Software Development Engineer Jobs

The median annual salary for a Software Development Engineer was £40,000 in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

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

Software Development Engineer UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	834	897	886
Rank change year-on-year	+63	-11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Engineer	40	50	102
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.045%	0.051%	0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.047%	0.053%	0.095%
Number of salaries quoted	19	45	67
Median salary	£40,000	£45,000	£55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-11.11%	-18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than	£31,500	£35,000	£32,300
10% offered a salary of more than	£48,900	£71,500	£69,000
UK excluding London median salary	£40,000	£40,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	-	-20.00%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles UK
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	85218	95218	107157
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	95.94%	96.54%	96.61%
Number of salaries quoted	69700	80264	88299
Median salary	£46,000	£47,000	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-2.12%	+4.44%
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,500	£26,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£73,000	£70,000	£71,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+3.65%	+2.50%

Software Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Software Development Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK

Software Development Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Software Development Engineer in the UK

Software Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Software Development Engineer in the UK

Software Development Engineer
Top 28 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+42	39	£40,000	-11.11%	18
London	+28	12	£45,000	-28.00%	8
South East	+45	11	£40,000	+3.22%
East of England	+2	11	£31,500	-31.89%	7
Cambridge	-13	5	£31,500	-33.68%	4
Cambridgeshire	-19	5	£31,500	-33.68%	5
Hertfordshire	-	5	-	-	2
Welwyn Garden City	-	5	-	-
Oxford	-	4	£40,000	-
Oxfordshire	-	4	£40,000	-
Berkshire	+27	3	£40,000	-5.88%
East Midlands	+27	3	-	-	2
Nottinghamshire	+9	3	-	-	2
Nottingham	+5	3	-	-	2
Windsor	-	3	£40,000	-
Hampshire	+30	2	£40,000	+15.94%
West Yorkshire	+14	2	£48,000	+28.00%
Leeds	+7	2	£48,000	+28.00%
Yorkshire	+2	2	£48,000	+28.00%
Portsmouth	-	2	£40,000	-
Hounslow	-	2	-	-
East Sussex	+16	1	£48,000	+20.00%
Scotland	+13	1	£27,500	-21.42%	1
Suffolk	+5	1	£52,500	+31.25%
Edinburgh	-	1	£27,500	-	1
Sussex	-	1	£37,500	-
Uckfield	-	1	£48,000	-
Bury St Edmunds	-	1	£52,500	-

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, Software Development Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads featuring Software Development Engineer in the job title.

1	54 (53.47%)	Agile Software Development
1	54 (53.47%)	Java
2	46 (45.54%)	Software Engineering
3	40 (39.60%)	Test Automation
4	33 (32.67%)	C++
5	32 (31.68%)	Degree
5	32 (31.68%)	Computer Science
6	27 (26.73%)	C#
7	25 (24.75%)	Selenium
7	25 (24.75%)	SDET
8	24 (23.76%)	JavaScript
9	23 (22.77%)	QA
9	23 (22.77%)	Git (software)
9	23 (22.77%)	BDD
10	21 (20.79%)	Python

11	20 (19.80%)	Linux
12	19 (18.81%)	TDD
13	17 (16.83%)	SQL
14	16 (15.84%)	C
14	16 (15.84%)	OO
14	16 (15.84%)	Open Source
14	16 (15.84%)	Computer Science Degree
15	15 (14.85%)	Jenkins
15	15 (14.85%)	Scrum
16	14 (13.86%)	AngularJS
17	12 (11.88%)	SDLC
17	12 (11.88%)	Perl
17	12 (11.88%)	HTML
18	11 (10.89%)	Kanban
18	11 (10.89%)	.NET

Software Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	3 (2.97%)	Apache Spark
1	3 (2.97%)	Elasticsearch
2	2 (1.98%)	Apache Pig
3	1 (0.99%)	Apache
3	1 (0.99%)	JBoss
3	1 (0.99%)	MS Exchange
3	1 (0.99%)	SharePoint
3	1 (0.99%)	Skype for Business
3	1 (0.99%)	Tomcat
3	1 (0.99%)	WebLogic
3	1 (0.99%)	WordPress

Applications
1	1 (0.99%)	Microsoft Office
1	1 (0.99%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	1 (0.99%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	8 (7.92%)	Amazon AWS
2	1 (0.99%)	Amazon CloudWatch
2	1 (0.99%)	Amazon EC2
2	1 (0.99%)	Amazon S3
2	1 (0.99%)	AWS CloudFormation
2	1 (0.99%)	AWS CloudTrail
2	1 (0.99%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2	1 (0.99%)	CloudFront
2	1 (0.99%)	G Suite
2	1 (0.99%)	Google Cloud Platform
2	1 (0.99%)	Microsoft Azure
2	1 (0.99%)	Office 365
2	1 (0.99%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	7 (6.93%)	HTTP
2	5 (4.95%)	TCP/IP
3	4 (3.96%)	Internet
3	4 (3.96%)	Software-Defined Networking
4	3 (2.97%)	LAN
4	3 (2.97%)	WAN
4	3 (2.97%)	Wireless
5	2 (1.98%)	MQTT
6	1 (0.99%)	Firewall
6	1 (0.99%)	IPsec
6	1 (0.99%)	Modbus
6	1 (0.99%)	Multicast
6	1 (0.99%)	RS-232
6	1 (0.99%)	RS-485
6	1 (0.99%)	SSL

Database & Business Intelligence
1	8 (7.92%)	MySQL
2	6 (5.94%)	MongoDB
3	5 (4.95%)	RDBMS
3	5 (4.95%)	Relational Database
3	5 (4.95%)	SQL Server
4	4 (3.96%)	Apache Cassandra
4	4 (3.96%)	Big Data
4	4 (3.96%)	Hadoop
5	3 (2.97%)	NoSQL
6	2 (1.98%)	Apache Hive
7	1 (0.99%)	Amazon RDS
7	1 (0.99%)	Blockchain
7	1 (0.99%)	Data Warehouse
7	1 (0.99%)	EDRMS
7	1 (0.99%)	Oracle Database
7	1 (0.99%)	PostgreSQL
7	1 (0.99%)	Redis
7	1 (0.99%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	25 (24.75%)	Selenium
2	23 (22.77%)	Git (software)
3	15 (14.85%)	Jenkins
4	10 (9.90%)	JIRA
5	7 (6.93%)	Gradle
5	7 (6.93%)	Maven
6	5 (4.95%)	Ant
6	5 (4.95%)	Fiddler
6	5 (4.95%)	Protractor
6	5 (4.95%)	Visual Studio
6	5 (4.95%)	WebDriver
7	4 (3.96%)	Cucumber
7	4 (3.96%)	Eclipse
8	3 (2.97%)	Bundler
8	3 (2.97%)	Clang
8	3 (2.97%)	JUnit
8	3 (2.97%)	Subversion
9	2 (1.98%)	Android Studio
9	2 (1.98%)	Xcode
10	1 (0.99%)	NUnit

General
1	11 (10.89%)	Finance
2	7 (6.93%)	Electronics
3	6 (5.94%)	Banking
4	5 (4.95%)	Law
4	5 (4.95%)	Retail
5	4 (3.96%)	Games
5	4 (3.96%)	Telecoms
6	2 (1.98%)	Marketing
7	1 (0.99%)	Advertising
7	1 (0.99%)	Manufacturing

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	14 (13.86%)	AngularJS
2	12 (11.88%)	HTML
3	11 (10.89%)	.NET
3	11 (10.89%)	Web Services
4	9 (8.91%)	CSS
5	6 (5.94%)	JSON
6	5 (4.95%)	ASP.NET
6	5 (4.95%)	STL
6	5 (4.95%)	Swing
6	5 (4.95%)	XML
7	4 (3.96%)	Catalyst
7	4 (3.96%)	CSS3
7	4 (3.96%)	HTML5
7	4 (3.96%)	Natural Language Processing
7	4 (3.96%)	React
7	4 (3.96%)	REST
7	4 (3.96%)	RESTful
8	3 (2.97%)	Gherkin
8	3 (2.97%)	Node.js
8	3 (2.97%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	32 (31.68%)	Computer Science
2	11 (10.89%)	Analytical Skills
3	10 (9.90%)	Algorithms
4	6 (5.94%)	Data Structures
5	4 (3.96%)	Blog
5	4 (3.96%)	Fintech
6	3 (2.97%)	Mobile App
6	3 (2.97%)	SystemC
7	2 (1.98%)	User Experience
8	1 (0.99%)	3D Graphics
8	1 (0.99%)	Animation
8	1 (0.99%)	Bitcoin
8	1 (0.99%)	CAN bus
8	1 (0.99%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
8	1 (0.99%)	Embedded Systems
8	1 (0.99%)	Enterprise Software
8	1 (0.99%)	Internet of Things
8	1 (0.99%)	Life Science
8	1 (0.99%)	Linux Command Line

Operating Systems
1	20 (19.80%)	Linux
2	11 (10.89%)	Unix
3	7 (6.93%)	Windows
4	6 (5.94%)	Apple iOS
5	5 (4.95%)	Android
6	3 (2.97%)	Embedded Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	54 (53.47%)	Agile Software Development
2	46 (45.54%)	Software Engineering
3	40 (39.60%)	Test Automation
4	25 (24.75%)	SDET
5	23 (22.77%)	BDD
6	19 (18.81%)	TDD
7	16 (15.84%)	OO
7	16 (15.84%)	Open Source
8	15 (14.85%)	Scrum
9	12 (11.88%)	SDLC
10	11 (10.89%)	Kanban
11	10 (9.90%)	Continuous Improvement
11	10 (9.90%)	Performance Testing
11	10 (9.90%)	Visualisation
12	9 (8.91%)	ATDD
12	9 (8.91%)	Continuous Integration
12	9 (8.91%)	Mathematics
12	9 (8.91%)	Test Strategy
13	8 (7.92%)	Machine Learning
13	8 (7.92%)	Physics

Programming Languages
1	54 (53.47%)	Java
2	33 (32.67%)	C++
3	27 (26.73%)	C#
4	24 (23.76%)	JavaScript
5	21 (20.79%)	Python
6	17 (16.83%)	SQL
7	16 (15.84%)	C
8	12 (11.88%)	Perl
9	8 (7.92%)	Bash Shell
10	6 (5.94%)	Go
11	5 (4.95%)	Clojure
11	5 (4.95%)	F#
11	5 (4.95%)	Rust
12	4 (3.96%)	Objective-C
12	4 (3.96%)	Ruby
13	3 (2.97%)	Apple Swift
13	3 (2.97%)	Delphi
13	3 (2.97%)	Pascal
13	3 (2.97%)	R
13	3 (2.97%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	32 (31.68%)	Degree
2	16 (15.84%)	Computer Science Degree
3	3 (2.97%)	PhD
4	2 (1.98%)	ISEB
4	2 (1.98%)	ISTQB
4	2 (1.98%)	Security Cleared
5	1 (0.99%)	AWS Certification
5	1 (0.99%)	CISA
5	1 (0.99%)	CISM
5	1 (0.99%)	CISSP
5	1 (0.99%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	1 (0.99%)	Master's Degree
5	1 (0.99%)	MCSD
5	1 (0.99%)	Microsoft Certification
5	1 (0.99%)	Oracle Certification