Developer/Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer/Developer
UK

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK is £112,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 449 577 421
Rank change year-on-year +128 -156 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 294 625 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.49% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.52% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 285 531 946
10th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £145,000 £137,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,419 120,484 123,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.34% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 75,234 84,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
England +95 289 £112,500 +18.42% 12
London +112 275 £112,500 +9.76% 6
Work from Home +148 175 £111,250 +27.14% 7
UK excluding London +177 17 £52,500 +5.00% 6
North of England +125 7 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Yorkshire +78 7 £52,500 -16.00%
South West +61 4 £61,742 +9.76% 1
Scotland +59 4 £55,000 -4.35%
West Midlands +128 2 £53,750 +13.16% 1
Midlands +120 2 £53,750 +13.16% 1

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 November 2023, Developer/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 featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 285 (96.94%) Software Engineering
2 276 (93.88%) Agile
3 272 (92.52%) TypeScript
4 271 (92.18%) AWS
5 270 (91.84%) Finance
6 260 (88.44%) Asset Management
7 258 (87.76%) Front Office
8 239 (81.29%) GCP
9 225 (76.53%) JavaScript
10 221 (75.17%) React
11 169 (57.48%) Fixed Income
12 165 (56.12%) Python
13 160 (54.42%) Investment Management
14 159 (54.08%) Redux
15 142 (48.30%) Full Stack Development
16 139 (47.28%) Derivative
17 121 (41.16%) Azure
18 114 (38.78%) Java
19 109 (37.07%) Apache Airflow
20 107 (36.39%) Analytics
21 106 (36.05%) Fintech
22 105 (35.71%) Apache
23 101 (34.35%) gRPC
24 98 (33.33%) DevOps
25 93 (31.63%) Apache Ignite
25 93 (31.63%) Equities
26 91 (30.95%) Banking
27 88 (29.93%) Hedge funds
28 86 (29.25%) AngularJS
28 86 (29.25%) Node.js

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 109 (37.07%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (35.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Drupal
4 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 271 (92.18%) AWS
2 239 (81.29%) GCP
3 121 (41.16%) Azure
4 52 (17.69%) dbt
5 19 (6.46%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub
8 1 (0.34%) npm
8 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.34%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (31.63%) Apache Ignite
2 67 (22.79%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (17.69%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (17.69%) Dremio
4 47 (15.99%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.36%) Big Data
6 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.36%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.34%) MySQL
8 1 (0.34%) Power BI
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (17.35%) Cypress.io
2 24 (8.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 19 (6.46%) Artifactory
3 19 (6.46%) Bitbucket
4 12 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.70%) Git
5 5 (1.70%) Selenium
5 5 (1.70%) WebDriver
6 3 (1.02%) Appium
7 2 (0.68%) Maven
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.34%) ESLint
8 1 (0.34%) Moq
8 1 (0.34%) NUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 270 (91.84%) Finance
2 258 (87.76%) Front Office
3 91 (30.95%) Banking
4 52 (17.69%) Investment Banking
5 9 (3.06%) Social Skills
6 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.36%) Retail
9 2 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (75.17%) React
2 159 (54.08%) Redux
3 101 (34.35%) gRPC
4 86 (29.25%) AngularJS
4 86 (29.25%) Node.js
5 85 (28.91%) .NET
5 85 (28.91%) Protocol Buffers
6 81 (27.55%) Vue
7 75 (25.51%) ASP.NET
7 75 (25.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 58 (19.73%) Pandas
9 56 (19.05%) Material-UI
10 52 (17.69%) NumPy
10 52 (17.69%) SciPy
11 26 (8.84%) GraphQL
12 24 (8.16%) OpenFin
13 19 (6.46%) Kafka
14 9 (3.06%) .NET Framework
15 8 (2.72%) CSS
15 8 (2.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 169 (57.48%) Fixed Income
2 139 (47.28%) Derivative
3 93 (31.63%) Equities
4 88 (29.93%) Hedge funds
5 76 (25.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (6.12%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.70%) Blog
8 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.68%) IoT
9 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Android
2 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (96.94%) Software Engineering
2 276 (93.88%) Agile
3 260 (88.44%) Asset Management
4 160 (54.42%) Investment Management
5 142 (48.30%) Full Stack Development
6 107 (36.39%) Analytics
7 106 (36.05%) Fintech
8 98 (33.33%) DevOps
9 76 (25.85%) TDD
10 50 (17.01%) Data Architecture
11 32 (10.88%) Portfolio Management
12 27 (9.18%) Performance Attribution
12 27 (9.18%) User Experience
13 23 (7.82%) Microservices
13 23 (7.82%) Risk Analytics
14 22 (7.48%) Roadmaps
14 22 (7.48%) Technology Roadmap
15 18 (6.12%) Mentoring
16 14 (4.76%) Order Management
17 13 (4.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 272 (92.52%) TypeScript
2 225 (76.53%) JavaScript
3 165 (56.12%) Python
4 114 (38.78%) Java
5 86 (29.25%) C#
6 46 (15.65%) SQL
7 32 (10.88%) Kotlin
8 17 (5.78%) Ruby
8 17 (5.78%) Scala
9 2 (0.68%) Rust
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) C++
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (1.02%) Degree
2 2 (0.68%) SC Cleared
2 2 (0.68%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (25.85%) QA
System Software
1 26 (8.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.80%) Terraform
3 19 (6.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 46 (15.65%) Google
2 24 (8.16%) Finsemble
3 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.34%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.34%) Databricks
4 1 (0.34%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.34%) Informatica
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft