Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 14 77
Rank change year-on-year -39 +63 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,829 7,076 2,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.59% 8.66% 4.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.14% 9.13% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 857 3,873 1,364
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +7.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,613 77,542 48,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.35% 94.93% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 18,361 54,224 28,974
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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
North of England -33 550 £70,000 +27.27% 943
North West -26 439 £75,000 +30.43% 564
Scotland -10 353 £62,500 +4.17% 376
South East -48 325 £65,000 +21.50% 989
Midlands -34 264 £62,500 +19.05% 406
South West -30 181 £62,500 +8.70% 476
West Midlands -21 149 £60,000 +9.09% 238
East of England -56 118 £66,206 +10.34% 526
East Midlands -34 115 £65,000 +30.00% 168
Yorkshire -71 70 £68,500 +37.00% 299
North East +1 41 £55,000 - 80
Wales -15 39 £65,000 +30.00% 89
Northern Ireland -17 1 £50,000 -44.44% 112
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, Software 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 1,730 (94.59%) Software Engineering
2 1,210 (66.16%) Agile
3 898 (49.10%) Java
4 756 (41.33%) AWS
5 677 (37.01%) JavaScript
6 674 (36.85%) Finance
7 661 (36.14%) CI/CD
8 657 (35.92%) Azure
9 648 (35.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 572 (31.27%) Microservices
11 552 (30.18%) Python
12 550 (30.07%) SQL
13 534 (29.20%) SDLC
14 495 (27.06%) React
15 474 (25.92%) Banking
16 463 (25.31%) GCP
17 458 (25.04%) Kubernetes
18 455 (24.88%) Mentoring
19 437 (23.89%) DevOps
20 425 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
20 425 (23.24%) Spring
21 424 (23.18%) Test Automation
22 403 (22.03%) Docker
23 389 (21.27%) C++
24 378 (20.67%) Spring Boot
25 368 (20.12%) Kafka
25 368 (20.12%) HTML
26 357 (19.52%) Machine Learning
27 349 (19.08%) Degree
28 335 (18.32%) Linux

Software 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
1 192 (10.50%) Confluence
2 36 (1.97%) Apache
3 25 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.55%) CMS
5 8 (0.44%) Camunda
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.055%) CICS
9 1 (0.055%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.055%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.055%) WinCC
Applications
1 105 (5.74%) Simulink
2 39 (2.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.055%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.055%) BASE24
2 1 (0.055%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 756 (41.33%) AWS
2 657 (35.92%) Azure
3 463 (25.31%) GCP
4 66 (3.61%) GitHub
5 39 (2.13%) Serverless
6 38 (2.08%) SaaS
7 32 (1.75%) Amazon S3
8 26 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (0.77%) Azure API Management
12 14 (0.77%) npm
13 13 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
15 10 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.91%) Wireless
2 24 (1.31%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.71%) Modbus
4 13 (0.71%) Network Security
5 12 (0.66%) Internet
6 9 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.49%) WAN
7 8 (0.44%) MQTT
8 7 (0.38%) Bluetooth
8 7 (0.38%) RS-232
9 6 (0.33%) LoRaWAN
9 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.27%) Profibus
10 5 (0.27%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.22%) 5G
11 4 (0.22%) RS-485
11 4 (0.22%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (15.86%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.37%) NoSQL
3 71 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 65 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 61 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (2.90%) MySQL
7 42 (2.30%) Big Data
8 21 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (1.15%) RDBMS
9 17 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 15 (0.82%) Redis
12 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.66%) KDB
13 12 (0.66%) Kdb+
14 11 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
15 10 (0.55%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 311 (17.00%) JIRA
2 282 (15.42%) GitLab
3 272 (14.87%) Maven
4 264 (14.43%) SonarQube
5 263 (14.38%) Selenium
6 260 (14.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 259 (14.16%) Bitbucket
8 257 (14.05%) Cucumber
9 151 (8.26%) Git
10 58 (3.17%) Jenkins
11 34 (1.86%) JUnit
12 25 (1.37%) Eclipse
13 24 (1.31%) Visual Studio
14 22 (1.20%) Eclipse RCP
15 21 (1.15%) webpack
16 20 (1.09%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.71%) Subversion
18 8 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
19 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
19 7 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 674 (36.85%) Finance
2 648 (35.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 474 (25.92%) Banking
4 233 (12.74%) Law
5 175 (9.57%) Social Skills
6 129 (7.05%) Aerospace
7 128 (7.00%) Retail
8 118 (6.45%) Automotive
9 107 (5.85%) Investment Banking
9 107 (5.85%) Marketing
10 90 (4.92%) Corporate Banking
11 88 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
12 57 (3.12%) Electronics
13 47 (2.57%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.37%) Games
15 22 (1.20%) Legal
16 19 (1.04%) Military
16 19 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 18 (0.98%) Public Sector
18 17 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (27.06%) React
2 425 (23.24%) Spring
3 378 (20.67%) Spring Boot
4 368 (20.12%) HTML
4 368 (20.12%) Kafka
5 332 (18.15%) .NET
6 331 (18.10%) CSS
7 279 (15.25%) Node.js
8 258 (14.11%) JPA
9 257 (14.05%) Redux
10 183 (10.01%) Hibernate
11 172 (9.40%) RESTful
12 159 (8.69%) REST
13 117 (6.40%) Jest
14 98 (5.36%) AngularJS
14 98 (5.36%) CSS3
14 98 (5.36%) HTML5
15 90 (4.92%) Sass
16 45 (2.46%) .NET Core
17 37 (2.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 296 (16.18%) Product Ownership
2 256 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
3 181 (9.90%) Self-Motivation
4 173 (9.46%) Cyberattack
5 172 (9.40%) Linux Command Line
6 149 (8.15%) Algorithms
7 100 (5.47%) Cloud Native
8 65 (3.55%) Embedded Systems
9 62 (3.39%) Public Cloud
10 61 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
11 39 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
12 36 (1.97%) IoT
13 34 (1.86%) Reference Data
14 32 (1.75%) Mobile App
15 27 (1.48%) e-Learning
16 23 (1.26%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.04%) MicroBlaze
17 19 (1.04%) RISC-V
18 17 (0.93%) Device Driver
19 16 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 335 (18.32%) Linux
2 66 (3.61%) Windows
3 39 (2.13%) Unix
4 31 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
5 20 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.93%) Android
7 9 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.055%) CentOS
11 1 (0.055%) Debian
11 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.055%) Rocky
11 1 (0.055%) SafeRTOS
11 1 (0.055%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,730 (94.59%) Software Engineering
2 1,210 (66.16%) Agile
3 661 (36.14%) CI/CD
4 572 (31.27%) Microservices
5 534 (29.20%) SDLC
6 455 (24.88%) Mentoring
7 437 (23.89%) DevOps
8 425 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 424 (23.18%) Test Automation
10 357 (19.52%) Machine Learning
11 317 (17.33%) Containerisation
12 301 (16.46%) User Experience
13 295 (16.13%) TDD
14 278 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 269 (14.71%) Front End Development
16 262 (14.32%) Computer Science
17 260 (14.22%) Performance Optimisation
18 258 (14.11%) Scrum
19 233 (12.74%) Artificial Intelligence
20 212 (11.59%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 898 (49.10%) Java
2 677 (37.01%) JavaScript
3 552 (30.18%) Python
4 550 (30.07%) SQL
5 389 (21.27%) C++
6 288 (15.75%) C#
7 260 (14.22%) TypeScript
8 242 (13.23%) Rust
9 218 (11.92%) Go
10 156 (8.53%) C
11 117 (6.40%) MATLAB
12 106 (5.80%) Ada
13 63 (3.44%) Ada 95
14 33 (1.80%) PHP
15 23 (1.26%) Embedded C
16 21 (1.15%) Bash
16 21 (1.15%) PL/SQL
17 19 (1.04%) Ruby
18 13 (0.71%) Swift
19 11 (0.60%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 349 (19.08%) Degree
2 270 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 249 (13.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 199 (10.88%) DV Cleared
5 176 (9.62%) AWS Certification
6 174 (9.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 172 (9.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 91 (4.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 57 (3.12%) SC Cleared
10 51 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.93%) PhD
13 8 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.16%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.11%) HNC
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.055%) CREST Certified
16 1 (0.055%) HND
16 1 (0.055%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (15.14%) QA
2 114 (6.23%) Accessibility
3 63 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 15 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.27%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.22%) PMO
7 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.16%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.16%) IEC 61131
8 3 (0.16%) JTAG
8 3 (0.16%) NIST
8 3 (0.16%) WCAG
9 2 (0.11%) CDISC
9 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.11%) MISRA
9 2 (0.11%) SEPA
10 1 (0.055%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.055%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 403 (22.03%) Docker
2 47 (2.57%) Firmware
3 29 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 458 (25.04%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.48%) Terraform
3 21 (1.15%) Ansible
4 20 (1.09%) Grafana
5 9 (0.49%) Istio
6 7 (0.38%) Kibana
6 7 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.22%) Netcool
8 4 (0.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.11%) Argo
9 2 (0.11%) Graylog
9 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.055%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.055%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.055%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.055%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (13.45%) Solace
2 70 (3.83%) Oracle
3 52 (2.84%) Google
4 45 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 42 (2.30%) Databricks
6 36 (1.97%) PayPal
7 22 (1.20%) Splunk
8 18 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 18 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 14 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.60%) Ping Identity
11 9 (0.49%) SAP
12 8 (0.44%) Adobe
13 7 (0.38%) Facebook
13 7 (0.38%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.38%) IBM
14 5 (0.27%) Atmel
14 5 (0.27%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.27%) Xilinx
15 4 (0.22%) F5