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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 17 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,455 13,857 14,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.60% 12.86% 13.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 13.43% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 7,746 8,857
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,732 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

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 43,550 103,186 106,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.87% 95.77% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32,183 64,548 73,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,664 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,469 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 1,648 £92,500 +6.82% 1,207
North of England 0 911 £60,000 -4.00% 438
South West -4 682 £60,000 - 253
South East -17 573 £60,000 - 593
North West +1 507 £65,000 +7.44% 242
Midlands -1 389 £57,500 -4.17% 225
Yorkshire +1 341 £60,000 -4.00% 134
West Midlands -13 209 £57,500 -4.17% 148
East Midlands +4 180 £55,000 -8.33% 76
East of England -17 134 £65,000 -3.70% 297
North East +4 62 £57,500 -8.00% 65
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
1 149 (3.34%) Apache
2 131 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (2.27%) Confluence
4 53 (1.19%) JBoss
5 51 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 37 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.83%) CMS
7 33 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 25 (0.56%) nginx
10 18 (0.40%) Captiva
10 18 (0.40%) FileNet
11 17 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 17 (0.38%) Drupal
12 15 (0.34%) Jupyter
13 14 (0.31%) IIS
14 13 (0.29%) NServiceBus
15 12 (0.27%) Umbraco
16 11 (0.25%) WinCC
17 10 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (0.56%) Simulink
2 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.20%) Windchill
4 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 8 (0.18%) PTC Creo
5 7 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.067%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.067%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.067%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.045%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.045%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.045%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.022%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.022%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.090%) ProductWriter
3 3 (0.067%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.067%) Siebel CRM
4 2 (0.045%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.045%) Ripple
4 2 (0.045%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.045%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.045%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.022%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.022%) Endur
5 1 (0.022%) Magento
5 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.022%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.022%) Shopify
5 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,354 (30.39%) AWS
2 1,115 (25.03%) Azure
3 680 (15.26%) GCP
4 380 (8.53%) Serverless
5 219 (4.92%) SaaS
6 204 (4.58%) GitHub
7 197 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 173 (3.88%) OpenShift
9 111 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
10 86 (1.93%) PaaS
11 78 (1.75%) Power Platform
12 77 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 71 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (1.57%) dbt
15 69 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
18 50 (1.12%) IaaS
19 39 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
20 34 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 82 (1.84%) Internet
2 77 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 56 (1.26%) HTTP
4 30 (0.67%) Wireless
5 23 (0.52%) Firewall
6 19 (0.43%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.34%) 5G
8 13 (0.29%) Bluetooth
9 12 (0.27%) AMQP
9 12 (0.27%) WAN
9 12 (0.27%) Wireshark
10 11 (0.25%) Network Security
10 11 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
10 11 (0.25%) VoIP
11 10 (0.22%) DNS
11 10 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.18%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.16%) J1939
13 7 (0.16%) Modbus
13 7 (0.16%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (6.89%) SQL Server
2 237 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 177 (3.97%) MySQL
4 175 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 172 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 148 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 103 (2.31%) Big Data
8 86 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
8 86 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 69 (1.55%) Oracle Database
10 65 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
11 64 (1.44%) RDBMS
12 59 (1.32%) Redis
13 52 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 52 (1.17%) Apache Arrow
13 52 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 52 (1.17%) Dremio
14 41 (0.92%) DynamoDB
15 38 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
16 36 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 588 (13.20%) Git
2 283 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 188 (4.22%) JIRA
4 137 (3.08%) Cypress.io
5 126 (2.83%) GitLab
6 77 (1.73%) Selenium
6 77 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 75 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 71 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 71 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 61 (1.37%) Subversion
10 60 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 54 (1.21%) IntelliJ
12 40 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 39 (0.88%) webpack
14 37 (0.83%) Maven
15 32 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
16 28 (0.63%) SonarQube
16 28 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
17 27 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,120 (25.14%) Finance
2 727 (16.32%) Social Skills
3 425 (9.54%) Banking
4 390 (8.75%) Front Office
5 259 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 168 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 144 (3.23%) Retail
9 141 (3.16%) Electronics
10 118 (2.65%) Marketing
11 104 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 95 (2.13%) Games
13 94 (2.11%) Police
14 90 (2.02%) Automotive
15 89 (2.00%) Law
16 86 (1.93%) Investment Banking
17 71 (1.59%) Manufacturing
18 60 (1.35%) Telecoms
19 59 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
20 54 (1.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,185 (49.05%) Software Engineer
2 1,017 (22.83%) Developer
3 925 (20.76%) Senior
4 522 (11.72%) Senior Software Engineer
5 451 (10.12%) Lead
6 314 (7.05%) Architect
7 304 (6.82%) Java Engineer
8 273 (6.13%) Java Software Engineer
9 267 (5.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 234 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
11 206 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 203 (4.56%) .NET Developer
13 195 (4.38%) .NET Software Engineer
14 187 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 178 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
16 170 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
17 169 (3.79%) Embedded Engineer
18 167 (3.75%) Lead Software Engineer
19 162 (3.64%) Python Developer
20 152 (3.41%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,070 (24.02%) React
2 906 (20.34%) .NET
3 504 (11.31%) Node.js
4 484 (10.86%) AngularJS
5 396 (8.89%) HTML
6 338 (7.59%) Spring
7 329 (7.38%) CSS
8 266 (5.97%) ASP.NET
9 240 (5.39%) RESTful
10 223 (5.01%) REST
11 216 (4.85%) .NET Core
12 210 (4.71%) .NET Framework
13 196 (4.40%) Redux
14 189 (4.24%) Vue
15 185 (4.15%) Kafka
16 170 (3.82%) Web Services
17 167 (3.75%) Middleware
18 156 (3.50%) Spring Boot
19 141 (3.16%) XML
20 131 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 206 (4.62%) Fixed Income
2 197 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
3 177 (3.97%) Derivative
4 161 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 140 (3.14%) Equities
6 135 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 134 (3.01%) Hedge funds
8 131 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 118 (2.65%) Cloud Native
9 118 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 110 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
11 100 (2.24%) Mobile App
12 78 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
13 65 (1.46%) Cyberattack
14 64 (1.44%) IoT
15 60 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
16 58 (1.30%) Data Structures
17 55 (1.23%) Management Information System
18 53 (1.19%) Virtual Reality
19 52 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 578 (12.97%) Linux
2 193 (4.33%) Windows
3 110 (2.47%) Android
4 90 (2.02%) Unix
5 64 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 42 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
7 24 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 20 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 15 (0.34%) HPUX
10 15 (0.34%) Solaris
11 13 (0.29%) VMS
12 12 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.25%) AIX
13 11 (0.25%) Fedora
14 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.16%) CentOS
16 5 (0.11%) VxWorks
17 3 (0.067%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,996 (44.80%) Agile
2 1,115 (25.03%) DevOps
3 847 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
4 772 (17.33%) Microservices
5 712 (15.98%) CI/CD
6 644 (14.46%) Mentoring
7 579 (13.00%) Full Stack Development
8 538 (12.08%) Computer Science
9 446 (10.01%) Containerisation
10 432 (9.70%) Design Patterns
11 412 (9.25%) SDLC
12 403 (9.05%) Actionable Insight
13 402 (9.02%) Scrum
14 396 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
15 386 (8.66%) TDD
16 366 (8.22%) Unit Testing
17 330 (7.41%) Test Automation
18 318 (7.14%) Code Quality
19 299 (6.71%) Asset Management
20 290 (6.51%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,358 (30.48%) Java
2 1,308 (29.36%) Python
3 1,174 (26.35%) JavaScript
4 1,085 (24.35%) C#
5 764 (17.15%) TypeScript
6 712 (15.98%) SQL
7 591 (13.27%) C++
8 363 (8.15%) C
9 251 (5.63%) Go
10 214 (4.80%) Ruby
11 155 (3.48%) Bash
12 146 (3.28%) Kotlin
13 130 (2.92%) Rust
14 125 (2.81%) PowerShell
15 114 (2.56%) PHP
16 72 (1.62%) Scala
17 65 (1.46%) Perl
18 63 (1.41%) R
19 54 (1.21%) T-SQL
20 46 (1.03%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 834 (18.72%) Degree
2 770 (17.28%) Security Cleared
3 499 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 298 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 192 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 128 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 73 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 50 (1.12%) PhD
10 34 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 26 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.40%) HND
14 14 (0.31%) OCP
14 14 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (0.27%) MCSE
16 9 (0.20%) HNC
16 9 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (8.46%) QA
2 36 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 25 (0.56%) MISRA
5 21 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 21 (0.47%) GDPR
6 19 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
7 17 (0.38%) ISO 26262
8 16 (0.36%) WCAG
9 15 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
10 12 (0.27%) DO-178B
11 11 (0.25%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.18%) Automotive SPICE
13 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.16%) SLA
14 6 (0.13%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.11%) MISRA C
15 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 687 (15.42%) Docker
2 93 (2.09%) Firmware
3 29 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.47%) Active Directory
5 19 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.20%) OpenSIPS
8 8 (0.18%) IAG
9 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.11%) Ceph
10 5 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.090%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.045%) HDFS
14 1 (0.022%) Gluster
14 1 (0.022%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 692 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 294 (6.60%) Terraform
3 151 (3.39%) Ansible
4 38 (0.85%) Grafana
5 28 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.45%) Puppet
7 19 (0.43%) Argo
8 18 (0.40%) Rancher
9 13 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 12 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.25%) Kibana
12 10 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.20%) Istio
13 9 (0.20%) SCCM
14 8 (0.18%) SCOM
15 6 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
16 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
17 4 (0.090%) Wonderware InTouch
18 3 (0.067%) Data Guard
18 3 (0.067%) Podman
Vendors
1 365 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 202 (4.53%) Google
3 140 (3.14%) Oracle
4 72 (1.62%) SAP
5 59 (1.32%) Xamarin
6 50 (1.12%) IBM
7 35 (0.79%) Splunk
8 31 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 31 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 28 (0.63%) Adobe
9 28 (0.63%) TOWER Software
10 26 (0.58%) Databricks
11 25 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 24 (0.54%) Finsemble
13 23 (0.52%) VMware
14 19 (0.43%) CyberArk
14 19 (0.43%) Pega
15 18 (0.40%) Kofax
16 16 (0.36%) Apple
16 16 (0.36%) Sun