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 to 10 December 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
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 48 43 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,893 7,856 7,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.53% 6.43% 6.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.80% 6.73% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 3,944 4,208
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
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 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 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 -6 2,181 £70,000 +1.45% 1,565
UK excluding London +2 1,995 £60,000 - 1,165
Work from Home +4 1,627 £65,000 -7.14% 843
London -18 744 £100,000 +17.65% 638
North of England +20 496 £60,000 +0.42% 235
Scotland +11 485 £60,000 -4.00% 94
South West -10 331 £60,000 - 157
South East -15 306 £60,000 +4.35% 349
North West +25 268 £62,500 +13.64% 127
Yorkshire +20 199 £60,000 - 67
Midlands +4 187 £55,000 - 113
West Midlands +28 103 £57,500 -4.17% 65
East Midlands -6 84 £55,000 - 48
East of England -23 78 £65,000 +8.33% 169
Wales +3 69 £48,750 - 30
Northern Ireland -19 47 £60,500 +0.83% 34
North East -3 29 £55,000 -13.73% 42

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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 2,873 (99.31%) Software Engineering
2 1,384 (47.84%) Agile
3 1,285 (44.42%) Java
4 1,054 (36.43%) AWS
5 1,023 (35.36%) Python
6 931 (32.18%) React
7 884 (30.56%) Finance
8 818 (28.28%) C#
9 810 (28.00%) JavaScript
10 739 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
11 713 (24.65%) Azure
12 660 (22.81%) Microservices
13 623 (21.53%) Security Cleared
14 622 (21.50%) DevOps
15 588 (20.32%) .NET
16 569 (19.67%) SQL
17 547 (18.91%) GCP
18 514 (17.77%) CI/CD
19 494 (17.08%) TypeScript
20 492 (17.01%) Actionable Insight
21 489 (16.90%) Mentoring
22 466 (16.11%) C++
23 464 (16.04%) Linux
24 452 (15.62%) SDLC
25 441 (15.24%) Git
26 440 (15.21%) Design Patterns
27 430 (14.86%) Full Stack Development
28 429 (14.83%) SC Cleared
29 401 (13.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
30 396 (13.69%) Kubernetes

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
1 129 (4.46%) Apache
2 113 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 65 (2.25%) JBoss
5 63 (2.18%) Red Hat Fuse
6 42 (1.45%) Confluence
7 30 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 24 (0.83%) ArcGIS
8 24 (0.83%) Captiva
8 24 (0.83%) FileNet
8 24 (0.83%) GeoServer
9 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 13 (0.45%) CMS
11 11 (0.38%) WinCC
12 10 (0.35%) Apache Solr
12 10 (0.35%) NServiceBus
13 8 (0.28%) Drupal
14 6 (0.21%) Camunda
14 6 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (0.41%) Simulink
2 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.069%) Stateflow
2 2 (0.069%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.035%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 6 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
3 2 (0.069%) Ripple
3 2 (0.069%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.035%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.035%) Magento
4 1 (0.035%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.035%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (36.43%) AWS
2 713 (24.65%) Azure
3 547 (18.91%) GCP
4 380 (13.14%) Serverless
5 139 (4.80%) OpenShift
6 119 (4.11%) GitHub
7 117 (4.04%) SaaS
8 85 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (2.07%) dbt
10 36 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 26 (0.90%) PaaS
13 24 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (0.62%) Amazon S3
18 18 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.52%) TCP/IP
2 70 (2.42%) Internet
3 47 (1.62%) HTTP
4 31 (1.07%) Ethernet
5 29 (1.00%) Wireless
6 22 (0.76%) Firewall
7 14 (0.48%) WAN
8 13 (0.45%) 5G
8 13 (0.45%) RS-232
8 13 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.35%) Modbus
10 8 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 7 (0.24%) AMQP
12 6 (0.21%) RS-485
13 5 (0.17%) FlexRay
13 5 (0.17%) RS-422
14 4 (0.14%) MQTT
15 3 (0.10%) Multicast
15 3 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 155 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 150 (5.18%) MongoDB
5 146 (5.05%) Relational Database
6 131 (4.53%) MySQL
7 102 (3.53%) Oracle Database
8 99 (3.42%) Big Data
9 91 (3.15%) RDBMS
10 86 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
11 77 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
12 63 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
13 56 (1.94%) Hadoop
14 52 (1.80%) Apache Arrow
14 52 (1.80%) Dremio
15 42 (1.45%) Redis
16 30 (1.04%) SQLite
17 28 (0.97%) GIS
18 24 (0.83%) QGIS
19 20 (0.69%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 441 (15.24%) Git
2 196 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 111 (3.84%) JIRA
4 99 (3.42%) Cypress.io
5 63 (2.18%) IntelliJ
6 56 (1.94%) GitLab
6 56 (1.94%) Selenium
7 55 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 52 (1.80%) Subversion
9 51 (1.76%) Visual Studio
10 36 (1.24%) JDeveloper
11 35 (1.21%) Maven
12 32 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
13 31 (1.07%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 21 (0.73%) Artifactory
15 21 (0.73%) Spinnaker
16 17 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
17 15 (0.52%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 884 (30.56%) Finance
2 401 (13.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 367 (12.69%) Banking
4 318 (10.99%) Social Skills
5 262 (9.06%) Front Office
6 250 (8.64%) Law
7 172 (5.95%) Marketing
8 147 (5.08%) Police
9 124 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 109 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
11 97 (3.35%) Aerospace
12 88 (3.04%) Legal
13 84 (2.90%) Electronics
14 80 (2.77%) Retail
15 74 (2.56%) Investment Banking
16 55 (1.90%) Financial Institution
17 52 (1.80%) Automotive
18 44 (1.52%) Manufacturing
19 43 (1.49%) Games
20 33 (1.14%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 931 (32.18%) React
2 588 (20.32%) .NET
3 391 (13.52%) AngularJS
4 382 (13.20%) Node.js
4 382 (13.20%) Spring
5 233 (8.05%) HTML
6 224 (7.74%) ASP.NET
7 193 (6.67%) CSS
8 176 (6.08%) RESTful
9 174 (6.01%) Redux
10 165 (5.70%) REST
11 156 (5.39%) J2EE
12 155 (5.36%) Web Services
13 147 (5.08%) Vue
14 146 (5.05%) .NET Framework
15 142 (4.91%) Spring Boot
16 141 (4.87%) Ruby on Rails
17 126 (4.36%) XML
18 121 (4.18%) Kafka
19 120 (4.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 163 (5.63%) Fixed Income
2 139 (4.80%) Algorithms
3 136 (4.70%) Derivative
4 119 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 109 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 105 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 101 (3.49%) Equities
8 94 (3.25%) Hedge funds
9 84 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 69 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
10 69 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 58 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
12 51 (1.76%) Private Cloud
13 48 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.49%) Mobile App
15 39 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
15 39 (1.35%) IoT
16 29 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
16 29 (1.00%) Onboarding
17 27 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 464 (16.04%) Linux
2 121 (4.18%) Windows
3 59 (2.04%) Android
3 59 (2.04%) Unix
4 34 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
5 30 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 28 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.21%) CentOS
10 6 (0.21%) Debian
11 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
12 4 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.035%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.035%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,873 (99.31%) Software Engineering
2 1,384 (47.84%) Agile
3 739 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 660 (22.81%) Microservices
5 622 (21.50%) DevOps
6 514 (17.77%) CI/CD
7 492 (17.01%) Actionable Insight
8 489 (16.90%) Mentoring
9 452 (15.62%) SDLC
10 440 (15.21%) Design Patterns
11 430 (14.86%) Full Stack Development
12 393 (13.58%) Containerisation
13 385 (13.31%) Unit Testing
14 382 (13.20%) Continuous Integration
15 311 (10.75%) TDD
16 308 (10.65%) Code Quality
17 281 (9.71%) Computer Science
18 276 (9.54%) Coaching
19 274 (9.47%) Asset Management
20 254 (8.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,285 (44.42%) Java
2 1,023 (35.36%) Python
3 818 (28.28%) C#
4 810 (28.00%) JavaScript
5 569 (19.67%) SQL
6 494 (17.08%) TypeScript
7 466 (16.11%) C++
8 311 (10.75%) C
9 271 (9.37%) Ruby
10 188 (6.50%) Go
11 130 (4.49%) Bash
12 111 (3.84%) Kotlin
13 102 (3.53%) Perl
14 95 (3.28%) Rust
15 94 (3.25%) Scala
16 49 (1.69%) PHP
17 41 (1.42%) PowerShell
18 32 (1.11%) Embedded C
19 31 (1.07%) Ada
20 23 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 623 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 429 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 359 (12.41%) Degree
4 136 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 125 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 23 (0.80%) PhD
9 17 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.35%) HND
14 9 (0.31%) HNC
15 8 (0.28%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.21%) OCP
16 6 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
17 4 (0.14%) Postgraduate
18 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
19 2 (0.069%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (9.33%) QA
2 26 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 25 (0.86%) GDPR
4 19 (0.66%) MISRA
4 19 (0.66%) PMO
5 15 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
6 9 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
6 9 (0.31%) ISO 26262
6 9 (0.31%) SLA
7 8 (0.28%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.24%) DO-178B
9 4 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.14%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.10%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.069%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.069%) JTAG
12 1 (0.035%) ECSS
12 1 (0.035%) HL7
12 1 (0.035%) TickIT
System Software
1 373 (12.89%) Docker
2 72 (2.49%) Firmware
3 36 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.41%) HDFS
5 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.069%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.069%) OpenSIPS
9 1 (0.035%) Ceph
9 1 (0.035%) Gluster
9 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 396 (13.69%) Kubernetes
2 146 (5.05%) Terraform
3 67 (2.32%) Ansible
4 13 (0.45%) Functional Safety
5 12 (0.41%) Grafana
6 10 (0.35%) Puppet
7 8 (0.28%) Istio
8 5 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.14%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.14%) Kibana
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.14%) Wonderware InTouch
10 3 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.035%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.035%) Kiali
11 1 (0.035%) Nagios
11 1 (0.035%) Nmap
11 1 (0.035%) Rancher
11 1 (0.035%) SCCM
Vendors
1 177 (6.12%) Oracle
2 134 (4.63%) Google
3 127 (4.39%) Microsoft
4 47 (1.62%) SAP
5 46 (1.59%) IBM
6 43 (1.49%) Xamarin
7 30 (1.04%) Pega
8 25 (0.86%) Databricks
9 24 (0.83%) ESRI
9 24 (0.83%) Finsemble
9 24 (0.83%) Kofax
9 24 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 21 (0.73%) Dell
11 19 (0.66%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.41%) Cloudera
14 11 (0.38%) Confluent
14 11 (0.38%) Siemens
14 11 (0.38%) Splunk
15 10 (0.35%) Sun