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

6 months to
18 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 8,810 6,696 8,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.70% 10.65% 12.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.99% 11.13% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 3,765 4,731
10th Percentile £37,501 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,563
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,750
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.36% +16.25%

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 58,778 60,147 66,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 95.63% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,061 30,701 41,749
10th Percentile £27,218 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 18 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 18 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 2,989 £60,000 -7.69% 146
North of England +11 1,568 £60,000 -4.00% 324
South East -5 1,334 £57,500 -8.00% 364
South West +8 1,243 £55,000 -8.33% 263
North West +13 942 £60,000 -1.93% 196
Midlands +8 855 £55,000 -6.38% 225
East of England +3 523 £60,000 -7.69% 221
Yorkshire +7 504 £55,000 -15.38% 97
West Midlands +26 497 £57,965 -3.39% 114
East Midlands -1 358 £50,000 -9.09% 111
Wales +8 189 £50,000 -9.09% 27
North East +13 122 £55,000 +4.76% 34
Northern Ireland 0 112 £60,250 +28.88% 38
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
1 645 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.41%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.22%) GeoServer
4 200 (2.27%) Apache
5 145 (1.65%) Confluence
6 115 (1.31%) FileNet
7 113 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
8 29 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
8 29 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 25 (0.28%) JBoss
10 24 (0.27%) CMS
11 23 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
12 22 (0.25%) Captiva
13 21 (0.24%) GemFire
14 20 (0.23%) Camunda
15 18 (0.20%) Tomcat
16 17 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
17 14 (0.16%) nginx
18 13 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 118 (1.34%) Simulink
2 29 (0.33%) Stateflow
3 15 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 6 (0.068%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.068%) Trello
8 4 (0.045%) Doxygen
9 3 (0.034%) GNU Octave
9 3 (0.034%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.034%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.034%) TargetLink
10 2 (0.023%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.023%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.023%) Sketch
10 2 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.023%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 32 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.11%) Magento
3 9 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.091%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.045%) Shopify
7 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.034%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.023%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.023%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.023%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.023%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.023%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.023%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.011%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.011%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,432 (27.60%) AWS
2 1,365 (15.49%) Azure
3 373 (4.23%) GCP
4 292 (3.31%) SaaS
5 263 (2.99%) Serverless
6 217 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 206 (2.34%) GitHub
8 178 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 148 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 121 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 115 (1.31%) Datadog
12 102 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 101 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
16 89 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
17 83 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
18 64 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 53 (0.60%) Amazon EMR
20 52 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 163 (1.85%) Wireless
2 113 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 92 (1.04%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 81 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 64 (0.73%) Network Security
7 63 (0.72%) RS-232
8 58 (0.66%) Bluetooth
9 45 (0.51%) Internet
10 43 (0.49%) MQTT
11 38 (0.43%) RS-485
12 36 (0.41%) HTTP
13 31 (0.35%) Modbus
14 29 (0.33%) AMQP
15 26 (0.30%) 5G
16 21 (0.24%) 4G
16 21 (0.24%) ZigBee
17 19 (0.22%) Firewall
18 18 (0.20%) DSL
18 18 (0.20%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 811 (9.21%) NoSQL
2 601 (6.82%) Big Data
3 500 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 333 (3.78%) MySQL
5 325 (3.69%) GIS
6 289 (3.28%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.22%) QGIS
8 280 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 277 (3.14%) SQL Server
10 223 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 218 (2.47%) MongoDB
12 159 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 131 (1.49%) Apache Hive
14 101 (1.15%) HBase
15 91 (1.03%) Redis
16 74 (0.84%) Data Lake
17 73 (0.83%) RDBMS
18 72 (0.82%) Metadata
19 64 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
20 58 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 907 (10.30%) Git
2 481 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 348 (3.95%) JIRA
4 276 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 234 (2.66%) JUnit
6 195 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 150 (1.70%) GitLab
8 146 (1.66%) Cypress.io
9 121 (1.37%) Selenium
10 120 (1.36%) Jasmine
11 97 (1.10%) Maven
12 93 (1.06%) Subversion
13 84 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 76 (0.86%) LabVIEW
15 67 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 66 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
17 64 (0.73%) WebDriver
18 62 (0.70%) Sourcetree
19 60 (0.68%) Protractor
20 53 (0.60%) Cucumber
General
1 2,843 (32.27%) Finance
2 2,559 (29.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,345 (26.62%) Law
4 1,305 (14.81%) Marketing
5 1,014 (11.51%) Social Skills
6 720 (8.17%) Legal
7 641 (7.28%) Banking
8 454 (5.15%) Electronics
9 361 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
10 345 (3.92%) Investment Banking
11 329 (3.73%) Manufacturing
12 259 (2.94%) Financial Institution
13 234 (2.66%) Automotive
14 199 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
15 178 (2.02%) Games
16 174 (1.98%) Aerospace
17 167 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
18 158 (1.79%) Public Sector
19 147 (1.67%) Retail
20 97 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,113 (69.39%) Software Engineer
2 2,009 (22.80%) Senior
3 1,551 (17.60%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,167 (13.25%) Lead
5 1,111 (12.61%) Developer
6 980 (11.12%) Java Engineer
7 965 (10.95%) Embedded Engineer
8 949 (10.77%) Java Software Engineer
9 865 (9.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 836 (9.49%) Lead Software Engineer
11 472 (5.36%) Full Stack Engineer
12 440 (4.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 395 (4.48%) Python Engineer
14 390 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
15 381 (4.32%) Big Data Engineer
15 381 (4.32%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 340 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
17 335 (3.80%) Software Developer
18 326 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
19 322 (3.65%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,470 (16.69%) React
2 1,322 (15.01%) .NET
3 920 (10.44%) Spring
4 854 (9.69%) AngularJS
5 830 (9.42%) CSS
6 681 (7.73%) HTML
7 556 (6.31%) Node.js
8 523 (5.94%) .NET Core
9 509 (5.78%) Spring Boot
10 487 (5.53%) Kafka
11 462 (5.24%) RESTful
12 333 (3.78%) JSON
13 294 (3.34%) PostGIS
13 294 (3.34%) Web Services
14 292 (3.31%) REST
15 288 (3.27%) Leaflet
15 288 (3.27%) OpenLayers
16 277 (3.14%) Hibernate
17 266 (3.02%) J2EE
18 241 (2.74%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,083 (12.29%) Algorithms
2 993 (11.27%) Cloud Native
3 322 (3.65%) Public Cloud
4 241 (2.74%) IoT
5 233 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 225 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
7 218 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 207 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 202 (2.29%) Data Structures
10 193 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 155 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 132 (1.50%) Reference Data
13 120 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 105 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 98 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
16 97 (1.10%) Private Cloud
17 87 (0.99%) Market Risk
18 82 (0.93%) Device Driver
19 72 (0.82%) Robotics
20 68 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,110 (12.60%) Linux
2 421 (4.78%) Windows
3 218 (2.47%) Embedded Linux
4 194 (2.20%) Unix
5 120 (1.36%) Android
6 99 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 77 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 51 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 39 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
10 35 (0.40%) CentOS
11 29 (0.33%) Debian
12 28 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 12 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 11 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.11%) Windows Server
16 6 (0.068%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.068%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.057%) VxWorks
17 5 (0.057%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.045%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,222 (47.92%) Agile
2 2,462 (27.95%) SDLC
3 2,450 (27.81%) CI/CD
4 1,812 (20.57%) Operational Stability
5 1,634 (18.55%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,541 (17.49%) Machine Learning
7 1,350 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
8 1,300 (14.76%) DevOps
9 1,276 (14.48%) Community of Practice
10 1,170 (13.28%) Computer Science
11 994 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 969 (11.00%) Microservices
13 920 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
14 892 (10.12%) Visualisation
15 719 (8.16%) Mentoring
16 711 (8.07%) Risk Management
17 635 (7.21%) Decision-Making
18 631 (7.16%) Scrum
19 621 (7.05%) Test Automation
20 587 (6.66%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,759 (31.32%) Java
2 2,401 (27.25%) Python
3 1,830 (20.77%) SQL
4 1,688 (19.16%) C#
5 1,570 (17.82%) JavaScript
6 1,185 (13.45%) C
7 975 (11.07%) C++
8 712 (8.08%) TypeScript
9 353 (4.01%) Scala
10 301 (3.42%) Embedded C
11 269 (3.05%) Go
12 223 (2.53%) Bash
13 210 (2.38%) PHP
14 150 (1.70%) PL/SQL
15 131 (1.49%) Rust
16 130 (1.48%) MATLAB
17 126 (1.43%) Ruby
18 106 (1.20%) T-SQL
19 97 (1.10%) Kotlin
20 86 (0.98%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,399 (15.88%) Degree
2 1,122 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 723 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 416 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 197 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 189 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 140 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 99 (1.12%) PhD
9 53 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.39%) HND
12 29 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.28%) HNC
14 19 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.18%) ISTQB
16 14 (0.16%) OCP
16 14 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
17 13 (0.15%) CISSP
18 12 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (0.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (2.75%) QA
2 97 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.83%) SLA
4 56 (0.64%) MISRA
5 47 (0.53%) GDPR
6 36 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 34 (0.39%) PMO
8 30 (0.34%) ISO 26262
8 30 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 26 (0.30%) AUTOSAR
10 25 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 23 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
11 23 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
12 20 (0.23%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 11 (0.12%) NIST
15 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
16 9 (0.10%) MISRA C
17 8 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 8 (0.091%) JTAG
System Software
1 596 (6.77%) Docker
2 300 (3.41%) Firmware
3 132 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 100 (1.14%) HDFS
5 80 (0.91%) Active Directory
6 10 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.079%) IAG
8 5 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.045%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.023%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 810 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 493 (5.60%) Terraform
3 191 (2.17%) Grafana
4 126 (1.43%) Ansible
5 97 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 26 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 26 (0.30%) Puppet
8 22 (0.25%) Kibana
9 21 (0.24%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.24%) Zipkin
10 14 (0.16%) Functional Safety
11 8 (0.091%) Istio
12 7 (0.079%) Graphite
13 6 (0.068%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.068%) Nessus
14 5 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.057%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.057%) SELinux
15 4 (0.045%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 508 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 464 (5.27%) Oracle
3 296 (3.36%) ESRI
4 261 (2.96%) Databricks
5 199 (2.26%) Google
6 188 (2.13%) Splunk
7 161 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 96 (1.09%) SAP
9 85 (0.96%) Informatica
10 77 (0.87%) IBM
11 71 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 56 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 54 (0.61%) Alteryx
14 53 (0.60%) Red Hat
15 50 (0.57%) Xamarin
16 46 (0.52%) Siemens
17 44 (0.50%) Pega
18 41 (0.47%) SaltStack
19 38 (0.43%) Dell
20 31 (0.35%) ServiceNow