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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,403 1,518 2,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.34% 10.47% 13.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 11.08% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 929 1,373
10th Percentile £37,619 £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 £81,250 £75,000
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 14,220 13,700 18,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.55% 94.53% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 7,974 11,901
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 £85,000 £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 10 May 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 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 -1 520 £57,500 -10.16% 114
Hampshire +7 489 £57,500 -4.17% 95
Berkshire +16 256 £60,000 -14.29% 33
Surrey -5 236 £60,000 -15.79% 61
Oxfordshire -1 166 £55,000 +4.76% 60
Buckinghamshire -27 98 £52,501 -8.69% 21
Kent -16 63 £45,000 -32.08% 16
West Sussex -2 54 £64,000 +11.30% 13
Sussex - 24 £52,500 - 1
East Sussex -40 17 £42,500 -29.17% 7
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 (2.07%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.07%) GeoServer
2 23 (1.64%) Apache
3 19 (1.35%) Confluence
4 6 (0.43%) nginx
4 6 (0.43%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.21%) JBoss
6 3 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) WordPress
8 1 (0.071%) CMS
8 1 (0.071%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.071%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.70%) Simulink
2 27 (1.92%) Stateflow
3 10 (0.71%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.50%) CANalyzer
5 4 (0.29%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
8 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.071%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.071%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.21%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.14%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 222 (15.82%) Azure
2 185 (13.19%) AWS
3 64 (4.56%) SaaS
4 37 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (2.00%) GCP
6 24 (1.71%) GitHub
7 20 (1.43%) Serverless
8 19 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (0.57%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.57%) IaaS
13 7 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.50%) IBM Cloud
14 6 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.36%) Datadog
15 5 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.92%) Network Security
1 27 (1.92%) TCP/IP
1 27 (1.92%) Wireless
2 21 (1.50%) Ethernet
3 17 (1.21%) Internet
4 14 (1.00%) J1939
5 12 (0.86%) VPN
6 11 (0.78%) Firewall
6 11 (0.78%) RS-485
7 10 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (0.64%) CTI
9 7 (0.50%) RS-232
10 6 (0.43%) GPRS
11 5 (0.36%) BGP
11 5 (0.36%) IPsec
11 5 (0.36%) LAN
11 5 (0.36%) OSPF
11 5 (0.36%) SSL
11 5 (0.36%) VLAN
11 5 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.70%) NoSQL
2 51 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (2.85%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.71%) GIS
5 30 (2.14%) MySQL
6 29 (2.07%) QGIS
7 18 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.00%) Power BI
10 13 (0.93%) Redis
11 6 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.43%) CouchDB
11 6 (0.43%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 182 (12.97%) Git
2 65 (4.63%) JIRA
3 63 (4.49%) Visual Studio
4 49 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.92%) Subversion
6 34 (2.42%) GitLab
7 30 (2.14%) Selenium
8 24 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.64%) CMake
9 23 (1.64%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.50%) ClearCase
10 21 (1.50%) Plastic SCM
10 21 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (1.14%) JUnit
12 15 (1.07%) Vagrant
13 14 (1.00%) ClearQuest
14 11 (0.78%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.64%) Gradle
16 7 (0.50%) Maven
16 7 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 225 (16.04%) Social Skills
2 155 (11.05%) Electronics
3 105 (7.48%) Finance
4 70 (4.99%) Manufacturing
5 64 (4.56%) Military
6 63 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (3.92%) Aerospace
8 46 (3.28%) Automotive
9 38 (2.71%) Public Sector
10 31 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.92%) Legal
12 25 (1.78%) Law
12 25 (1.78%) Tech for Good
13 24 (1.71%) Marketing
14 19 (1.35%) Aviation
15 18 (1.28%) Retail
16 16 (1.14%) Health Technology
17 14 (1.00%) Games
18 12 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 920 (65.57%) Software Engineer
2 346 (24.66%) Senior
3 256 (18.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 229 (16.32%) Embedded Engineer
5 210 (14.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 196 (13.97%) Developer
7 146 (10.41%) Lead
8 111 (7.91%) C++ Software Engineer
9 73 (5.20%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 73 (5.20%) Software Developer
10 69 (4.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 57 (4.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 53 (3.78%) Senior Developer
13 45 (3.21%) Team Leader
14 41 (2.92%) Graduate
15 39 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
16 37 (2.64%) Graduate Software Engineer
17 36 (2.57%) Software Team Leader
18 34 (2.42%) Junior
19 33 (2.35%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (19.74%) .NET
2 155 (11.05%) React
3 81 (5.77%) CSS
4 76 (5.42%) .NET Core
5 73 (5.20%) HTML
6 71 (5.06%) AngularJS
7 58 (4.13%) Qt
8 53 (3.78%) Spring
9 42 (2.99%) ASP.NET
10 38 (2.71%) Middleware
11 36 (2.57%) Vue
11 36 (2.57%) WPF
12 35 (2.49%) .NET Framework
13 29 (2.07%) Leaflet
13 29 (2.07%) OpenLayers
13 29 (2.07%) PostGIS
14 28 (2.00%) STL
15 27 (1.92%) Jest
15 27 (1.92%) Web Services
16 26 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.84%) Algorithms
2 78 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 72 (5.13%) IoT
4 55 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.49%) FPGA
7 34 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 32 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.07%) Mobile App
10 28 (2.00%) Robotics
11 27 (1.92%) Device Driver
12 21 (1.50%) Analogue Electronics
12 21 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
12 21 (1.50%) Satnav
13 19 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (1.28%) Raspberry Pi
14 18 (1.28%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 314 (22.38%) Linux
2 181 (12.90%) Windows
3 67 (4.78%) Embedded Linux
4 33 (2.35%) Android
4 33 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.35%) CentOS
6 18 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.57%) Unix
10 5 (0.36%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (30.86%) Agile
2 259 (18.46%) Computer Science
3 247 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
4 232 (16.54%) DevOps
5 149 (10.62%) Artificial Intelligence
5 149 (10.62%) Mathematics
6 137 (9.76%) Mentoring
7 120 (8.55%) Test Automation
8 117 (8.34%) CI/CD
9 108 (7.70%) SDLC
10 96 (6.84%) Full Stack Development
11 95 (6.77%) Machine Learning
12 88 (6.27%) Actionable Insight
13 82 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
14 81 (5.77%) Physics
15 72 (5.13%) Software Testing
16 70 (4.99%) Unit Testing
17 68 (4.85%) Microservices
18 65 (4.63%) Scrum
18 65 (4.63%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 374 (26.66%) Python
2 342 (24.38%) C
3 340 (24.23%) C++
4 323 (23.02%) C#
5 239 (17.03%) JavaScript
6 233 (16.61%) Java
7 185 (13.19%) SQL
8 77 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 57 (4.06%) MATLAB
10 56 (3.99%) Embedded C
11 49 (3.49%) Bash
12 41 (2.92%) Kotlin
13 39 (2.78%) Go
14 37 (2.64%) PowerShell
15 21 (1.50%) PHP
15 21 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 20 (1.43%) Perl
17 19 (1.35%) Ruby
18 17 (1.21%) Haskell
19 14 (1.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 442 (31.50%) Degree
2 253 (18.03%) Security Cleared
3 176 (12.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 171 (12.19%) SC Cleared
5 68 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 48 (3.42%) PhD
7 30 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.07%) CISSP
9 11 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.78%) HND
10 10 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.57%) CISM
12 8 (0.57%) GIAC
12 8 (0.57%) GPEN
13 5 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.36%) CCIE
13 5 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.36%) JNCIE
13 5 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.63%) QA
2 23 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
3 22 (1.57%) MISRA
4 19 (1.35%) ISO 26262
5 18 (1.28%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (1.00%) AUTOSAR
7 13 (0.93%) NIST
8 10 (0.71%) GDPR
8 10 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.57%) GRC
9 8 (0.57%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.43%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.14%) JTAG
12 2 (0.14%) SLA
13 1 (0.071%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.071%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.071%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 115 (8.20%) Docker
2 55 (3.92%) Firmware
3 38 (2.71%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.071%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.071%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 82 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 44 (3.14%) Ansible
3 40 (2.85%) Terraform
4 6 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.43%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.43%) Nessus
5 5 (0.36%) SELinux
5 5 (0.36%) Suricata
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.071%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.071%) Nagios
7 1 (0.071%) Puppet
7 1 (0.071%) SCOM
Vendors
1 131 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.14%) ESRI
3 29 (2.07%) IBM
4 28 (2.00%) SAP
4 28 (2.00%) Xilinx
5 21 (1.50%) Lauterbach
6 17 (1.21%) Oracle
7 15 (1.07%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.78%) Google
9 10 (0.71%) EMC
9 10 (0.71%) IFS
9 10 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.57%) Siebel
10 8 (0.57%) Siemens
10 8 (0.57%) Splunk
10 8 (0.57%) VMware
11 6 (0.43%) Cisco
11 6 (0.43%) Qualys
12 5 (0.36%) Juniper
12 5 (0.36%) Palo Alto