Software Engineering Jobs in the South East

Software Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,351 1,595 2,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.14% 10.58% 12.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 11.19% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 965 1,359
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,075 14,250 18,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.77% 94.50% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,899 8,257 12,075
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -2 517 £57,500 -11.54% 121
Hampshire +5 457 £57,500 -4.17% 96
Berkshire +11 257 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Surrey -7 222 £60,000 -14.29% 64
Oxfordshire +1 162 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Buckinghamshire -25 98 £52,501 -8.69% 28
Kent -8 62 £45,000 -33.33% 18
West Sussex +1 53 £64,000 +16.36% 18
Sussex - 24 £52,500 - 2
East Sussex -41 16 £42,500 -29.17% 6
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 29 (2.15%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.15%) GeoServer
2 23 (1.70%) Apache
3 20 (1.48%) Confluence
4 6 (0.44%) nginx
4 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.30%) JBoss
5 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.22%) CMS
6 3 (0.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.074%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (5.33%) Simulink
2 27 (2.00%) Stateflow
3 8 (0.59%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.52%) CANalyzer
5 4 (0.30%) Doxygen
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) TargetLink
7 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.074%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.074%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 213 (15.77%) Azure
2 173 (12.81%) AWS
3 62 (4.59%) SaaS
4 37 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (1.92%) GCP
6 24 (1.78%) GitHub
7 23 (1.70%) Serverless
8 17 (1.26%) Power Platform
9 13 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (0.59%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (0.59%) IaaS
13 7 (0.52%) IBM Cloud
14 6 (0.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (0.44%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.85%) TCP/IP
1 25 (1.85%) Wireless
2 23 (1.70%) Network Security
3 18 (1.33%) Ethernet
4 17 (1.26%) Internet
5 14 (1.04%) J1939
6 10 (0.74%) RS-485
6 10 (0.74%) VPN
7 9 (0.67%) CTI
7 9 (0.67%) Firewall
8 8 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.44%) GPRS
9 6 (0.44%) RS-232
10 5 (0.37%) BGP
10 5 (0.37%) IPsec
10 5 (0.37%) LAN
10 5 (0.37%) OSPF
10 5 (0.37%) SSL
10 5 (0.37%) VLAN
10 5 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.81%) NoSQL
2 52 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.81%) GIS
5 29 (2.15%) QGIS
6 27 (2.00%) MySQL
7 18 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (0.96%) Redis
10 10 (0.74%) Power BI
11 6 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.44%) CouchDB
11 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.22%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.22%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.15%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 174 (12.88%) Git
2 64 (4.74%) JIRA
3 57 (4.22%) Visual Studio
4 50 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 43 (3.18%) Subversion
6 34 (2.52%) GitLab
7 29 (2.15%) Selenium
8 25 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 24 (1.78%) CMake
9 24 (1.78%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.55%) ClearCase
10 21 (1.55%) Plastic SCM
10 21 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (1.11%) JUnit
12 14 (1.04%) ClearQuest
13 11 (0.81%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.74%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.67%) Gradle
16 7 (0.52%) Maven
16 7 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 214 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 159 (11.77%) Electronics
3 104 (7.70%) Finance
4 71 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 65 (4.81%) Military
6 62 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (3.77%) Aerospace
8 44 (3.26%) Automotive
9 39 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 33 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.00%) Legal
11 27 (2.00%) Marketing
12 24 (1.78%) Tech for Good
13 21 (1.55%) Law
14 18 (1.33%) Retail
15 17 (1.26%) Aviation
16 16 (1.18%) Health Technology
17 14 (1.04%) Games
18 12 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 879 (65.06%) Software Engineer
2 330 (24.43%) Senior
3 244 (18.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 221 (16.36%) Embedded Engineer
5 202 (14.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 189 (13.99%) Developer
7 137 (10.14%) Lead
8 111 (8.22%) C++ Software Engineer
9 68 (5.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 68 (5.03%) Software Developer
10 64 (4.74%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 52 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 51 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 43 (3.18%) Team Leader
14 40 (2.96%) Graduate
15 36 (2.66%) C# Software Engineer
15 36 (2.66%) Junior
16 35 (2.59%) Graduate Software Engineer
16 35 (2.59%) Java Engineer
17 34 (2.52%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (20.13%) .NET
2 155 (11.47%) React
3 77 (5.70%) CSS
4 74 (5.48%) .NET Core
5 73 (5.40%) AngularJS
6 69 (5.11%) HTML
7 58 (4.29%) Qt
8 55 (4.07%) Spring
9 38 (2.81%) ASP.NET
10 35 (2.59%) Vue
10 35 (2.59%) WPF
11 33 (2.44%) .NET Framework
12 29 (2.15%) Leaflet
12 29 (2.15%) OpenLayers
12 29 (2.15%) PostGIS
12 29 (2.15%) STL
13 28 (2.07%) XML
14 27 (2.00%) Jest
15 25 (1.85%) Django
16 24 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.51%) Algorithms
2 78 (5.77%) Embedded Systems
3 72 (5.33%) IoT
4 54 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (2.66%) FPGA
6 34 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 28 (2.07%) Robotics
10 27 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.92%) Device Driver
12 24 (1.78%) Analogue Electronics
13 22 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.55%) Satnav
14 21 (1.55%) VHDL
15 20 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
16 18 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (1.26%) Raspberry Pi
18 16 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 290 (21.47%) Linux
2 179 (13.25%) Windows
3 61 (4.52%) Embedded Linux
4 28 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 27 (2.00%) Android
6 14 (1.04%) CentOS
7 13 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.89%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.59%) Unix
11 4 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
12 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.15%) Rocky
14 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.074%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (31.46%) Agile
2 252 (18.65%) Computer Science
3 244 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (16.36%) DevOps
5 151 (11.18%) Mathematics
6 138 (10.21%) Mentoring
7 136 (10.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 119 (8.81%) CI/CD
9 107 (7.92%) SDLC
10 105 (7.77%) Test Automation
11 94 (6.96%) Full Stack Development
12 93 (6.88%) Actionable Insight
13 87 (6.44%) Technical Leadership
14 84 (6.22%) Machine Learning
15 79 (5.85%) Physics
16 72 (5.33%) Software Testing
16 72 (5.33%) Unit Testing
17 70 (5.18%) Microservices
18 61 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 60 (4.44%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 354 (26.20%) Python
2 341 (25.24%) C
3 328 (24.28%) C++
4 314 (23.24%) C#
5 233 (17.25%) JavaScript
6 216 (15.99%) Java
7 165 (12.21%) SQL
8 80 (5.92%) TypeScript
9 57 (4.22%) MATLAB
10 56 (4.15%) Embedded C
11 50 (3.70%) Bash
12 37 (2.74%) Go
13 33 (2.44%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.85%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.63%) T-SQL
16 21 (1.55%) Ruby
17 20 (1.48%) Perl
18 18 (1.33%) PHP
19 16 (1.18%) Haskell
20 14 (1.04%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 434 (32.12%) Degree
2 235 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 168 (12.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 159 (11.77%) SC Cleared
5 69 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 51 (3.77%) PhD
7 26 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 13 (0.96%) CISSP
9 11 (0.81%) HND
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.59%) CISM
11 8 (0.59%) GIAC
11 8 (0.59%) GPEN
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.37%) CCIE
12 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.37%) JNCIE
12 5 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.85%) QA
2 23 (1.70%) Software Quality Assurance
3 22 (1.63%) MISRA
4 19 (1.41%) ISO 26262
5 18 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (1.04%) AUTOSAR
7 11 (0.81%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) GDPR
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
9 8 (0.59%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.15%) JTAG
12 2 (0.15%) SLA
13 1 (0.074%) IEC 61131
13 1 (0.074%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 115 (8.51%) Docker
2 53 (3.92%) Firmware
3 37 (2.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 83 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.66%) Ansible
3 35 (2.59%) Terraform
4 6 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.44%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.44%) Nessus
5 5 (0.37%) SELinux
6 3 (0.22%) Grafana
6 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.22%) Suricata
7 2 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.074%) Nagios
8 1 (0.074%) Puppet
8 1 (0.074%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.22%) ESRI
3 29 (2.15%) IBM
3 29 (2.15%) SAP
4 21 (1.55%) Lauterbach
5 20 (1.48%) Xilinx
6 17 (1.26%) Oracle
7 16 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.74%) Google
8 10 (0.74%) IFS
8 10 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.67%) EMC
10 8 (0.59%) Siebel
10 8 (0.59%) Siemens
11 7 (0.52%) VMware
12 6 (0.44%) Qualys
12 6 (0.44%) Splunk
13 5 (0.37%) YouTube
14 4 (0.30%) Instagram
14 4 (0.30%) OpenAI