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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,889 6,539 8,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.68% 10.57% 12.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.01% 11.05% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,000 3,634 4,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,637
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.00% +16.67%

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 59,230 59,150 66,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.47% 95.64% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,337 41,441
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 April 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 April 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 +2 3,054 £60,000 -7.69% 138
North of England +11 1,574 £60,000 -4.00% 302
South East -3 1,354 £57,500 -8.00% 361
South West +8 1,233 £55,000 -8.33% 275
North West +11 944 £60,000 -4.00% 180
Midlands +8 857 £55,000 -6.78% 230
East of England +3 521 £60,000 -7.69% 236
Yorkshire +9 505 £55,000 -13.39% 93
West Midlands +22 496 £60,000 - 122
East Midlands +1 361 £50,000 -9.09% 108
Wales +8 186 £50,000 - 27
North East +15 125 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Northern Ireland +1 112 £60,000 +26.32% 42
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
1 658 (7.40%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.37%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.19%) GeoServer
4 205 (2.31%) Apache
5 147 (1.65%) Confluence
6 118 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 118 (1.33%) FileNet
7 31 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 28 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 25 (0.28%) JBoss
10 23 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
11 22 (0.25%) Captiva
11 22 (0.25%) CMS
12 21 (0.24%) GemFire
13 20 (0.22%) Camunda
14 19 (0.21%) Tomcat
15 16 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
16 13 (0.15%) IIS
16 13 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 121 (1.36%) Simulink
2 29 (0.33%) Stateflow
3 16 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 8 (0.090%) OrCAD
8 6 (0.067%) Trello
9 4 (0.045%) Doxygen
10 3 (0.034%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.034%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.034%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.022%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.022%) Sketch
11 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.011%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.10%) Magento
2 9 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.090%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.045%) Shopify
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.034%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.022%) SAP FI-GL
7 2 (0.022%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,460 (27.67%) AWS
2 1,365 (15.36%) Azure
3 364 (4.09%) GCP
4 298 (3.35%) SaaS
5 272 (3.06%) Serverless
6 219 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 207 (2.33%) GitHub
8 186 (2.09%) Amazon S3
9 155 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 121 (1.36%) Datadog
10 121 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
11 106 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
12 105 (1.18%) Power Platform
13 94 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
14 93 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
15 90 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
16 85 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 56 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
19 53 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 164 (1.84%) Wireless
2 116 (1.30%) TCP/IP
3 91 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 82 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 68 (0.76%) Network Security
7 64 (0.72%) RS-232
8 57 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 45 (0.51%) Internet
10 43 (0.48%) MQTT
11 39 (0.44%) RS-485
12 38 (0.43%) HTTP
13 31 (0.35%) Modbus
14 30 (0.34%) AMQP
15 24 (0.27%) 5G
16 22 (0.25%) 4G
17 21 (0.24%) ZigBee
18 18 (0.20%) DSL
18 18 (0.20%) Firewall
18 18 (0.20%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 825 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 594 (6.68%) Big Data
3 474 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 325 (3.66%) GIS
5 311 (3.50%) MySQL
6 295 (3.32%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.19%) QGIS
8 278 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 264 (2.97%) SQL Server
10 225 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 194 (2.18%) MongoDB
12 161 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
13 133 (1.50%) Apache Hive
14 103 (1.16%) HBase
15 89 (1.00%) Redis
16 74 (0.83%) Data Lake
17 73 (0.82%) RDBMS
18 72 (0.81%) Metadata
19 64 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
20 61 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 885 (9.96%) Git
2 478 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 349 (3.93%) JIRA
4 278 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 234 (2.63%) JUnit
6 197 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 150 (1.69%) GitLab
8 149 (1.68%) Cypress.io
9 123 (1.38%) Jasmine
9 123 (1.38%) Selenium
10 96 (1.08%) Maven
11 94 (1.06%) Subversion
12 86 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
13 78 (0.88%) LabVIEW
14 67 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
16 64 (0.72%) WebDriver
17 62 (0.70%) Sourcetree
18 60 (0.67%) Protractor
19 57 (0.64%) Cucumber
General
1 2,825 (31.78%) Finance
2 2,604 (29.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,409 (27.10%) Law
4 1,342 (15.10%) Marketing
5 1,030 (11.59%) Social Skills
6 733 (8.25%) Legal
7 595 (6.69%) Banking
8 466 (5.24%) Electronics
9 357 (4.02%) Investment Banking
10 346 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
11 339 (3.81%) Manufacturing
12 266 (2.99%) Financial Institution
13 233 (2.62%) Automotive
14 203 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
15 178 (2.00%) Games
16 173 (1.95%) Aerospace
17 167 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
18 160 (1.80%) Public Sector
19 137 (1.54%) Retail
20 99 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,192 (69.66%) Software Engineer
2 2,032 (22.86%) Senior
3 1,576 (17.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,178 (13.25%) Lead
5 1,111 (12.50%) Developer
6 1,001 (11.26%) Java Engineer
7 988 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
8 970 (10.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 887 (9.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 853 (9.60%) Lead Software Engineer
11 457 (5.14%) Full Stack Engineer
12 429 (4.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 405 (4.56%) Python Engineer
14 400 (4.50%) Python Software Engineer
15 389 (4.38%) Big Data Engineer
15 389 (4.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 349 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
17 338 (3.80%) Software Developer
18 335 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
19 331 (3.72%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,465 (16.48%) React
2 1,317 (14.82%) .NET
3 931 (10.47%) Spring
4 837 (9.42%) AngularJS
5 817 (9.19%) CSS
6 634 (7.13%) HTML
7 542 (6.10%) Node.js
8 529 (5.95%) .NET Core
9 512 (5.76%) Spring Boot
10 495 (5.57%) Kafka
11 444 (4.99%) RESTful
12 332 (3.73%) JSON
13 298 (3.35%) Web Services
14 295 (3.32%) REST
15 294 (3.31%) PostGIS
16 288 (3.24%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.24%) OpenLayers
17 270 (3.04%) Hibernate
17 270 (3.04%) J2EE
18 232 (2.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,093 (12.30%) Algorithms
2 1,018 (11.45%) Cloud Native
3 328 (3.69%) Public Cloud
4 244 (2.74%) IoT
5 232 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 230 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
7 222 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 210 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 202 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 192 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 157 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 134 (1.51%) Reference Data
13 124 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 105 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 98 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 98 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
16 91 (1.02%) Market Risk
17 81 (0.91%) Device Driver
18 74 (0.83%) Robotics
19 70 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,124 (12.64%) Linux
2 429 (4.83%) Windows
3 221 (2.49%) Embedded Linux
4 196 (2.20%) Unix
5 121 (1.36%) Android
6 105 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 76 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 55 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (0.43%) CentOS
9 38 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
10 30 (0.34%) Debian
11 28 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.11%) Windows Server
14 6 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
14 6 (0.067%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.056%) VxWorks
15 5 (0.056%) Windows Mobile
16 3 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,219 (47.46%) Agile
2 2,498 (28.10%) SDLC
3 2,496 (28.08%) CI/CD
4 1,860 (20.92%) Operational Stability
5 1,669 (18.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,574 (17.71%) Machine Learning
7 1,344 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 1,307 (14.70%) Community of Practice
9 1,281 (14.41%) DevOps
10 1,180 (13.27%) Computer Science
11 1,003 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 963 (10.83%) Microservices
13 905 (10.18%) Full Stack Development
14 895 (10.07%) Visualisation
15 727 (8.18%) Risk Management
16 716 (8.05%) Mentoring
17 645 (7.26%) Decision-Making
18 630 (7.09%) Scrum
19 629 (7.08%) Test Automation
20 595 (6.69%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,764 (31.09%) Java
2 2,420 (27.22%) Python
3 1,843 (20.73%) SQL
4 1,689 (19.00%) C#
5 1,561 (17.56%) JavaScript
6 1,203 (13.53%) C
7 994 (11.18%) C++
8 715 (8.04%) TypeScript
9 362 (4.07%) Scala
10 303 (3.41%) Embedded C
11 264 (2.97%) Go
12 224 (2.52%) Bash
13 214 (2.41%) PHP
14 152 (1.71%) PL/SQL
15 127 (1.43%) Rust
16 126 (1.42%) MATLAB
17 125 (1.41%) Ruby
18 102 (1.15%) T-SQL
19 98 (1.10%) Kotlin
20 85 (0.96%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,398 (15.73%) Degree
2 1,115 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 727 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 405 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 196 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 186 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 131 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 101 (1.14%) PhD
9 53 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.38%) HND
12 29 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.28%) HNC
14 19 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.18%) ISTQB
16 14 (0.16%) CISSP
17 13 (0.15%) OCP
17 13 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
18 12 (0.13%) DBS Check
19 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (2.65%) QA
2 97 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.82%) SLA
4 56 (0.63%) MISRA
5 47 (0.53%) GDPR
6 36 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 34 (0.38%) PMO
8 30 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 30 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 26 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
10 25 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 23 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
11 23 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
12 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 12 (0.13%) NIST
15 10 (0.11%) GRC
15 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
16 9 (0.10%) JTAG
16 9 (0.10%) MISRA C
System Software
1 551 (6.20%) Docker
2 301 (3.39%) Firmware
3 131 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 102 (1.15%) HDFS
5 79 (0.89%) Active Directory
6 12 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.079%) IAG
9 6 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.045%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.022%) NFS
13 2 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.022%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.011%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 793 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 502 (5.65%) Terraform
3 198 (2.23%) Grafana
4 131 (1.47%) Ansible
5 100 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 27 (0.30%) Puppet
8 26 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.25%) Kibana
10 21 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.16%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.079%) Graphite
13 6 (0.067%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.067%) Nessus
14 5 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.056%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.056%) Istio
14 5 (0.056%) SELinux
15 4 (0.045%) vRealize
Vendors
1 509 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 468 (5.26%) Oracle
3 296 (3.33%) ESRI
4 268 (3.01%) Databricks
5 202 (2.27%) Google
6 196 (2.20%) Splunk
7 164 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 93 (1.05%) SAP
9 87 (0.98%) Informatica
10 78 (0.88%) IBM
11 72 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 57 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 55 (0.62%) Alteryx
14 54 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 51 (0.57%) Xamarin
16 46 (0.52%) Siemens
17 44 (0.49%) Pega
18 42 (0.47%) SaltStack
19 38 (0.43%) Dell
20 32 (0.36%) ServiceNow