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 £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 678 787
Rank change year-on-year -34 +109 -211
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer 59 75 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 40 39 36
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,350 £44,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £58,188 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £65,375 £70,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £51,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.15% -7.14% +16.67%

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 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,348
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 29 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 29 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 -3 26 £50,000 -21.57% 1
West Midlands +3 15 £58,500 -8.24% 1
South East -7 12 £40,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands -16 11 £45,000 -
North of England +30 9 £65,000 +27.49% 3
Yorkshire +80 6 £65,000 +22.66% 1
Wales -5 4 £50,000 -
North East 0 3 - -
South West -16 3 £50,000 -1.93%
East of England -16 3 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -63 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 29 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 25 (42.37%) Software Engineering
2 15 (25.42%) Software Testing
3 14 (23.73%) C#
4 12 (20.34%) SDET
4 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
5 11 (18.64%) Azure
5 11 (18.64%) Agile
5 11 (18.64%) Python
6 10 (16.95%) SQL
6 10 (16.95%) Linux
6 10 (16.95%) DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) Task Automation
7 9 (15.25%) Git
7 9 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (13.56%) .NET
8 8 (13.56%) MATLAB
9 7 (11.86%) Modbus
9 7 (11.86%) GitHub
9 7 (11.86%) Degree
9 7 (11.86%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.17%) Life Science
10 6 (10.17%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (10.17%) Ruby
10 6 (10.17%) Project Management
10 6 (10.17%) Workflow
10 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
10 6 (10.17%) Open Source
10 6 (10.17%) Bash
10 6 (10.17%) AWS

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 (10.17%) Confluence
1 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) GitHub
3 6 (10.17%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) IaaS
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.47%) PowerApps
5 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Modbus
2 5 (8.47%) Bluetooth
3 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.08%) Ethernet
4 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
4 3 (5.08%) MQTT
4 3 (5.08%) RS-232
4 3 (5.08%) RS-422
4 3 (5.08%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) LoadUI
General
1 5 (8.47%) Electronics
1 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
1 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.78%) Military
3 3 (5.08%) Automotive
4 2 (3.39%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) .NET
2 4 (6.78%) Gherkin
2 4 (6.78%) GTK
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.08%) Kendo UI
3 3 (5.08%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.39%) CSS
4 2 (3.39%) Playwright
5 1 (1.69%) LAMP
5 1 (1.69%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Life Science
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.39%) Animation
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Software Engineering
2 15 (25.42%) Software Testing
3 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.34%) SDET
4 11 (18.64%) Agile
4 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
5 10 (16.95%) DevOps
6 9 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (15.25%) Task Automation
7 7 (11.86%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (10.17%) Coaching
8 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.17%) Open Source
8 6 (10.17%) Project Management
8 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.17%) Workflow
9 5 (8.47%) Quality Management
9 5 (8.47%) Requirements Management
9 5 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) C#
2 11 (18.64%) Python
3 10 (16.95%) SQL
4 8 (13.56%) MATLAB
5 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby
6 4 (6.78%) C
6 4 (6.78%) Java
7 3 (5.08%) Ada
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.39%) C++
8 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Telerik
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
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