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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,446 9,493 8,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.03% 9.88% 9.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 11.98% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,536 7,123 5,223
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £44,343
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,125 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.27% -14.11% +1.34%

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 45,887 79,212 77,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.16% 82.43% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23,187 56,399 47,887
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,446 £34,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -1 1,505 £102,500 +10.81% 3,623
North of England -14 1,010 £60,000 +4.35% 957
North West -11 734 £60,000 - 623
South East -18 620 £65,000 +18.18% 1,806
Midlands +1 517 £65,000 +18.18% 422
South West +1 447 £52,600 -8.52% 446
West Midlands +3 318 £67,500 +12.50% 203
East of England -25 253 £58,000 -3.33% 420
Yorkshire -15 213 £68,000 +23.64% 244
East Midlands -15 199 £65,000 +30.00% 200
North East -1 63 £55,000 - 91
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
1 261 (5.87%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (4.18%) Apache
3 164 (3.69%) Confluence
4 102 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 18 (0.40%) CMS
7 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.36%) IIS
8 16 (0.36%) Kinematics
9 15 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.16%) nginx
11 5 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.11%) Liferay
11 5 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.090%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.090%) Appian
12 4 (0.090%) Traefik
13 3 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.067%) CICS
13 3 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 312 (7.02%) Simulink
2 63 (1.42%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.16%) Sketch
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
8 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.022%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.022%) CATIA
8 1 (0.022%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.27%) Shopify
2 9 (0.20%) Magento
3 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
4 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
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%) Eikon
7 1 (0.022%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.022%) Endur
7 1 (0.022%) iTrent
7 1 (0.022%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.022%) RMDS
7 1 (0.022%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,644 (36.98%) AWS
2 1,092 (24.56%) Azure
3 725 (16.31%) GCP
4 249 (5.60%) dbt
5 213 (4.79%) Serverless
6 175 (3.94%) GitHub
7 158 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
7 158 (3.55%) SaaS
8 127 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 119 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 112 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 108 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (1.87%) Amazon S3
14 82 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 75 (1.69%) Power Platform
16 70 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
17 56 (1.26%) OpenShift
18 52 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
19 41 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.82%) Broadband
2 41 (0.92%) Wireless
3 23 (0.52%) HTTP
3 23 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
4 18 (0.40%) DNS
4 18 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.38%) Network Security
5 17 (0.38%) WAN
6 15 (0.34%) Internet
7 14 (0.31%) Firewall
8 12 (0.27%) 5G
8 12 (0.27%) Bluetooth
8 12 (0.27%) Multicast
8 12 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.20%) Modbus
9 9 (0.20%) VPN
10 8 (0.18%) DHCP
11 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.13%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 253 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
3 242 (5.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 235 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
5 231 (5.20%) Dremio
6 222 (4.99%) Apache Arrow
7 162 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 139 (3.13%) MySQL
9 128 (2.88%) MongoDB
10 120 (2.70%) Apache Ignite
11 113 (2.54%) Relational Database
12 82 (1.84%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 67 (1.51%) Big Data
15 50 (1.12%) DynamoDB
16 39 (0.88%) Power BI
17 34 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
17 34 (0.76%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
18 29 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 327 (7.35%) Git
2 311 (7.00%) JIRA
3 290 (6.52%) GitLab
4 234 (5.26%) Selenium
5 231 (5.20%) Cucumber
5 231 (5.20%) SonarQube
6 230 (5.17%) Maven
7 217 (4.88%) Bitbucket
8 212 (4.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 117 (2.63%) Jenkins
10 58 (1.30%) Artifactory
11 45 (1.01%) JUnit
12 37 (0.83%) Visual Studio
13 23 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 21 (0.47%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.47%) Vite
15 19 (0.43%) Eclipse RCP
16 18 (0.40%) Gradle
16 18 (0.40%) Mockito
16 18 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 1,503 (33.81%) Finance
2 909 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 819 (18.42%) Banking
4 751 (16.89%) Social Skills
5 463 (10.41%) Law
6 348 (7.83%) Front Office
7 330 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
8 228 (5.13%) Investment Banking
9 225 (5.06%) Retail
10 207 (4.66%) Electronics
11 189 (4.25%) Marketing
12 176 (3.96%) Games
13 144 (3.24%) Aerospace
14 131 (2.95%) Automotive
15 90 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
16 82 (1.84%) Public Sector
17 64 (1.44%) Manufacturing
18 61 (1.37%) Financial Institution
18 61 (1.37%) Legal
19 41 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,280 (51.28%) Software Engineer
2 1,128 (25.37%) Senior
3 758 (17.05%) Senior Software Engineer
4 652 (14.66%) Lead
5 541 (12.17%) Developer
6 327 (7.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 317 (7.13%) Principal Engineer
8 304 (6.84%) Java Engineer
8 304 (6.84%) Python Engineer
9 291 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
10 290 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 242 (5.44%) Systems Engineer
12 233 (5.24%) Python Software Engineer
13 222 (4.99%) AWS Software Engineer
14 215 (4.84%) Engineering Manager
15 179 (4.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 157 (3.53%) Software Developer
17 133 (2.99%) Data Engineer
17 133 (2.99%) Principal Software Engineer
18 126 (2.83%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 892 (20.06%) React
2 617 (13.88%) .NET
3 563 (12.66%) Node.js
4 535 (12.03%) Kafka
5 447 (10.05%) Spring
6 418 (9.40%) HTML
7 396 (8.91%) Spring Boot
8 384 (8.64%) CSS
9 298 (6.70%) AngularJS
10 274 (6.16%) Redux
11 270 (6.07%) RESTful
12 246 (5.53%) REST
13 212 (4.77%) Pandas
14 203 (4.57%) JPA
15 167 (3.76%) Vue
16 159 (3.58%) NumPy
17 147 (3.31%) SciPy
18 141 (3.17%) Jest
19 136 (3.06%) Hibernate
20 125 (2.81%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 437 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 340 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 274 (6.16%) Cyberattack
4 264 (5.94%) Algorithms
5 246 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
6 235 (5.29%) Fixed Income
7 228 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
8 219 (4.93%) Equities
9 206 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 194 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
11 189 (4.25%) Management Information System
12 185 (4.16%) Linux Command Line
13 145 (3.26%) Derivative
14 124 (2.79%) Hedge funds
15 108 (2.43%) Mobile App
16 98 (2.20%) Public Cloud
17 93 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
18 85 (1.91%) Embedded Systems
19 80 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
20 78 (1.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 501 (11.27%) Linux
2 103 (2.32%) Android
3 95 (2.14%) Windows
4 46 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 41 (0.92%) Unix
6 31 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) zOS
9 8 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
11 4 (0.090%) VMS
12 2 (0.045%) Debian
12 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.022%) CentOS
13 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.022%) SafeRTOS
13 1 (0.022%) Solaris
13 1 (0.022%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.022%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,259 (50.81%) Agile
2 1,109 (24.94%) CI/CD
3 909 (20.45%) Microservices
4 848 (19.07%) SDLC
5 839 (18.87%) DevOps
6 746 (16.78%) Computer Science
7 708 (15.92%) Mentoring
8 705 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 606 (13.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 559 (12.57%) Test Automation
11 550 (12.37%) Mathematics
12 512 (11.52%) Artificial Intelligence
13 499 (11.22%) Machine Learning
14 488 (10.98%) Containerisation
15 470 (10.57%) Validation
16 454 (10.21%) Systems Engineering
17 442 (9.94%) User Experience
18 427 (9.60%) TDD
19 424 (9.54%) Software Testing
20 412 (9.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,504 (33.83%) Java
2 1,391 (31.29%) Python
3 1,163 (26.16%) JavaScript
4 763 (17.16%) SQL
5 754 (16.96%) TypeScript
6 570 (12.82%) C++
7 553 (12.44%) C#
8 471 (10.59%) Go
9 389 (8.75%) Rust
10 328 (7.38%) MATLAB
11 249 (5.60%) C
12 123 (2.77%) Ada
13 92 (2.07%) PHP
14 89 (2.00%) Kotlin
15 55 (1.24%) Ada 95
16 51 (1.15%) Bash
17 49 (1.10%) Scala
18 42 (0.94%) Ruby
19 28 (0.63%) PowerShell
20 25 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,261 (28.36%) Degree
2 548 (12.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 453 (10.19%) Security Cleared
4 318 (7.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 296 (6.66%) DV Cleared
6 239 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 230 (5.17%) HND
8 210 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 198 (4.45%) HNC
10 185 (4.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 130 (2.92%) SC Cleared
12 108 (2.43%) Chartered Engineer
13 97 (2.18%) Master's Degree
14 69 (1.55%) PhD
15 20 (0.45%) Azure Certification
16 19 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
17 8 (0.18%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.16%) ISTQB
19 6 (0.13%) PMP
20 5 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (7.92%) QA
2 156 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 67 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 33 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (0.72%) GDPR
6 30 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.36%) NIST
8 14 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.27%) PMO
10 10 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.20%) WCAG
12 7 (0.16%) SLA
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%) IEC 61131
13 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 732 (16.46%) Docker
2 50 (1.12%) Firmware
3 33 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 19 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.34%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.090%) zsh
7 3 (0.067%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.067%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 895 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 369 (8.30%) Terraform
3 115 (2.59%) Ansible
4 58 (1.30%) Grafana
5 55 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.43%) Argo
7 11 (0.25%) Kibana
7 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.20%) Istio
9 8 (0.18%) Mesos
9 8 (0.18%) Puppet
10 6 (0.13%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.13%) QRadar
11 5 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.090%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.090%) Salt
13 3 (0.067%) logstash
13 3 (0.067%) Oozie
13 3 (0.067%) Packer
14 2 (0.045%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 221 (4.97%) Microsoft
2 198 (4.45%) Solace
3 154 (3.46%) Google
4 135 (3.04%) Siemens
5 99 (2.23%) Databricks
6 93 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 69 (1.55%) Oracle
8 38 (0.85%) PayPal
9 34 (0.76%) IBM
10 29 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 27 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 25 (0.56%) Splunk
13 20 (0.45%) VMware
14 19 (0.43%) Apple
14 19 (0.43%) Ping Identity
15 14 (0.31%) New Relic
15 14 (0.31%) SAP
16 13 (0.29%) Adobe
16 13 (0.29%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.22%) MuleSoft