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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,972 7,847 9,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.60% 9.22% 10.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 10.74% 11.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 6,217 5,990
10th Percentile £44,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,600 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,206 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -10.71% -

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 43,207 73,044 88,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.58% 85.86% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,811 53,922 52,315
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 1,345 £98,562 +7.72% 1,576
North of England -10 798 £57,836 -3.61% 620
South East -7 591 £65,000 +13.04% 406
North West -22 499 £57,500 -4.17% 387
South West +1 491 £55,000 - 278
Midlands -8 445 £60,000 +9.09% 293
West Midlands -7 282 £63,750 +6.25% 163
East of England -12 234 £65,000 +8.33% 258
Yorkshire -6 227 £67,500 +22.73% 162
East Midlands -11 163 £60,000 +20.00% 129
North East +6 72 £55,000 - 74
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
1 284 (7.15%) Apache Airflow
2 237 (5.97%) Apache
3 114 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.46%) Confluence
5 23 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 16 (0.40%) CMS
7 15 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.30%) Kinematics
9 8 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.15%) CICS
10 6 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.13%) IIS
11 5 (0.13%) Liferay
11 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.076%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.050%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.050%) nginx
13 2 (0.050%) SAS
13 2 (0.050%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 303 (7.63%) Simulink
2 57 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.076%) Trello
6 2 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.050%) Blender
6 2 (0.050%) Maya
6 2 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.050%) Sketch
7 1 (0.025%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.025%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.025%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.025%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.025%) Revit
7 1 (0.025%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.025%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 22 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Shopify
3 5 (0.13%) Magento
3 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.10%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.076%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.050%) Endur
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.050%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.025%) BASE24
7 1 (0.025%) Eikon
7 1 (0.025%) iTrent
7 1 (0.025%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.025%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.025%) RMDS
7 1 (0.025%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (32.02%) AWS
2 738 (18.58%) Azure
3 443 (11.15%) GCP
4 284 (7.15%) dbt
5 274 (6.90%) Serverless
6 205 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
7 185 (4.66%) SaaS
8 162 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
9 157 (3.95%) GitHub
10 138 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 134 (3.37%) Snowflake
12 128 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 123 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
14 122 (3.07%) Amazon S3
15 121 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
16 89 (2.24%) Power Platform
17 84 (2.11%) OpenShift
18 83 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
19 57 (1.44%) Dagster
20 51 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (0.83%) HTTP
2 27 (0.68%) Wireless
3 24 (0.60%) Bluetooth
4 21 (0.53%) Network Security
5 17 (0.43%) WAN
6 13 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.30%) 5G
7 12 (0.30%) Modbus
7 12 (0.30%) Multicast
7 12 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.25%) Firewall
8 10 (0.25%) Internet
9 9 (0.23%) RS-232
10 8 (0.20%) RS-485
10 8 (0.20%) ZigBee
11 7 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.18%) Profibus
12 6 (0.15%) MQTT
13 5 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
2 262 (6.60%) Dremio
3 258 (6.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 233 (5.87%) Apache Arrow
5 216 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
6 171 (4.31%) Apache Ignite
7 170 (4.28%) SQL Server
8 158 (3.98%) MySQL
9 157 (3.95%) NoSQL
10 128 (3.22%) MongoDB
11 98 (2.47%) Data Lake
12 83 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
13 73 (1.84%) Relational Database
14 59 (1.49%) DynamoDB
15 57 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
16 54 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 54 (1.36%) Big Data
17 40 (1.01%) Power BI
18 30 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
19 28 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 392 (9.87%) Git
2 143 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 131 (3.30%) JIRA
4 110 (2.77%) GitLab
5 88 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 53 (1.33%) Maven
7 42 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 41 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 36 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 34 (0.86%) JUnit
11 27 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
12 25 (0.63%) Selenium
13 23 (0.58%) Gradle
14 22 (0.55%) Eclipse
15 19 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 19 (0.48%) Cypress.io
15 19 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
16 18 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 1,061 (26.71%) Finance
2 629 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 494 (12.44%) Banking
4 392 (9.87%) Front Office
5 278 (7.00%) Electronics
6 261 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
7 191 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 152 (3.83%) Retail
9 150 (3.78%) Automotive
10 149 (3.75%) Aerospace
11 141 (3.55%) Games
12 121 (3.05%) Law
13 115 (2.90%) Investment Banking
14 95 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 95 (2.39%) Public Sector
15 61 (1.54%) Marketing
16 59 (1.49%) Financial Institution
17 57 (1.44%) Advertising
18 45 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
19 43 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,769 (44.54%) Software Engineer
2 931 (23.44%) Senior
3 601 (15.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 547 (13.77%) Developer
5 500 (12.59%) Lead
6 330 (8.31%) AWS Engineer
7 329 (8.28%) Principal Engineer
8 283 (7.12%) Python Engineer
9 229 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
10 205 (5.16%) Java Engineer
11 202 (5.09%) AWS Software Engineer
12 183 (4.61%) Java Software Engineer
13 168 (4.23%) Software Developer
14 159 (4.00%) Data Engineer
15 156 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 152 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
17 150 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 137 (3.45%) Software Assurance Engineer
19 134 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
20 123 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 732 (18.43%) React
2 519 (13.07%) .NET
3 431 (10.85%) Node.js
4 307 (7.73%) AngularJS
5 268 (6.75%) Kafka
6 241 (6.07%) HTML
7 213 (5.36%) Pandas
8 200 (5.04%) CSS
9 193 (4.86%) Spring
10 176 (4.43%) PySpark
11 169 (4.25%) Spring Boot
12 166 (4.18%) NumPy
13 153 (3.85%) SciPy
14 145 (3.65%) RESTful
15 142 (3.58%) REST
16 141 (3.55%) .NET Core
17 135 (3.40%) Vue
18 122 (3.07%) gRPC
19 112 (2.82%) Redux
20 106 (2.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.07%) Algorithms
2 240 (6.04%) Fixed Income
3 196 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 176 (4.43%) Equities
5 163 (4.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 158 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
7 143 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 135 (3.40%) Hedge funds
9 131 (3.30%) Management Information System
10 126 (3.17%) Derivative
11 113 (2.84%) Mobile App
12 94 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
14 76 (1.91%) Cyberattack
15 66 (1.66%) Data Structures
16 57 (1.44%) Legacy Code
17 50 (1.26%) Public Cloud
18 49 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
18 49 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
19 44 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 329 (8.28%) Linux
2 109 (2.74%) Android
3 92 (2.32%) Windows
4 49 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.55%) Unix
6 12 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
6 12 (0.30%) zOS
7 11 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
7 11 (0.28%) Rocky
8 9 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.050%) Debian
12 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.025%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) Fedora
13 1 (0.025%) Solaris
13 1 (0.025%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,780 (44.81%) Agile
2 792 (19.94%) CI/CD
3 747 (18.81%) DevOps
4 614 (15.46%) Computer Science
5 596 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
6 560 (14.10%) Mentoring
7 514 (12.94%) Systems Engineering
8 509 (12.81%) Mathematics
9 485 (12.21%) Microservices
10 418 (10.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 399 (10.05%) SDLC
12 398 (10.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 370 (9.32%) Validation
14 359 (9.04%) Software Testing
15 348 (8.76%) Asset Management
16 335 (8.43%) Roadmaps
17 330 (8.31%) Fintech
18 320 (8.06%) TDD
19 311 (7.83%) Test Automation
20 293 (7.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (30.89%) Python
2 1,084 (27.29%) Java
3 931 (23.44%) JavaScript
4 701 (17.65%) C#
5 659 (16.59%) TypeScript
6 569 (14.33%) SQL
7 410 (10.32%) C++
8 318 (8.01%) MATLAB
9 290 (7.30%) Go
10 288 (7.25%) C
11 231 (5.82%) Rust
12 129 (3.25%) PHP
13 105 (2.64%) Ada
14 63 (1.59%) Ruby
15 51 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 51 (1.28%) Scala
16 37 (0.93%) Bash
17 32 (0.81%) Embedded C
18 26 (0.65%) PowerShell
19 23 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,178 (29.66%) Degree
2 492 (12.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 279 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 248 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 209 (5.26%) HND
6 190 (4.78%) HNC
7 127 (3.20%) SC Cleared
8 123 (3.10%) Master's Degree
9 114 (2.87%) DV Cleared
10 74 (1.86%) PhD
11 64 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
12 29 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
16 17 (0.43%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.20%) ISTQB
18 5 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
19 4 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
19 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (4.13%) QA
2 72 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.78%) GDPR
4 30 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 28 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.40%) NIST
8 14 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.30%) PMO
10 10 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.20%) NCSC
12 7 (0.18%) IEC 61131
12 7 (0.18%) SLA
13 6 (0.15%) CDISC
13 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
14 5 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
14 5 (0.13%) MISRA
14 5 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 578 (14.55%) Docker
2 44 (1.11%) Firmware
3 27 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 8 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 692 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 364 (9.16%) Terraform
3 100 (2.52%) Ansible
4 45 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.03%) Grafana
6 13 (0.33%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Istio
8 6 (0.15%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.15%) Kibana
8 6 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.13%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (0.13%) Puppet
9 5 (0.13%) QRadar
10 4 (0.10%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.10%) Packer
10 4 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.050%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.050%) Podman
12 2 (0.050%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 244 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 147 (3.70%) Google
3 90 (2.27%) Siemens
4 83 (2.09%) Oracle
5 75 (1.89%) Databricks
6 64 (1.61%) IBM
7 36 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 36 (0.91%) PayPal
8 31 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 29 (0.73%) Apple
10 24 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.45%) New Relic
12 17 (0.43%) Ping Identity
13 13 (0.33%) Splunk
14 10 (0.25%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.23%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.23%) VMware
16 8 (0.20%) Adobe
16 8 (0.20%) Telerik
17 7 (0.18%) Cisco