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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3,624 9,264 5,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.20% 12.42% 9.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.93% 15.08% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 5,299 3,129
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -5.74% +6.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £82,500 £90,090
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% -12.14% +1.34%

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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 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 30 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 1,083 £57,836 +0.58% 3,332
North West -8 798 £55,000 -8.33% 1,636
Scotland -3 620 £58,033 -3.28% 735
South East -15 616 £65,000 +13.04% 4,353
Midlands -5 496 £65,000 +18.18% 2,717
South West 0 470 £52,600 -4.36% 1,769
West Midlands -3 304 £65,000 +8.33% 1,428
East of England -24 257 £60,000 - 2,208
Yorkshire -10 224 £68,000 +23.64% 1,259
East Midlands -17 192 £65,000 +30.00% 1,108
Wales -6 75 £65,000 +30.00% 405
North East +5 61 £55,000 - 443
Northern Ireland -15 10 £90,000 +50.00% 250
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
1 203 (5.60%) Confluence
2 39 (1.08%) Apache
3 24 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 21 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.33%) Kinematics
5 12 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.28%) CMS
7 7 (0.19%) IIS
7 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.11%) Appian
9 4 (0.11%) Camunda
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.083%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.055%) CICS
11 2 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.055%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 591 (16.31%) Simulink
2 53 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.083%) Sketch
6 2 (0.055%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.055%) 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 8 (0.22%) Magento
1 8 (0.22%) Shopify
2 7 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (0.055%) 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
1 972 (26.82%) AWS
2 889 (24.53%) Azure
3 544 (15.01%) GCP
4 102 (2.81%) GitHub
5 94 (2.59%) SaaS
6 89 (2.46%) Serverless
7 77 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 52 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 38 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 33 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (0.75%) Snowflake
16 26 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (0.55%) Azure API Management
18 18 (0.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.08%) Wireless
2 29 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.69%) Network Security
4 24 (0.66%) Broadband
5 22 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
6 21 (0.58%) Modbus
7 17 (0.47%) WAN
8 14 (0.39%) MQTT
9 13 (0.36%) Firewall
10 12 (0.33%) 5G
10 12 (0.33%) Bluetooth
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) RS-232
10 12 (0.33%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.28%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.22%) DNS
12 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.22%) ZigBee
13 7 (0.19%) Profibus
13 7 (0.19%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 92 (2.54%) MySQL
4 89 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 82 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 76 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 63 (1.74%) Big Data
9 32 (0.88%) Power BI
10 27 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.52%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.52%) RDBMS
14 16 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.39%) Cloud Spanner
15 14 (0.39%) Redis
16 13 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
17 12 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 349 (9.63%) JIRA
2 303 (8.36%) GitLab
3 277 (7.64%) Selenium
4 275 (7.59%) Bitbucket
5 270 (7.45%) SonarQube
6 262 (7.23%) Cucumber
7 261 (7.20%) Maven
8 260 (7.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 225 (6.21%) Git
10 73 (2.01%) Jenkins
11 43 (1.19%) Visual Studio
12 28 (0.77%) Eclipse
13 26 (0.72%) JUnit
14 25 (0.69%) Eclipse RCP
14 25 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
15 24 (0.66%) Cypress.io
16 19 (0.52%) webpack
17 16 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 14 (0.39%) Subversion
19 9 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 803 (22.16%) Finance
2 625 (17.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 543 (14.98%) Banking
4 443 (12.22%) Social Skills
5 332 (9.16%) Electronics
6 215 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
7 167 (4.61%) Retail
8 164 (4.53%) Law
9 146 (4.03%) Aerospace
10 131 (3.61%) Automotive
11 101 (2.79%) Investment Banking
12 91 (2.51%) Marketing
13 90 (2.48%) Corporate Banking
14 81 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 76 (2.10%) Games
16 63 (1.74%) Public Sector
17 29 (0.80%) Military
18 28 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.69%) Telecoms
20 24 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,668 (46.03%) Software Engineer
2 762 (21.03%) Senior
3 551 (15.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 517 (14.27%) Systems Engineer
5 397 (10.95%) Principal Engineer
6 359 (9.91%) Lead
7 288 (7.95%) Developer
8 184 (5.08%) Software Assurance Engineer
9 128 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
9 128 (3.53%) Principal Software Engineer
10 118 (3.26%) Embedded Engineer
11 113 (3.12%) Java Engineer
11 113 (3.12%) Software Developer
12 109 (3.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 104 (2.87%) Java Software Engineer
14 101 (2.79%) Engineering Manager
15 80 (2.21%) Software Manager
16 77 (2.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 69 (1.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 69 (1.90%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 606 (16.72%) React
2 518 (14.29%) .NET
3 431 (11.89%) HTML
4 414 (11.42%) Spring
5 392 (10.82%) Spring Boot
6 391 (10.79%) CSS
7 384 (10.60%) Node.js
8 380 (10.49%) Kafka
9 269 (7.42%) Redux
10 252 (6.95%) JPA
11 187 (5.16%) RESTful
12 185 (5.10%) Hibernate
13 175 (4.83%) REST
14 149 (4.11%) AngularJS
15 124 (3.42%) Jest
16 115 (3.17%) HTML5
17 108 (2.98%) CSS3
18 97 (2.68%) Sass
19 93 (2.57%) .NET Core
20 60 (1.66%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 368 (10.15%) Product Ownership
2 268 (7.40%) Enterprise Software
3 254 (7.01%) Cyberattack
4 208 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
5 196 (5.41%) Algorithms
6 172 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
7 104 (2.87%) Cloud Native
8 93 (2.57%) Embedded Systems
9 86 (2.37%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
11 65 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 63 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 60 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 43 (1.19%) Private Cloud
16 41 (1.13%) Robotics
17 38 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
18 37 (1.02%) IoT
19 28 (0.77%) Reference Data
20 25 (0.69%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 433 (11.95%) Linux
2 105 (2.90%) Windows
3 69 (1.90%) Android
4 45 (1.24%) Unix
5 36 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.19%) zOS
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
9 5 (0.14%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.083%) Rocky
10 3 (0.083%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.055%) VMS
11 2 (0.055%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.028%) CentOS
12 1 (0.028%) Debian
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,658 (45.75%) Agile
2 841 (23.21%) Systems Engineering
3 791 (21.83%) CI/CD
4 773 (21.33%) Mathematics
5 733 (20.23%) Microservices
6 672 (18.54%) Validation
7 643 (17.74%) DevOps
8 635 (17.52%) Mentoring
9 628 (17.33%) SDLC
10 519 (14.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 505 (13.93%) SysML
12 499 (13.77%) Test Automation
13 497 (13.71%) Verification and Validation
14 490 (13.52%) Computer Science
15 488 (13.47%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 486 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
17 473 (13.05%) Digital Twin
18 412 (11.37%) Containerisation
19 368 (10.15%) User Experience
20 367 (10.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (30.38%) Java
2 921 (25.41%) JavaScript
3 764 (21.08%) Python
4 672 (18.54%) SQL
5 604 (16.67%) MATLAB
6 511 (14.10%) C#
7 501 (13.82%) C++
8 362 (9.99%) TypeScript
9 287 (7.92%) Rust
10 279 (7.70%) Go
11 268 (7.40%) C
12 159 (4.39%) Ada
13 82 (2.26%) PHP
14 46 (1.27%) Ada 95
15 30 (0.83%) Bash
16 24 (0.66%) Embedded C
17 23 (0.63%) Ruby
18 21 (0.58%) PowerShell
19 16 (0.44%) PL/SQL
19 16 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,324 (36.53%) Degree
2 626 (17.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 510 (14.07%) HND
4 478 (13.19%) HNC
5 401 (11.07%) Security Cleared
6 273 (7.53%) DV Cleared
7 185 (5.10%) AWS Certification
8 177 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 175 (4.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 167 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 113 (3.12%) Chartered Engineer
12 103 (2.84%) SC Cleared
13 58 (1.60%) Master's Degree
14 33 (0.91%) PhD
15 20 (0.55%) Azure Certification
16 13 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.19%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.17%) DBS Check
19 4 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
20 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (9.60%) QA
2 126 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 77 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 29 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.33%) GDPR
6 12 (0.33%) PMO
7 9 (0.25%) NIST
8 7 (0.19%) IEC 61131
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.17%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.17%) NCSC
9 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 547 (15.09%) Docker
2 65 (1.79%) Firmware
3 38 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.083%) HDFS
7 1 (0.028%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.028%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.028%) NDS
Systems Management
1 582 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 175 (4.83%) Terraform
3 73 (2.01%) Ansible
4 30 (0.83%) Grafana
5 18 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.25%) Istio
6 9 (0.25%) Kibana
7 6 (0.17%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.17%) QRadar
7 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.083%) Argo
8 3 (0.083%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.055%) Graylog
9 2 (0.055%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.055%) Netcool
9 2 (0.055%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 2 (0.055%) Podman
9 2 (0.055%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.055%) Puppet
9 2 (0.055%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 246 (6.79%) Solace
2 130 (3.59%) Microsoft
3 99 (2.73%) Siemens
4 96 (2.65%) Google
5 90 (2.48%) Oracle
6 68 (1.88%) Databricks
7 36 (0.99%) PayPal
8 30 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 24 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 23 (0.63%) Splunk
11 21 (0.58%) IBM
12 15 (0.41%) Ping Identity
13 13 (0.36%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.33%) SAP
15 11 (0.30%) Adobe
15 11 (0.30%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.28%) VMware
17 9 (0.25%) Sybase
18 8 (0.22%) Salesforce
19 7 (0.19%) Cisco