Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer
UK

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 26 58
Rank change year-on-year -32 +32 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,190 7,490 5,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 7.63% 5.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.72% 8.06% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 4,086 3,027
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% +6.84%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%

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 46,426 92,901 96,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 94.63% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27,313 66,762 60,428
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -11.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK

Software Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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 -26 1,913 £70,000 +16.67% 3,218
UK excluding London -50 1,410 £62,500 +13.64% 1,823
Work from Home -6 974 £75,000 +20.00% 1,622
London -1 710 £100,000 +5.26% 1,725
South East -25 342 £62,500 +13.64% 438
North of England -69 314 £65,000 +18.18% 414
South West -18 205 £60,000 +9.09% 231
Midlands -52 189 £58,000 +10.48% 201
North West -87 178 £65,000 +13.04% 267
Scotland -37 168 £58,000 -3.33% 211
East of England -16 136 £66,206 +10.34% 285
West Midlands -30 122 £60,000 +9.09% 108
Yorkshire -38 92 £62,500 +25.00% 98
East Midlands -37 67 £53,750 +2.38% 89
Wales -5 47 £65,000 +30.00% 54
North East +15 44 £55,000 - 51
Northern Ireland -12 9 £90,000 - 44

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,094 (95.62%) Software Engineering
2 1,082 (49.41%) Agile
3 759 (34.66%) Python
4 727 (33.20%) AWS
5 673 (30.73%) Java
6 641 (29.27%) Finance
7 561 (25.62%) JavaScript
8 529 (24.16%) React
9 524 (23.93%) TypeScript
10 521 (23.79%) Degree
11 481 (21.96%) C#
12 421 (19.22%) Kubernetes
13 418 (19.09%) Computer Science
14 404 (18.45%) SQL
15 392 (17.90%) CI/CD
16 379 (17.31%) Azure
17 362 (16.53%) C++
18 356 (16.26%) Banking
19 340 (15.53%) GCP
20 329 (15.02%) Node.js
21 300 (13.70%) .NET
22 294 (13.42%) DevOps
23 293 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
24 292 (13.33%) Docker
25 285 (13.01%) Mentoring
26 280 (12.79%) Social Skills
27 270 (12.33%) Microservices
28 269 (12.28%) Linux
29 263 (12.01%) C
30 259 (11.83%) AngularJS

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
1 167 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
2 162 (7.40%) Apache
3 46 (2.10%) Confluence
4 24 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.37%) CMS
6 5 (0.23%) CICS
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.091%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.091%) Solana
8 2 (0.091%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.046%) Camunda
9 1 (0.046%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.046%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.046%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.046%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (4.47%) Simulink
2 49 (2.24%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.046%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.046%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.046%) Revit
7 1 (0.046%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.18%) ResourceLink
2 3 (0.14%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.091%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.046%) BASE24
4 1 (0.046%) Eikon
4 1 (0.046%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.046%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 727 (33.20%) AWS
2 379 (17.31%) Azure
3 340 (15.53%) GCP
4 163 (7.44%) dbt
5 134 (6.12%) GitHub
6 117 (5.34%) Snowflake
7 109 (4.98%) Serverless
8 76 (3.47%) Amazon S3
9 74 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
10 66 (3.01%) SaaS
11 55 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
14 46 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
17 34 (1.55%) Dagster
18 31 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
20 18 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.37%) HTTP
2 24 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.10%) Wireless
3 20 (0.91%) Bluetooth
4 18 (0.82%) Network Security
5 15 (0.68%) Modbus
6 14 (0.64%) Multicast
6 14 (0.64%) RS-232
7 13 (0.59%) WAN
8 12 (0.55%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.41%) MQTT
9 9 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 8 (0.37%) 5G
10 8 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.32%) Firewall
11 7 (0.32%) Internet
11 7 (0.32%) Profibus
11 7 (0.32%) RS-485
12 6 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (7.76%) Amazon Athena
3 162 (7.40%) Apache Arrow
3 162 (7.40%) Apache Iceberg
3 162 (7.40%) Dremio
4 100 (4.57%) Apache Ignite
5 85 (3.88%) MySQL
6 84 (3.84%) NoSQL
7 83 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 81 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 79 (3.61%) SQL Server
10 74 (3.38%) MongoDB
11 64 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 53 (2.42%) Redis
13 26 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (1.14%) Big Data
15 19 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (0.68%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
18 12 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 231 (10.55%) Git
2 124 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 106 (4.84%) JIRA
4 67 (3.06%) GitLab
5 39 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 32 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.28%) Eclipse
8 26 (1.19%) Eclipse RCP
9 24 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.91%) JUnit
10 20 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (0.87%) webpack
12 16 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (0.73%) Maven
12 16 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
13 14 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.55%) Selenium
15 11 (0.50%) Robot Framework
15 11 (0.50%) Subversion
16 10 (0.46%) Xcode
General
1 641 (29.27%) Finance
2 356 (16.26%) Banking
3 280 (12.79%) Social Skills
4 230 (10.50%) Front Office
5 127 (5.80%) Aerospace
6 122 (5.57%) Automotive
7 117 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 113 (5.16%) Investment Banking
9 110 (5.02%) Electronics
10 89 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
11 82 (3.74%) Games
12 78 (3.56%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.56%) Retail
13 75 (3.42%) Advertising
14 60 (2.74%) Law
15 57 (2.60%) Marketing
16 53 (2.42%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.14%) Tech for Good
18 24 (1.10%) Legal
19 23 (1.05%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (24.16%) React
2 329 (15.02%) Node.js
3 300 (13.70%) .NET
4 259 (11.83%) AngularJS
5 175 (7.99%) HTML
6 155 (7.08%) Spring
7 138 (6.30%) Spring Boot
8 134 (6.12%) Pandas
9 131 (5.98%) CSS
10 130 (5.94%) NumPy
10 130 (5.94%) SciPy
11 124 (5.66%) Kafka
12 120 (5.48%) gRPC
13 119 (5.43%) REST
14 104 (4.75%) RESTful
15 100 (4.57%) Protocol Buffers
16 98 (4.47%) Redux
16 98 (4.47%) Vue
17 83 (3.79%) .NET Core
18 82 (3.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 224 (10.23%) Fixed Income
2 153 (6.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 147 (6.71%) Equities
4 145 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
5 124 (5.66%) Hedge funds
6 123 (5.62%) Cloud Native
7 119 (5.43%) Derivative
8 117 (5.34%) Algorithms
9 72 (3.29%) Embedded Systems
10 71 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
11 60 (2.74%) Product Ownership
11 60 (2.74%) Public Cloud
12 54 (2.47%) Mobile App
13 44 (2.01%) IoT
14 43 (1.96%) Blog
14 43 (1.96%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.96%) Legacy Code
15 39 (1.78%) Pricing Data
16 36 (1.64%) Digital Media
17 22 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 269 (12.28%) Linux
2 89 (4.06%) Windows
3 43 (1.96%) Unix
4 33 (1.51%) Android
5 30 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 14 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
8 13 (0.59%) Rocky
9 12 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
10 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.091%) VMS
13 2 (0.091%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.091%) Windows Server
14 1 (0.046%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Debian
14 1 (0.046%) Fedora
14 1 (0.046%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,094 (95.62%) Software Engineering
2 1,082 (49.41%) Agile
3 418 (19.09%) Computer Science
4 392 (17.90%) CI/CD
5 294 (13.42%) DevOps
6 293 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 285 (13.01%) Mentoring
8 270 (12.33%) Microservices
9 252 (11.51%) Test Automation
10 247 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
11 244 (11.14%) TDD
12 234 (10.68%) Software Testing
13 223 (10.18%) Fintech
14 211 (9.63%) Asset Management
15 208 (9.50%) SDLC
16 171 (7.81%) Mathematics
17 169 (7.72%) Investment Management
18 165 (7.53%) Scrum
19 154 (7.03%) Continuous Integration
20 151 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 759 (34.66%) Python
2 673 (30.73%) Java
3 561 (25.62%) JavaScript
4 524 (23.93%) TypeScript
5 481 (21.96%) C#
6 404 (18.45%) SQL
7 362 (16.53%) C++
8 263 (12.01%) C
9 198 (9.04%) Rust
10 126 (5.75%) Go
11 112 (5.11%) MATLAB
12 99 (4.52%) Ada
13 68 (3.11%) PHP
14 34 (1.55%) Embedded C
14 34 (1.55%) Ruby
15 33 (1.51%) Bash
15 33 (1.51%) Scala
16 20 (0.91%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.91%) Perl
17 17 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 521 (23.79%) Degree
2 221 (10.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 124 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (4.02%) Security Cleared
5 56 (2.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 53 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 45 (2.05%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.96%) PhD
10 17 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.18%) HNC
13 3 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.14%) HND
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.091%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.091%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.091%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.046%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.52%) QA
2 41 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.46%) NIST
5 8 (0.37%) PMO
6 7 (0.32%) MISRA
7 5 (0.23%) CDISC
7 5 (0.23%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.23%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.18%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.14%) GDPR
9 3 (0.14%) IEC 62304
9 3 (0.14%) SEPA
9 3 (0.14%) WCAG
10 2 (0.091%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.091%) MiFID
System Software
1 292 (13.33%) Docker
2 43 (1.96%) Firmware
3 21 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.046%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 421 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.07%) Terraform
3 21 (0.96%) Ansible
3 21 (0.96%) Grafana
3 21 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 13 (0.59%) Istio
5 6 (0.27%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.23%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
7 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Argo
9 2 (0.091%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.091%) Graylog
9 2 (0.091%) MAINVIEW
9 2 (0.091%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.046%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 102 (4.66%) Microsoft
2 72 (3.29%) Google
3 36 (1.64%) PayPal
4 35 (1.60%) Oracle
5 29 (1.32%) Databricks
6 27 (1.23%) Apple
7 20 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 17 (0.78%) Ping Identity
9 16 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.46%) Siemens
11 9 (0.41%) IBM
12 8 (0.37%) Adobe
12 8 (0.37%) Splunk
13 7 (0.32%) Epicor
13 7 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.27%) Sawtooth Software
15 5 (0.23%) F5
15 5 (0.23%) Intel
15 5 (0.23%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.23%) SAP