Software Engineering Jobs

Software Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,695 11,514 11,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.00% 11.71% 10.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.65% 13.61% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,427 7,100 6,898
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,600 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,033 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +0.93% -7.26% +7.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 -5 3,972 £67,500 +8.00% 3,440
UK excluding London -7 3,175 £58,033 +0.93% 2,103
Work from Home -1 1,829 £74,870 +15.18% 2,084
London -3 1,345 £98,562 +7.72% 1,576
North of England -10 798 £57,836 -3.61% 620
South East -7 591 £65,000 +13.04% 406
Scotland -4 522 £58,033 -3.28% 202
North West -22 499 £57,500 -4.17% 387
South West +1 491 £55,000 - 278
Midlands -8 445 £60,000 +9.09% 293
West Midlands -7 282 £63,750 +6.25% 163
East of England -12 234 £65,000 +8.33% 258
Yorkshire -6 227 £67,500 +22.73% 162
East Midlands -11 163 £60,000 +20.00% 129
Wales -7 77 £65,000 +30.00% 40
North East +6 72 £55,000 - 74
Northern Ireland -11 18 £90,000 +50.00% 38

Software Engineering
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
1 285 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 248 (5.28%) Apache
3 118 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 62 (1.32%) Confluence
5 23 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 19 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.36%) CMS
8 12 (0.26%) Kinematics
9 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.15%) CICS
11 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.11%) IIS
12 5 (0.11%) Liferay
12 5 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.064%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.064%) Solana
14 2 (0.043%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.043%) nginx
14 2 (0.043%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 514 (10.95%) Simulink
2 57 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.085%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.085%) Sketch
6 3 (0.064%) Trello
7 2 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.043%) Blender
7 2 (0.043%) Maya
7 2 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.021%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.021%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Revit
8 1 (0.021%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.021%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 22 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Shopify
3 5 (0.11%) Magento
4 4 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.085%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.064%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.043%) Endur
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.043%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.021%) BASE24
7 1 (0.021%) Eikon
7 1 (0.021%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.021%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.021%) RMDS
7 1 (0.021%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.021%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.021%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,353 (28.82%) AWS
2 843 (17.96%) Azure
3 505 (10.76%) GCP
4 285 (6.07%) Serverless
5 284 (6.05%) dbt
6 211 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
7 206 (4.39%) SaaS
8 184 (3.92%) GitHub
9 164 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
10 150 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 136 (2.90%) Snowflake
12 129 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 128 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
13 128 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 126 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
15 95 (2.02%) Power Platform
16 94 (2.00%) OpenShift
17 87 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
18 57 (1.21%) Dagster
19 51 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (0.92%) Network Security
2 37 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 33 (0.70%) HTTP
4 29 (0.62%) Wireless
5 26 (0.55%) Bluetooth
6 25 (0.53%) Modbus
7 21 (0.45%) WAN
8 19 (0.40%) MQTT
9 16 (0.34%) 5G
9 16 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.32%) RS-232
11 14 (0.30%) Firewall
11 14 (0.30%) Multicast
11 14 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.28%) Ethernet
13 11 (0.23%) Internet
14 9 (0.19%) DNS
14 9 (0.19%) ZigBee
15 8 (0.17%) RS-485
16 7 (0.15%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
2 262 (5.58%) Dremio
3 258 (5.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 243 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 233 (4.96%) Apache Arrow
6 186 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 175 (3.73%) NoSQL
8 173 (3.68%) MySQL
9 171 (3.64%) Apache Ignite
10 140 (2.98%) MongoDB
11 100 (2.13%) Data Lake
12 94 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 89 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (1.36%) Big Data
15 62 (1.32%) DynamoDB
16 58 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
17 54 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.89%) Power BI
19 30 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
19 30 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 422 (8.99%) Git
2 164 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 141 (3.00%) JIRA
4 115 (2.45%) GitLab
5 88 (1.87%) Artifactory
6 57 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 55 (1.17%) Maven
8 44 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 39 (0.83%) JUnit
10 36 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 29 (0.62%) Eclipse
11 29 (0.62%) Selenium
12 28 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
13 26 (0.55%) webpack
14 25 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
15 23 (0.49%) Cypress.io
15 23 (0.49%) Gradle
16 21 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
17 19 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,172 (24.96%) Finance
2 712 (15.17%) Social Skills
3 576 (12.27%) Banking
4 392 (8.35%) Front Office
5 370 (7.88%) Electronics
6 279 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 217 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 158 (3.37%) Games
9 156 (3.32%) Retail
10 150 (3.19%) Aerospace
10 150 (3.19%) Automotive
11 121 (2.58%) Law
12 119 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 115 (2.45%) Investment Banking
14 101 (2.15%) Public Sector
15 72 (1.53%) Marketing
16 59 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 58 (1.24%) Advertising
18 53 (1.13%) Legal
19 51 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2,043 (43.51%) Software Engineer
2 1,088 (23.17%) Senior
3 718 (15.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 605 (12.89%) Developer
5 551 (11.74%) Lead
6 442 (9.41%) Systems Engineer
7 405 (8.63%) Principal Engineer
8 331 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
9 284 (6.05%) Python Engineer
10 223 (4.75%) Java Engineer
11 202 (4.30%) AWS Software Engineer
12 197 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
13 193 (4.11%) Software Assurance Engineer
14 178 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
15 177 (3.77%) Software Developer
16 163 (3.47%) Data Engineer
17 153 (3.26%) Python Software Engineer
18 152 (3.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 137 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
20 136 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 800 (17.04%) React
2 589 (12.55%) .NET
3 463 (9.86%) Node.js
4 338 (7.20%) AngularJS
5 295 (6.28%) HTML
6 290 (6.18%) Kafka
7 252 (5.37%) CSS
8 231 (4.92%) Spring
9 214 (4.56%) Pandas
10 202 (4.30%) Spring Boot
11 176 (3.75%) PySpark
12 168 (3.58%) NumPy
13 165 (3.51%) RESTful
14 155 (3.30%) REST
15 153 (3.26%) SciPy
16 152 (3.24%) .NET Core
17 137 (2.92%) Vue
18 124 (2.64%) gRPC
19 122 (2.60%) Redux
20 112 (2.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 257 (5.47%) Algorithms
2 241 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 202 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 179 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 177 (3.77%) Equities
6 166 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 153 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 135 (2.88%) Hedge funds
8 135 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 127 (2.71%) Derivative
10 126 (2.68%) Mobile App
11 111 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
12 104 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
13 76 (1.62%) Cyberattack
14 72 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 71 (1.51%) Public Cloud
16 65 (1.38%) IoT
17 59 (1.26%) Legacy Code
18 53 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
18 53 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 404 (8.60%) Linux
2 128 (2.73%) Windows
3 112 (2.39%) Android
4 56 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 56 (1.19%) Unix
5 19 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 14 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
7 12 (0.26%) Rocky
7 12 (0.26%) zOS
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.11%) VMS
11 4 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.043%) Debian
12 2 (0.043%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.021%) Fedora
13 1 (0.021%) Solaris
13 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,970 (41.96%) Agile
2 888 (18.91%) CI/CD
3 841 (17.91%) DevOps
4 785 (16.72%) Systems Engineering
5 762 (16.23%) Mathematics
6 691 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
7 684 (14.57%) Computer Science
8 667 (14.21%) Mentoring
9 592 (12.61%) Validation
10 557 (11.86%) Microservices
11 470 (10.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 452 (9.63%) SDLC
13 442 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
14 433 (9.22%) SysML
15 422 (8.99%) Verification and Validation
16 416 (8.86%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 394 (8.39%) Software Testing
18 393 (8.37%) Digital Twin
18 393 (8.37%) Test Automation
19 369 (7.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,304 (27.77%) Python
2 1,226 (26.11%) Java
3 1,009 (21.49%) JavaScript
4 806 (17.17%) C#
5 711 (15.14%) TypeScript
6 658 (14.01%) SQL
7 530 (11.29%) MATLAB
8 508 (10.82%) C++
9 368 (7.84%) C
10 302 (6.43%) Go
11 253 (5.39%) Rust
12 146 (3.11%) PHP
13 120 (2.56%) Ada
14 68 (1.45%) Ruby
15 57 (1.21%) Kotlin
16 52 (1.11%) Scala
17 47 (1.00%) Bash
18 39 (0.83%) Embedded C
19 35 (0.75%) PowerShell
20 27 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,497 (31.88%) Degree
2 564 (12.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 421 (8.97%) HND
4 400 (8.52%) HNC
5 290 (6.18%) Security Cleared
6 272 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 150 (3.19%) Master's Degree
8 134 (2.85%) SC Cleared
9 118 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 86 (1.83%) PhD
11 74 (1.58%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.49%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
16 18 (0.38%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.21%) ISTQB
18 5 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
19 4 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
19 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (4.17%) QA
2 78 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 35 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 31 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.66%) GDPR
4 31 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.34%) NIST
5 16 (0.34%) PMO
6 14 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.17%) NCSC
10 7 (0.15%) IEC 61131
10 7 (0.15%) MISRA
10 7 (0.15%) SLA
11 6 (0.13%) CDISC
11 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 616 (13.12%) Docker
2 67 (1.43%) Firmware
3 28 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
3 28 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.021%) NDS
Systems Management
1 742 (15.80%) Kubernetes
2 377 (8.03%) Terraform
3 102 (2.17%) Ansible
4 47 (1.00%) Grafana
4 47 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.30%) Istio
6 13 (0.28%) Argo
7 9 (0.19%) CA Endevor
8 6 (0.13%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.13%) Kibana
8 6 (0.13%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.11%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.11%) Puppet
9 5 (0.11%) QRadar
10 4 (0.085%) Packer
10 4 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.043%) Graylog
11 2 (0.043%) MAINVIEW
11 2 (0.043%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 263 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 165 (3.51%) Google
3 90 (1.92%) Siemens
4 87 (1.85%) Oracle
5 76 (1.62%) Databricks
6 71 (1.51%) IBM
7 36 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 36 (0.77%) PayPal
8 32 (0.68%) Red Hat
9 30 (0.64%) Apple
9 30 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 21 (0.45%) Ping Identity
11 18 (0.38%) New Relic
12 17 (0.36%) Splunk
13 14 (0.30%) Adobe
14 12 (0.26%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.21%) SAP
16 9 (0.19%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.19%) VMware
17 8 (0.17%) Telerik