Software Engineering Jobs in the South East

Software Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,524 1,090 3,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.10% 9.41% 14.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 9.91% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 707 1,505
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,301 10,994 21,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.50% 94.87% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,138 7,007 11,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,620 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

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 26 July 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 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 +11 574 £58,000 -10.77% 55
Hampshire +10 560 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Berkshire +25 309 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Surrey 0 227 £55,000 -15.38% 16
Oxfordshire +6 191 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Buckinghamshire -21 74 £50,000 -16.67% 15
West Sussex +19 59 £59,000 -15.71% 7
Kent -18 53 £37,000 -26.00% 9
Sussex - 38 £45,000 - 3
East Sussex -25 12 £76,250 +22.00% 6
Isle of Wight -4 1 - -
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 23 (1.51%) Apache
2 19 (1.25%) ArcGIS
2 19 (1.25%) GeoServer
3 14 (0.92%) Confluence
4 8 (0.52%) CMS
5 7 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.39%) nginx
6 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.066%) IIS
8 1 (0.066%) Kinematics
Applications
1 93 (6.10%) Simulink
2 11 (0.72%) OrCAD
3 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.66%) Stateflow
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.066%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.066%) Doxygen
6 1 (0.066%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.066%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.066%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.066%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 239 (15.68%) Azure
2 205 (13.45%) AWS
3 66 (4.33%) SaaS
4 32 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (1.90%) GCP
6 27 (1.77%) GitHub
7 23 (1.51%) Power Platform
8 18 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (1.18%) Serverless
9 15 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (0.59%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (0.46%) Datadog
14 7 (0.46%) IaaS
15 6 (0.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.23%) Network Security
2 25 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 20 (1.31%) Wireless
4 19 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.92%) Internet
6 10 (0.66%) Firewall
6 10 (0.66%) RS-232
7 9 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (0.59%) RS-485
7 9 (0.59%) VPN
8 7 (0.46%) 4G
8 7 (0.46%) 5G
9 6 (0.39%) GPRS
10 5 (0.33%) IPsec
10 5 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
10 5 (0.33%) WAN
11 4 (0.26%) BGP
11 4 (0.26%) NGFW
11 4 (0.26%) OSPF
11 4 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.48%) NoSQL
2 45 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (2.89%) MySQL
4 30 (1.97%) GIS
5 28 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.51%) QGIS
7 21 (1.38%) Power BI
8 15 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.92%) Redis
10 13 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.46%) Power Query
14 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.39%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.13%) Big Data
17 1 (0.066%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 184 (12.07%) Git
2 69 (4.53%) Visual Studio
3 48 (3.15%) JIRA
4 39 (2.56%) Selenium
5 36 (2.36%) Jenkins
6 33 (2.17%) Vagrant
7 29 (1.90%) Subversion
8 26 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 26 (1.71%) GitLab
9 25 (1.64%) SoapUI
10 17 (1.12%) CMake
11 16 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.72%) JUnit
14 9 (0.59%) TestRail
15 8 (0.52%) ClearCase
15 8 (0.52%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.52%) Plastic SCM
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.46%) NUnit
General
1 214 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 134 (8.79%) Electronics
3 110 (7.22%) Finance
4 66 (4.33%) Manufacturing
5 64 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (3.87%) Military
7 47 (3.08%) Automotive
8 38 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 34 (2.23%) Law
10 30 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.57%) Aviation
13 17 (1.12%) Marketing
14 14 (0.92%) Legal
14 14 (0.92%) Tech for Good
15 12 (0.79%) Multimedia
15 12 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.72%) Games
17 10 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 993 (65.16%) Software Engineer
2 377 (24.74%) Senior
3 287 (18.83%) Senior Software Engineer
4 261 (17.13%) Embedded Engineer
5 246 (16.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 220 (14.44%) Developer
7 163 (10.70%) Lead
8 84 (5.51%) Software Developer
9 67 (4.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 65 (4.27%) C++ Software Engineer
10 65 (4.27%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 61 (4.00%) Team Leader
12 59 (3.87%) Architect
12 59 (3.87%) Senior Developer
13 52 (3.41%) Graduate
14 50 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
15 49 (3.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
15 49 (3.22%) Software Team Leader
16 39 (2.56%) Embedded Developer
17 38 (2.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (15.16%) .NET
2 130 (8.53%) React
3 84 (5.51%) CSS
4 77 (5.05%) HTML
5 69 (4.53%) Middleware
6 58 (3.81%) WPF
7 57 (3.74%) .NET Core
8 55 (3.61%) Qt
9 52 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 40 (2.62%) .NET Framework
10 40 (2.62%) ASP.NET
10 40 (2.62%) Web Services
11 33 (2.17%) Spring
12 29 (1.90%) REST
13 25 (1.64%) Jest
14 24 (1.57%) Vue
15 23 (1.51%) Django
15 23 (1.51%) HTML5
15 23 (1.51%) JSON
16 22 (1.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.87%) Algorithms
2 56 (3.67%) Embedded Systems
3 55 (3.61%) IoT
4 47 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 46 (3.02%) Robotics
6 35 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
8 29 (1.90%) FPGA
9 28 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 24 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.44%) NHS
12 20 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.18%) VHDL
15 15 (0.98%) Acoustics
15 15 (0.98%) Analogue Electronics
15 15 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 15 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (0.98%) Management Information System
16 14 (0.92%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 350 (22.97%) Linux
2 181 (11.88%) Windows
3 81 (5.31%) Embedded Linux
4 51 (3.35%) Android
5 49 (3.22%) Ubuntu
6 38 (2.49%) CentOS
7 36 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 30 (1.97%) Unix
9 13 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.85%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.20%) Rocky
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (22.77%) Agile
2 269 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 212 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
4 208 (13.65%) DevOps
5 187 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 150 (9.84%) Mathematics
7 137 (8.99%) Machine Learning
8 116 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
9 102 (6.69%) Mentoring
9 102 (6.69%) Signal Processing
10 101 (6.63%) SDLC
11 100 (6.56%) Test Automation
12 98 (6.43%) CI/CD
13 97 (6.36%) Physics
14 82 (5.38%) Collaborative Working
15 76 (4.99%) Continuous Integration
15 76 (4.99%) Software Testing
16 65 (4.27%) Microservices
17 63 (4.13%) Scrum
18 62 (4.07%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 420 (27.56%) C++
2 411 (26.97%) Python
3 319 (20.93%) C
4 311 (20.41%) C#
5 259 (16.99%) Java
6 251 (16.47%) JavaScript
7 192 (12.60%) SQL
8 77 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 70 (4.59%) Bash
10 69 (4.53%) Kotlin
11 43 (2.82%) PHP
12 41 (2.69%) Fortran
12 41 (2.69%) MATLAB
13 38 (2.49%) PowerShell
14 31 (2.03%) Go
15 24 (1.57%) Embedded C
15 24 (1.57%) Embedded C++
16 18 (1.18%) Haskell
17 14 (0.92%) XAML
18 12 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 437 (28.67%) Degree
2 291 (19.09%) Security Cleared
3 174 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 171 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 63 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 53 (3.48%) PhD
8 13 (0.85%) CISSP
9 12 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.52%) CISM
11 8 (0.52%) GIAC
11 8 (0.52%) GPEN
12 5 (0.33%) HND
13 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.26%) CCIE
13 4 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.26%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.49%) QA
2 13 (0.85%) NIST
3 11 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
4 9 (0.59%) GDPR
5 8 (0.52%) GRC
5 8 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.52%) MISRA
5 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.46%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.39%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.33%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.20%) Automotive SPICE
9 3 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (0.20%) IEC 62304
9 3 (0.20%) JTAG
10 2 (0.13%) SLA
11 1 (0.066%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.066%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 102 (6.69%) Docker
2 47 (3.08%) Firmware
3 26 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.20%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.066%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.00%) Ansible
3 60 (3.94%) Terraform
4 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.39%) Nessus
5 5 (0.33%) Puppet
5 5 (0.33%) SELinux
5 5 (0.33%) Suricata
6 2 (0.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.066%) FTK
7 1 (0.066%) Nagios
7 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 156 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.20%) Xilinx
3 20 (1.31%) ESRI
4 13 (0.85%) Atlassian
4 13 (0.85%) EMC
4 13 (0.85%) IBM
4 13 (0.85%) SAP
5 9 (0.59%) VMware
6 8 (0.52%) Lauterbach
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 8 (0.52%) Siemens
6 8 (0.52%) Splunk
7 7 (0.46%) Google
8 6 (0.39%) Cisco
8 6 (0.39%) Qualys
9 5 (0.33%) Juniper
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle
9 5 (0.33%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.26%) IFS
10 4 (0.26%) New Relic