Software Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 427 544
Rank change year-on-year -50 +117 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 100 384 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.51% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.54% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 72 325 136
10th Percentile £45,375 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,438 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -8.77% +5.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,813
90th Percentile £96,943 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
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 Manager 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
South East +49 39 £75,000 +15.38% 99
North of England -33 30 £85,000 +36.00% 71
Yorkshire +50 20 £85,000 +13.33% 22
Midlands +10 11 £70,000 +7.69% 58
North West -49 9 £85,000 +36.00% 40
West Midlands +3 8 £72,500 +20.83% 35
South West +63 6 - - 37
Wales +37 6 £66,500 +10.83% 11
Scotland +97 5 £75,000 -3.23% 17
East of England +38 3 £53,750 -55.21% 30
East Midlands +25 3 £52,500 -19.23% 18
North East +28 1 £35,000 -36.36% 9
Software Manager
UK

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Software Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 80 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 54 (54.00%) Agile
3 36 (36.00%) SDLC
4 32 (32.00%) Project Management
5 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
6 27 (27.00%) .NET
7 25 (25.00%) DevOps
8 23 (23.00%) C#
9 22 (22.00%) Computer Science
9 22 (22.00%) Degree
10 21 (21.00%) Azure
10 21 (21.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
13 18 (18.00%) Scrum
13 18 (18.00%) Finance
14 17 (17.00%) Roadmaps
15 16 (16.00%) Coaching
15 16 (16.00%) People Management
15 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
17 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (14.00%) Mentoring
18 13 (13.00%) AWS
18 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 13 (13.00%) JavaScript
19 12 (12.00%) React
19 12 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
20 11 (11.00%) Java

Software Manager Skill Set
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 3 (3.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) ColdFusion
2 2 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) AWS
3 12 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
5 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.00%) GCP
5 3 (3.00%) GitHub
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.00%) Serverless
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (1.00%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Broadband
1 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Power BI
4 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
General
1 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Retail
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing
5 3 (3.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Games
6 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Aviation
7 1 (1.00%) Electronics
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.00%) .NET
2 12 (12.00%) React
3 9 (9.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.00%) J2EE
6 3 (3.00%) JSR 170
6 3 (3.00%) Node.js
6 3 (3.00%) OSGi
7 2 (2.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.00%) MSMQ
7 2 (2.00%) Spring
7 2 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.00%) Blazor
8 1 (1.00%) NestJS
8 1 (1.00%) Next.js
8 1 (1.00%) RSS
8 1 (1.00%) Vue
8 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.00%) AS400
5 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.00%) Clustering
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.00%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) zOS
2 2 (2.00%) Android
2 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 54 (54.00%) Agile
3 36 (36.00%) SDLC
4 32 (32.00%) Project Management
5 25 (25.00%) DevOps
6 22 (22.00%) Computer Science
7 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 18 (18.00%) Scrum
9 17 (17.00%) Roadmaps
10 16 (16.00%) Coaching
10 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (16.00%) People Management
11 15 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (14.00%) Mentoring
12 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
15 10 (10.00%) Line Management
15 10 (10.00%) Software Delivery
16 9 (9.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) C#
2 13 (13.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (11.00%) Java
4 3 (3.00%) C
4 3 (3.00%) C++
4 3 (3.00%) Python
4 3 (3.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.00%) Go
6 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.00%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.00%) PHP
6 1 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Degree
2 21 (21.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.00%) PMP
3 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 6 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) IBM
3 3 (3.00%) Adobe
3 3 (3.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco
4 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) Facebook
5 1 (1.00%) Google
5 1 (1.00%) Sage