Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 16 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,440 8,977 7,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.95% 13.65% 11.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.61% 14.29% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,091 4,747 4,702
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £33,320
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,635 62,838 61,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 94.33% 95.55% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20,187 35,874 42,157
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,831 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,763 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 911 £60,000 -4.00% 438
South West -4 682 £60,000 - 253
South East -17 573 £60,000 - 593
Scotland +1 566 £60,000 -2.37% 141
North West +1 507 £65,000 +7.44% 242
Midlands -1 389 £57,500 -4.17% 225
Yorkshire +1 341 £60,000 -4.00% 134
West Midlands -13 209 £57,500 -4.17% 148
East Midlands +4 180 £55,000 -8.33% 76
East of England -17 134 £65,000 -3.70% 297
Wales +1 124 £57,500 - 58
Northern Ireland -12 78 £65,000 +30.00% 40
North East +4 62 £57,500 -8.00% 65
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 79 (2.30%) Confluence
2 78 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 77 (2.24%) JBoss
4 74 (2.15%) Red Hat Fuse
5 49 (1.42%) Apache
6 28 (0.81%) WebSphere
7 22 (0.64%) CMS
8 20 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 18 (0.52%) Captiva
9 18 (0.52%) FileNet
10 13 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.35%) IIS
12 11 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
13 10 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 10 (0.29%) NServiceBus
14 9 (0.26%) SharePoint
15 8 (0.23%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.20%) Drupal
16 7 (0.20%) MS Exchange
17 5 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 25 (0.73%) Simulink
2 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.26%) Windchill
3 8 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 8 (0.23%) PTC Creo
4 7 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
5 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.15%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.087%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.058%) Mathcad
8 2 (0.058%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.029%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Excel
9 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.12%) ProductWriter
2 3 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.087%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.087%) SAP GRC
2 3 (0.087%) Siebel CRM
3 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.058%) SAP FI-GL
3 2 (0.058%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.058%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.029%) Magento
4 1 (0.029%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.029%) Shopify
4 1 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.029%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 843 (24.51%) AWS
2 703 (20.44%) Azure
3 371 (10.78%) Serverless
4 325 (9.45%) GCP
5 204 (5.93%) SaaS
6 130 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (3.58%) GitHub
8 108 (3.14%) OpenShift
9 64 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (1.57%) PaaS
11 47 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
12 36 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.05%) IaaS
13 28 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (0.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 24 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (0.70%) Power Platform
16 18 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 54 (1.57%) Wireless
3 51 (1.48%) HTTP
4 50 (1.45%) Internet
5 33 (0.96%) Ethernet
6 21 (0.61%) Firewall
7 16 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.41%) 5G
9 13 (0.38%) Bluetooth
10 12 (0.35%) Network Security
10 12 (0.35%) RS-232
11 11 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
11 11 (0.32%) WAN
11 11 (0.32%) Wireshark
12 9 (0.26%) Modbus
13 8 (0.23%) MQTT
13 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.20%) J1939
15 5 (0.15%) RS-422
15 5 (0.15%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 162 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 158 (4.59%) MySQL
4 154 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 151 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 134 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 132 (3.84%) Big Data
8 96 (2.79%) Oracle Database
9 86 (2.50%) RDBMS
10 79 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (1.28%) Hadoop
12 32 (0.93%) SQLite
13 29 (0.84%) Redis
14 24 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 22 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (0.61%) DynamoDB
17 20 (0.58%) Apache Hive
17 20 (0.58%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 577 (16.77%) Git
2 221 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 162 (4.71%) JIRA
4 78 (2.27%) GitLab
5 75 (2.18%) IntelliJ
6 73 (2.12%) Cypress.io
7 71 (2.06%) Visual Studio
8 70 (2.03%) Selenium
9 63 (1.83%) Subversion
10 57 (1.66%) Cucumber
11 40 (1.16%) Maven
12 39 (1.13%) Bitbucket
13 38 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
14 30 (0.87%) JDeveloper
15 25 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
16 22 (0.64%) JUnit
16 22 (0.64%) SoapUI
16 22 (0.64%) Spinnaker
17 20 (0.58%) SonarQube
18 16 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
General
1 698 (20.29%) Finance
2 577 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 458 (13.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 323 (9.39%) Banking
5 203 (5.90%) Law
6 174 (5.06%) Marketing
7 157 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
8 156 (4.53%) Public Sector
9 136 (3.95%) Electronics
9 136 (3.95%) Police
10 106 (3.08%) Retail
11 99 (2.88%) Aerospace
11 99 (2.88%) Automotive
12 75 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 70 (2.03%) Games
14 58 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.40%) Military
16 47 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 45 (1.31%) Legal
18 36 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,938 (56.34%) Software Engineer
2 747 (21.72%) Senior
3 510 (14.83%) Senior Software Engineer
4 469 (13.63%) Developer
5 381 (11.08%) Lead
6 349 (10.15%) Java Engineer
7 331 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 252 (7.33%) Architect
9 198 (5.76%) Embedded Engineer
10 196 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
11 163 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 155 (4.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 110 (3.20%) C++ Software Engineer
14 109 (3.17%) Senior Developer
15 105 (3.05%) Full Stack Engineer
16 104 (3.02%) .NET Software Engineer
17 100 (2.91%) Software Developer
18 87 (2.53%) C# Software Engineer
19 82 (2.38%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 82 (2.38%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 725 (21.08%) React
2 647 (18.81%) .NET
3 398 (11.57%) AngularJS
4 392 (11.40%) Spring
5 347 (10.09%) HTML
6 340 (9.88%) Node.js
7 274 (7.97%) CSS
8 204 (5.93%) RESTful
9 187 (5.44%) REST
10 173 (5.03%) .NET Framework
11 172 (5.00%) Web Services
12 169 (4.91%) ASP.NET
13 167 (4.85%) Middleware
13 167 (4.85%) Spring Boot
14 154 (4.48%) XML
15 149 (4.33%) JSON
16 148 (4.30%) .NET Core
17 140 (4.07%) J2EE
18 130 (3.78%) Hibernate
19 128 (3.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 172 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 156 (4.53%) Algorithms
3 112 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 75 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
7 71 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
8 63 (1.83%) Cyberattack
9 59 (1.72%) IoT
10 54 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 54 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 49 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
13 41 (1.19%) Management Information System
14 36 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 35 (1.02%) Data Structures
16 34 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 32 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
18 28 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 495 (14.39%) Linux
2 192 (5.58%) Windows
3 73 (2.12%) Android
4 56 (1.63%) Unix
5 48 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
6 29 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
8 13 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 12 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.15%) HPUX
11 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.15%) Solaris
11 5 (0.15%) VxWorks
11 5 (0.15%) zOS
12 3 (0.087%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.058%) CentOS
13 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.029%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,611 (46.83%) Agile
2 826 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
3 765 (22.24%) DevOps
4 679 (19.74%) Microservices
5 601 (17.47%) Mentoring
6 560 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 534 (15.52%) Actionable Insight
8 463 (13.46%) SDLC
9 458 (13.31%) Design Patterns
10 400 (11.63%) Containerisation
11 383 (11.13%) Computer Science
12 377 (10.96%) Unit Testing
13 374 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
14 343 (9.97%) Scrum
15 340 (9.88%) Full Stack Development
16 323 (9.39%) Coaching
17 320 (9.30%) Code Quality
18 286 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 268 (7.79%) Test Automation
20 252 (7.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (35.84%) Java
2 950 (27.62%) Python
3 834 (24.24%) C#
4 806 (23.43%) JavaScript
5 576 (16.74%) SQL
6 525 (15.26%) C++
7 389 (11.31%) C
8 306 (8.90%) TypeScript
9 228 (6.63%) Ruby
10 182 (5.29%) Go
11 140 (4.07%) Bash
12 86 (2.50%) Perl
13 82 (2.38%) Rust
14 80 (2.33%) PHP
15 68 (1.98%) Kotlin
16 64 (1.86%) PowerShell
17 58 (1.69%) Embedded C
18 57 (1.66%) Scala
19 52 (1.51%) MATLAB
20 50 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 736 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 606 (17.62%) Degree
3 501 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 199 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 189 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 73 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 69 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.02%) PhD
10 32 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 23 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
13 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.44%) OCP
14 15 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
15 13 (0.38%) Azure Certification
16 11 (0.32%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.32%) MCSE
17 10 (0.29%) HND
18 7 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (6.54%) QA
2 29 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 25 (0.73%) MISRA
4 19 (0.55%) GDPR
5 18 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 18 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
6 17 (0.49%) ISO 26262
7 15 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
8 14 (0.41%) SLA
9 12 (0.35%) DO-178B
10 11 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.32%) IEC 61508
11 9 (0.26%) PMO
12 8 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
13 6 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.15%) MISRA C
15 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 4 (0.12%) JTAG
16 3 (0.087%) Def Stans
17 2 (0.058%) NCSC
System Software
1 475 (13.81%) Docker
2 121 (3.52%) Firmware
3 51 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 13 (0.38%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.23%) HDFS
5 8 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.029%) Ceph
10 1 (0.029%) Gluster
10 1 (0.029%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 456 (13.26%) Kubernetes
2 152 (4.42%) Terraform
3 57 (1.66%) Ansible
4 28 (0.81%) Grafana
5 25 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.47%) Puppet
7 13 (0.38%) Istio
8 8 (0.23%) SCCM
9 7 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.20%) SCOM
10 6 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.087%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.087%) Podman
12 3 (0.087%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.087%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.058%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.058%) Packer
Vendors
1 215 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 174 (5.06%) Oracle
3 80 (2.33%) Google
4 79 (2.30%) SAP
5 56 (1.63%) Xamarin
6 52 (1.51%) IBM
7 36 (1.05%) Databricks
8 24 (0.70%) Dell
8 24 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 22 (0.64%) Pega
10 18 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 18 (0.52%) Kofax
11 15 (0.44%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.44%) Sun
12 13 (0.38%) TOWER Software
12 13 (0.38%) VMware
13 12 (0.35%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.35%) ESRI
13 12 (0.35%) HP
14 11 (0.32%) Adobe