Software Development Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Development Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 719 679 793
Rank change year-on-year -40 +114 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 52 82 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 46 38
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,350 £49,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £52,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £59,250 £65,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Midlands +23 22 £52,500 -17.65% 7
West Midlands +29 15 £58,500 -8.24% 3
South East +16 12 £40,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands -8 7 £52,500 - 4
North of England +50 6 £67,500 +32.39% 1
Wales +3 4 £50,000 -
Yorkshire +94 3 £67,500 +22.73% 1
East of England -2 3 £65,000 - 3
North East -6 3 - -
South West -31 3 £50,000 -11.88%
Scotland -65 2 - -
Software Development Engineer
UK

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Software Development Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Development Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (40.38%) Software Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) Software Testing
2 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (21.15%) C#
4 10 (19.23%) Linux
4 10 (19.23%) Python
4 10 (19.23%) Azure
5 9 (17.31%) Task Automation
5 9 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (17.31%) SDET
5 9 (17.31%) Agile
5 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
6 8 (15.38%) Git
6 8 (15.38%) SQL
6 8 (15.38%) MATLAB
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps
7 7 (13.46%) Modbus
7 7 (13.46%) GitHub
7 7 (13.46%) .NET
7 7 (13.46%) Degree
8 6 (11.54%) Life Science
8 6 (11.54%) Ruby
8 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (11.54%) Project Management
8 6 (11.54%) Workflow
8 6 (11.54%) OpenStack
8 6 (11.54%) IaaS
8 6 (11.54%) Open Source
8 6 (11.54%) Bash
8 6 (11.54%) Confluence

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
1 6 (11.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) GitHub
3 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 6 (11.54%) IaaS
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.62%) PowerApps
5 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Modbus
2 5 (9.62%) Bluetooth
3 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.77%) Ethernet
4 3 (5.77%) HTTPS
4 3 (5.77%) MQTT
4 3 (5.77%) RS-232
4 3 (5.77%) RS-422
4 3 (5.77%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 5 (9.62%) Electronics
1 5 (9.62%) Manufacturing
1 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Military
3 3 (5.77%) Automotive
4 2 (3.85%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) .NET
2 4 (7.69%) GTK
3 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.77%) Kendo UI
3 3 (5.77%) REST
4 2 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.85%) CSS
4 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.92%) LAMP
5 1 (1.92%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Life Science
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.85%) Animation
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Software Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.08%) Software Testing
3 9 (17.31%) Agile
3 9 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
3 9 (17.31%) SDET
3 9 (17.31%) Task Automation
3 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
4 8 (15.38%) DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (11.54%) Coaching
5 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
5 6 (11.54%) Open Source
5 6 (11.54%) Project Management
5 6 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (11.54%) Workflow
6 5 (9.62%) Quality Management
6 5 (9.62%) Requirements Management
6 5 (9.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) C#
2 10 (19.23%) Python
3 8 (15.38%) MATLAB
3 8 (15.38%) SQL
4 6 (11.54%) Bash
4 6 (11.54%) Ruby
5 4 (7.69%) C
5 4 (7.69%) Java
6 3 (5.77%) Ada
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Telerik
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
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