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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,204 8,892 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.83% 12.69% 10.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 15.02% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 4,997 3,652
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -6.88% +7.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £90,000
UK median annual salary £66,228 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% -10.71% -

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 33,430 59,220 59,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.14% 84.50% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,674 41,096 30,396
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,234 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%

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 April 2025.

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 April 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 -9 799 £57,836 -3.61% 754
South East -4 610 £65,000 +13.04% 755
Scotland -4 525 £58,033 -3.28% 360
North West -21 498 £57,500 -4.17% 482
South West +1 487 £55,000 - 420
Midlands -8 450 £60,000 +9.09% 391
West Midlands -5 287 £62,500 +4.17% 215
East of England -6 238 £65,000 +8.33% 445
Yorkshire -6 229 £67,500 +22.73% 187
East Midlands -7 163 £60,000 +20.00% 168
Wales -6 77 £65,000 +30.00% 77
North East +7 72 £55,000 - 90
Northern Ireland -11 19 £90,000 +50.00% 73
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 48 (1.50%) Confluence
2 36 (1.12%) Apache
3 23 (0.72%) Jupyter
4 14 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.25%) CMS
6 7 (0.22%) Kinematics
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.094%) IIS
11 2 (0.062%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.062%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.062%) Solana
11 2 (0.062%) TPMS
11 2 (0.062%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.031%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.031%) Strapi
Applications
1 511 (15.95%) Simulink
2 43 (1.34%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.094%) Sketch
7 2 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.031%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.031%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.031%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.031%) Revit
8 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.031%) TargetLink
8 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.16%) Magento
1 5 (0.16%) Shopify
2 4 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 3 (0.094%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.062%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.062%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.031%) BASE24
5 1 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.031%) iTrent
5 1 (0.031%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 590 (18.41%) AWS
2 521 (16.26%) Azure
3 249 (7.77%) GCP
4 134 (4.18%) GitHub
5 117 (3.65%) SaaS
6 109 (3.40%) Serverless
7 88 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (2.03%) Amazon S3
9 59 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 35 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (0.75%) Amazon Kinesis
16 24 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 28 (0.87%) Wireless
3 26 (0.81%) Network Security
4 19 (0.59%) Bluetooth
4 19 (0.59%) Modbus
5 17 (0.53%) WAN
6 16 (0.50%) RS-232
7 14 (0.44%) Ethernet
8 13 (0.41%) Firewall
8 13 (0.41%) MQTT
8 13 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.37%) 5G
9 12 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.28%) DNS
10 9 (0.28%) ZigBee
11 8 (0.25%) HTTP
11 8 (0.25%) Internet
11 8 (0.25%) RS-485
12 7 (0.22%) Profibus
13 6 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 116 (3.62%) MySQL
3 109 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 105 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 70 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
7 66 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.53%) Big Data
9 40 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.06%) Redis
11 29 (0.91%) Power BI
12 27 (0.84%) BigQuery
13 24 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.47%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.44%) Cloud Spanner
17 13 (0.41%) Metadata
18 12 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
20 9 (0.28%) DB2
Development Applications
1 285 (8.90%) Git
2 114 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.31%) JIRA
4 75 (2.34%) GitLab
5 46 (1.44%) Visual Studio
6 31 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 31 (0.97%) SonarQube
7 27 (0.84%) Eclipse
7 27 (0.84%) Maven
8 26 (0.81%) Selenium
9 25 (0.78%) Eclipse RCP
9 25 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
10 23 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.62%) webpack
12 19 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (0.56%) JUnit
14 16 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.50%) SoapUI
15 15 (0.47%) Subversion
16 14 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 505 (15.76%) Finance
2 417 (13.01%) Social Skills
3 350 (10.92%) Electronics
4 298 (9.30%) Banking
5 204 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
6 163 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 149 (4.65%) Aerospace
8 147 (4.59%) Automotive
9 109 (3.40%) Manufacturing
10 89 (2.78%) Retail
11 82 (2.56%) Law
12 76 (2.37%) Games
13 70 (2.18%) Public Sector
14 65 (2.03%) Marketing
15 38 (1.19%) Advertising
16 30 (0.94%) Legal
16 30 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.84%) Military
18 26 (0.81%) Tech for Good
19 24 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,320 (41.20%) Software Engineer
2 674 (21.04%) Senior
3 450 (14.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 438 (13.67%) Systems Engineer
5 365 (11.39%) Lead
6 363 (11.33%) Principal Engineer
7 282 (8.80%) Developer
8 184 (5.74%) Software Assurance Engineer
9 123 (3.84%) Embedded Engineer
10 111 (3.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 110 (3.43%) Software Developer
12 101 (3.15%) Principal Software Engineer
13 99 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
14 76 (2.37%) Team Leader
15 72 (2.25%) Software Manager
16 69 (2.15%) Senior Developer
17 68 (2.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.03%) Architect
19 64 (2.00%) Software Team Leader
20 63 (1.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (13.61%) React
2 424 (13.23%) .NET
3 273 (8.52%) Node.js
4 226 (7.05%) HTML
5 191 (5.96%) AngularJS
6 182 (5.68%) CSS
7 127 (3.96%) Spring
8 123 (3.84%) Spring Boot
9 117 (3.65%) .NET Core
10 102 (3.18%) REST
10 102 (3.18%) RESTful
11 97 (3.03%) Kafka
12 71 (2.22%) Laravel
13 68 (2.12%) .NET Framework
14 60 (1.87%) Software Packaging
15 59 (1.84%) Vue
16 53 (1.65%) XML
17 50 (1.56%) Web Services
18 49 (1.53%) ASP.NET
19 48 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 163 (5.09%) Algorithms
2 99 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 89 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
4 82 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 77 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 71 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 71 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 63 (1.97%) Cyberattack
8 63 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 52 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 45 (1.40%) IoT
11 43 (1.34%) Private Cloud
12 39 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.00%) Robotics
14 28 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 25 (0.78%) Device Driver
15 25 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 24 (0.75%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 279 (8.71%) Linux
2 107 (3.34%) Windows
3 80 (2.50%) Android
4 52 (1.62%) Unix
5 42 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
7 14 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
8 12 (0.37%) Rocky
9 9 (0.28%) zOS
10 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
10 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.062%) VMS
12 2 (0.062%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Debian
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (37.64%) Agile
2 767 (23.94%) Systems Engineering
3 696 (21.72%) Mathematics
4 566 (17.67%) Validation
5 511 (15.95%) CI/CD
6 483 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
7 478 (14.92%) DevOps
8 454 (14.17%) Mentoring
9 436 (13.61%) Computer Science
10 430 (13.42%) SysML
11 414 (12.92%) Verification and Validation
12 413 (12.89%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 391 (12.20%) Digital Twin
14 355 (11.08%) Software Testing
15 347 (10.83%) Artificial Intelligence
16 346 (10.80%) Microservices
17 319 (9.96%) SDLC
18 302 (9.43%) Decision-Making
19 292 (9.11%) Full-Stack Development
20 278 (8.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 682 (21.29%) Java
2 619 (19.32%) C#
3 604 (18.85%) Python
4 596 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 524 (16.35%) MATLAB
6 449 (14.01%) SQL
7 367 (11.45%) C++
8 333 (10.39%) TypeScript
9 296 (9.24%) C
10 130 (4.06%) Rust
11 121 (3.78%) PHP
12 120 (3.75%) Go
13 118 (3.68%) Ada
14 38 (1.19%) Embedded C
15 35 (1.09%) Ruby
16 32 (1.00%) Bash
17 29 (0.91%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.75%) PowerShell
19 22 (0.69%) Scala
20 19 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,212 (37.83%) Degree
2 552 (17.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 418 (13.05%) HND
4 398 (12.42%) HNC
5 220 (6.87%) Security Cleared
6 155 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 99 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 90 (2.81%) SC Cleared
9 84 (2.62%) Master's Degree
10 70 (2.18%) Chartered Engineer
11 52 (1.62%) PhD
12 16 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.31%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.22%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
19 3 (0.094%) PMI Certification
19 3 (0.094%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (4.24%) QA
2 51 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 25 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.37%) PMO
7 9 (0.28%) GDPR
7 9 (0.28%) NCSC
7 9 (0.28%) NIST
8 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 7 (0.22%) MISRA
9 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.16%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.16%) IEC 61508
11 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 334 (10.42%) Docker
2 58 (1.81%) Firmware
3 28 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 23 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.062%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.031%) NDS
Systems Management
1 375 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 172 (5.37%) Terraform
3 71 (2.22%) Ansible
4 16 (0.50%) Grafana
5 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.34%) Istio
7 7 (0.22%) CA Endevor
8 6 (0.19%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.19%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.16%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (0.16%) QRadar
10 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.062%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.062%) Graylog
11 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.062%) Podman
11 2 (0.062%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.062%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 151 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 104 (3.25%) Google
3 84 (2.62%) Siemens
4 69 (2.15%) Oracle
5 55 (1.72%) Databricks
6 43 (1.34%) IBM
7 36 (1.12%) PayPal
8 29 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 25 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.37%) Adobe
10 12 (0.37%) Ping Identity
11 11 (0.34%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.34%) Splunk
12 8 (0.25%) Cisco
12 8 (0.25%) Epicor
12 8 (0.25%) SAP
12 8 (0.25%) Telerik
13 7 (0.22%) Apple
13 7 (0.22%) Sybase
14 6 (0.19%) VMware