Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 29 70
Rank change year-on-year -52 +41 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 332 1,130 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.27% 6.52% 4.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.66% 6.92% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 246 840 351
10th Percentile £44,375 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +3.70%

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 9,066 16,337 11,048
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.33% 94.25% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,065 11,544 7,521
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,662 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software 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 Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Isle of Wight - 84 £68,000 - 7
Hampshire -34 78 £65,000 +30.00% 49
Thames Valley -96 75 £65,000 +21.49% 81
Surrey -24 48 £70,000 +27.27% 33
Oxfordshire -17 43 £67,500 +22.73% 40
Kent +6 27 £62,500 +38.89% 12
Berkshire -93 22 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Buckinghamshire -43 10 £52,500 +5.00% 15
West Sussex +5 8 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Middlesex - 8 - - 6
East Sussex +16 4 £90,000 +56.52% 4
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, 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 South East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 332 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 167 (50.30%) Agile
3 147 (44.28%) Degree
4 126 (37.95%) Computer Science
5 97 (29.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 87 (26.20%) UML
7 84 (25.30%) Chartered Engineer
7 84 (25.30%) Waterfall
8 75 (22.59%) Ada
9 69 (20.78%) Configuration Management
10 68 (20.48%) Python
11 66 (19.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 66 (19.88%) Ada 95
12 65 (19.58%) C++
13 60 (18.07%) C#
13 60 (18.07%) SQL
14 50 (15.06%) Finance
15 48 (14.46%) Azure
16 47 (14.16%) C
17 46 (13.86%) Java
18 44 (13.25%) Linux
19 39 (11.75%) CI/CD
20 37 (11.14%) Security Cleared
20 37 (11.14%) DevOps
21 36 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
22 35 (10.54%) React
22 35 (10.54%) .NET
23 34 (10.24%) JavaScript
23 34 (10.24%) Mathematics
24 32 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence

Software 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 9 (2.71%) Confluence
2 8 (2.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.30%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Simulink
2 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.46%) Azure
2 23 (6.93%) AWS
3 15 (4.52%) GCP
4 11 (3.31%) Azure API Management
5 10 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (2.11%) GitHub
7 3 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.60%) Firebase
8 2 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.30%) Datadog
9 1 (0.30%) SaaS
9 1 (0.30%) Slack
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.93%) Software-Defined Radio
1 23 (6.93%) Wireless
2 2 (0.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.60%) MQTT
2 2 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.01%) MySQL
4 10 (3.01%) Redis
5 9 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.60%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) GIS
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (4.82%) Git
2 13 (3.92%) JIRA
3 10 (3.01%) GitLab
4 8 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.41%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.41%) Maven
4 8 (2.41%) Selenium
4 8 (2.41%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.81%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.20%) Subversion
7 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.60%) Moq
8 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.60%) Spock
8 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.30%) CMake
9 1 (0.30%) Hudson
9 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 50 (15.06%) Finance
2 20 (6.02%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.22%) Aerospace
3 14 (4.22%) Military
4 13 (3.92%) Electronics
5 11 (3.31%) Banking
6 10 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.41%) Law
7 8 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.41%) Retail
7 8 (2.41%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.11%) Aviation
9 6 (1.81%) Advertising
10 4 (1.20%) Automotive
10 4 (1.20%) Games
11 3 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.30%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.54%) .NET
1 35 (10.54%) React
2 18 (5.42%) Kafka
3 16 (4.82%) HTML
3 16 (4.82%) Node.js
4 14 (4.22%) Spring
5 13 (3.92%) CSS
6 12 (3.61%) Redux
7 11 (3.31%) Middleware
8 10 (3.01%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.71%) Hibernate
9 9 (2.71%) REST
9 9 (2.71%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.41%) JPA
10 8 (2.41%) XML
11 5 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.51%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.51%) Qt
11 5 (1.51%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.04%) e-Learning
2 25 (7.53%) Embedded Systems
3 23 (6.93%) MicroBlaze
3 23 (6.93%) RISC-V
4 22 (6.63%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.71%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.11%) Acoustics
8 7 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.11%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.81%) IoT
10 5 (1.51%) 3D Graphics
10 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.90%) Robotics
12 2 (0.60%) CCTV
12 2 (0.60%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.25%) Linux
2 23 (6.93%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (2.41%) Windows
4 7 (2.11%) Android
5 5 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 167 (50.30%) Agile
3 126 (37.95%) Computer Science
4 87 (26.20%) UML
5 84 (25.30%) Waterfall
6 69 (20.78%) Configuration Management
7 39 (11.75%) CI/CD
8 37 (11.14%) DevOps
9 36 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (10.24%) Mathematics
11 32 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 30 (9.04%) Innovative Thinking
13 28 (8.43%) Microservices
13 28 (8.43%) TDD
14 26 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (7.53%) Mentoring
15 25 (7.53%) SDLC
16 23 (6.93%) Digital Signal Processing
16 23 (6.93%) Signal Processing
17 22 (6.63%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.59%) Ada
2 68 (20.48%) Python
3 66 (19.88%) Ada 95
4 65 (19.58%) C++
5 60 (18.07%) C#
5 60 (18.07%) SQL
6 47 (14.16%) C
7 46 (13.86%) Java
8 34 (10.24%) JavaScript
9 25 (7.53%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.22%) Go
10 14 (4.22%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.71%) Ruby
12 7 (2.11%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.51%) Bash
13 5 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.51%) PHP
14 4 (1.20%) Fortran
14 4 (1.20%) Uniface
15 3 (0.90%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 147 (44.28%) Degree
2 97 (29.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 84 (25.30%) Chartered Engineer
4 37 (11.14%) Security Cleared
5 30 (9.04%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.01%) PhD
8 5 (1.51%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (19.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 16 (4.82%) QA
3 7 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) CDISC
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
4 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (7.53%) Embedded Firmware
1 25 (7.53%) Firmware
2 20 (6.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.11%) Terraform
3 5 (1.51%) Grafana
3 5 (1.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.22%) Databricks
3 12 (3.61%) Guidewire
4 8 (2.41%) Solace
5 6 (1.81%) Sage
6 3 (0.90%) Roku
7 2 (0.60%) Apple
7 2 (0.60%) Google
7 2 (0.60%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Sawtooth Software