Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,025 4,508 11,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.29% 9.36% 14.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.44% 9.80% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,674 2,635 5,164
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +8.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.34% +10.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +12 2,198 £60,000 -4.00% 66
North of England +11 1,692 £57,500 -4.17% 154
South East +9 1,524 £55,000 -15.38% 159
South West +12 1,104 £57,500 -11.54% 166
North West +17 1,033 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Midlands +11 826 £55,000 -4.35% 131
Yorkshire +10 522 £55,000 -8.33% 29
East of England +15 427 £60,000 -7.69% 85
East Midlands +10 422 £47,500 -17.39% 67
West Midlands +11 404 £60,000 +4.35% 62
Wales +16 171 £50,000 - 9
North East +9 137 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Northern Ireland +2 85 £65,000 +23.81% 72
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 376 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 194 (2.42%) ArcGIS
3 184 (2.29%) GeoServer
4 136 (1.69%) Apache
5 98 (1.22%) FileNet
6 74 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 58 (0.72%) Confluence
8 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
9 23 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.26%) GemFire
11 19 (0.24%) CMS
12 16 (0.20%) nginx
13 15 (0.19%) NServiceBus
14 14 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 12 (0.15%) Tuxedo
16 11 (0.14%) CICS
17 7 (0.087%) Microsoft Exchange
18 6 (0.075%) OpenStack
18 6 (0.075%) Umbraco
18 6 (0.075%) WinCC
Applications
1 140 (1.74%) Simulink
2 26 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.19%) Stateflow
4 14 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.14%) OrCAD
7 10 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 6 (0.075%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.062%) Trello
10 4 (0.050%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.037%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.037%) SketchUp
11 3 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.025%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.025%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.025%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.025%) Revit
12 2 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.050%) C-CURE
5 3 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.037%) Magento
6 2 (0.025%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.012%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.012%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.012%) Shopify
7 1 (0.012%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,885 (23.49%) AWS
2 1,206 (15.03%) Azure
3 262 (3.26%) GCP
4 217 (2.70%) SaaS
5 198 (2.47%) Serverless
6 184 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 174 (2.17%) GitHub
8 163 (2.03%) Amazon S3
9 133 (1.66%) Datadog
10 121 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
11 110 (1.37%) Power Platform
12 104 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 83 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 73 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
16 70 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
18 68 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 67 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
20 53 (0.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 104 (1.30%) Network Security
2 91 (1.13%) Wireless
3 78 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 64 (0.80%) Ethernet
5 61 (0.76%) Kerberos
6 50 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (0.57%) MQTT
8 40 (0.50%) HTTP
9 39 (0.49%) RS-232
10 35 (0.44%) AMQP
11 33 (0.41%) Internet
12 30 (0.37%) RS-485
13 25 (0.31%) Bluetooth
14 23 (0.29%) 4G
15 14 (0.17%) 3G
15 14 (0.17%) 5G
15 14 (0.17%) Firewall
15 14 (0.17%) Modbus
16 11 (0.14%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (8.87%) NoSQL
2 399 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
3 339 (4.22%) Big Data
4 263 (3.28%) MySQL
5 215 (2.68%) GIS
6 188 (2.34%) QGIS
7 187 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 175 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 168 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
9 168 (2.09%) Hadoop
10 140 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 115 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 82 (1.02%) Redis
13 79 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 75 (0.93%) Power BI
15 74 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
15 74 (0.92%) Apache Hive
16 60 (0.75%) HBase
17 56 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 632 (7.88%) Git
2 291 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 217 (2.70%) JUnit
4 178 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 172 (2.14%) JIRA
6 129 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 125 (1.56%) Selenium
8 120 (1.50%) Jasmine
9 114 (1.42%) GitLab
10 111 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 92 (1.15%) LabVIEW
12 64 (0.80%) WebDriver
13 63 (0.79%) Maven
14 62 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
15 60 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
15 60 (0.75%) Protractor
16 51 (0.64%) Subversion
17 45 (0.56%) Mockito
18 44 (0.55%) Artifactory
19 37 (0.46%) Cucumber
General
1 1,999 (24.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,895 (23.61%) Finance
3 1,628 (20.29%) Law
4 872 (10.87%) Social Skills
5 810 (10.09%) Marketing
6 537 (6.69%) Legal
7 416 (5.18%) Electronics
8 349 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 330 (4.11%) Banking
10 291 (3.63%) Investment Banking
11 250 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
12 200 (2.49%) Automotive
13 168 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 147 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 139 (1.73%) Public Sector
16 103 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 97 (1.21%) Retail
18 91 (1.13%) Games
19 80 (1.00%) Tech for Good
20 79 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5,577 (69.50%) Software Engineer
2 1,845 (22.99%) Senior
3 1,462 (18.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,116 (13.91%) Lead
5 1,075 (13.40%) Embedded Engineer
6 1,013 (12.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 924 (11.51%) Developer
8 743 (9.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 657 (8.19%) Java Engineer
10 637 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
11 368 (4.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 357 (4.45%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 315 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 312 (3.89%) C++ Software Engineer
15 310 (3.86%) Full Stack Engineer
16 304 (3.79%) Python Engineer
17 298 (3.71%) Python Software Engineer
18 287 (3.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 275 (3.43%) Architect
20 243 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,121 (13.97%) .NET
2 1,095 (13.64%) React
3 666 (8.30%) Spring
4 662 (8.25%) CSS
5 623 (7.76%) AngularJS
6 533 (6.64%) HTML
7 478 (5.96%) Node.js
8 419 (5.22%) .NET Core
9 366 (4.56%) Kafka
10 347 (4.32%) Spring Boot
11 314 (3.91%) RESTful
12 268 (3.34%) JSON
13 266 (3.31%) Web Services
14 265 (3.30%) REST
15 232 (2.89%) Hibernate
16 225 (2.80%) J2EE
17 200 (2.49%) GraphQL
18 195 (2.43%) ASP.NET
19 192 (2.39%) PostGIS
20 191 (2.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 769 (9.58%) Algorithms
2 749 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 249 (3.10%) Cyberattack
4 183 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
5 171 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 161 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 157 (1.96%) IoT
8 156 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 152 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 151 (1.88%) Management Information System
11 147 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 139 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 118 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
14 89 (1.11%) Reference Data
15 86 (1.07%) Robotics
16 78 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 62 (0.77%) Media Streaming
18 61 (0.76%) Market Risk
19 55 (0.69%) Private Cloud
20 53 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1,000 (12.46%) Linux
2 376 (4.69%) Windows
3 229 (2.85%) Embedded Linux
4 150 (1.87%) Unix
5 131 (1.63%) Android
6 92 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 90 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 68 (0.85%) CentOS
9 53 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 37 (0.46%) Debian
11 23 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
12 15 (0.19%) Windows Server
13 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
14 7 (0.087%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.075%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.062%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.062%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 4 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,216 (40.07%) Agile
2 1,733 (21.60%) CI/CD
3 1,720 (21.43%) SDLC
4 1,454 (18.12%) Machine Learning
5 1,324 (16.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,231 (15.34%) Operational Stability
7 1,134 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
8 991 (12.35%) Computer Science
9 974 (12.14%) DevOps
10 914 (11.39%) Community of Practice
11 851 (10.60%) Mentoring
12 714 (8.90%) Full Stack Development
13 679 (8.46%) Microservices
14 678 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 655 (8.16%) Visualisation
16 519 (6.47%) Risk Management
17 508 (6.33%) Test Automation
18 475 (5.92%) Mathematics
19 468 (5.83%) TDD
20 424 (5.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,907 (23.76%) Java
2 1,881 (23.44%) Python
3 1,417 (17.66%) C#
4 1,410 (17.57%) SQL
5 1,238 (15.43%) JavaScript
6 1,165 (14.52%) C++
7 972 (12.11%) C
8 624 (7.78%) TypeScript
9 252 (3.14%) Scala
10 226 (2.82%) Embedded C
11 194 (2.42%) Bash
12 188 (2.34%) PHP
13 151 (1.88%) Go
14 139 (1.73%) Kotlin
15 106 (1.32%) MATLAB
16 100 (1.25%) Rust
17 95 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 79 (0.98%) Embedded C++
19 56 (0.70%) Perl
20 53 (0.66%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,191 (14.84%) Degree
2 931 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 561 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 383 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 187 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 186 (2.32%) Master's Degree
7 94 (1.17%) PhD
8 80 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.30%) HND
11 23 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 18 (0.22%) HNC
13 17 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.20%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.16%) CISSP
17 8 (0.100%) CISM
17 8 (0.100%) GIAC
17 8 (0.100%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (1.82%) QA
2 47 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 32 (0.40%) MISRA
4 26 (0.32%) GDPR
5 23 (0.29%) ISO 26262
6 22 (0.27%) SLA
7 18 (0.22%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
9 16 (0.20%) PMO
10 15 (0.19%) NCSC
11 13 (0.16%) Def Stans
11 13 (0.16%) NIST
12 12 (0.15%) IEC 61508
13 11 (0.14%) ISO 13485
13 11 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 11 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
14 10 (0.12%) GRC
14 10 (0.12%) MISRA C
15 9 (0.11%) IEC 61131
15 9 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 440 (5.48%) Docker
2 230 (2.87%) Firmware
3 108 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 60 (0.75%) HDFS
5 54 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 23 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.087%) IAG
10 4 (0.050%) NFS
10 4 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.037%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.037%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.025%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 636 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 489 (6.09%) Terraform
3 171 (2.13%) Grafana
4 169 (2.11%) Ansible
5 94 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 48 (0.60%) Puppet
7 27 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 26 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.27%) Kibana
10 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
11 13 (0.16%) Salt
12 7 (0.087%) Graphite
13 6 (0.075%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.075%) Nessus
14 5 (0.062%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.062%) Istio
14 5 (0.062%) Nagios
14 5 (0.062%) SELinux
14 5 (0.062%) Suricata
Vendors
1 436 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 293 (3.65%) Oracle
3 194 (2.42%) ESRI
4 176 (2.19%) Splunk
5 169 (2.11%) Google
6 167 (2.08%) Databricks
7 141 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 66 (0.82%) Xilinx
9 60 (0.75%) Informatica
10 42 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 42 (0.52%) SAP
11 40 (0.50%) Micro Focus
12 39 (0.49%) SaltStack
13 35 (0.44%) Alteryx
14 31 (0.39%) Siemens
15 30 (0.37%) Cloudera
16 29 (0.36%) Atlassian
17 27 (0.34%) Xamarin
18 25 (0.31%) EMC
19 24 (0.30%) IBM