Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer salary in the South East is £53,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 67 33
Rank change year-on-year +39 -34 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 994 482 1,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.59% 4.16% 8.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.99% 4.55% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 729 332 662
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.86% +3.70% +12.50%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Thames Valley +56 392 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Hampshire +19 330 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Berkshire +81 196 £58,000 -22.67% 7
Surrey +21 155 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Oxfordshire +40 132 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Buckinghamshire -8 64 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Kent +20 43 £37,000 -29.52% 6
West Sussex +30 31 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Sussex - 30 £45,000 - 1
East Sussex +3 10 £92,500 +32.14% 3
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 South East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 993 (99.90%) Software Engineering
2 321 (32.29%) C++
3 277 (27.87%) Python
4 269 (27.06%) Degree
5 251 (25.25%) Linux
6 248 (24.95%) C
7 214 (21.53%) C#
8 186 (18.71%) Security Cleared
9 167 (16.80%) Computer Science
10 164 (16.50%) Agile
11 155 (15.59%) JavaScript
12 140 (14.08%) Azure
13 139 (13.98%) Windows
14 135 (13.58%) SC Cleared
15 134 (13.48%) Java
15 134 (13.48%) .NET
16 121 (12.17%) Electronics
17 120 (12.07%) Mathematics
18 115 (11.57%) AWS
19 111 (11.17%) Artificial Intelligence
20 108 (10.87%) Git
21 102 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
22 101 (10.16%) DevOps
23 97 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
23 97 (9.76%) SQL
24 90 (9.05%) Algorithms
25 89 (8.95%) Microsoft
26 86 (8.65%) Social Skills
27 79 (7.95%) Physics
27 79 (7.95%) React

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 19 (1.91%) ArcGIS
1 19 (1.91%) GeoServer
2 16 (1.61%) Apache
3 12 (1.21%) Confluence
4 8 (0.80%) CMS
5 6 (0.60%) nginx
5 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) JBoss
7 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (5.43%) Simulink
2 8 (0.80%) Stateflow
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.20%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.10%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.10%) Doxygen
4 1 (0.10%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (14.08%) Azure
2 115 (11.57%) AWS
3 18 (1.81%) GitHub
3 18 (1.81%) SaaS
4 14 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (1.41%) GCP
5 9 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (0.70%) Datadog
8 6 (0.60%) IaaS
9 3 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (0.30%) Serverless
10 2 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.20%) Azure API Management
10 2 (0.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.10%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.10%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.51%) Wireless
2 13 (1.31%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.91%) Network Security
4 9 (0.91%) RS-232
5 8 (0.80%) RS-485
6 7 (0.70%) Internet
7 6 (0.60%) 5G
8 5 (0.50%) GPRS
8 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (0.40%) 4G
9 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.30%) J1939
10 3 (0.30%) MQTT
11 2 (0.20%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.20%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.20%) Modbus
12 1 (0.10%) Broadband
12 1 (0.10%) IPsec
12 1 (0.10%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.23%) NoSQL
2 41 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.02%) GIS
4 23 (2.31%) QGIS
5 20 (2.01%) MySQL
6 16 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.01%) Redis
8 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.10%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.10%) DTS
12 1 (0.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 108 (10.87%) Git
2 37 (3.72%) Visual Studio
3 33 (3.32%) Vagrant
4 32 (3.22%) JIRA
5 28 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 26 (2.62%) Subversion
7 17 (1.71%) CMake
8 10 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.91%) TestRail
10 8 (0.80%) ClearCase
10 8 (0.80%) GitLab
10 8 (0.80%) Plastic SCM
11 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.50%) ClearQuest
13 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.30%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.20%) GDB
14 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
14 2 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.20%) Sourcetree
General
1 121 (12.17%) Electronics
2 86 (8.65%) Social Skills
3 46 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (4.43%) Automotive
4 44 (4.43%) Manufacturing
4 44 (4.43%) Military
5 36 (3.62%) Finance
6 30 (3.02%) Aerospace
7 15 (1.51%) Aviation
8 14 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 12 (1.21%) Public Sector
9 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.91%) Marketing
12 5 (0.50%) Games
12 5 (0.50%) Retail
12 5 (0.50%) Swedish Language
13 4 (0.40%) Wearables
14 3 (0.30%) Advertising
15 2 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (13.48%) .NET
2 79 (7.95%) React
3 58 (5.84%) WPF
4 49 (4.93%) Middleware
5 46 (4.63%) Qt
6 42 (4.23%) .NET Core
6 42 (4.23%) CSS
7 36 (3.62%) AngularJS
8 34 (3.42%) HTML
9 22 (2.21%) .NET Framework
9 22 (2.21%) ASP.NET
10 21 (2.11%) STL
11 20 (2.01%) HTML5
12 19 (1.91%) Leaflet
12 19 (1.91%) OpenLayers
12 19 (1.91%) PostGIS
13 15 (1.51%) Django
13 15 (1.51%) LAMP
13 15 (1.51%) Node.js
14 14 (1.41%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.05%) Algorithms
2 42 (4.23%) Embedded Systems
3 40 (4.02%) IoT
4 28 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
6 24 (2.41%) Robotics
7 16 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (1.51%) FPGA
9 14 (1.41%) Acoustics
9 14 (1.41%) Analogue Electronics
9 14 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.41%) VHDL
10 13 (1.31%) CUDA
10 13 (1.31%) Device Driver
11 12 (1.21%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.11%) Satnav
13 10 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 251 (25.25%) Linux
2 139 (13.98%) Windows
3 49 (4.93%) Ubuntu
4 41 (4.12%) Android
4 41 (4.12%) Embedded Linux
5 38 (3.82%) CentOS
6 36 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (2.92%) Unix
8 12 (1.21%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.30%) Rocky
11 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (99.90%) Software Engineering
2 167 (16.80%) Computer Science
3 164 (16.50%) Agile
4 120 (12.07%) Mathematics
5 111 (11.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 102 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (10.16%) DevOps
8 79 (7.95%) Physics
9 72 (7.24%) Machine Learning
10 71 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
11 65 (6.54%) Software Testing
12 62 (6.24%) SDLC
12 62 (6.24%) Signal Processing
13 54 (5.43%) Mentoring
14 52 (5.23%) Test Automation
15 50 (5.03%) Open Source
16 49 (4.93%) Collaborative Working
17 44 (4.43%) Microservices
18 43 (4.33%) OO
19 41 (4.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 321 (32.29%) C++
2 277 (27.87%) Python
3 248 (24.95%) C
4 214 (21.53%) C#
5 155 (15.59%) JavaScript
6 134 (13.48%) Java
7 97 (9.76%) SQL
8 59 (5.94%) Bash
9 46 (4.63%) Kotlin
10 38 (3.82%) Fortran
11 32 (3.22%) TypeScript
12 26 (2.62%) PowerShell
13 25 (2.52%) MATLAB
14 22 (2.21%) Embedded C
15 19 (1.91%) Embedded C++
15 19 (1.91%) Go
16 18 (1.81%) Haskell
16 18 (1.81%) PHP
17 14 (1.41%) XAML
18 9 (0.91%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 269 (27.06%) Degree
2 186 (18.71%) Security Cleared
3 135 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 97 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 47 (4.73%) PhD
7 25 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.50%) HND
9 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.91%) QA
2 11 (1.11%) Software Quality Assurance
3 8 (0.80%) MISRA
4 5 (0.50%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.20%) JTAG
System Software
1 41 (4.12%) Docker
2 38 (3.82%) Firmware
3 26 (2.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (5.13%) Ansible
2 48 (4.83%) Terraform
3 20 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.50%) SELinux
5 4 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 89 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.22%) Xilinx
3 20 (2.01%) ESRI
4 12 (1.21%) Atlassian
5 9 (0.91%) SAP
6 8 (0.80%) IBM
6 8 (0.80%) Lauterbach
6 8 (0.80%) Siemens
7 5 (0.50%) VMware
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.30%) Facebook
9 3 (0.30%) Google
9 3 (0.30%) IFS
9 3 (0.30%) Instagram
9 3 (0.30%) Renesas
9 3 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.30%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.20%) Databricks
10 2 (0.20%) Freescale