Software Manager Jobs in England

Software Manager
UK > England

The median Software Manager salary in England is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 635 546
Rank change year-on-year +233 -89 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 490 332 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.39% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 417 227 609
10th Percentile £44,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% -10.59% +29.28%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -9.09% +22.22%

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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 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 25 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 +178 148 £100,000 +11.11% 36
North of England +110 122 £62,500 -16.67% 14
Midlands +43 80 £65,000 - 11
South East +8 73 £65,000 -13.33% 16
North West +48 66 £62,500 -16.67% 10
West Midlands +39 55 £60,000 -7.69% 6
South West +10 51 £60,000 -17.24% 7
Yorkshire +102 37 £65,000 -27.78% 4
East Midlands +1 25 £65,000 +44.44% 5
North East +18 19 £55,000 -1.79%
East of England +16 15 £120,000 +92.00% 5
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 264 (53.88%) Agile
2 207 (42.24%) Software Engineering
3 119 (24.29%) .NET
4 99 (20.20%) DevOps
5 97 (19.80%) Social Skills
6 96 (19.59%) Azure
7 91 (18.57%) Project Management
8 89 (18.16%) C#
9 72 (14.69%) Finance
10 71 (14.49%) JavaScript
10 71 (14.49%) Degree
11 70 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (14.29%) SDLC
12 66 (13.47%) Roadmaps
13 65 (13.27%) Mentoring
14 60 (12.24%) Scrum
15 59 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (12.04%) Asset Management
16 58 (11.84%) QA
17 56 (11.43%) Project Delivery
18 52 (10.61%) People Management
19 51 (10.41%) AWS
20 50 (10.20%) React
20 50 (10.20%) TypeScript
21 48 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
22 46 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
22 46 (9.39%) Java
23 45 (9.18%) TDD
24 41 (8.37%) SQL
25 39 (7.96%) 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 23 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.22%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (4.69%) Endur
2 6 (1.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.82%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.82%) Sage 500
4 4 (0.82%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (19.59%) Azure
2 51 (10.41%) AWS
3 39 (7.96%) GCP
4 19 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.67%) SaaS
6 8 (1.63%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.02%) GitHub
8 4 (0.82%) Intacct
9 3 (0.61%) IaaS
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.41%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.41%) PaaS
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.20%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.20%) Serverless
11 1 (0.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) DSL
3 1 (0.20%) VoIP
3 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.10%) Relational Database
3 23 (4.69%) RDBMS
4 15 (3.06%) OLAP
5 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.82%) MySQL
7 3 (0.61%) Power BI
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (5.51%) Jenkins
2 22 (4.49%) JIRA
3 17 (3.47%) Git
4 14 (2.86%) GitLab
5 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.22%) Selenium
5 6 (1.22%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.02%) Clang
7 4 (0.82%) Subversion
8 3 (0.61%) TestRail
9 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 72 (14.69%) Finance
3 46 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.94%) Front Office
5 28 (5.71%) Games
5 28 (5.71%) Marketing
6 16 (3.27%) Law
7 13 (2.65%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.24%) Retail
9 9 (1.84%) Police
10 8 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.43%) Legal
11 7 (1.43%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.22%) Back Office
13 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Local Government
14 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (24.29%) .NET
2 50 (10.20%) React
3 39 (7.96%) AngularJS
4 38 (7.76%) Vue
5 35 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 34 (6.94%) Redux
7 15 (3.06%) RESTful
8 12 (2.45%) SOAP
9 9 (1.84%) ASP.NET
10 8 (1.63%) Node.js
11 6 (1.22%) jQuery
12 5 (1.02%) LAMP
12 5 (1.02%) Laravel
12 5 (1.02%) LLVM
12 5 (1.02%) Web Services
13 4 (0.82%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.82%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (0.82%) CSS
13 4 (0.82%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.94%) Derivative
1 34 (6.94%) Equities
1 34 (6.94%) Fixed Income
1 34 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 34 (6.94%) Hedge funds
2 23 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.69%) Swaptions
3 21 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 14 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.45%) FMCG
6 11 (2.24%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.24%) LIMS
7 10 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.63%) RISC-V
10 7 (1.43%) 3D Graphics
10 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.22%) NHS
11 6 (1.22%) PropTech
11 6 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.65%) Linux
2 10 (2.04%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (53.88%) Agile
2 207 (42.24%) Software Engineering
3 99 (20.20%) DevOps
4 91 (18.57%) Project Management
5 70 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (14.29%) SDLC
6 66 (13.47%) Roadmaps
7 65 (13.27%) Mentoring
8 60 (12.24%) Scrum
9 59 (12.04%) Asset Management
9 59 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 56 (11.43%) Project Delivery
11 52 (10.61%) People Management
12 48 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (9.18%) TDD
14 39 (7.96%) Computer Science
14 39 (7.96%) Test Automation
15 37 (7.55%) Full Stack Development
16 36 (7.35%) Software Delivery
17 35 (7.14%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 89 (18.16%) C#
2 71 (14.49%) JavaScript
3 50 (10.20%) TypeScript
4 46 (9.39%) Java
5 41 (8.37%) SQL
6 23 (4.69%) VB
7 22 (4.49%) Python
8 18 (3.67%) C
9 11 (2.24%) C++
9 11 (2.24%) PHP
10 9 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.63%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.02%) Fortran
13 1 (0.20%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 71 (14.49%) Degree
2 24 (4.90%) PMP
2 24 (4.90%) SC Cleared
2 24 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.41%) CISSP
6 2 (0.41%) MCP
7 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.84%) QA
2 4 (0.82%) NCSC
2 4 (0.82%) SLA
3 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) GRC
4 1 (0.20%) MISRA
4 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 17 (3.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.27%) Ansible
3 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
5 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.31%) Oracle
3 23 (4.69%) OpenLink
3 23 (4.69%) Sybase
3 23 (4.69%) TIBCO
4 7 (1.43%) Google
5 5 (1.02%) Adobe
5 5 (1.02%) Snow
6 4 (0.82%) CheckPoint
6 4 (0.82%) Databricks
6 4 (0.82%) Sage
7 3 (0.61%) 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 (0.20%) SAP