Software Engineering Job Trends in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,980 6,990 4,583
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.97% 11.28% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 13.63% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,653 4,104 3,522
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -

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 37,812 51,296 46,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.41% 82.75% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 22,023 27,416 35,592
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 22 October 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 22 October 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 -5 1,252 £105,000 +10.53% 1,241
North of England -15 698 £65,000 +17.12% 522
North West -9 486 £70,000 +21.74% 323
South East -37 404 £70,000 +16.67% 1,097
South West -23 226 £60,000 - 390
Midlands -56 207 £68,500 +19.13% 175
Yorkshire -21 177 £60,000 +9.09% 124
East of England -47 146 £55,000 -15.38% 315
West Midlands -36 111 £62,500 +0.81% 96
East Midlands -41 99 £70,000 +47.37% 76
North East -25 35 £55,000 -1.79% 79
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 182 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (4.60%) Confluence
3 91 (3.05%) Apache
4 57 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.77%) IIS
5 23 (0.77%) Kinematics
6 19 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.40%) CMS
8 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.17%) Appian
10 5 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) Traefik
12 3 (0.10%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.10%) SAS
13 2 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 15 (0.50%) Simulink
3 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 7 (0.23%) Sketch
5 5 (0.17%) CATIA
6 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
6 4 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.10%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.034%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.034%) Blender
8 1 (0.034%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.034%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.034%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.13%) Magento
4 4 (0.13%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.10%) Shopify
6 2 (0.067%) Endur
7 1 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.034%) Primavera
7 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.034%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (43.26%) AWS
2 941 (31.58%) Azure
3 608 (20.40%) GCP
4 223 (7.48%) SaaS
5 160 (5.37%) dbt
6 137 (4.60%) GitHub
7 123 (4.13%) Serverless
8 92 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
8 92 (3.09%) Snowflake
9 83 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (2.58%) Power Platform
11 74 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 71 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
13 69 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 41 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
18 28 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.38%) Wireless
2 38 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
3 18 (0.60%) DNS
4 17 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.44%) Internet
6 12 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.37%) Multicast
8 10 (0.34%) Bluetooth
8 10 (0.34%) VPN
9 8 (0.27%) Modbus
10 7 (0.23%) Broadband
10 7 (0.23%) GSM
10 7 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.20%) Firewall
11 6 (0.20%) RS-232
12 5 (0.17%) DHCP
12 5 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.17%) RS-485
13 4 (0.13%) HTTP
13 4 (0.13%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 195 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 161 (5.40%) Amazon Athena
3 161 (5.40%) Apache Iceberg
4 148 (4.97%) Apache Arrow
4 148 (4.97%) Dremio
5 123 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 109 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 104 (3.49%) MongoDB
8 91 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 85 (2.85%) MySQL
10 73 (2.45%) Apache Ignite
11 63 (2.11%) DynamoDB
12 52 (1.74%) Big Data
13 41 (1.38%) Power BI
14 34 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
15 29 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
16 26 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.77%) Redis
18 20 (0.67%) KDB
Development Applications
1 279 (9.36%) JIRA
2 250 (8.39%) GitLab
3 227 (7.62%) Selenium
4 217 (7.28%) Cucumber
5 212 (7.11%) Maven
6 210 (7.05%) Bitbucket
7 201 (6.74%) SonarQube
8 199 (6.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 198 (6.64%) Git
10 82 (2.75%) Jenkins
11 26 (0.87%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.87%) JUnit
12 25 (0.84%) Vite
13 18 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 15 (0.50%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.40%) Spinnaker
16 11 (0.37%) webpack
17 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
17 10 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
18 9 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,167 (39.16%) Finance
2 808 (27.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 610 (20.47%) Banking
4 533 (17.89%) Social Skills
5 490 (16.44%) Law
6 238 (7.99%) Front Office
7 209 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
7 209 (7.01%) Investment Banking
8 171 (5.74%) Marketing
9 152 (5.10%) Retail
10 97 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 90 (3.02%) Corporate Banking
12 86 (2.89%) Aviation
13 85 (2.85%) Manufacturing
14 79 (2.65%) Electronics
15 73 (2.45%) Financial Institution
16 69 (2.32%) Legal
17 56 (1.88%) Games
18 38 (1.28%) Back Office
19 32 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,764 (59.19%) Software Engineer
2 765 (25.67%) Senior
3 573 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
4 464 (15.57%) Developer
5 458 (15.37%) Lead
6 297 (9.97%) Lead Software Engineer
7 272 (9.13%) Python Engineer
8 258 (8.66%) Java Engineer
9 257 (8.62%) Python Software Engineer
10 245 (8.22%) Java Software Engineer
11 203 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
12 181 (6.07%) AWS Software Engineer
13 130 (4.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 111 (3.72%) Python Developer
15 109 (3.66%) Senior Java Engineer
16 104 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
17 102 (3.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 93 (3.12%) Software Developer
19 88 (2.95%) Principal Engineer
20 85 (2.85%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 724 (24.30%) React
2 520 (17.45%) .NET
3 426 (14.30%) Kafka
4 406 (13.62%) Node.js
5 377 (12.65%) Spring
6 342 (11.48%) Spring Boot
7 301 (10.10%) CSS
8 299 (10.03%) HTML
9 263 (8.83%) Redux
10 223 (7.48%) RESTful
11 214 (7.18%) AngularJS
11 214 (7.18%) REST
12 201 (6.74%) JPA
13 167 (5.60%) Pandas
14 154 (5.17%) NumPy
15 150 (5.03%) SciPy
16 149 (5.00%) Vue
17 143 (4.80%) Jest
18 126 (4.23%) Hibernate
19 119 (3.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 363 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 310 (10.40%) Product Ownership
3 228 (7.65%) Enterprise Software
4 219 (7.35%) Cyberattack
5 216 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
6 198 (6.64%) Fixed Income
7 195 (6.54%) Equities
8 191 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 185 (6.21%) Linux Command Line
10 182 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
11 168 (5.64%) Algorithms
12 118 (3.96%) Derivative
13 113 (3.79%) Robotics
14 94 (3.15%) Hedge funds
15 73 (2.45%) Pricing Data
16 72 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
17 69 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
18 68 (2.28%) Public Cloud
19 58 (1.95%) Data Structures
20 53 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 373 (12.52%) Linux
2 59 (1.98%) Windows
3 45 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
4 41 (1.38%) Android
5 33 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.11%) Unix
6 20 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.067%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.034%) CentOS
10 1 (0.034%) Debian
10 1 (0.034%) Fedora
10 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.034%) SafeRTOS
10 1 (0.034%) VMS
10 1 (0.034%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,558 (52.28%) Agile
2 895 (30.03%) CI/CD
3 755 (25.34%) Microservices
4 644 (21.61%) DevOps
5 630 (21.14%) SDLC
6 560 (18.79%) Mentoring
7 537 (18.02%) AI
8 524 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
9 512 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 458 (15.37%) Machine Learning
11 428 (14.36%) Test Automation
12 403 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 384 (12.89%) Containerisation
13 384 (12.89%) User Experience
14 332 (11.14%) Computer Science
15 328 (11.01%) Fintech
16 305 (10.23%) Scrum
17 294 (9.87%) TDD
18 270 (9.06%) Front End Development
19 268 (8.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (35.23%) Java
2 992 (33.29%) Python
3 906 (30.40%) JavaScript
4 650 (21.81%) TypeScript
5 578 (19.40%) SQL
6 456 (15.30%) C++
7 394 (13.22%) C#
8 327 (10.97%) Go
9 260 (8.72%) Rust
10 169 (5.67%) C
11 98 (3.29%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.68%) Bash
13 38 (1.28%) PHP
14 34 (1.14%) Scala
15 27 (0.91%) Ruby
16 23 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.67%) PowerShell
18 19 (0.64%) MATLAB
18 19 (0.64%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 437 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 413 (13.86%) Degree
3 242 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 239 (8.02%) AWS Certification
5 202 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 194 (6.51%) SC Cleared
7 191 (6.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 165 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 88 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 64 (2.15%) HND
11 58 (1.95%) PhD
12 39 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (0.87%) HNC
14 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.47%) Azure Certification
16 11 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
17 8 (0.27%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.17%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.17%) PMP
18 5 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (10.81%) QA
2 126 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 25 (0.84%) GDPR
5 19 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.37%) WCAG
9 8 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.20%) IFRS
11 6 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.20%) MISRA
11 6 (0.20%) SEPA
11 6 (0.20%) TARGET2
12 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 5 (0.17%) PSD2
13 4 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (16.01%) Docker
2 67 (2.25%) Firmware
3 53 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 5 (0.17%) zsh
9 3 (0.10%) Apache Flume
9 3 (0.10%) HDFS
10 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.034%) KVM
11 1 (0.034%) QEMU
11 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 616 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 208 (6.98%) Terraform
3 50 (1.68%) Ansible
4 41 (1.38%) Grafana
5 40 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.64%) Kibana
7 11 (0.37%) Argo
7 11 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.27%) Mesos
9 7 (0.23%) Puppet
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.20%) logstash
10 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.13%) Salt
13 3 (0.10%) Oozie
14 1 (0.034%) ArcSight ESM
14 1 (0.034%) Istio
14 1 (0.034%) systemd
Vendors
1 198 (6.64%) Solace
2 189 (6.34%) Microsoft
3 78 (2.62%) Google
4 70 (2.35%) Oracle
5 62 (2.08%) Databricks
6 27 (0.91%) SAP
7 26 (0.87%) Sage
8 20 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.57%) Guidewire
10 17 (0.57%) VMware
11 16 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.47%) Siemens
13 13 (0.44%) IBM
13 13 (0.44%) Informatica
13 13 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.44%) Splunk
14 12 (0.40%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.37%) Xamarin
16 10 (0.34%) DevExpress