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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,991 11,675 10,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.99% 11.77% 10.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 13.76% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,334 7,224 6,573
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,600 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £94,504
90th Percentile £118,750 £111,250 £116,250
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 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 May 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 16 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 -2 4,232 £67,500 +8.00% 5,396
UK excluding London -6 3,593 £58,033 +0.93% 3,732
Work from Home -7 2,128 £72,500 +11.54% 2,882
London -6 1,232 £100,000 +9.29% 2,597
North of England -2 1,094 £57,836 -3.61% 849
North West -9 799 £55,000 -8.33% 495
South East -12 606 £65,000 +13.04% 1,212
Scotland -5 570 £58,033 -3.28% 328
Midlands -8 497 £62,500 +13.64% 409
South West 0 484 £52,600 -4.36% 455
West Midlands -5 301 £65,000 +8.33% 225
East of England -23 256 £62,500 +4.17% 442
Yorkshire -10 219 £67,500 +22.73% 235
East Midlands -13 196 £60,000 +20.00% 164
North East +7 76 £55,000 - 125
Wales -6 75 £65,000 +30.00% 58
Northern Ireland -13 13 £70,000 +16.67% 74

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
1 270 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 223 (4.47%) Apache
3 217 (4.35%) Confluence
4 110 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 18 (0.36%) CMS
6 18 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.28%) Kinematics
8 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.16%) IIS
10 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.10%) CICS
11 5 (0.10%) Liferay
11 5 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.060%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.060%) SAS
12 3 (0.060%) Solana
13 2 (0.040%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.040%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 596 (11.94%) Simulink
2 64 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.080%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.080%) Sketch
6 3 (0.060%) Trello
7 2 (0.040%) Blender
7 2 (0.040%) Maya
7 2 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.020%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Revit
8 1 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.20%) Shopify
2 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.12%) Magento
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
5 4 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.040%) Endur
6 2 (0.040%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.040%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 1 (0.020%) BASE24
7 1 (0.020%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.020%) iTrent
7 1 (0.020%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.020%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.020%) RMDS
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.020%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,684 (33.74%) AWS
2 1,214 (24.32%) Azure
3 799 (16.01%) GCP
4 266 (5.33%) dbt
5 253 (5.07%) Serverless
6 195 (3.91%) SaaS
7 183 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
8 178 (3.57%) GitHub
9 135 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 134 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
11 129 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 121 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
13 107 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 101 (2.02%) Amazon S3
15 100 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
16 86 (1.72%) OpenShift
17 84 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
18 77 (1.54%) Power Platform
19 52 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
20 44 (0.88%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 43 (0.86%) Network Security
2 42 (0.84%) Wireless
3 36 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 28 (0.56%) HTTP
5 27 (0.54%) Modbus
6 25 (0.50%) Bluetooth
7 21 (0.42%) WAN
8 20 (0.40%) MQTT
9 18 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
10 16 (0.32%) 5G
10 16 (0.32%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.28%) Multicast
11 14 (0.28%) RS-232
11 14 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.24%) Ethernet
12 12 (0.24%) Firewall
13 10 (0.20%) Internet
14 9 (0.18%) ZigBee
15 8 (0.16%) RS-485
16 7 (0.14%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 258 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
3 245 (4.91%) Dremio
4 243 (4.87%) Apache Iceberg
5 231 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
6 224 (4.49%) Apache Arrow
7 158 (3.17%) MySQL
8 150 (3.01%) NoSQL
9 149 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
10 138 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 87 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 87 (1.74%) Relational Database
12 83 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
13 60 (1.20%) Big Data
14 48 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 42 (0.84%) Power BI
16 40 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 31 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
18 30 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
19 29 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 386 (7.73%) JIRA
2 377 (7.55%) Git
3 357 (7.15%) GitLab
4 288 (5.77%) SonarQube
5 283 (5.67%) Maven
6 282 (5.65%) Bitbucket
7 278 (5.57%) Cucumber
8 273 (5.47%) Selenium
9 267 (5.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 140 (2.81%) Jenkins
11 78 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 55 (1.10%) Visual Studio
13 42 (0.84%) JUnit
14 30 (0.60%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
15 26 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
16 22 (0.44%) Cypress.io
17 21 (0.42%) Gradle
18 20 (0.40%) webpack
19 19 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,322 (26.49%) Finance
2 732 (14.67%) Banking
3 665 (13.32%) Social Skills
4 609 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 370 (7.41%) Electronics
6 344 (6.89%) Front Office
7 275 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 235 (4.71%) Retail
9 195 (3.91%) Investment Banking
10 152 (3.05%) Aerospace
11 148 (2.97%) Games
12 145 (2.91%) Automotive
13 116 (2.32%) Manufacturing
14 103 (2.06%) Law
15 90 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
16 86 (1.72%) Public Sector
17 74 (1.48%) Marketing
18 55 (1.10%) Advertising
19 45 (0.90%) Financial Institution
20 44 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,376 (47.61%) Software Engineer
2 1,190 (23.84%) Senior
3 857 (17.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 593 (11.88%) Developer
5 520 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
6 516 (10.34%) Lead
7 423 (8.48%) Principal Engineer
8 298 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
9 250 (5.01%) Python Engineer
10 209 (4.19%) Java Engineer
11 200 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
12 194 (3.89%) AWS Software Engineer
13 193 (3.87%) Software Assurance Engineer
14 173 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 169 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
16 152 (3.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 148 (2.97%) Data Engineer
18 144 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
19 135 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
19 135 (2.70%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 984 (19.72%) React
2 729 (14.61%) .NET
3 603 (12.08%) Node.js
4 536 (10.74%) Kafka
5 508 (10.18%) HTML
6 468 (9.38%) CSS
7 452 (9.06%) Spring
8 424 (8.50%) Spring Boot
9 350 (7.01%) Redux
10 306 (6.13%) AngularJS
11 250 (5.01%) JPA
12 244 (4.89%) RESTful
13 239 (4.79%) REST
14 203 (4.07%) Pandas
15 187 (3.75%) Hibernate
16 159 (3.19%) PySpark
17 157 (3.15%) NumPy
18 146 (2.93%) .NET Core
19 142 (2.85%) SciPy
19 142 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 395 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 295 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
3 254 (5.09%) Cyberattack
4 252 (5.05%) Algorithms
5 229 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
6 226 (4.53%) Fixed Income
7 194 (3.89%) Cloud Native
8 181 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
9 179 (3.59%) Equities
10 171 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
11 166 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 127 (2.54%) Hedge funds
13 124 (2.48%) Management Information System
14 117 (2.34%) Derivative
15 115 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
16 111 (2.22%) Mobile App
17 108 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
18 66 (1.32%) Public Cloud
19 63 (1.26%) Data Structures
20 57 (1.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 576 (11.54%) Linux
2 133 (2.66%) Windows
3 104 (2.08%) Android
4 52 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.04%) Unix
5 31 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
7 13 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 10 (0.20%) zOS
9 9 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 7 (0.14%) Rocky
11 6 (0.12%) VMS
12 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.040%) Debian
14 2 (0.040%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.020%) Fedora
15 1 (0.020%) Solaris
15 1 (0.020%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,280 (45.68%) Agile
2 1,081 (21.66%) CI/CD
3 990 (19.84%) DevOps
4 939 (18.81%) Microservices
5 861 (17.25%) Systems Engineering
6 848 (16.99%) Mathematics
7 835 (16.73%) Mentoring
8 693 (13.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 678 (13.58%) Computer Science
10 675 (13.52%) Validation
11 660 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 638 (12.78%) SDLC
13 607 (12.16%) Test Automation
14 538 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 508 (10.18%) SysML
16 505 (10.12%) Verification and Validation
17 491 (9.84%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
18 482 (9.66%) TDD
19 476 (9.54%) Digital Twin
20 445 (8.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,547 (31.00%) Java
2 1,398 (28.01%) Python
3 1,338 (26.81%) JavaScript
4 865 (17.33%) SQL
5 764 (15.31%) TypeScript
6 748 (14.99%) C#
7 672 (13.46%) C++
8 613 (12.28%) MATLAB
9 455 (9.12%) Go
10 421 (8.44%) Rust
11 353 (7.07%) C
12 149 (2.99%) Ada
13 133 (2.66%) PHP
14 53 (1.06%) Ruby
15 50 (1.00%) Scala
16 49 (0.98%) Bash
17 42 (0.84%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.76%) Embedded C
19 36 (0.72%) PowerShell
20 32 (0.64%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 1,558 (31.22%) Degree
2 592 (11.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 496 (9.94%) HND
4 483 (9.68%) HNC
5 464 (9.30%) Security Cleared
6 298 (5.97%) DV Cleared
7 257 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 208 (4.17%) AWS Certification
9 201 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 179 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 140 (2.81%) SC Cleared
12 132 (2.64%) Master's Degree
13 103 (2.06%) Chartered Engineer
14 78 (1.56%) PhD
15 21 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
16 18 (0.36%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.20%) DBS Check
18 9 (0.18%) ISTQB
19 5 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
20 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (8.56%) QA
2 161 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 63 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 31 (0.62%) GDPR
4 31 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.32%) NIST
6 16 (0.32%) PMO
7 15 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.14%) IEC 61131
10 7 (0.14%) NCSC
10 7 (0.14%) SLA
11 6 (0.12%) CDISC
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 816 (16.35%) Docker
2 77 (1.54%) Firmware
3 41 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 19 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.22%) Active Directory
6 9 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.020%) HDFS
7 1 (0.020%) NDS
7 1 (0.020%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 924 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 356 (7.13%) Terraform
3 101 (2.02%) Ansible
4 54 (1.08%) Grafana
5 50 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.26%) Istio
7 12 (0.24%) Argo
8 8 (0.16%) Kibana
8 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.12%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.12%) BMC PATROL
10 6 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.12%) QRadar
11 5 (0.10%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 4 (0.080%) Packer
13 2 (0.040%) Graylog
13 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.040%) Podman
Vendors
1 247 (4.95%) Solace
2 237 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 158 (3.17%) Google
4 87 (1.74%) Siemens
5 82 (1.64%) Oracle
6 76 (1.52%) Databricks
7 48 (0.96%) IBM
8 36 (0.72%) PayPal
9 35 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 28 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 27 (0.54%) Apple
12 26 (0.52%) Ping Identity
13 17 (0.34%) Splunk
14 15 (0.30%) New Relic
15 13 (0.26%) Adobe
15 13 (0.26%) SAP
15 13 (0.26%) ServiceNow
16 12 (0.24%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.20%) VMware
18 9 (0.18%) OpenAI