Software Engineering Manager
UK
The median Software Engineering Manager salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2025.
The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 27 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 634 | 607 | 862 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -27 | +255 | +54 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager | 75 | 319 | 106 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.14% | 0.31% | 0.11% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.15% | 0.33% | 0.12% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 57 | 85 | 71 |
| 10th Percentile | £71,700 | £57,500 | £65,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £75,000 | £62,500 | £72,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £85,000 | £77,500 | £90,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +9.68% | -13.89% | -14.29% |
| 75th Percentile | £105,000 | £93,750 | £115,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £126,771 | £105,000 | £125,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £80,000 | £75,000 | £75,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +6.67% | - | -14.29% |
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 | 49,300 | 96,566 | 89,723 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 90.41% | 94.78% | 91.48% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 25,583 | 68,990 | 56,857 |
| 10th Percentile | £28,822 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,000 | £38,500 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,750 | £70,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £96,250 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £51,500 | £50,000 | £53,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.00% | -6.54% | +6.63% |
Software Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Software Engineering Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering Manager.
Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.
Software Engineering Manager
Top 14 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 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 | +149 | 69 | £87,500 | +14.75% | 110 |
| UK excluding London | -28 | 50 | £80,000 | +6.67% | 92 |
| Work from Home | +127 | 35 | £95,000 | +26.67% | 57 |
| London | +100 | 24 | £98,750 | +12.86% | 28 |
| North of England | +41 | 23 | £86,250 | +4.55% | 18 |
| Yorkshire | +70 | 16 | £85,000 | +6.25% | 4 |
| South East | +74 | 13 | £75,000 | +15.38% | 45 |
| North West | -13 | 7 | £87,500 | +6.06% | 10 |
| Midlands | +63 | 6 | £76,250 | +7.39% | 9 |
| West Midlands | +63 | 5 | £80,000 | +12.68% | 4 |
| Scotland | -52 | 4 | £75,000 | -6.25% | 4 |
| South West | +106 | 2 | £95,000 | +26.67% | 12 |
| Wales | - | 2 | £70,000 | - | 5 |
| East Midlands | - | 1 | £72,500 | - | 3 |
Software Engineering Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, Software Engineering 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 Engineering Manager in the job title.
|
|
Software Engineering 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:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||