Computer Engineer Jobs in the South East

Computer Engineer
England > South East

The median Computer Engineer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 396 400
Rank change year-on-year +101 +4 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Computer Engineer 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.021% 0.006% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.006% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,750 £58,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £44,000 £38,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +15.79% -30.59% +52.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 8,254 15,768 12,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 94.01% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 11,302 8,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Computer Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Computer Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Engineer in the South East

Computer Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Computer Engineer in the South East

Computer Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +61 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire +36 1 - - 2
Surrey - 1 £57,500 - 3
Computer Engineer
England

Computer Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Computer 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 South East region featuring Computer Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Robotics
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening

Computer Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Lidar
1 1 (50.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) VMware