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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7,843 9,969 20,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.27% 10.59% 15.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.78% 11.07% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,204 6,089 8,735
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £54,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

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 72,744 90,073 124,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.99% 95.66% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 53,833 53,069 73,904
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,320
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 2,256 £92,500 +5.71% 860
North of England +10 1,572 £60,000 -4.00% 318
South East -4 1,352 £57,500 -8.00% 361
South West +8 1,229 £55,000 -8.33% 256
North West +12 944 £60,000 -4.00% 195
Midlands +10 853 £55,000 -6.78% 230
East of England +1 521 £60,000 -7.69% 243
Yorkshire +8 505 £55,000 -14.40% 88
West Midlands +22 494 £58,982 -1.70% 124
East Midlands -1 359 £50,000 -9.09% 106
North East +14 123 £55,000 +10.00% 38
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
1 354 (4.51%) Apache
2 290 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.69%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.50%) GeoServer
5 154 (1.96%) Confluence
6 92 (1.17%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 35 (0.45%) CMS
9 30 (0.38%) nginx
10 19 (0.24%) JBoss
10 19 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.23%) Captiva
11 18 (0.23%) FileNet
12 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 16 (0.20%) WordPress
14 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 13 (0.17%) IIS
16 10 (0.13%) NServiceBus
16 10 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 9 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 122 (1.56%) Simulink
2 29 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 14 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 8 (0.10%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.077%) Trello
8 5 (0.064%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.051%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.038%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.038%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.026%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.026%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.026%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (0.13%) Magento
4 8 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.089%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.051%) Shopify
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.038%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.026%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.026%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.026%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.026%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.026%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.026%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.013%) Endur
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,246 (28.64%) AWS
2 1,754 (22.36%) Azure
3 759 (9.68%) GCP
4 377 (4.81%) Serverless
5 321 (4.09%) SaaS
6 300 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 238 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 217 (2.77%) GitHub
9 178 (2.27%) dbt
10 169 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
11 157 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 129 (1.64%) Amazon S3
13 124 (1.58%) Snowflake
14 107 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 95 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
16 79 (1.01%) OpenShift
17 77 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
18 76 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
19 68 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
20 63 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.38%) TCP/IP
2 103 (1.31%) Wireless
3 66 (0.84%) Internet
4 65 (0.83%) Ethernet
5 60 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 51 (0.65%) HTTP
7 49 (0.62%) Bluetooth
7 49 (0.62%) RS-232
8 44 (0.56%) Network Security
9 38 (0.48%) RS-485
10 37 (0.47%) AMQP
11 30 (0.38%) Firewall
11 30 (0.38%) MQTT
12 24 (0.31%) 5G
13 22 (0.28%) 4G
14 21 (0.27%) ZigBee
15 18 (0.23%) J1939
15 18 (0.23%) Modbus
16 16 (0.20%) DNS
17 15 (0.19%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 619 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 355 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 353 (4.50%) MySQL
4 243 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
5 235 (3.00%) GIS
6 199 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 196 (2.50%) QGIS
8 183 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 175 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
10 174 (2.22%) Dremio
11 173 (2.21%) Apache Arrow
12 149 (1.90%) Data Lake
13 143 (1.82%) MongoDB
14 129 (1.64%) Redis
15 112 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
16 95 (1.21%) Big Data
17 89 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
18 82 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
19 78 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 832 (10.61%) Git
2 356 (4.54%) JIRA
3 303 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 260 (3.32%) Visual Studio
5 216 (2.75%) GitLab
6 135 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 121 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 93 (1.19%) Subversion
9 67 (0.85%) Selenium
10 65 (0.83%) Sourcetree
11 57 (0.73%) LabVIEW
11 57 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 49 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
13 46 (0.59%) Postman
14 45 (0.57%) Artifactory
15 44 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 39 (0.50%) JUnit
17 37 (0.47%) CMake
17 37 (0.47%) Maven
17 37 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 1,289 (16.44%) Finance
2 1,111 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 529 (6.74%) Front Office
4 490 (6.25%) Banking
5 431 (5.50%) Electronics
6 368 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 292 (3.72%) Manufacturing
8 245 (3.12%) Automotive
9 201 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 200 (2.55%) Investment Banking
11 199 (2.54%) Games
12 189 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 183 (2.33%) Retail
14 175 (2.23%) Marketing
15 174 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 144 (1.84%) Law
17 117 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
18 106 (1.35%) Legal
19 104 (1.33%) Tech for Good
20 98 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,609 (58.77%) Software Engineer
2 2,017 (25.72%) Senior
3 1,650 (21.04%) Developer
4 1,414 (18.03%) Senior Software Engineer
5 852 (10.86%) Embedded Engineer
6 790 (10.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 716 (9.13%) Lead
8 355 (4.53%) Software Developer
9 329 (4.19%) Java Engineer
10 322 (4.11%) Senior Developer
11 312 (3.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 310 (3.95%) Python Engineer
13 282 (3.60%) C++ Software Engineer
13 282 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
14 277 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
14 277 (3.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 259 (3.30%) Python Software Engineer
16 254 (3.24%) .NET Developer
17 249 (3.17%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 239 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,504 (19.18%) .NET
2 1,393 (17.76%) React
3 605 (7.71%) AngularJS
4 584 (7.45%) CSS
5 573 (7.31%) .NET Core
6 516 (6.58%) Node.js
7 444 (5.66%) HTML
8 349 (4.45%) RESTful
9 332 (4.23%) Spring
10 328 (4.18%) gRPC
11 306 (3.90%) Vue
12 289 (3.68%) ASP.NET
13 274 (3.49%) Protocol Buffers
14 269 (3.43%) REST
15 259 (3.30%) Redux
16 252 (3.21%) Kafka
17 225 (2.87%) Spring Boot
18 211 (2.69%) .NET Framework
19 208 (2.65%) Pandas
20 205 (2.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 440 (5.61%) Fixed Income
2 378 (4.82%) Hedge funds
3 364 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 336 (4.28%) Equities
5 306 (3.90%) Derivative
6 292 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 257 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
8 248 (3.16%) IoT
9 236 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
10 232 (2.96%) Cloud Native
11 204 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
12 180 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
13 173 (2.21%) Product Ownership
14 168 (2.14%) Client/Server
15 162 (2.07%) Data Structures
16 138 (1.76%) Mobile App
17 116 (1.48%) Management Information System
18 105 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
19 81 (1.03%) Virtual Team
20 80 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,088 (13.87%) Linux
2 437 (5.57%) Windows
3 197 (2.51%) Embedded Linux
4 137 (1.75%) Android
5 126 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 110 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 67 (0.85%) Unix
8 49 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (0.57%) CentOS
9 45 (0.57%) Debian
10 34 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
11 25 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 22 (0.28%) Windows Server
13 18 (0.23%) VMS
14 12 (0.15%) Windows 10
15 7 (0.089%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.077%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.064%) Windows Mobile
18 3 (0.038%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,837 (36.17%) Agile
2 1,437 (18.32%) DevOps
3 1,209 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
4 1,048 (13.36%) Computer Science
5 886 (11.30%) Full Stack Development
6 870 (11.09%) CI/CD
7 727 (9.27%) Mentoring
8 689 (8.78%) Microservices
9 625 (7.97%) Scrum
10 535 (6.82%) SDLC
11 508 (6.48%) TDD
12 502 (6.40%) Asset Management
13 493 (6.29%) Test Automation
14 490 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
15 434 (5.53%) Design Patterns
16 420 (5.36%) Actionable Insight
17 412 (5.25%) Containerisation
18 395 (5.04%) Machine Learning
19 393 (5.01%) Investment Management
20 376 (4.79%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,206 (28.13%) Python
2 1,890 (24.10%) C#
3 1,714 (21.85%) JavaScript
4 1,601 (20.41%) Java
5 1,092 (13.92%) C
6 1,091 (13.91%) TypeScript
7 1,055 (13.45%) SQL
8 980 (12.50%) C++
9 288 (3.67%) Go
10 273 (3.48%) PHP
11 238 (3.03%) Kotlin
12 219 (2.79%) Embedded C
13 203 (2.59%) Rust
14 201 (2.56%) Bash
15 142 (1.81%) MATLAB
16 126 (1.61%) Scala
17 108 (1.38%) Ruby
18 102 (1.30%) PowerShell
19 98 (1.25%) T-SQL
20 86 (1.10%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,558 (19.86%) Degree
2 1,093 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 683 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 520 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 233 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 203 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 161 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 105 (1.34%) PhD
9 46 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 36 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 33 (0.42%) HND
13 30 (0.38%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.34%) HNC
15 21 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
17 16 (0.20%) CISSP
17 16 (0.20%) ISTQB
18 13 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (4.11%) QA
2 69 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 62 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 51 (0.65%) MISRA
5 47 (0.60%) GDPR
6 30 (0.38%) ISO 26262
6 30 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 26 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
8 23 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
8 23 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 20 (0.26%) Def Stans
9 20 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.24%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
12 15 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.17%) NIST
13 13 (0.17%) PMO
14 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
14 11 (0.14%) NCSC
14 11 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 773 (9.86%) Docker
2 221 (2.82%) Firmware
3 105 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 35 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 30 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.10%) HDFS
9 7 (0.089%) IAG
10 5 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.051%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.038%) OpenSIPS
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.013%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.013%) LXC
14 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) NFS
Systems Management
1 772 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 473 (6.03%) Terraform
3 194 (2.47%) Ansible
4 52 (0.66%) Grafana
5 37 (0.47%) Progress Chef
6 33 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.33%) Puppet
8 16 (0.20%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.13%) Kibana
10 7 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.077%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.077%) Nessus
12 5 (0.064%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.064%) Podman
12 5 (0.064%) SELinux
13 4 (0.051%) Istio
14 3 (0.038%) Consul
14 3 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 651 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 256 (3.26%) Google
3 207 (2.64%) ESRI
4 128 (1.63%) Oracle
5 75 (0.96%) SAP
6 61 (0.78%) IBM
7 58 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 51 (0.65%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.57%) Siemens
10 38 (0.48%) Bloomberg
10 38 (0.48%) Databricks
11 37 (0.47%) Adobe
12 35 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 29 (0.37%) Micro Focus
14 28 (0.36%) ServiceNow
15 24 (0.31%) Apple
15 24 (0.31%) SaltStack
16 23 (0.29%) VMware
17 22 (0.28%) Xilinx
18 21 (0.27%) Lauterbach