Software Development Manager Jobs

Software Development Manager
UK

The median Software Development Manager salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 871 919
Rank change year-on-year +151 +48 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 174 122 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 149 109 234
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,281 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +16.00%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Software Development Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Manager.

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +167 164 £75,000 +3.45% 14
UK excluding London +22 111 £70,000 +1.82% 8
Work from Home +90 83 £70,000 -2.44% 9
London +166 57 £81,750 -6.57% 6
Midlands +29 38 £68,500 +5.38% 3
South East +37 29 £100,000 +25.00% 2
North of England +41 26 £75,000 +7.14% 1
West Midlands +31 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands - 18 £66,750 - 3
North West +3 11 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire +92 9 £75,000 -16.67% 1
East of England +18 7 £120,000 +92.00% 1
North East +5 6 £80,000 +42.86%
South West -23 6 £60,000 -17.24%
Wales +12 5 £45,000 -25.00%

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Development Manager 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 Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 102 (58.62%) Agile
2 48 (27.59%) Software Engineering
3 42 (24.14%) .NET
4 41 (23.56%) Mentoring
5 37 (21.26%) SDLC
5 37 (21.26%) Java
6 35 (20.11%) People Management
7 33 (18.97%) C#
7 33 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (18.97%) Roadmaps
8 30 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.24%) Social Skills
9 29 (16.67%) Business Transformation
9 29 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 26 (14.94%) Scrum
11 25 (14.37%) Relational Database
12 24 (13.79%) Games
13 23 (13.22%) Swaptions
13 23 (13.22%) Sybase
13 23 (13.22%) Oracle
13 23 (13.22%) VB
13 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 23 (13.22%) Data Modelling
13 23 (13.22%) RDBMS
13 23 (13.22%) TIBCO
13 23 (13.22%) OpenLink
13 23 (13.22%) Endur
13 23 (13.22%) Creative Thinking
14 22 (12.64%) IT Strategy
15 20 (11.49%) Azure

Software Development Manager 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 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.45%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Endur
2 6 (3.45%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 5 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.49%) Azure
2 5 (2.87%) AWS
2 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.15%) SaaS
4 1 (0.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.57%) GitHub
4 1 (0.57%) IaaS
4 1 (0.57%) PaaS
4 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.37%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.22%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.17%) OLAP
5 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Git
2 6 (3.45%) Cypress.io
2 6 (3.45%) Selenium
2 6 (3.45%) SoapUI
3 4 (2.30%) JIRA
4 2 (1.15%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.79%) Games
3 17 (9.77%) Finance
3 17 (9.77%) Marketing
4 13 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Law
6 6 (3.45%) Back Office
7 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.14%) .NET
2 6 (3.45%) React
3 5 (2.87%) LAMP
3 5 (2.87%) Laravel
4 4 (2.30%) Jest
5 3 (1.72%) RESTful
5 3 (1.72%) Vue
5 3 (1.72%) Web Services
6 2 (1.15%) CSS
6 2 (1.15%) CSS3
6 2 (1.15%) HTML
6 2 (1.15%) HTML5
6 2 (1.15%) jQuery
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
7 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.57%) Nuxt
7 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.57%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Swaptions
2 15 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.02%) 3D Graphics
4 7 (4.02%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.02%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.45%) PropTech
5 6 (3.45%) RISC-V
6 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.30%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.62%) Agile
2 48 (27.59%) Software Engineering
3 41 (23.56%) Mentoring
4 37 (21.26%) SDLC
5 35 (20.11%) People Management
6 33 (18.97%) Roadmaps
6 33 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (16.67%) Business Transformation
9 26 (14.94%) Scrum
10 23 (13.22%) Creative Thinking
10 23 (13.22%) Data Modelling
11 22 (12.64%) IT Strategy
12 20 (11.49%) Project Delivery
13 19 (10.92%) Technology Strategy
14 18 (10.34%) Project Management
15 17 (9.77%) Strategic Roadmap
15 17 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
16 15 (8.62%) DevOps
16 15 (8.62%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.26%) Java
2 33 (18.97%) C#
3 23 (13.22%) VB
4 19 (10.92%) SQL
5 12 (6.90%) C
6 11 (6.32%) PHP
7 9 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.17%) Python
8 8 (4.60%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.45%) C++
9 6 (3.45%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (8.05%) Degree
2 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.15%) CISSP
3 2 (1.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.15%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) QA
2 5 (2.87%) NCSC
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (13.22%) OpenLink
1 23 (13.22%) Oracle
1 23 (13.22%) Sybase
1 23 (13.22%) TIBCO
2 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe
4 1 (0.57%) IFS
4 1 (0.57%) Marketo
4 1 (0.57%) SAP
4 1 (0.57%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.57%) Twitter