Software Developer Jobs in the South East

Software Developer
England > South East

The median Software Developer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 76 73
Rank change year-on-year -45 -3 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 370 553 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.20% 3.82% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 4.22% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 335 465 588
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

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 15,806 13,092 19,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.34% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,351 8,253 12,443
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the South East

Software Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Thames Valley -25 153 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Berkshire +29 105 £75,000 +22.45% 4
Hampshire -52 88 £63,500 +15.45% 17
East Sussex +10 48 £62,500 +22.55% 7
Surrey -24 44 £58,750 +2.17% 8
Oxfordshire -21 41 £55,000 - 5
Kent -14 27 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Buckinghamshire -53 7 £50,000 -2.91% 2
Sussex - 4 £44,000 - 1
West Sussex +25 3 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 232 (62.70%) C#
2 199 (53.78%) .NET
3 153 (41.35%) JavaScript
4 140 (37.84%) Degree
5 131 (35.41%) Computer Science
5 131 (35.41%) Agile
6 89 (24.05%) Artificial Intelligence
7 88 (23.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 86 (23.24%) SQL Server
9 85 (22.97%) TypeScript
9 85 (22.97%) React
10 79 (21.35%) .NET Core
11 77 (20.81%) SQL
12 74 (20.00%) Docker
13 73 (19.73%) Software Engineering
14 69 (18.65%) Propensity Modelling
15 68 (18.38%) CSS
16 66 (17.84%) Kubernetes
17 64 (17.30%) HTML
18 59 (15.95%) Social Skills
19 57 (15.41%) Azure
19 57 (15.41%) NoSQL
20 55 (14.86%) DevOps
21 53 (14.32%) C++
22 51 (13.78%) Python
23 47 (12.70%) Java
24 44 (11.89%) Git
25 43 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
26 42 (11.35%) C
26 42 (11.35%) Microsoft

Software Developer 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 4 (1.08%) CMS
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.81%) IIS
2 3 (0.81%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.54%) IBM Domino
3 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 14 (3.78%) Simulink
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.41%) Azure
2 34 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (5.95%) AWS
4 18 (4.86%) SaaS
5 13 (3.51%) GitHub
6 7 (1.89%) Pulumi
7 6 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.08%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.08%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.97%) Network Security
2 6 (1.62%) DNS
2 6 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.08%) Firewall
3 4 (1.08%) iSCSI
3 4 (1.08%) LAN
3 4 (1.08%) NAS
3 4 (1.08%) VPN
3 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.54%) SSL
5 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.24%) SQL Server
2 57 (15.41%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.16%) MySQL
4 6 (1.62%) Redis
4 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.35%) Power BI
6 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.54%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (11.89%) Git
2 26 (7.03%) Visual Studio
3 13 (3.51%) Selenium
4 11 (2.97%) Jasmine
4 11 (2.97%) NUnit
4 11 (2.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (2.43%) JIRA
5 9 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.35%) Bugzilla
7 5 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.35%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.08%) GitLab
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) GDB
10 1 (0.27%) JUnit
10 1 (0.27%) TestNG
10 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (15.95%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.54%) Finance
3 18 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.32%) Marketing
5 15 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.97%) Back Office
8 9 (2.43%) Electronics
8 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.16%) Retail
10 7 (1.89%) Police
11 6 (1.62%) Law
11 6 (1.62%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.08%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.08%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.54%) Automotive
14 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.27%) Advertising
15 1 (0.27%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (53.78%) .NET
2 85 (22.97%) React
3 79 (21.35%) .NET Core
4 68 (18.38%) CSS
5 64 (17.30%) HTML
6 41 (11.08%) ASP.NET
7 40 (10.81%) AngularJS
8 32 (8.65%) .NET Framework
9 31 (8.38%) Entity Framework
10 29 (7.84%) HTML5
11 19 (5.14%) CSS3
12 15 (4.05%) Web Services
13 14 (3.78%) RESTful
14 13 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web API
15 12 (3.24%) Qt
16 11 (2.97%) JSON
17 10 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (2.70%) Blazor
18 8 (2.16%) OpenID
19 7 (1.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.86%) Algorithms
2 11 (2.97%) Digital Media
3 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (1.62%) Data Structures
3 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.35%) Client/Server
4 5 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.08%) Replication
6 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.27%) CUDA
8 1 (0.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.27%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.22%) Linux
2 18 (4.86%) Windows
3 14 (3.78%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (35.41%) Agile
1 131 (35.41%) Computer Science
2 89 (24.05%) Artificial Intelligence
3 73 (19.73%) Software Engineering
4 69 (18.65%) Propensity Modelling
5 55 (14.86%) DevOps
6 43 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
8 35 (9.46%) MVC
9 30 (8.11%) CI/CD
9 30 (8.11%) OOP
9 30 (8.11%) SDLC
10 29 (7.84%) Machine Learning
11 27 (7.30%) Microservices
11 27 (7.30%) Test Automation
12 24 (6.49%) Code Quality
13 23 (6.22%) Mentoring
13 23 (6.22%) Multithreading
13 23 (6.22%) Unit Testing
14 21 (5.68%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 232 (62.70%) C#
2 153 (41.35%) JavaScript
3 85 (22.97%) TypeScript
4 77 (20.81%) SQL
5 53 (14.32%) C++
6 51 (13.78%) Python
7 47 (12.70%) Java
8 42 (11.35%) C
9 13 (3.51%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.43%) PHP
11 7 (1.89%) Bicep
12 6 (1.62%) Fortran
12 6 (1.62%) Go
13 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 140 (37.84%) Degree
2 88 (23.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (10.81%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.16%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.16%) PhD
6 7 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.08%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.49%) QA
2 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.89%) MIIS
2 7 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (1.08%) WSUS
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.78%) Xilinx
3 6 (1.62%) VMware
4 5 (1.35%) HP
4 5 (1.35%) SAP
5 4 (1.08%) Veeam
6 3 (0.81%) Google
7 2 (0.54%) New Relic
8 1 (0.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.27%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle
8 1 (0.27%) Peregrine
8 1 (0.27%) Thales
8 1 (0.27%) YouTube