 3 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.041%) Istio
11 2 (0.041%) Kibana
11 2 (0.041%) linkerd
11 2 (0.041%) MIIS
11 2 (0.041%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 212 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.23%) ESRI
3 188 (3.90%) Google
4 88 (1.82%) Oracle
5 51 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 50 (1.04%) IBM
7 42 (0.87%) Siemens
8 39 (0.81%) SAP
9 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 26 (0.54%) SaltStack
10 25 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 22 (0.46%) Xamarin
12 21 (0.44%) Lauterbach
13 18 (0.37%) Kofax
13 18 (0.37%) Pega
14 16 (0.33%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.25%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.25%) F5
16 11 (0.23%) Cadence
17 10 (0.21%) Facebook