Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,461 9,445 7,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.56% 10.18% 9.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 12.33% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 7,127 5,038
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.72% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.80% -10.71% +1.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,564 76,627 74,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.23% 82.58% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 54,237 47,945
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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
London -3 1,514 £102,500 +7.89% 2,228
North of England -15 1,018 £60,000 +4.35% 767
North West -11 730 £60,000 - 497
South East -22 626 £65,000 +18.18% 583
Midlands +2 495 £65,000 +18.18% 276
South West -1 449 £57,443 -0.10% 316
West Midlands +3 301 £67,500 +12.50% 152
East of England -25 269 £57,500 -4.17% 293
Yorkshire -21 231 £68,500 +24.55% 208
East Midlands -21 194 £65,000 +30.00% 122
North East -3 57 £55,000 - 64
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
1 264 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (3.92%) Apache
3 160 (3.59%) Confluence
4 85 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 19 (0.43%) CMS
7 18 (0.40%) Kinematics
8 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.34%) IIS
10 13 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.16%) nginx
12 5 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.11%) Liferay
12 5 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.090%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.090%) Appian
13 4 (0.090%) Traefik
14 3 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 269 (6.03%) Simulink
2 63 (1.41%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.16%) Sketch
6 3 (0.067%) CATIA
6 3 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.067%) Trello
7 2 (0.045%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.045%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.045%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.022%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.022%) Blender
8 1 (0.022%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (0.27%) Shopify
2 10 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.20%) Magento
3 9 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
5 4 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.045%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.022%) BASE24
7 1 (0.022%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.022%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.022%) Eikon
7 1 (0.022%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.022%) Endur
7 1 (0.022%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.022%) RMDS
7 1 (0.022%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.022%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,654 (37.08%) AWS
2 1,076 (24.12%) Azure
3 711 (15.94%) GCP
4 243 (5.45%) dbt
5 207 (4.64%) Serverless
6 169 (3.79%) GitHub
7 166 (3.72%) SaaS
8 154 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 126 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 108 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 100 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 84 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 80 (1.79%) Amazon S3
16 71 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
16 71 (1.59%) Power Platform
17 51 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
18 44 (0.99%) OpenShift
19 35 (0.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.82%) Broadband
2 40 (0.90%) Wireless
3 26 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
4 20 (0.45%) HTTP
5 19 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.40%) DNS
7 17 (0.38%) Network Security
7 17 (0.38%) WAN
8 16 (0.36%) Internet
9 13 (0.29%) Firewall
9 13 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.27%) 5G
10 12 (0.27%) Multicast
10 12 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.25%) Bluetooth
12 9 (0.20%) VPN
13 8 (0.18%) DHCP
14 7 (0.16%) Modbus
15 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
15 6 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 252 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
3 245 (5.49%) Apache Iceberg
4 236 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
5 233 (5.22%) Dremio
6 225 (5.04%) Apache Arrow
7 157 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 128 (2.87%) MySQL
9 125 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 114 (2.56%) Apache Ignite
11 108 (2.42%) Relational Database
12 94 (2.11%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
14 72 (1.61%) Big Data
15 56 (1.26%) DynamoDB
16 38 (0.85%) Power BI
17 36 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
18 30 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
20 26 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 311 (6.97%) JIRA
2 302 (6.77%) Git
3 289 (6.48%) GitLab
4 234 (5.25%) Selenium
5 228 (5.11%) Cucumber
6 227 (5.09%) Maven
7 222 (4.98%) SonarQube
8 217 (4.86%) Bitbucket
9 212 (4.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 107 (2.40%) Jenkins
11 46 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 44 (0.99%) JUnit
13 38 (0.85%) Visual Studio
14 21 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.45%) Eclipse
15 20 (0.45%) Vite
16 17 (0.38%) webpack
17 16 (0.36%) Eclipse RCP
17 16 (0.36%) Mockito
17 16 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 1,503 (33.69%) Finance
2 904 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 818 (18.34%) Banking
4 734 (16.45%) Social Skills
5 469 (10.51%) Law
6 377 (8.45%) Front Office
7 311 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
8 239 (5.36%) Investment Banking
9 217 (4.86%) Retail
10 199 (4.46%) Electronics
11 192 (4.30%) Marketing
12 162 (3.63%) Games
13 117 (2.62%) Aerospace
14 102 (2.29%) Automotive
15 90 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
16 85 (1.91%) Public Sector
17 72 (1.61%) Manufacturing
18 60 (1.34%) Legal
19 59 (1.32%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,336 (52.36%) Software Engineer
2 1,117 (25.04%) Senior
3 770 (17.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 675 (15.13%) Lead
5 571 (12.80%) Developer
6 359 (8.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 324 (7.26%) Java Engineer
8 312 (6.99%) Python Engineer
9 309 (6.93%) Java Software Engineer
10 295 (6.61%) Principal Engineer
11 294 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
12 254 (5.69%) Python Software Engineer
13 238 (5.34%) AWS Software Engineer
14 232 (5.20%) Systems Engineer
15 216 (4.84%) Engineering Manager
16 205 (4.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 158 (3.54%) Software Developer
18 128 (2.87%) AWS Developer
19 125 (2.80%) Software Manager
20 122 (2.73%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 891 (19.97%) React
2 635 (14.23%) .NET
3 580 (13.00%) Node.js
4 535 (11.99%) Kafka
5 437 (9.80%) Spring
6 408 (9.15%) HTML
7 389 (8.72%) Spring Boot
8 373 (8.36%) CSS
9 302 (6.77%) AngularJS
10 290 (6.50%) Redux
11 268 (6.01%) RESTful
12 237 (5.31%) REST
13 228 (5.11%) Pandas
14 203 (4.55%) JPA
15 178 (3.99%) Vue
16 174 (3.90%) NumPy
17 162 (3.63%) SciPy
18 140 (3.14%) Jest
19 137 (3.07%) Hibernate
20 126 (2.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 441 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 350 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 292 (6.55%) Cyberattack
4 275 (6.16%) Fixed Income
5 254 (5.69%) Algorithms
6 240 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
6 240 (5.38%) Equities
7 229 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
8 227 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 204 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
10 185 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
11 182 (4.08%) Management Information System
12 158 (3.54%) Derivative
13 135 (3.03%) Hedge funds
14 102 (2.29%) Public Cloud
15 98 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
16 96 (2.15%) Mobile App
17 90 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
18 85 (1.91%) Data Structures
19 80 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 492 (11.03%) Linux
2 107 (2.40%) Android
3 88 (1.97%) Windows
4 46 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 37 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
5 37 (0.83%) Unix
6 15 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.18%) zOS
8 7 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.090%) VMS
10 2 (0.045%) Debian
10 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.045%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.022%) CentOS
11 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.022%) SafeRTOS
11 1 (0.022%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.022%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,208 (49.50%) Agile
2 1,100 (24.66%) CI/CD
3 896 (20.09%) Microservices
4 834 (18.70%) SDLC
5 817 (18.31%) DevOps
6 711 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 696 (15.60%) Mentoring
8 684 (15.33%) Computer Science
9 627 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 553 (12.40%) Test Automation
11 525 (11.77%) Mathematics
12 520 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
13 501 (11.23%) Machine Learning
14 482 (10.80%) Containerisation
15 441 (9.89%) User Experience
16 429 (9.62%) Validation
17 415 (9.30%) Fintech
17 415 (9.30%) TDD
18 408 (9.15%) Systems Engineering
19 384 (8.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,508 (33.80%) Java
2 1,393 (31.23%) Python
3 1,190 (26.68%) JavaScript
4 798 (17.89%) TypeScript
5 752 (16.86%) SQL
6 588 (13.18%) C++
7 556 (12.46%) C#
8 488 (10.94%) Go
9 391 (8.76%) Rust
10 284 (6.37%) MATLAB
11 251 (5.63%) C
12 110 (2.47%) Ada
13 87 (1.95%) Kotlin
14 83 (1.86%) PHP
15 54 (1.21%) Ada 95
16 51 (1.14%) Bash
17 47 (1.05%) Scala
18 40 (0.90%) Ruby
19 27 (0.61%) Shell Script
20 24 (0.54%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1,185 (26.56%) Degree
2 513 (11.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 459 (10.29%) Security Cleared
4 315 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 302 (6.77%) DV Cleared
6 237 (5.31%) AWS Certification
7 232 (5.20%) HND
8 208 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 185 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 180 (4.03%) HNC
11 129 (2.89%) SC Cleared
12 89 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
13 81 (1.82%) Master's Degree
14 56 (1.26%) PhD
15 16 (0.36%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
16 11 (0.25%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.13%) PMP
18 5 (0.11%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (7.67%) QA
2 156 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 57 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 33 (0.74%) GDPR
4 33 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 13 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.27%) PMO
9 11 (0.25%) NIST
10 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.20%) WCAG
12 7 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.13%) CDISC
13 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.13%) SLA
13 6 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
14 5 (0.11%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 709 (15.89%) Docker
2 53 (1.19%) Firmware
3 35 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 20 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.34%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.090%) zsh
8 3 (0.067%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.067%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 876 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 366 (8.20%) Terraform
3 114 (2.56%) Ansible
4 55 (1.23%) Grafana
5 54 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.36%) Argo
7 12 (0.27%) Kibana
8 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.20%) Istio
10 8 (0.18%) Mesos
11 7 (0.16%) Puppet
12 6 (0.13%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.13%) QRadar
13 4 (0.090%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.090%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.090%) Salt
14 3 (0.067%) logstash
14 3 (0.067%) Oozie
14 3 (0.067%) Packer
15 2 (0.045%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 216 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 198 (4.44%) Solace
3 142 (3.18%) Siemens
4 135 (3.03%) Google
5 93 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 88 (1.97%) Databricks
7 63 (1.41%) Oracle
8 40 (0.90%) PayPal
9 31 (0.69%) IBM
10 26 (0.58%) Atlassian
11 25 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 25 (0.56%) Splunk
12 19 (0.43%) Ping Identity
12 19 (0.43%) VMware
13 16 (0.36%) Apple
14 15 (0.34%) SAP
15 14 (0.31%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.29%) Adobe
16 13 (0.29%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.25%) Guidewire