Software Engineering Manager Jobs in England

Software Engineering Manager
UK > England

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 739 825
Rank change year-on-year +113 +86 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 65 104 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 51 83 62
10th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £66,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £109,375 £93,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £105,000 £131,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in England

Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
North of England +42 22 £86,250 +4.55% 20
London +91 21 £100,000 +14.29% 38
Yorkshire +74 16 £85,000 +6.25% 4
South East +91 13 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Midlands +60 7 £72,500 +2.84% 8
West Midlands +53 6 £76,250 +7.39% 4
North West -7 6 £87,500 +6.06% 15
South West +106 1 £95,000 +26.67% 6
East Midlands +32 1 £70,000 - 2
Software Engineering Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (53.85%) Agile
3 22 (33.85%) .NET
3 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (32.31%) DevOps
5 20 (30.77%) C#
6 19 (29.23%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (26.15%) Java
7 17 (26.15%) Azure
7 17 (26.15%) AWS
8 16 (24.62%) Coaching
9 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
10 14 (21.54%) Mentoring
11 13 (20.00%) Banking
12 12 (18.46%) Finance
12 12 (18.46%) SDLC
12 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (16.92%) Product Ownership
13 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
13 11 (16.92%) AngularJS
14 10 (15.38%) React
14 10 (15.38%) Performance Management
14 10 (15.38%) Python
15 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (13.85%) Degree
15 9 (13.85%) People Management
15 9 (13.85%) Microservices
16 8 (12.31%) Software Delivery
16 8 (12.31%) Line Management

Software Engineering 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) AWS
1 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.69%) SaaS
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.62%) Azure API Management
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (4.62%) Serverless
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.54%) GCP
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
1 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) OLAP
3 1 (1.54%) OLTP
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Git
1 1 (1.54%) GitLab
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.00%) Banking
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Retail
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Front Office
6 1 (1.54%) Electronics
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) .NET
2 11 (16.92%) AngularJS
3 10 (15.38%) React
4 8 (12.31%) .NET Core
5 7 (10.77%) Kafka
6 6 (9.23%) React Native
7 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET
7 4 (6.15%) CSS
7 4 (6.15%) Django
7 4 (6.15%) HTML
7 4 (6.15%) jQuery
8 3 (4.62%) Node.js
9 2 (3.08%) Spring
9 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.54%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.54%) MACH
10 1 (1.54%) Next.js
10 1 (1.54%) Vue
10 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.15%) Derivative
4 3 (4.62%) AS400
4 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Clustering
6 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (53.85%) Agile
3 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (32.31%) DevOps
5 19 (29.23%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (24.62%) Coaching
7 14 (21.54%) Mentoring
8 12 (18.46%) SDLC
9 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
10 10 (15.38%) Performance Management
11 9 (13.85%) Microservices
11 9 (13.85%) People Management
11 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
12 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (12.31%) Project Delivery
12 8 (12.31%) Project Management
12 8 (12.31%) Scrum
12 8 (12.31%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) C#
2 17 (26.15%) Java
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 10 (15.38%) Python
5 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.23%) SQL
7 4 (6.15%) PHP
8 3 (4.62%) Scala
9 2 (3.08%) Go
10 1 (1.54%) C
10 1 (1.54%) C++
10 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) OCP
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Grafana
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) IBM
3 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.62%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) Aderant
4 1 (1.54%) Facebook
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) Intapp
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow