Software Manager Jobs in England

Software Manager
UK > England

The median Software Manager salary in England is £66,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 635 558
Rank change year-on-year +235 -77 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 487 304 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.33% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.36% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 416 223 611
10th Percentile £44,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% -10.59% +26.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +18.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Software Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in England.

Salary trend for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +188 146 £100,000 +11.11% 27
North of England +110 123 £62,500 -16.67% 13
Midlands +32 80 £65,000 - 13
South East +21 71 £65,000 -13.33% 10
North West +57 67 £62,500 -16.67% 9
West Midlands +44 55 £60,000 -7.69% 8
South West +15 51 £60,000 -17.24% 6
Yorkshire +109 37 £65,000 -27.78% 4
East Midlands +4 25 £65,000 +26.83% 5
North East +13 19 £55,000 -9.09%
East of England +4 15 £120,000 +100.00% 5
Software Manager
UK

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 261 (53.59%) Agile
2 205 (42.09%) Software Engineering
3 118 (24.23%) .NET
4 99 (20.33%) DevOps
5 97 (19.92%) Social Skills
6 96 (19.71%) Azure
7 91 (18.69%) Project Management
8 87 (17.86%) C#
9 72 (14.78%) Finance
10 70 (14.37%) Degree
11 69 (14.17%) JavaScript
11 69 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (14.17%) SDLC
12 65 (13.35%) Mentoring
12 65 (13.35%) Roadmaps
13 60 (12.32%) Scrum
14 59 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (12.11%) Asset Management
15 58 (11.91%) QA
16 56 (11.50%) Project Delivery
17 52 (10.68%) People Management
18 51 (10.47%) AWS
19 49 (10.06%) React
20 48 (9.86%) TypeScript
20 48 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
21 46 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
22 44 (9.03%) TDD
22 44 (9.03%) Java
23 40 (8.21%) SQL
24 39 (8.01%) Computer Science

Software Manager Skill Set
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 21 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.23%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (4.31%) Endur
2 5 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.03%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.82%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.82%) Sage 500
3 4 (0.82%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (19.71%) Azure
2 51 (10.47%) AWS
3 39 (8.01%) GCP
4 19 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.70%) SaaS
6 8 (1.64%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.03%) GitHub
8 4 (0.82%) Intacct
9 3 (0.62%) IaaS
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.41%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.41%) PaaS
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.21%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.21%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.21%) Serverless
11 1 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.03%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) DSL
3 1 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 21 (4.31%) RDBMS
4 15 (3.08%) OLAP
5 4 (0.82%) MySQL
5 4 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.62%) Power BI
7 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (5.54%) Jenkins
2 22 (4.52%) JIRA
3 16 (3.29%) Git
4 14 (2.87%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) Clang
6 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.82%) Selenium
6 4 (0.82%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.82%) Subversion
7 3 (0.62%) TestRail
8 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 72 (14.78%) Finance
3 46 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.98%) Front Office
5 27 (5.54%) Marketing
6 26 (5.34%) Games
7 16 (3.29%) Law
8 14 (2.87%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.26%) Retail
10 9 (1.85%) Police
11 8 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.44%) Legal
12 7 (1.44%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.03%) Back Office
13 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Local Government
14 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.62%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (24.23%) .NET
2 49 (10.06%) React
3 39 (8.01%) AngularJS
4 38 (7.80%) Vue
5 35 (7.19%) .NET Core
6 34 (6.98%) Redux
7 15 (3.08%) RESTful
8 12 (2.46%) SOAP
9 9 (1.85%) ASP.NET
10 8 (1.64%) Node.js
11 6 (1.23%) jQuery
12 5 (1.03%) LAMP
12 5 (1.03%) Laravel
12 5 (1.03%) LLVM
12 5 (1.03%) Web Services
13 4 (0.82%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (0.82%) CSS
13 4 (0.82%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.98%) Derivative
1 34 (6.98%) Equities
1 34 (6.98%) Fixed Income
1 34 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 34 (6.98%) Hedge funds
2 23 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.31%) Swaptions
4 20 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.46%) FMCG
7 11 (2.26%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.26%) LIMS
8 10 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.64%) RISC-V
11 7 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.23%) NHS
12 6 (1.23%) PropTech
12 6 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.67%) Linux
2 9 (1.85%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (53.59%) Agile
2 205 (42.09%) Software Engineering
3 99 (20.33%) DevOps
4 91 (18.69%) Project Management
5 69 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (14.17%) SDLC
6 65 (13.35%) Mentoring
6 65 (13.35%) Roadmaps
7 60 (12.32%) Scrum
8 59 (12.11%) Asset Management
8 59 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (11.50%) Project Delivery
10 52 (10.68%) People Management
11 48 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (9.03%) TDD
13 39 (8.01%) Computer Science
13 39 (8.01%) Test Automation
14 37 (7.60%) Full Stack Development
15 36 (7.39%) Software Delivery
16 35 (7.19%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.86%) C#
2 69 (14.17%) JavaScript
3 48 (9.86%) TypeScript
4 44 (9.03%) Java
5 40 (8.21%) SQL
6 22 (4.52%) Python
7 21 (4.31%) VB
8 18 (3.70%) C
9 11 (2.26%) PHP
10 10 (2.05%) C++
11 9 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.64%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.03%) Fortran
14 1 (0.21%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 70 (14.37%) Degree
2 25 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 25 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.93%) PMP
4 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.41%) CISSP
7 2 (0.41%) MCP
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.91%) QA
2 4 (0.82%) NCSC
2 4 (0.82%) SLA
3 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.21%) GRC
4 1 (0.21%) MISRA
4 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 15 (3.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.29%) Ansible
1 16 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.82%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.93%) Oracle
3 21 (4.31%) OpenLink
3 21 (4.31%) Sybase
3 21 (4.31%) TIBCO
4 7 (1.44%) Google
5 5 (1.03%) Adobe
5 5 (1.03%) Snow
6 4 (0.82%) CheckPoint
6 4 (0.82%) Databricks
6 4 (0.82%) Sage
7 3 (0.62%) IBM
8 2 (0.41%) Brio
8 2 (0.41%) Citrix
8 2 (0.41%) Computacenter
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.41%) Symantec
8 2 (0.41%) Veritas
8 2 (0.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore