Developer/Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer/Developer
UK

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2024.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 457 574
Rank change year-on-year -92 +117 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 244 329 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.58% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.60% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 232 322 576
10th Percentile £71,250 £66,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -2.56%
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £144,875 £137,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +50.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 71,451 54,630 129,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 36,949 39,801 77,809
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%

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 8 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Top 12 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 8 November 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
England -115 244 £105,000 -4.55% 9
London -45 224 £105,000 -4.55% 5
Work from Home +16 213 £105,000 -2.33% 16
UK excluding London -35 20 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Midlands -46 6 £60,000 +9.09% 1
South East - 6 £40,000 - 2
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
South West +2 3 £66,250 +66.01%
East of England - 3 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands -26 2 £60,000 +9.09%
North of England -31 2 £57,500 +4.55%
North West - 2 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2024, 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.

1 243 (99.59%) Software Engineering
2 226 (92.62%) Agile
3 221 (90.57%) JavaScript
4 215 (88.11%) TypeScript
5 214 (87.70%) AWS
5 214 (87.70%) Python
6 208 (85.25%) Front Office
6 208 (85.25%) Finance
6 208 (85.25%) Fixed Income
7 207 (84.84%) Asset Management
8 189 (77.46%) GCP
9 147 (60.25%) React
10 140 (57.38%) gRPC
10 140 (57.38%) Apache Airflow
10 140 (57.38%) Apache Ignite
10 140 (57.38%) Protocol Buffers
10 140 (57.38%) Apache
11 133 (54.51%) Investment Management
12 129 (52.87%) Node.js
13 121 (49.59%) Redux
14 117 (47.95%) Fintech
15 100 (40.98%) SciPy
15 100 (40.98%) NumPy
15 100 (40.98%) Pandas
16 96 (39.34%) Java
17 91 (37.30%) Equities
17 91 (37.30%) Banking
18 90 (36.89%) Hedge funds
19 89 (36.48%) Derivative
20 88 (36.07%) Amazon Athena

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
1 140 (57.38%) Apache
1 140 (57.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 214 (87.70%) AWS
2 189 (77.46%) GCP
3 88 (36.07%) dbt
4 62 (25.41%) Snowflake
5 50 (20.49%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (12.30%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (9.02%) Azure
8 20 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (8.20%) Serverless
9 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.23%) GitHub
11 2 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.41%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Firewall
1 2 (0.82%) HTTPS
1 2 (0.82%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (57.38%) Apache Ignite
2 88 (36.07%) Amazon Athena
2 88 (36.07%) Apache Arrow
2 88 (36.07%) Dremio
3 62 (25.41%) Data Lake
4 45 (18.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.41%) KDB
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Cypress.io
2 6 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) JMeter
4 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 208 (85.25%) Finance
1 208 (85.25%) Front Office
2 91 (37.30%) Banking
3 83 (34.02%) Investment Banking
4 7 (2.87%) Advertising
4 7 (2.87%) Back Office
5 4 (1.64%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (60.25%) React
2 140 (57.38%) gRPC
2 140 (57.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 129 (52.87%) Node.js
4 121 (49.59%) Redux
5 100 (40.98%) NumPy
5 100 (40.98%) Pandas
5 100 (40.98%) SciPy
6 61 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 39 (15.98%) Vue
8 30 (12.30%) PySpark
9 20 (8.20%) Lambda Expressions
10 16 (6.56%) .NET
11 12 (4.92%) ASP.NET
12 10 (4.10%) HTML
12 10 (4.10%) REST
13 8 (3.28%) .NET Framework
13 8 (3.28%) jQuery
13 8 (3.28%) Material-UI
14 7 (2.87%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 208 (85.25%) Fixed Income
2 91 (37.30%) Equities
3 90 (36.89%) Hedge funds
4 89 (36.48%) Derivative
5 82 (33.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.87%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (99.59%) Software Engineering
2 226 (92.62%) Agile
3 207 (84.84%) Asset Management
4 133 (54.51%) Investment Management
5 117 (47.95%) Fintech
6 83 (34.02%) User Experience
7 82 (33.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 82 (33.61%) Performance Attribution
8 62 (25.41%) Line Management
9 44 (18.03%) Front End Development
10 38 (15.57%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 35 (14.34%) Visualisation
12 34 (13.93%) DevOps
13 30 (12.30%) Migration
14 16 (6.56%) CI/CD
15 11 (4.51%) Machine Learning
15 11 (4.51%) OO
16 10 (4.10%) Microservices
16 10 (4.10%) Software Testing
17 9 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 221 (90.57%) JavaScript
2 215 (88.11%) TypeScript
3 214 (87.70%) Python
4 96 (39.34%) Java
5 65 (26.64%) SQL
6 17 (6.97%) C#
7 12 (4.92%) Kotlin
7 12 (4.92%) Scala
8 7 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.23%) C++
10 2 (0.82%) Go
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 2 (0.82%) XAML
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (2.46%) Degree
2 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.82%) EMIR
1 2 (0.82%) MiFID
1 2 (0.82%) QA
2 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (12.30%) Bloomberg
1 30 (12.30%) Reuters
2 9 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (0.82%) Telerik
5 1 (0.41%) Databricks
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.41%) Splunk