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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 70 35
Rank change year-on-year +55 -35 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,604 2,173 5,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.59% 4.51% 7.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.05% 5.03% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 1,266 2,172
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,350 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Scotland +23 1,759 £60,000 - 33
North of England +57 1,025 £55,000 -8.33% 76
South East +39 994 £53,500 -10.83% 78
South West +51 831 £57,500 -7.93% 103
North West +60 592 £60,000 - 46
Midlands +37 550 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Yorkshire +42 350 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East of England +46 292 £62,500 - 55
East Midlands +26 292 £50,000 -9.09% 32
West Midlands +26 258 £55,000 -4.35% 33
Wales +44 100 £50,000 +8.20% 6
North East +38 83 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Northern Ireland +2 53 £80,000 +33.33% 33
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 5,577 (99.52%) Software Engineering
2 2,238 (39.94%) Agile
3 1,493 (26.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,459 (26.03%) SDLC
5 1,449 (25.86%) Java
6 1,445 (25.79%) Finance
7 1,413 (25.21%) Python
8 1,369 (24.43%) AWS
9 1,359 (24.25%) CI/CD
10 1,319 (23.54%) Law
11 1,164 (20.77%) Operational Stability
12 1,126 (20.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,120 (19.99%) Machine Learning
14 971 (17.33%) SQL
15 929 (16.58%) C#
16 917 (16.36%) C++
17 906 (16.17%) JavaScript
18 878 (15.67%) Community of Practice
19 840 (14.99%) React
20 753 (13.44%) Azure
21 745 (13.29%) Linux
22 738 (13.17%) C
23 692 (12.35%) .NET
24 682 (12.17%) Algorithms
25 665 (11.87%) Degree
26 625 (11.15%) Security Cleared
27 617 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
28 583 (10.40%) Visualisation
28 583 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
29 573 (10.22%) Marketing

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
1 334 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 193 (3.44%) ArcGIS
3 184 (3.28%) GeoServer
4 115 (2.05%) Apache
5 98 (1.75%) FileNet
6 70 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
8 24 (0.43%) Confluence
9 21 (0.37%) GemFire
10 15 (0.27%) NServiceBus
11 12 (0.21%) CMS
11 12 (0.21%) Tuxedo
12 11 (0.20%) CICS
13 7 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.11%) nginx
14 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.11%) WinCC
15 5 (0.089%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.071%) SharePoint
17 3 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (1.53%) Simulink
2 13 (0.23%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.18%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.089%) Trello
7 4 (0.071%) CANalyzer
8 3 (0.054%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.036%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.036%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.036%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.036%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.036%) Revit
10 1 (0.018%) Doxygen
10 1 (0.018%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.071%) C-CURE
2 4 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,369 (24.43%) AWS
2 753 (13.44%) Azure
3 189 (3.37%) GCP
4 135 (2.41%) Serverless
5 117 (2.09%) Amazon S3
6 112 (2.00%) Datadog
7 105 (1.87%) GitHub
8 85 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (1.28%) SaaS
11 62 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
14 41 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
15 39 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
16 38 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (0.64%) OpenShift
18 33 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (0.59%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.30%) Network Security
2 61 (1.09%) Kerberos
3 60 (1.07%) Wireless
4 47 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.77%) Ethernet
6 37 (0.66%) RS-232
7 36 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 30 (0.54%) AMQP
8 30 (0.54%) MQTT
9 29 (0.52%) RS-485
10 17 (0.30%) 4G
11 14 (0.25%) Modbus
12 13 (0.23%) 3G
12 13 (0.23%) Bluetooth
13 12 (0.21%) HTTP
13 12 (0.21%) Internet
14 11 (0.20%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.16%) ZigBee
16 7 (0.12%) 5G
17 5 (0.089%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 543 (9.69%) NoSQL
2 342 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 290 (5.17%) Big Data
4 209 (3.73%) GIS
5 188 (3.35%) QGIS
6 164 (2.93%) Hadoop
7 157 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 153 (2.73%) MySQL
9 136 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 113 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 110 (1.96%) SQL Server
12 89 (1.59%) MongoDB
13 74 (1.32%) Apache Hive
14 69 (1.23%) Redis
15 61 (1.09%) DynamoDB
16 60 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
16 60 (1.07%) HBase
17 46 (0.82%) Metadata
18 45 (0.80%) Data Lake
19 39 (0.70%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 383 (6.83%) Git
2 227 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 194 (3.46%) JUnit
4 110 (1.96%) Jasmine
5 102 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 94 (1.68%) JIRA
7 79 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 72 (1.28%) Selenium
9 64 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 64 (1.14%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.07%) Bitbucket Server
10 60 (1.07%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.07%) Protractor
11 53 (0.95%) LabVIEW
12 50 (0.89%) Maven
13 48 (0.86%) GitLab
14 45 (0.80%) Mockito
15 44 (0.79%) Artifactory
16 42 (0.75%) Subversion
17 33 (0.59%) Vagrant
General
1 1,493 (26.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,445 (25.79%) Finance
3 1,319 (23.54%) Law
4 573 (10.22%) Marketing
5 499 (8.90%) Legal
6 443 (7.91%) Social Skills
7 327 (5.84%) Electronics
8 281 (5.01%) Banking
9 258 (4.60%) Investment Banking
10 252 (4.50%) Manufacturing
11 173 (3.09%) Automotive
12 142 (2.53%) Aerospace
13 120 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
14 86 (1.53%) Public Sector
15 68 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (1.05%) Tech for Good
17 58 (1.03%) Military
18 52 (0.93%) Retail
19 49 (0.87%) Telecoms
20 46 (0.82%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 840 (14.99%) React
2 692 (12.35%) .NET
3 517 (9.23%) Spring
4 496 (8.85%) CSS
5 487 (8.69%) AngularJS
6 359 (6.41%) Node.js
7 341 (6.08%) HTML
8 326 (5.82%) Kafka
9 315 (5.62%) .NET Core
10 232 (4.14%) Spring Boot
11 223 (3.98%) J2EE
12 208 (3.71%) JSON
13 207 (3.69%) Hibernate
14 199 (3.55%) Web Services
15 195 (3.48%) RESTful
16 192 (3.43%) PostGIS
17 188 (3.35%) Leaflet
17 188 (3.35%) OpenLayers
18 183 (3.27%) REST
19 178 (3.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 682 (12.17%) Algorithms
2 502 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 149 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
4 132 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 123 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 109 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 96 (1.71%) IoT
7 96 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 95 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 87 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 85 (1.52%) Reference Data
11 84 (1.50%) Cyberattack
12 61 (1.09%) Media Streaming
13 56 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 56 (1.00%) Robotics
14 51 (0.91%) Blog
15 48 (0.86%) Product Ownership
16 44 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
17 37 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
18 36 (0.64%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 745 (13.29%) Linux
2 273 (4.87%) Windows
3 178 (3.18%) Embedded Linux
4 147 (2.62%) Unix
5 101 (1.80%) Android
6 79 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 78 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (1.20%) CentOS
9 37 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 37 (0.66%) Debian
10 20 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.14%) Windows Server
13 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.089%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 3 (0.054%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.054%) Rocky
14 3 (0.054%) VMS
14 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.018%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,577 (99.52%) Software Engineering
2 2,238 (39.94%) Agile
3 1,459 (26.03%) SDLC
4 1,359 (24.25%) CI/CD
5 1,164 (20.77%) Operational Stability
6 1,126 (20.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,120 (19.99%) Machine Learning
8 878 (15.67%) Community of Practice
9 617 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
10 583 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 583 (10.40%) Visualisation
11 542 (9.67%) DevOps
12 523 (9.33%) Computer Science
13 507 (9.05%) Full Stack Development
13 507 (9.05%) Microservices
14 483 (8.62%) Risk Management
15 390 (6.96%) Mentoring
16 351 (6.26%) Test Automation
17 350 (6.25%) TDD
18 306 (5.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,449 (25.86%) Java
2 1,413 (25.21%) Python
3 971 (17.33%) SQL
4 929 (16.58%) C#
5 917 (16.36%) C++
6 906 (16.17%) JavaScript
7 738 (13.17%) C
8 411 (7.33%) TypeScript
9 218 (3.89%) Scala
10 194 (3.46%) Embedded C
11 168 (3.00%) Bash
12 109 (1.95%) Go
12 109 (1.95%) Kotlin
13 94 (1.68%) PL/SQL
14 77 (1.37%) Rust
15 76 (1.36%) MATLAB
16 72 (1.28%) Embedded C++
17 69 (1.23%) PHP
18 48 (0.86%) Perl
19 47 (0.84%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 665 (11.87%) Degree
2 625 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 383 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 200 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 132 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 70 (1.25%) PhD
8 25 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.27%) HND
10 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.12%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.11%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.089%) HNC
13 5 (0.089%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.071%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (0.054%) Azure Certification
16 1 (0.018%) AWS Certified Developer
16 1 (0.018%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.018%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (1.20%) QA
2 30 (0.54%) MISRA
3 24 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 22 (0.39%) ISO 26262
5 17 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
6 16 (0.29%) PMO
6 16 (0.29%) SLA
7 14 (0.25%) GDPR
8 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
9 10 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.14%) IEC 61131
10 8 (0.14%) JTAG
10 8 (0.14%) MISRA C
11 7 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.11%) TickIT
13 5 (0.089%) Automotive SPICE
13 5 (0.089%) IEC 61508
13 5 (0.089%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 209 (3.73%) Docker
2 148 (2.64%) Firmware
3 72 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 60 (1.07%) HDFS
5 47 (0.84%) Active Directory
6 12 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.036%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 428 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 319 (5.69%) Terraform
3 139 (2.48%) Grafana
4 99 (1.77%) Ansible
5 63 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.61%) Puppet
7 26 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.39%) Kibana
9 21 (0.37%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.37%) Zipkin
10 7 (0.12%) Graphite
11 5 (0.089%) SELinux
12 3 (0.054%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.036%) Istio
13 2 (0.036%) linkerd
14 1 (0.018%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.018%) Functional Safety
14 1 (0.018%) Podman
14 1 (0.018%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 272 (4.85%) Oracle
2 192 (3.43%) ESRI
3 168 (3.00%) Microsoft
4 156 (2.78%) Databricks
5 151 (2.69%) Splunk
6 126 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 108 (1.93%) Google
8 60 (1.07%) Informatica
9 39 (0.70%) SaltStack
10 36 (0.64%) Red Hat
11 35 (0.62%) Alteryx
12 33 (0.59%) Xilinx
13 30 (0.54%) Cloudera
14 29 (0.52%) Siemens
15 22 (0.39%) Atlassian
15 22 (0.39%) SAP
16 16 (0.29%) IBM
17 12 (0.21%) Xamarin
18 11 (0.20%) Micro Focus
19 9 (0.16%) Facebook