Software Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 17 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 5,386 17,154 17,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 13.69% 13.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.73% 14.30% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,742 9,028 9,921
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,833 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £121,927 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 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 -3 4,487 £70,000 - 2,776
UK excluding London -4 3,374 £60,000 - 2,023
Work from Home 0 2,957 £70,000 - 1,659
London -8 1,675 £92,500 +8.82% 1,100
North of England 0 922 £60,000 -4.00% 459
South West -5 674 £60,000 +0.80% 281
South East -17 581 £60,000 - 540
North West +1 515 £65,000 +8.33% 259
Scotland +1 491 £60,000 -2.37% 162
Midlands 0 383 £57,500 -4.17% 229
Yorkshire 0 343 £60,000 -4.00% 140
West Midlands -15 206 £57,500 -4.17% 146
East Midlands +1 177 £55,000 -8.33% 84
East of England -17 136 £65,000 -3.70% 282
Wales -5 124 £57,500 -4.17% 56
Northern Ireland -12 80 £65,000 +30.00% 48
North East +5 63 £57,500 -8.00% 65

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
1 157 (2.91%) Apache
2 133 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (2.21%) Confluence
4 90 (1.67%) JBoss
5 87 (1.62%) Red Hat Fuse
6 79 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 39 (0.72%) CMS
8 36 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 36 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 25 (0.46%) nginx
10 22 (0.41%) Captiva
10 22 (0.41%) FileNet
11 20 (0.37%) Umbraco
12 19 (0.35%) Drupal
13 17 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 15 (0.28%) IIS
14 15 (0.28%) Jupyter
15 13 (0.24%) NServiceBus
16 10 (0.19%) Apache Solr
16 10 (0.19%) WinCC
Applications
1 24 (0.45%) Simulink
2 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 9 (0.17%) Windchill
4 8 (0.15%) PTC Creo
5 7 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.11%) OrCAD
7 5 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.093%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.037%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.037%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.037%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.019%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.019%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.019%) Sketch
10 1 (0.019%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.074%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.056%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.056%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.037%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.037%) Ripple
5 2 (0.037%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.037%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.037%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Magento
6 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.019%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.019%) Shopify
6 1 (0.019%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,608 (29.86%) AWS
2 1,252 (23.25%) Azure
3 810 (15.04%) GCP
4 538 (9.99%) Serverless
5 270 (5.01%) SaaS
6 225 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
7 222 (4.12%) GitHub
8 209 (3.88%) OpenShift
9 134 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
10 98 (1.82%) PaaS
11 90 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
12 85 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 83 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (1.49%) Power Platform
15 74 (1.37%) dbt
16 66 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
17 59 (1.10%) IaaS
18 57 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
19 44 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 43 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 82 (1.52%) Internet
3 61 (1.13%) HTTP
4 53 (0.98%) Wireless
5 35 (0.65%) Ethernet
6 31 (0.58%) 5G
7 28 (0.52%) WAN
8 26 (0.48%) Firewall
9 24 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.33%) AMQP
11 16 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.28%) Network Security
13 13 (0.24%) Bluetooth
13 13 (0.24%) RS-232
13 13 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
13 13 (0.24%) VoIP
14 12 (0.22%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.19%) DNS
15 10 (0.19%) Modbus
16 8 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 269 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
3 230 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 222 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 214 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 190 (3.53%) MySQL
7 160 (2.97%) Big Data
8 120 (2.23%) Oracle Database
9 110 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 105 (1.95%) RDBMS
11 86 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
12 79 (1.47%) Redis
13 65 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (1.13%) Hadoop
15 56 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
16 54 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 52 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
17 52 (0.97%) Dremio
18 48 (0.89%) DynamoDB
19 39 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 730 (13.55%) Git
2 333 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 221 (4.10%) JIRA
4 142 (2.64%) GitLab
5 137 (2.54%) Cypress.io
6 91 (1.69%) IntelliJ
7 84 (1.56%) Visual Studio
8 83 (1.54%) Selenium
9 72 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 68 (1.26%) Artifactory
11 65 (1.21%) Subversion
12 64 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 60 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 52 (0.97%) Maven
15 42 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
16 40 (0.74%) TeamCity
16 40 (0.74%) webpack
17 37 (0.69%) SonarQube
18 36 (0.67%) JDeveloper
19 34 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,361 (25.27%) Finance
2 926 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 541 (10.04%) Banking
4 475 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 399 (7.41%) Front Office
6 242 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 239 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 186 (3.45%) Retail
9 181 (3.36%) Marketing
10 170 (3.16%) Law
11 161 (2.99%) Police
12 154 (2.86%) Electronics
13 133 (2.47%) Aerospace
14 106 (1.97%) Automotive
15 95 (1.76%) Manufacturing
16 93 (1.73%) Investment Banking
17 91 (1.69%) Games
18 71 (1.32%) Telecoms
19 70 (1.30%) Legal
20 66 (1.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,783 (51.67%) Software Engineer
2 1,187 (22.04%) Senior
3 1,114 (20.68%) Developer
4 713 (13.24%) Senior Software Engineer
5 598 (11.10%) Lead
6 439 (8.15%) Java Engineer
7 406 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
8 364 (6.76%) Architect
9 278 (5.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 263 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
11 236 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 233 (4.33%) Python Engineer
13 229 (4.25%) Senior Developer
14 222 (4.12%) Full Stack Engineer
15 214 (3.97%) .NET Software Engineer
16 209 (3.88%) .NET Developer
17 207 (3.84%) Embedded Engineer
18 188 (3.49%) C# Software Engineer
18 188 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
19 181 (3.36%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,287 (23.90%) React
2 1,041 (19.33%) .NET
3 605 (11.23%) Node.js
4 580 (10.77%) AngularJS
5 486 (9.02%) Spring
6 473 (8.78%) HTML
7 394 (7.32%) CSS
8 310 (5.76%) ASP.NET
9 307 (5.70%) RESTful
10 306 (5.68%) REST
11 259 (4.81%) .NET Framework
12 239 (4.44%) .NET Core
13 237 (4.40%) Web Services
14 231 (4.29%) Kafka
15 219 (4.07%) Spring Boot
16 202 (3.75%) Redux
17 197 (3.66%) Vue
18 196 (3.64%) Middleware
19 194 (3.60%) XML
20 187 (3.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 245 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 226 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 211 (3.92%) Fixed Income
4 189 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 184 (3.42%) Algorithms
6 180 (3.34%) Derivative
7 156 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 140 (2.60%) Equities
9 137 (2.54%) Hedge funds
10 135 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
11 123 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 112 (2.08%) Mobile App
13 82 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
14 79 (1.47%) Public Cloud
15 73 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 73 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
16 69 (1.28%) IoT
17 65 (1.21%) Cyberattack
17 65 (1.21%) Management Information System
18 57 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 718 (13.33%) Linux
2 257 (4.77%) Windows
3 119 (2.21%) Android
4 106 (1.97%) Unix
5 72 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 49 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
7 37 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 23 (0.43%) HPUX
9 23 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.43%) Solaris
10 16 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
11 13 (0.24%) CentOS
12 12 (0.22%) VMS
13 11 (0.20%) AIX
13 11 (0.20%) Fedora
14 8 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.13%) Debian
15 7 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,454 (45.56%) Agile
2 1,308 (24.29%) DevOps
3 1,112 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
4 1,028 (19.09%) Microservices
5 890 (16.52%) CI/CD
6 855 (15.87%) Mentoring
7 678 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
8 662 (12.29%) Computer Science
9 636 (11.81%) Actionable Insight
10 609 (11.31%) Containerisation
11 594 (11.03%) Design Patterns
12 564 (10.47%) SDLC
13 554 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
14 487 (9.04%) Scrum
15 480 (8.91%) Unit Testing
16 452 (8.39%) TDD
17 429 (7.97%) Code Quality
18 428 (7.95%) Test Automation
19 410 (7.61%) Coaching
20 363 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,775 (32.96%) Java
2 1,619 (30.06%) Python
3 1,358 (25.21%) JavaScript
4 1,319 (24.49%) C#
5 888 (16.49%) SQL
6 827 (15.35%) TypeScript
7 685 (12.72%) C++
8 428 (7.95%) C
9 325 (6.03%) Go
10 322 (5.98%) Ruby
11 223 (4.14%) Bash
12 156 (2.90%) Kotlin
13 145 (2.69%) PowerShell
14 134 (2.49%) Rust
15 122 (2.27%) PHP
16 111 (2.06%) Perl
17 101 (1.88%) Scala
18 63 (1.17%) R
19 59 (1.10%) T-SQL
20 56 (1.04%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 946 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 942 (17.49%) Degree
3 637 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 338 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 229 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 157 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 82 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 51 (0.95%) PhD
10 34 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 26 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 26 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.33%) HND
13 18 (0.33%) OCP
13 18 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (0.22%) MCSE
15 11 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (8.23%) QA
2 51 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 25 (0.46%) GDPR
3 25 (0.46%) MISRA
4 23 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 22 (0.41%) PMO
6 21 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
7 18 (0.33%) ISO 26262
7 18 (0.33%) WCAG
8 17 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
10 12 (0.22%) DO-178B
10 12 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.22%) SLA
11 11 (0.20%) IEC 61508
12 9 (0.17%) Automotive SPICE
13 7 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.11%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 760 (14.11%) Docker
2 125 (2.32%) Firmware
3 51 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
4 26 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 18 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.20%) OpenSIPS
8 8 (0.15%) IAG
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.093%) Ceph
10 5 (0.093%) HDFS
10 5 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.074%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.019%) Gluster
13 1 (0.019%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.019%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 797 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 343 (6.37%) Terraform
3 169 (3.14%) Ansible
4 45 (0.84%) Grafana
5 35 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.50%) Puppet
7 19 (0.35%) Argo
7 19 (0.35%) Rancher
8 13 (0.24%) Istio
9 12 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 11 (0.20%) Kibana
10 11 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.17%) SCCM
13 8 (0.15%) SCOM
14 6 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
15 5 (0.093%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.074%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.074%) vRealize
16 4 (0.074%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 386 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 246 (4.57%) Google
3 215 (3.99%) Oracle
4 95 (1.76%) SAP
5 72 (1.34%) IBM
6 60 (1.11%) Xamarin
7 44 (0.82%) Databricks
8 43 (0.80%) Splunk
9 38 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 35 (0.65%) Red Hat
11 34 (0.63%) TOWER Software
12 31 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 26 (0.48%) Adobe
14 25 (0.46%) Pega
15 24 (0.45%) Dell
15 24 (0.45%) Finsemble
15 24 (0.45%) Sun
16 23 (0.43%) VMware
17 22 (0.41%) Kofax
18 20 (0.37%) HP