Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 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 32 63 36
Rank change year-on-year +31 -27 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4,690 4,425 10,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.52% 4.72% 8.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.84% 5.16% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,590 2,558 3,690
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,225
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,063 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,250 £118,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +8 1,091 £95,000 +11.76% 416
North of England +48 999 £55,000 -8.33% 157
South East +35 887 £55,000 -12.00% 189
South West +32 842 £55,000 -8.33% 185
North West +60 576 £57,500 - 92
Midlands +38 532 £52,500 -4.55% 118
Yorkshire +44 348 £50,000 -16.67% 45
East of England +21 322 £60,000 - 145
West Midlands +43 285 £55,000 - 68
East Midlands +14 247 £52,500 - 50
North East +18 75 £55,000 -12.00% 22
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4,646 (99.06%) Software Engineering
2 1,450 (30.92%) Agile
3 1,405 (29.96%) Python
4 1,323 (28.21%) AWS
5 1,096 (23.37%) JavaScript
6 1,050 (22.39%) C#
7 1,012 (21.58%) Azure
8 961 (20.49%) Java
9 915 (19.51%) React
10 854 (18.21%) .NET
11 833 (17.76%) C
12 773 (16.48%) Degree
13 749 (15.97%) C++
14 746 (15.91%) Linux
15 682 (14.54%) Finance
16 672 (14.33%) Security Cleared
17 646 (13.77%) DevOps
18 639 (13.62%) TypeScript
19 596 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
20 554 (11.81%) SQL
21 529 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
22 492 (10.49%) Computer Science
23 479 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
24 475 (10.13%) Social Skills
25 464 (9.89%) GCP
26 448 (9.55%) AngularJS
27 401 (8.55%) SC Cleared
28 395 (8.42%) Git
28 395 (8.42%) .NET Core
29 390 (8.32%) Microservices

Software Engineer 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
1 258 (5.50%) Apache
2 213 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.46%) ArcGIS
4 196 (4.18%) GeoServer
5 54 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 47 (1.00%) Confluence
7 19 (0.41%) JBoss
8 18 (0.38%) Captiva
8 18 (0.38%) FileNet
8 18 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 17 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
10 16 (0.34%) CMS
11 9 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 8 (0.17%) nginx
13 6 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.11%) Drupal
14 5 (0.11%) WinCC
15 4 (0.085%) Ethereum
16 3 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
16 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 94 (2.00%) Simulink
2 27 (0.58%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.23%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.13%) Trello
5 5 (0.11%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.064%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.064%) Sketch
6 3 (0.064%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.021%) UXPin
8 1 (0.021%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (0.13%) Magento
4 3 (0.064%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.021%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,323 (28.21%) AWS
2 1,012 (21.58%) Azure
3 464 (9.89%) GCP
4 202 (4.31%) Serverless
5 113 (2.41%) SaaS
6 112 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
7 106 (2.26%) dbt
8 104 (2.22%) GitHub
9 97 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (1.54%) Snowflake
11 47 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (0.85%) Power Platform
13 39 (0.83%) OpenShift
14 36 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (0.51%) Amazon S3
17 21 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (0.41%) Azure Functions
19 16 (0.34%) PowerApps
20 15 (0.32%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 74 (1.58%) Wireless
3 48 (1.02%) RS-232
4 42 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 40 (0.85%) Bluetooth
6 38 (0.81%) Ethernet
6 38 (0.81%) RS-485
7 37 (0.79%) Internet
8 30 (0.64%) HTTP
9 26 (0.55%) AMQP
10 24 (0.51%) MQTT
11 18 (0.38%) Modbus
11 18 (0.38%) ZigBee
12 14 (0.30%) 3G
12 14 (0.30%) 4G
12 14 (0.30%) J1939
13 13 (0.28%) Network Security
14 12 (0.26%) 5G
15 10 (0.21%) VoIP
16 9 (0.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 229 (4.88%) GIS
3 212 (4.52%) MySQL
4 196 (4.18%) QGIS
5 185 (3.94%) Apache Ignite
6 179 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 106 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
7 106 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
7 106 (2.26%) Dremio
8 101 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 99 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 86 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 76 (1.62%) Data Lake
12 56 (1.19%) Redis
13 50 (1.07%) Big Data
14 36 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (0.64%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 27 (0.58%) RDBMS
18 26 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 395 (8.42%) Git
2 167 (3.56%) JIRA
3 121 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 82 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 74 (1.58%) GitLab
5 74 (1.58%) Subversion
6 67 (1.43%) Cypress.io
7 33 (0.70%) LabVIEW
8 30 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 29 (0.62%) CMake
10 26 (0.55%) Maven
11 25 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 24 (0.51%) Bitbucket
12 24 (0.51%) Selenium
13 23 (0.49%) ClearCase
14 22 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 22 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
15 21 (0.45%) JDeveloper
15 21 (0.45%) Plastic SCM
16 17 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 682 (14.54%) Finance
2 475 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 345 (7.36%) Electronics
4 337 (7.19%) Front Office
5 312 (6.65%) Banking
6 198 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 195 (4.16%) Automotive
8 172 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
9 133 (2.84%) Aerospace
10 117 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 116 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 93 (1.98%) Retail
13 88 (1.88%) Marketing
14 81 (1.73%) Military
15 76 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 66 (1.41%) Tech for Good
17 52 (1.11%) Health Technology
17 52 (1.11%) Legal
18 47 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 46 (0.98%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (19.51%) React
2 854 (18.21%) .NET
3 448 (9.55%) AngularJS
4 395 (8.42%) .NET Core
5 348 (7.42%) CSS
6 305 (6.50%) Node.js
7 248 (5.29%) gRPC
8 236 (5.03%) Vue
9 225 (4.80%) Redux
10 210 (4.48%) RESTful
11 204 (4.35%) HTML
11 204 (4.35%) PostGIS
12 201 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
13 200 (4.26%) Leaflet
13 200 (4.26%) OpenLayers
13 200 (4.26%) Spring
14 193 (4.12%) ASP.NET
15 147 (3.13%) REST
16 140 (2.99%) Spring Boot
17 131 (2.79%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 317 (6.76%) Fixed Income
2 246 (5.25%) Hedge funds
3 214 (4.56%) Equities
4 200 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 195 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 192 (4.09%) Derivative
7 175 (3.73%) IoT
8 173 (3.69%) Embedded Systems
9 101 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 100 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
11 96 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
12 94 (2.00%) Cloud Native
13 69 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 69 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.41%) Device Driver
15 61 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 55 (1.17%) Robotics
17 46 (0.98%) Product Ownership
18 37 (0.79%) SCADA
19 33 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 746 (15.91%) Linux
2 277 (5.91%) Windows
3 165 (3.52%) Embedded Linux
4 106 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 83 (1.77%) Android
6 75 (1.60%) Apple iOS
7 57 (1.22%) Unix
8 49 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (0.96%) Debian
10 38 (0.81%) CentOS
11 29 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.13%) ThreadX
15 3 (0.064%) VMS
15 3 (0.064%) Windows Server
16 2 (0.043%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.043%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.043%) Rocky
16 2 (0.043%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,646 (99.06%) Software Engineering
2 1,450 (30.92%) Agile
3 646 (13.77%) DevOps
4 596 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
6 492 (10.49%) Computer Science
7 390 (8.32%) Microservices
8 368 (7.85%) Actionable Insight
9 354 (7.55%) Mentoring
10 319 (6.80%) Asset Management
11 311 (6.63%) CI/CD
12 287 (6.12%) Investment Management
12 287 (6.12%) TDD
13 283 (6.03%) Web Development
14 274 (5.84%) Test Automation
15 249 (5.31%) SDLC
16 229 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence
17 228 (4.86%) Fintech
18 213 (4.54%) Scrum
19 208 (4.43%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,405 (29.96%) Python
2 1,096 (23.37%) JavaScript
3 1,050 (22.39%) C#
4 961 (20.49%) Java
5 833 (17.76%) C
6 749 (15.97%) C++
7 639 (13.62%) TypeScript
8 554 (11.81%) SQL
9 184 (3.92%) Embedded C
10 177 (3.77%) Kotlin
11 167 (3.56%) Rust
12 157 (3.35%) Go
13 151 (3.22%) Bash
14 116 (2.47%) PHP
15 104 (2.22%) MATLAB
16 73 (1.56%) Ruby
17 70 (1.49%) Scala
18 69 (1.47%) Ada
19 60 (1.28%) Perl
20 55 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 773 (16.48%) Degree
2 672 (14.33%) Security Cleared
3 401 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 245 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 122 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 67 (1.43%) PhD
8 63 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.55%) HND
10 21 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.38%) HNC
12 9 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.15%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.11%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.064%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.064%) Sun Certification
17 2 (0.043%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 1 (0.021%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.82%) QA
2 51 (1.09%) MISRA
3 34 (0.72%) GDPR
4 33 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 25 (0.53%) ISO 26262
6 23 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 21 (0.45%) AUTOSAR
8 15 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
9 13 (0.28%) PMO
10 12 (0.26%) Def Stans
10 12 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 11 (0.23%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.19%) MISRA C
13 8 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.15%) ISO 9000
15 6 (0.13%) IEC 61508
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.11%) JTAG
16 5 (0.11%) TickIT
17 2 (0.043%) HIPAA
System Software
1 307 (6.55%) Docker
2 154 (3.28%) Firmware
3 76 (1.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.064%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.064%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.021%) KVM
7 1 (0.021%) LXC
7 1 (0.021%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 321 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 200 (4.26%) Terraform
3 97 (2.07%) Ansible
4 24 (0.51%) Puppet
5 17 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.21%) Grafana
7 8 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.11%) SELinux
9 4 (0.085%) Podman
10 3 (0.064%) Consul
10 3 (0.064%) Packer
11 2 (0.043%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.043%) Istio
11 2 (0.043%) Kibana
11 2 (0.043%) linkerd
11 2 (0.043%) MIIS
11 2 (0.043%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.043%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.043%) Wonderware InTouch
12 1 (0.021%) SCCM
Vendors
1 204 (4.35%) ESRI
1 204 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 154 (3.28%) Google
3 86 (1.83%) Oracle
4 50 (1.07%) IBM
5 49 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 42 (0.90%) Siemens
7 41 (0.87%) SAP
8 26 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 25 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.51%) SaltStack
11 21 (0.45%) Lauterbach
12 20 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 18 (0.38%) Kofax
13 18 (0.38%) Pega
14 12 (0.26%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.26%) F5
14 12 (0.26%) Xilinx
15 11 (0.23%) Cadence
15 11 (0.23%) Confluent