Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7,845 9,877 20,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.24% 10.58% 15.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 11.06% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,208 6,037 8,702
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.00% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,956 89,282 125,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.89% 95.65% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 52,696 73,771
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +2 2,251 £91,500 +4.57% 903
North of England +11 1,574 £60,000 -4.00% 300
South East -3 1,354 £57,500 -8.00% 361
South West +8 1,233 £55,000 -8.33% 271
North West +11 944 £60,000 -4.00% 180
Midlands +8 857 £55,000 -6.78% 227
East of England +3 521 £60,000 -7.69% 234
Yorkshire +9 505 £55,000 -13.39% 91
West Midlands +22 496 £60,000 - 121
East Midlands +1 361 £50,000 -9.09% 106
North East +15 125 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 361 (4.60%) Apache
2 294 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.69%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.50%) GeoServer
5 153 (1.95%) Confluence
6 94 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.40%) CMS
9 29 (0.37%) nginx
10 19 (0.24%) JBoss
10 19 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.23%) Captiva
11 18 (0.23%) FileNet
12 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 16 (0.20%) WordPress
14 13 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 13 (0.17%) IIS
15 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.13%) NServiceBus
15 10 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 121 (1.54%) Simulink
2 29 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 14 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 8 (0.10%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.076%) Trello
8 5 (0.064%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.051%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.038%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.038%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.025%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 1 (0.013%) Blender
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 39 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 8 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.089%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.051%) Shopify
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.038%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.025%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.025%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.025%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.025%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.025%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.013%) Endur
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,250 (28.68%) AWS
2 1,748 (22.28%) Azure
3 747 (9.52%) GCP
4 380 (4.84%) Serverless
5 326 (4.16%) SaaS
6 301 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 242 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
8 215 (2.74%) GitHub
9 182 (2.32%) dbt
10 169 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
11 157 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 134 (1.71%) Snowflake
13 132 (1.68%) Amazon S3
14 107 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 95 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
16 80 (1.02%) OpenShift
17 78 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
18 76 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
19 64 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 62 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (1.40%) TCP/IP
2 104 (1.33%) Wireless
3 65 (0.83%) Internet
4 63 (0.80%) Ethernet
5 60 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 50 (0.64%) HTTP
6 50 (0.64%) RS-232
7 48 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 44 (0.56%) Network Security
9 39 (0.50%) RS-485
10 37 (0.47%) AMQP
11 30 (0.38%) Firewall
12 29 (0.37%) MQTT
13 24 (0.31%) 5G
14 22 (0.28%) 4G
15 21 (0.27%) ZigBee
16 18 (0.23%) J1939
17 17 (0.22%) Modbus
18 16 (0.20%) DNS
19 15 (0.19%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 350 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 342 (4.36%) MySQL
4 247 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
5 235 (3.00%) GIS
6 200 (2.55%) NoSQL
7 196 (2.50%) QGIS
8 182 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 179 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
10 178 (2.27%) Dremio
11 177 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
12 158 (2.01%) Data Lake
13 129 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 126 (1.61%) Redis
15 112 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (1.20%) Big Data
17 88 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
19 77 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 821 (10.47%) Git
2 354 (4.51%) JIRA
3 299 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 265 (3.38%) Visual Studio
5 215 (2.74%) GitLab
6 136 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 121 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 94 (1.20%) Subversion
9 66 (0.84%) Selenium
10 65 (0.83%) Sourcetree
11 58 (0.74%) LabVIEW
12 57 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 49 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
14 46 (0.59%) Postman
15 44 (0.56%) Artifactory
15 44 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 40 (0.51%) JUnit
17 38 (0.48%) SonarQube
18 37 (0.47%) CMake
19 36 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 1,257 (16.02%) Finance
2 1,112 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 527 (6.72%) Front Office
4 468 (5.97%) Banking
5 438 (5.58%) Electronics
6 361 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 296 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 241 (3.07%) Automotive
9 203 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 202 (2.57%) Public Sector
11 200 (2.55%) Games
12 190 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 184 (2.35%) Retail
14 175 (2.23%) Marketing
15 174 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 143 (1.82%) Law
17 117 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
18 108 (1.38%) Legal
19 106 (1.35%) Tech for Good
20 97 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,622 (58.92%) Software Engineer
2 2,037 (25.97%) Senior
3 1,631 (20.79%) Developer
4 1,437 (18.32%) Senior Software Engineer
5 864 (11.01%) Embedded Engineer
6 802 (10.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 714 (9.10%) Lead
8 349 (4.45%) Software Developer
9 330 (4.21%) Java Engineer
10 323 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 312 (3.98%) Python Engineer
12 303 (3.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 287 (3.66%) C++ Software Engineer
14 283 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
15 282 (3.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 276 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
17 262 (3.34%) Python Software Engineer
18 254 (3.24%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
19 253 (3.22%) .NET Developer
20 235 (3.00%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,503 (19.16%) .NET
2 1,377 (17.55%) React
3 593 (7.56%) AngularJS
4 575 (7.33%) .NET Core
5 574 (7.32%) CSS
6 504 (6.42%) Node.js
7 423 (5.39%) HTML
8 335 (4.27%) RESTful
9 329 (4.19%) gRPC
10 328 (4.18%) Spring
11 306 (3.90%) Vue
12 287 (3.66%) ASP.NET
13 276 (3.52%) Protocol Buffers
14 266 (3.39%) REST
15 258 (3.29%) Redux
16 250 (3.19%) Kafka
17 224 (2.86%) Spring Boot
18 213 (2.72%) .NET Framework
19 212 (2.70%) Pandas
20 205 (2.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 445 (5.67%) Fixed Income
2 388 (4.95%) Hedge funds
3 363 (4.63%) Algorithms
4 343 (4.37%) Equities
5 315 (4.02%) Derivative
6 299 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 254 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 249 (3.17%) IoT
9 235 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
10 231 (2.94%) Cloud Native
11 206 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
12 180 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
13 171 (2.18%) Product Ownership
14 168 (2.14%) Client/Server
15 159 (2.03%) Data Structures
16 137 (1.75%) Mobile App
17 118 (1.50%) Management Information System
18 105 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
19 82 (1.05%) Robotics
20 80 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,092 (13.92%) Linux
2 442 (5.63%) Windows
3 199 (2.54%) Embedded Linux
4 134 (1.71%) Android
5 122 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 112 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 68 (0.87%) Unix
8 50 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (0.57%) CentOS
9 45 (0.57%) Debian
10 33 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
11 25 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 22 (0.28%) Windows Server
13 18 (0.23%) VMS
14 13 (0.17%) Windows 10
15 6 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
15 6 (0.076%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.076%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.064%) Windows Mobile
17 3 (0.038%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,805 (35.76%) Agile
2 1,436 (18.30%) DevOps
3 1,199 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
4 1,048 (13.36%) Computer Science
5 874 (11.14%) Full Stack Development
6 864 (11.01%) CI/CD
7 726 (9.25%) Mentoring
8 684 (8.72%) Microservices
9 623 (7.94%) Scrum
10 527 (6.72%) SDLC
11 502 (6.40%) Asset Management
12 501 (6.39%) TDD
13 493 (6.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 493 (6.28%) Test Automation
14 435 (5.54%) Design Patterns
15 420 (5.35%) Actionable Insight
16 402 (5.12%) Investment Management
17 399 (5.09%) Containerisation
18 396 (5.05%) Machine Learning
19 375 (4.78%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,208 (28.15%) Python
2 1,885 (24.03%) C#
3 1,708 (21.77%) JavaScript
4 1,585 (20.20%) Java
5 1,097 (13.98%) C
6 1,088 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 1,048 (13.36%) SQL
8 987 (12.58%) C++
9 283 (3.61%) Go
10 275 (3.51%) PHP
11 233 (2.97%) Kotlin
12 220 (2.80%) Embedded C
13 203 (2.59%) Bash
14 201 (2.56%) Rust
15 140 (1.78%) MATLAB
16 126 (1.61%) Scala
17 105 (1.34%) Ruby
18 103 (1.31%) PowerShell
19 97 (1.24%) T-SQL
20 84 (1.07%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,561 (19.90%) Degree
2 1,095 (13.96%) Security Cleared
3 683 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 518 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 233 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 202 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 162 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 106 (1.35%) PhD
9 46 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 36 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.42%) HND
13 31 (0.40%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.34%) HNC
15 20 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 20 (0.25%) PMI Certification
16 17 (0.22%) CISSP
17 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
17 16 (0.20%) ISTQB
18 13 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (3.98%) QA
2 68 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 65 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 51 (0.65%) MISRA
5 47 (0.60%) GDPR
6 30 (0.38%) ISO 26262
6 30 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 26 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
8 23 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
8 23 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 20 (0.25%) Def Stans
9 20 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.24%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
12 15 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.18%) PMO
14 13 (0.17%) NIST
15 12 (0.15%) NCSC
16 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
16 11 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 754 (9.61%) Docker
2 222 (2.83%) Firmware
3 105 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 33 (0.42%) Active Directory
5 31 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.10%) HDFS
9 7 (0.089%) IAG
10 5 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.051%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.025%) NFS
13 2 (0.025%) OpenSIPS
13 2 (0.025%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.013%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.013%) LXC
14 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 761 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 478 (6.09%) Terraform
3 195 (2.49%) Ansible
4 53 (0.68%) Grafana
5 36 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 33 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.33%) Puppet
8 16 (0.20%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.13%) Kibana
10 7 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.076%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.076%) Nessus
12 5 (0.064%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) Podman
12 5 (0.064%) SELinux
13 4 (0.051%) Istio
14 3 (0.038%) Suricata
14 3 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 645 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 257 (3.28%) Google
3 207 (2.64%) ESRI
4 128 (1.63%) Oracle
5 74 (0.94%) SAP
6 62 (0.79%) IBM
7 59 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 51 (0.65%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.57%) Siemens
10 38 (0.48%) Bloomberg
10 38 (0.48%) Databricks
11 35 (0.45%) Adobe
11 35 (0.45%) Atlassian
12 29 (0.37%) Micro Focus
12 29 (0.37%) ServiceNow
13 24 (0.31%) Apple
13 24 (0.31%) SaltStack
13 24 (0.31%) VMware
14 22 (0.28%) Xilinx
15 21 (0.27%) Salesforce