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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,525 9,200 5,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.07% 12.49% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.78% 15.13% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 5,230 3,196
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -6.50% +6.96%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £90,450
UK median annual salary £66,225 £61,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.68% -12.14% +0.87%

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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -5 1,072 £57,836 +0.58% 838
North West -8 790 £55,000 -8.33% 515
South East -14 600 £65,000 +13.04% 1,137
Scotland -5 582 £58,033 -3.28% 286
Midlands -6 483 £65,000 +18.18% 434
South West 0 458 £52,600 -4.36% 415
West Midlands -3 295 £65,000 +8.33% 237
East of England -27 250 £60,000 - 442
Yorkshire -8 220 £68,500 +24.55% 214
East Midlands -19 188 £65,000 +30.00% 178
Wales -9 72 £65,000 +30.00% 65
North East +6 62 £55,000 - 116
Northern Ireland -14 10 £90,000 +50.00% 102
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
1 202 (5.73%) Confluence
2 35 (0.99%) Apache
3 24 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.31%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.26%) CMS
9 7 (0.20%) IIS
9 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.11%) Appian
12 3 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.057%) Camunda
13 2 (0.057%) CICS
13 2 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.057%) Sitefinity
13 2 (0.057%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.057%) TPMS
13 2 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 591 (16.77%) Simulink
2 52 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.085%) Sketch
6 2 (0.057%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.057%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.028%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
2 6 (0.17%) Magento
2 6 (0.17%) Shopify
3 2 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.028%) BASE24
4 1 (0.028%) iTrent
4 1 (0.028%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.028%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.028%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 943 (26.75%) AWS
2 878 (24.91%) Azure
3 541 (15.35%) GCP
4 98 (2.78%) GitHub
5 93 (2.64%) SaaS
6 85 (2.41%) Serverless
7 76 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (1.36%) Amazon S3
10 48 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (1.19%) Power Platform
12 41 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (0.71%) Snowflake
17 24 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (0.54%) Azure API Management
19 17 (0.48%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.08%) Wireless
2 29 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.71%) Network Security
4 24 (0.68%) Broadband
5 21 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
6 20 (0.57%) Modbus
7 17 (0.48%) WAN
8 14 (0.40%) MQTT
9 13 (0.37%) Firewall
10 12 (0.34%) 5G
10 12 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 12 (0.34%) RS-232
10 12 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.28%) Internet
12 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.23%) DNS
13 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.23%) ZigBee
14 7 (0.20%) RS-485
15 6 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (10.35%) SQL Server
2 90 (2.55%) NoSQL
3 87 (2.47%) MySQL
4 85 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 80 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 62 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (1.65%) Big Data
9 33 (0.94%) Power BI
10 27 (0.77%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.48%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.45%) DynamoDB
16 14 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.40%) Cloud Spanner
16 14 (0.40%) Redis
17 10 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 346 (9.82%) JIRA
2 302 (8.57%) GitLab
3 275 (7.80%) Bitbucket
4 273 (7.74%) Selenium
5 270 (7.66%) SonarQube
6 262 (7.43%) Cucumber
7 260 (7.38%) Maven
7 260 (7.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 215 (6.10%) Git
9 69 (1.96%) Jenkins
10 41 (1.16%) Visual Studio
11 28 (0.79%) Eclipse
12 25 (0.71%) Eclipse RCP
12 25 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
13 21 (0.60%) JUnit
14 18 (0.51%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.43%) webpack
17 14 (0.40%) Subversion
18 9 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 753 (21.36%) Finance
2 579 (16.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 516 (14.64%) Banking
4 425 (12.06%) Social Skills
5 328 (9.30%) Electronics
6 211 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
7 164 (4.65%) Retail
8 146 (4.14%) Aerospace
9 130 (3.69%) Automotive
10 118 (3.35%) Law
11 97 (2.75%) Investment Banking
12 90 (2.55%) Corporate Banking
13 81 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 73 (2.07%) Games
15 72 (2.04%) Marketing
16 60 (1.70%) Public Sector
17 29 (0.82%) Military
18 26 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.71%) Telecoms
20 24 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,615 (45.82%) Software Engineer
2 746 (21.16%) Senior
3 545 (15.46%) Senior Software Engineer
4 517 (14.67%) Systems Engineer
5 393 (11.15%) Principal Engineer
6 341 (9.67%) Lead
7 259 (7.35%) Developer
8 184 (5.22%) Software Assurance Engineer
9 124 (3.52%) Principal Software Engineer
10 116 (3.29%) Embedded Engineer
11 114 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 107 (3.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 106 (3.01%) Software Developer
14 93 (2.64%) Engineering Manager
15 88 (2.50%) Java Engineer
16 79 (2.24%) Java Software Engineer
17 74 (2.10%) Software Manager
18 69 (1.96%) Team Leader
19 65 (1.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 60 (1.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 583 (16.54%) React
2 514 (14.58%) .NET
3 416 (11.80%) HTML
4 390 (11.06%) Spring
5 382 (10.84%) Node.js
6 380 (10.78%) CSS
7 375 (10.64%) Spring Boot
8 364 (10.33%) Kafka
9 269 (7.63%) Redux
10 252 (7.15%) JPA
11 183 (5.19%) Hibernate
12 177 (5.02%) RESTful
13 166 (4.71%) REST
14 136 (3.86%) AngularJS
15 121 (3.43%) Jest
16 110 (3.12%) HTML5
17 103 (2.92%) CSS3
18 97 (2.75%) Sass
19 92 (2.61%) .NET Core
20 60 (1.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 365 (10.35%) Product Ownership
2 267 (7.57%) Enterprise Software
3 254 (7.21%) Cyberattack
4 207 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
5 176 (4.99%) Algorithms
6 172 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
7 91 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 91 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
8 85 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 67 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 60 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.67%) Public Cloud
12 58 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 42 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 39 (1.11%) Robotics
16 38 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
17 36 (1.02%) IoT
18 24 (0.68%) e-Learning
18 24 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 425 (12.06%) Linux
2 102 (2.89%) Windows
3 67 (1.90%) Android
4 45 (1.28%) Unix
5 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.20%) zOS
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
9 5 (0.14%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.085%) Rocky
12 2 (0.057%) VMS
12 2 (0.057%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,590 (45.11%) Agile
2 841 (23.86%) Systems Engineering
3 769 (21.82%) Mathematics
4 749 (21.25%) CI/CD
5 727 (20.62%) Microservices
6 669 (18.98%) Validation
7 635 (18.01%) DevOps
8 627 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 571 (16.20%) SDLC
10 505 (14.33%) SysML
11 498 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 496 (14.07%) Verification and Validation
13 492 (13.96%) Test Automation
14 488 (13.84%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 473 (13.42%) Digital Twin
16 471 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
17 466 (13.22%) Computer Science
18 406 (11.52%) Containerisation
19 367 (10.41%) User Experience
20 343 (9.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (30.13%) Java
2 894 (25.36%) JavaScript
3 739 (20.96%) Python
4 654 (18.55%) SQL
5 604 (17.13%) MATLAB
6 502 (14.24%) C#
7 493 (13.99%) C++
8 351 (9.96%) TypeScript
9 285 (8.09%) Rust
10 279 (7.91%) Go
11 264 (7.49%) C
12 154 (4.37%) Ada
13 81 (2.30%) PHP
14 41 (1.16%) Ada 95
15 30 (0.85%) Bash
16 24 (0.68%) Embedded C
16 24 (0.68%) Ruby
17 20 (0.57%) PowerShell
18 16 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,290 (36.60%) Degree
2 606 (17.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 510 (14.47%) HND
4 478 (13.56%) HNC
5 396 (11.23%) Security Cleared
6 273 (7.74%) DV Cleared
7 183 (5.19%) AWS Certification
8 177 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 174 (4.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 157 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 108 (3.06%) Chartered Engineer
12 100 (2.84%) SC Cleared
13 58 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 33 (0.94%) PhD
15 19 (0.54%) Azure Certification
16 13 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.20%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.17%) DBS Check
19 4 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
20 3 (0.085%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (9.79%) QA
2 126 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 72 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 28 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.34%) PMO
7 10 (0.28%) GDPR
8 9 (0.26%) NIST
9 7 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.17%) NCSC
10 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.14%) IEC 61508
11 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 534 (15.15%) Docker
2 64 (1.82%) Firmware
3 37 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.085%) HDFS
7 1 (0.028%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.028%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.028%) NDS
Systems Management
1 564 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 168 (4.77%) Terraform
3 72 (2.04%) Ansible
4 27 (0.77%) Grafana
5 17 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.26%) Istio
7 8 (0.23%) Kibana
8 6 (0.17%) ArcSight ESM
8 6 (0.17%) QRadar
8 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.085%) Argo
11 2 (0.057%) Graylog
11 2 (0.057%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.057%) Podman
11 2 (0.057%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.057%) Puppet
12 1 (0.028%) CA Service Virtualization
12 1 (0.028%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.028%) logstash
Vendors
1 246 (6.98%) Solace
2 124 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 94 (2.67%) Google
4 90 (2.55%) Siemens
5 79 (2.24%) Oracle
6 63 (1.79%) Databricks
7 36 (1.02%) PayPal
8 27 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 23 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 20 (0.57%) IBM
11 18 (0.51%) Splunk
12 15 (0.43%) Ping Identity
13 12 (0.34%) SAP
14 11 (0.31%) Adobe
15 10 (0.28%) VMware
16 9 (0.26%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.26%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.26%) Sybase
17 8 (0.23%) Salesforce
18 7 (0.20%) Cisco