Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 64 41
Rank change year-on-year +47 -23 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,257 3,010 4,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 4.90% 6.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.38% 5.50% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,083 1,542 2,173
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £83,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +18 2,498 £60,000 -7.69% 66
North of England +52 975 £55,000 -8.33% 155
South East +35 903 £55,000 -12.00% 198
South West +33 846 £55,000 -8.33% 173
North West +52 559 £57,500 - 91
Midlands +41 532 £52,500 -4.55% 130
Yorkshire +45 341 £50,000 -16.67% 53
East of England +23 321 £60,000 - 130
West Midlands +41 284 £55,000 -2.22% 72
East Midlands +12 248 £52,500 - 58
Wales +19 107 £50,000 +17.65% 12
North East +14 75 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Northern Ireland +8 75 £90,000 +50.00% 16
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 6,219 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,129 (50.01%) Agile
3 2,210 (35.32%) Java
4 2,200 (35.16%) Finance
5 2,125 (33.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2,083 (33.29%) SDLC
7 2,002 (32.00%) Law
8 1,938 (30.97%) CI/CD
9 1,921 (30.70%) Python
10 1,876 (29.98%) AWS
11 1,778 (28.42%) Operational Stability
12 1,460 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,390 (22.22%) Machine Learning
14 1,331 (21.27%) SQL
15 1,266 (20.23%) Community of Practice
16 1,172 (18.73%) JavaScript
17 1,160 (18.54%) React
18 1,037 (16.57%) C#
19 986 (15.76%) Algorithms
20 974 (15.57%) Marketing
21 919 (14.69%) Azure
22 903 (14.43%) C
23 887 (14.18%) Linux
24 880 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
25 850 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
26 822 (13.14%) Visualisation
27 815 (13.03%) .NET
28 777 (12.42%) C++
29 756 (12.08%) Degree
30 749 (11.97%) Spring

Software Engineer 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
1 566 (9.05%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.75%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.54%) GeoServer
4 160 (2.56%) Apache
5 120 (1.92%) FileNet
6 117 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.59%) Confluence
8 32 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 27 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 25 (0.40%) JBoss
11 23 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
12 22 (0.35%) Captiva
13 21 (0.34%) GemFire
14 20 (0.32%) Camunda
15 12 (0.19%) CMS
15 12 (0.19%) Tomcat
16 11 (0.18%) CICS
16 11 (0.18%) NServiceBus
17 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
18 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
Applications
1 96 (1.53%) Simulink
2 27 (0.43%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.18%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.18%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.096%) Trello
5 5 (0.080%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.064%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.048%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.048%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.032%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.032%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.032%) Sketch
9 1 (0.016%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.096%) Magento
4 3 (0.048%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.032%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.016%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1,876 (29.98%) AWS
2 919 (14.69%) Azure
3 290 (4.63%) GCP
4 214 (3.42%) Serverless
5 152 (2.43%) GitHub
6 141 (2.25%) SaaS
7 139 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 109 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (1.74%) Datadog
9 96 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
11 75 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
13 58 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
15 53 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
16 51 (0.82%) Amazon EMR
17 42 (0.67%) BlazeMeter
18 38 (0.61%) OpenShift
19 33 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.61%) Wireless
2 91 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.31%) Kerberos
4 67 (1.07%) Ethernet
5 64 (1.02%) RS-232
6 63 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (0.75%) Bluetooth
8 39 (0.62%) RS-485
9 38 (0.61%) Network Security
10 33 (0.53%) Modbus
11 27 (0.43%) MQTT
12 26 (0.42%) AMQP
13 18 (0.29%) ZigBee
14 15 (0.24%) 4G
14 15 (0.24%) Internet
15 14 (0.22%) 3G
15 14 (0.22%) J1939
16 12 (0.19%) 5G
17 11 (0.18%) Wireshark
18 10 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 649 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 482 (7.70%) Big Data
3 409 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
4 317 (5.07%) GIS
5 286 (4.57%) Hadoop
6 284 (4.54%) QGIS
7 211 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
8 202 (3.23%) MySQL
9 189 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 159 (2.54%) SQL Server
11 153 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 149 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 131 (2.09%) Apache Hive
14 103 (1.65%) HBase
15 68 (1.09%) Redis
16 67 (1.07%) Metadata
17 51 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
18 48 (0.77%) Data Lake
19 47 (0.75%) Oracle Database
20 45 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 533 (8.52%) Git
2 361 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 211 (3.37%) JUnit
4 180 (2.88%) JIRA
5 120 (1.92%) Jasmine
6 108 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 99 (1.58%) Visual Studio
8 88 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 86 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
10 82 (1.31%) Maven
10 82 (1.31%) Selenium
11 75 (1.20%) Subversion
12 67 (1.07%) Artifactory
13 66 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
14 62 (0.99%) WebDriver
15 60 (0.96%) GitLab
15 60 (0.96%) Protractor
16 50 (0.80%) Mockito
17 38 (0.61%) Cucumber
17 38 (0.61%) Gradle
General
1 2,200 (35.16%) Finance
2 2,125 (33.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,002 (32.00%) Law
4 974 (15.57%) Marketing
5 700 (11.19%) Legal
6 560 (8.95%) Social Skills
7 457 (7.30%) Banking
8 365 (5.83%) Electronics
9 302 (4.83%) Investment Banking
10 241 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 197 (3.15%) Automotive
12 158 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
13 144 (2.30%) Aerospace
14 143 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 108 (1.73%) Public Sector
16 83 (1.33%) Military
17 79 (1.26%) Retail
18 77 (1.23%) Financial Institution
19 74 (1.18%) Private Banking
20 67 (1.07%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,160 (18.54%) React
2 815 (13.03%) .NET
3 749 (11.97%) Spring
4 685 (10.95%) AngularJS
5 624 (9.97%) CSS
6 424 (6.78%) Kafka
7 416 (6.65%) HTML
8 411 (6.57%) .NET Core
9 401 (6.41%) Node.js
10 355 (5.67%) Spring Boot
11 295 (4.71%) RESTful
12 292 (4.67%) PostGIS
13 288 (4.60%) Leaflet
13 288 (4.60%) OpenLayers
14 272 (4.35%) J2EE
15 264 (4.22%) JSON
16 243 (3.88%) Hibernate
17 240 (3.84%) Web Services
18 211 (3.37%) REST
19 179 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 986 (15.76%) Algorithms
2 678 (10.84%) Cloud Native
3 258 (4.12%) Public Cloud
4 176 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
5 170 (2.72%) IoT
6 163 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 143 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 130 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 130 (2.08%) Reference Data
9 102 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 97 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 79 (1.26%) Device Driver
12 67 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 65 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 65 (1.04%) Product Ownership
14 60 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 56 (0.89%) Mobile App
16 54 (0.86%) Robotics
17 44 (0.70%) Legacy Code
18 36 (0.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 887 (14.18%) Linux
2 297 (4.75%) Windows
3 192 (3.07%) Embedded Linux
4 188 (3.00%) Unix
5 103 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 91 (1.45%) Android
7 58 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 42 (0.67%) CentOS
10 34 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
11 31 (0.50%) Debian
12 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.096%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.080%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.048%) VMS
16 3 (0.048%) Windows Server
17 2 (0.032%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.032%) Solaris
17 2 (0.032%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,219 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,129 (50.01%) Agile
3 2,083 (33.29%) SDLC
4 1,938 (30.97%) CI/CD
5 1,778 (28.42%) Operational Stability
6 1,460 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,390 (22.22%) Machine Learning
8 1,266 (20.23%) Community of Practice
9 880 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
10 850 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 822 (13.14%) Visualisation
12 731 (11.68%) Microservices
13 728 (11.63%) DevOps
14 693 (11.08%) Risk Management
15 660 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
16 601 (9.61%) Computer Science
17 478 (7.64%) Actionable Insight
18 477 (7.62%) Decision-Making
19 445 (7.11%) Test Automation
20 417 (6.66%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 2,210 (35.32%) Java
2 1,921 (30.70%) Python
3 1,331 (21.27%) SQL
4 1,172 (18.73%) JavaScript
5 1,037 (16.57%) C#
6 903 (14.43%) C
7 777 (12.42%) C++
8 464 (7.42%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.43%) Scala
10 233 (3.72%) Embedded C
11 213 (3.40%) Go
12 189 (3.02%) Bash
13 134 (2.14%) PL/SQL
14 104 (1.66%) MATLAB
14 104 (1.66%) Rust
15 97 (1.55%) Ruby
16 89 (1.42%) Kotlin
17 83 (1.33%) PHP
18 74 (1.18%) Perl
19 72 (1.15%) Ada
Qualifications
1 756 (12.08%) Degree
2 747 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 487 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 222 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 107 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 74 (1.18%) PhD
8 60 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.46%) HND
10 26 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.29%) HNC
12 10 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.13%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.11%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.096%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.048%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.032%) Postgraduate
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Developer
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (2.25%) QA
2 64 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.89%) MISRA
4 43 (0.69%) SLA
5 36 (0.58%) GDPR
6 34 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 34 (0.54%) PMO
7 25 (0.40%) ISO 26262
8 23 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
9 21 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
10 18 (0.29%) ISO 13485
11 15 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
12 12 (0.19%) Def Stans
13 10 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 9 (0.14%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) IEC 61508
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9000
17 6 (0.096%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.096%) WAI
System Software
1 267 (4.27%) Docker
2 178 (2.84%) Firmware
3 102 (1.63%) HDFS
4 84 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.09%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.032%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.032%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 520 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 359 (5.74%) Terraform
3 155 (2.48%) Grafana
4 65 (1.04%) Ansible
5 64 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 25 (0.40%) Puppet
8 21 (0.34%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.34%) Kibana
8 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
9 19 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.11%) Graphite
11 6 (0.096%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.080%) SELinux
13 3 (0.048%) Podman
14 2 (0.032%) Istio
14 2 (0.032%) linkerd
14 2 (0.032%) MIIS
15 1 (0.016%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.016%) SCCM
Vendors
1 427 (6.82%) Oracle
2 292 (4.67%) ESRI
3 214 (3.42%) Databricks
4 164 (2.62%) Splunk
5 152 (2.43%) Microsoft
6 144 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 144 (2.30%) Google
7 87 (1.39%) Informatica
8 72 (1.15%) Cloudera
9 67 (1.07%) IBM
10 46 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 46 (0.74%) SAP
11 45 (0.72%) Red Hat
12 43 (0.69%) SaltStack
12 43 (0.69%) Siemens
13 42 (0.67%) Pega
14 39 (0.62%) Alteryx
15 33 (0.53%) Dell
16 29 (0.46%) ServiceNow
17 22 (0.35%) Kofax