Software Engineering Manager Jobs in the South East

Software Engineering Manager
England > South East

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in the South East is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 369 438
Rank change year-on-year -2 +69 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 22 34 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 5
10th Percentile £53,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £100,000
90th Percentile - £101,450 £105,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +31.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,681 13,534 19,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.52% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,335 8,483 12,615
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in the South East

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in the South East

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in the South East

Software Engineering Manager
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 Engineering Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Sussex - 10 £65,000 -
Surrey +7 7 - -
Oxfordshire +13 2 £67,500 - 1
Thames Valley +13 2 £67,500 - 1
Sussex - 2 £50,000 -
Hampshire -27 1 £95,000 +22.58% 1
Software Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Software Engineering 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 South East region featuring Software Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Agile
1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 18 (81.82%) DevOps
4 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
4 17 (77.27%) Project Management
5 13 (59.09%) Mentoring
5 13 (59.09%) Scrum
6 12 (54.55%) Software Delivery
6 12 (54.55%) Project Delivery
6 12 (54.55%) Roadmaps
6 12 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (50.00%) Kanban
7 11 (50.00%) GitLab
8 10 (45.45%) Cross-Platform Development
8 10 (45.45%) Technical Debt
8 10 (45.45%) Conflict Resolution
8 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
8 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
8 10 (45.45%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (45.45%) QA
8 10 (45.45%) Product Management
8 10 (45.45%) Requirements Management
8 10 (45.45%) JIRA
8 10 (45.45%) Management Information System
9 8 (36.36%) Azure
9 8 (36.36%) Ansible
10 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (31.82%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving

Software Engineering Manager 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Broadband
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
2 11 (50.00%) GitLab
3 10 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Agile
1 22 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 18 (81.82%) DevOps
4 17 (77.27%) Project Management
5 13 (59.09%) Mentoring
5 13 (59.09%) Scrum
6 12 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (54.55%) Project Delivery
6 12 (54.55%) Roadmaps
6 12 (54.55%) Software Delivery
7 11 (50.00%) Kanban
8 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
8 10 (45.45%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (45.45%) Conflict Resolution
8 10 (45.45%) Cross-Platform Development
8 10 (45.45%) Product Management
8 10 (45.45%) Requirements Management
8 10 (45.45%) Technical Debt
9 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Salesforce