Software Manager Jobs in England

Software Manager
UK > England

The median Software Manager salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 652 533
Rank change year-on-year +241 -119 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 479 287 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.32% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.35% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 406 206 615
10th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £52,200
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% -9.41% +30.77%
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% +23.08%

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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +161 142 £100,000 +11.11% 27
North of England +127 120 £62,500 -16.67% 12
Midlands +28 81 £65,000 - 17
South East +6 70 £65,000 -13.33% 12
North West +59 68 £62,500 -3.85% 9
West Midlands +34 56 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South West +9 49 £60,000 -15.79% 8
Yorkshire +101 33 £65,000 -27.78% 3
East Midlands 0 25 £65,000 +26.83% 6
North East +13 19 £55,000 -9.09%
East of England +12 15 £120,000 +37.14% 4
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 249 (51.98%) Agile
2 198 (41.34%) Software Engineering
3 114 (23.80%) .NET
4 96 (20.04%) Social Skills
5 91 (19.00%) DevOps
5 91 (19.00%) Azure
6 87 (18.16%) Project Management
7 83 (17.33%) C#
8 68 (14.20%) Finance
9 67 (13.99%) Degree
9 67 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (13.78%) SDLC
11 65 (13.57%) Mentoring
12 63 (13.15%) JavaScript
13 62 (12.94%) Roadmaps
14 58 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (12.11%) Scrum
14 58 (12.11%) Asset Management
15 54 (11.27%) QA
16 53 (11.06%) Project Delivery
17 52 (10.86%) People Management
18 50 (10.44%) AWS
19 48 (10.02%) React
20 47 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
21 46 (9.60%) TypeScript
21 46 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
22 40 (8.35%) TDD
23 39 (8.14%) SQL
23 39 (8.14%) Java
24 38 (7.93%) 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 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.25%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (4.18%) Endur
2 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.84%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.84%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.84%) Sage 500
3 4 (0.84%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 91 (19.00%) Azure
2 50 (10.44%) AWS
3 37 (7.72%) GCP
4 18 (3.76%) SaaS
5 17 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.84%) Intacct
9 3 (0.63%) GitHub
9 3 (0.63%) IaaS
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.42%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.42%) PaaS
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 1 (0.21%) Cloudflare
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 (1.04%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) Broadband
2 2 (0.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) DSL
3 1 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 19 (3.97%) RDBMS
4 15 (3.13%) OLAP
5 4 (0.84%) MySQL
6 3 (0.63%) Power BI
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.42%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (5.64%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.18%) JIRA
3 14 (2.92%) GitLab
4 13 (2.71%) Git
5 5 (1.04%) Clang
6 4 (0.84%) Subversion
7 3 (0.63%) TestRail
8 2 (0.42%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Selenium
8 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.42%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 68 (14.20%) Finance
3 46 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.68%) Front Office
5 26 (5.43%) Marketing
6 24 (5.01%) Games
7 17 (3.55%) Law
8 14 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.30%) Retail
10 9 (1.88%) Police
11 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Legal
12 7 (1.46%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Back Office
14 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Local Government
15 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (23.80%) .NET
2 48 (10.02%) React
3 37 (7.72%) AngularJS
4 36 (7.52%) Vue
5 35 (7.31%) .NET Core
6 32 (6.68%) Redux
7 13 (2.71%) RESTful
8 10 (2.09%) SOAP
9 9 (1.88%) Node.js
10 7 (1.46%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.25%) jQuery
12 5 (1.04%) LAMP
12 5 (1.04%) Laravel
12 5 (1.04%) LLVM
12 5 (1.04%) Web Services
13 4 (0.84%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.84%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.84%) CSS
13 4 (0.84%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.84%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.68%) Derivative
1 32 (6.68%) Equities
1 32 (6.68%) Fixed Income
1 32 (6.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 32 (6.68%) Hedge funds
2 24 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.97%) Swaptions
4 18 (3.76%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.51%) FMCG
7 11 (2.30%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.30%) LIMS
8 10 (2.09%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.67%) RISC-V
11 7 (1.46%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.25%) NHS
12 6 (1.25%) PropTech
12 6 (1.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.71%) Linux
2 8 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (51.98%) Agile
2 198 (41.34%) Software Engineering
3 91 (19.00%) DevOps
4 87 (18.16%) Project Management
5 67 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (13.78%) SDLC
7 65 (13.57%) Mentoring
8 62 (12.94%) Roadmaps
9 58 (12.11%) Asset Management
9 58 (12.11%) Scrum
9 58 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (11.06%) Project Delivery
11 52 (10.86%) People Management
12 47 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (8.35%) TDD
14 38 (7.93%) Computer Science
15 37 (7.72%) Test Automation
16 35 (7.31%) Full Stack Development
17 34 (7.10%) Coaching
17 34 (7.10%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (17.33%) C#
2 63 (13.15%) JavaScript
3 46 (9.60%) TypeScript
4 39 (8.14%) Java
4 39 (8.14%) SQL
5 23 (4.80%) Python
6 19 (3.97%) VB
7 18 (3.76%) C
8 12 (2.51%) PHP
9 9 (1.88%) C++
9 9 (1.88%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.67%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.04%) Fortran
12 1 (0.21%) Delphi
12 1 (0.21%) Go
12 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (13.99%) Degree
2 24 (5.01%) PMP
3 23 (4.80%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.42%) CISSP
7 2 (0.42%) MCP
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.27%) QA
2 4 (0.84%) NCSC
2 4 (0.84%) SLA
3 2 (0.42%) 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 13 (2.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.34%) Ansible
2 14 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.84%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 32 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.59%) Oracle
3 20 (4.18%) OpenLink
4 19 (3.97%) Sybase
4 19 (3.97%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.46%) Google
6 5 (1.04%) Snow
7 4 (0.84%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.84%) Databricks
7 4 (0.84%) Sage
8 3 (0.63%) Adobe
8 3 (0.63%) IBM
9 2 (0.42%) Brio
9 2 (0.42%) Citrix
9 2 (0.42%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.42%) Symantec
9 2 (0.42%) Veritas
9 2 (0.42%) VMware
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore