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

6 months to
28 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 4,975 12,019 10,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.10% 11.77% 10.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.71% 13.95% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,086 7,459 6,390
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,225 £61,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -12.14% +0.87%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,250 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,033 £57,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -6.50% +6.96%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 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 28 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 4,227 £68,000 +8.80% 16,090
UK excluding London -5 3,525 £58,033 +0.93% 14,970
Work from Home -9 2,059 £75,000 +15.38% 10,215
London -6 1,266 £100,000 +8.70% 3,234
North of England -5 1,072 £57,836 +0.58% 3,320
North West -8 790 £55,000 -8.33% 1,666
South East -14 600 £65,000 +13.04% 4,129
Scotland -5 582 £58,033 -3.28% 815
Midlands -6 483 £65,000 +18.18% 2,610
South West 0 458 £52,600 -4.36% 1,755
West Midlands -3 295 £65,000 +8.33% 1,383
East of England -27 250 £60,000 - 2,157
Yorkshire -8 220 £68,500 +24.55% 1,219
East Midlands -19 188 £65,000 +30.00% 1,064
Wales -9 72 £65,000 +30.00% 390
North East +6 62 £55,000 - 442
Northern Ireland -14 10 £90,000 +50.00% 284

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
1 258 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 218 (4.38%) Confluence
3 206 (4.14%) Apache
4 112 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 17 (0.34%) CMS
7 16 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.28%) Kinematics
8 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.26%) IIS
10 5 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.10%) Liferay
10 5 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.080%) Appian
11 4 (0.080%) CICS
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.060%) Camunda
12 3 (0.060%) nginx
12 3 (0.060%) SAS
12 3 (0.060%) Solana
Applications
1 594 (11.94%) Simulink
2 65 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.10%) Sketch
6 3 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.060%) Trello
7 2 (0.040%) Blender
7 2 (0.040%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.040%) Maya
8 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.020%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.020%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.20%) Shopify
2 7 (0.14%) Q-Pulse
3 6 (0.12%) Magento
4 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.040%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 2 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.040%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.040%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.020%) BASE24
7 1 (0.020%) Eikon
7 1 (0.020%) Endur
7 1 (0.020%) iTrent
7 1 (0.020%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.020%) RMDS
7 1 (0.020%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.020%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.020%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,643 (33.03%) AWS
2 1,162 (23.36%) Azure
3 773 (15.54%) GCP
4 248 (4.98%) dbt
5 234 (4.70%) Serverless
6 177 (3.56%) GitHub
7 173 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
8 171 (3.44%) SaaS
9 124 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 120 (2.41%) Snowflake
11 111 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
12 108 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
13 98 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 91 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 85 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
16 82 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
17 77 (1.55%) OpenShift
18 70 (1.41%) Power Platform
19 48 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
20 40 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.63%) Broadband
2 46 (0.92%) Wireless
3 40 (0.80%) Network Security
4 33 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 26 (0.52%) Modbus
6 25 (0.50%) HTTP
6 25 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
7 21 (0.42%) WAN
8 20 (0.40%) MQTT
9 19 (0.38%) Bluetooth
10 16 (0.32%) 5G
10 16 (0.32%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.28%) Firewall
11 14 (0.28%) Multicast
12 12 (0.24%) Internet
12 12 (0.24%) RS-232
12 12 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.22%) DNS
14 9 (0.18%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 248 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
3 239 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 234 (4.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 229 (4.60%) Dremio
6 215 (4.32%) Apache Arrow
7 150 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 138 (2.77%) MySQL
9 136 (2.73%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.57%) Apache Ignite
11 100 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 80 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 77 (1.55%) Data Lake
14 71 (1.43%) Big Data
15 42 (0.84%) DynamoDB
16 41 (0.82%) Power BI
17 40 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
18 30 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
19 29 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
19 29 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 382 (7.68%) JIRA
2 346 (6.95%) GitLab
3 341 (6.85%) Git
4 284 (5.71%) Maven
4 284 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 283 (5.69%) Cucumber
6 281 (5.65%) Bitbucket
7 277 (5.57%) Selenium
8 263 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 134 (2.69%) Jenkins
10 68 (1.37%) Artifactory
11 50 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 46 (0.92%) JUnit
13 30 (0.60%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
15 25 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
16 22 (0.44%) Gradle
17 20 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.38%) Cypress.io
18 19 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 1,412 (28.38%) Finance
2 783 (15.74%) Banking
3 756 (15.20%) Social Skills
4 749 (15.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 346 (6.95%) Electronics
6 330 (6.63%) Front Office
7 300 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
8 240 (4.82%) Law
9 223 (4.48%) Retail
10 200 (4.02%) Investment Banking
11 198 (3.98%) Games
12 147 (2.95%) Aerospace
13 131 (2.63%) Automotive
14 128 (2.57%) Marketing
15 91 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 90 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
17 89 (1.79%) Public Sector
18 44 (0.88%) Advertising
18 44 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 42 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2,354 (47.32%) Software Engineer
2 1,211 (24.34%) Senior
3 823 (16.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 571 (11.48%) Developer
5 552 (11.10%) Lead
6 520 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
7 431 (8.66%) Principal Engineer
8 283 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
9 268 (5.39%) Java Engineer
10 262 (5.27%) Python Engineer
11 256 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 224 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 197 (3.96%) AWS Software Engineer
14 193 (3.88%) Software Assurance Engineer
15 188 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
16 178 (3.58%) Software Developer
17 176 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
18 165 (3.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 139 (2.79%) Principal Software Engineer
20 138 (2.77%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 934 (18.77%) React
2 669 (13.45%) .NET
3 565 (11.36%) Node.js
4 562 (11.30%) Kafka
5 489 (9.83%) Spring
6 480 (9.65%) HTML
7 445 (8.94%) CSS
7 445 (8.94%) Spring Boot
8 332 (6.67%) Redux
9 293 (5.89%) AngularJS
10 253 (5.09%) JPA
11 243 (4.88%) REST
12 242 (4.86%) RESTful
13 198 (3.98%) Pandas
14 189 (3.80%) Hibernate
15 151 (3.04%) NumPy
16 146 (2.93%) Vue
17 135 (2.71%) SciPy
18 133 (2.67%) PySpark
19 132 (2.65%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 474 (9.53%) Product Ownership
2 294 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
3 274 (5.51%) Cyberattack
4 272 (5.47%) Algorithms
5 253 (5.09%) Cloud Native
6 226 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
7 220 (4.42%) Fixed Income
8 206 (4.14%) Management Information System
9 185 (3.72%) Equities
10 182 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
11 181 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
12 174 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 121 (2.43%) Derivative
14 116 (2.33%) Hedge funds
15 108 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
16 103 (2.07%) Mobile App
17 95 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
18 81 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
19 76 (1.53%) Public Cloud
20 65 (1.31%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 564 (11.34%) Linux
2 126 (2.53%) Windows
3 97 (1.95%) Android
4 55 (1.11%) Unix
5 50 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
7 11 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.18%) zOS
10 6 (0.12%) VMS
11 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.080%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.060%) Rocky
14 2 (0.040%) Debian
14 2 (0.040%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.020%) CentOS
15 1 (0.020%) Solaris
15 1 (0.020%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,309 (46.41%) Agile
2 1,118 (22.47%) CI/CD
3 946 (19.02%) Microservices
4 936 (18.81%) DevOps
5 855 (17.19%) Systems Engineering
6 853 (17.15%) Mathematics
7 784 (15.76%) Mentoring
8 750 (15.08%) Validation
9 743 (14.93%) Computer Science
10 730 (14.67%) SDLC
11 696 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
12 680 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 614 (12.34%) Test Automation
14 536 (10.77%) Containerisation
15 508 (10.21%) SysML
16 502 (10.09%) Verification and Validation
17 491 (9.87%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
18 476 (9.57%) Digital Twin
19 471 (9.47%) TDD
20 457 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,581 (31.78%) Java
2 1,363 (27.40%) Python
3 1,237 (24.86%) JavaScript
4 860 (17.29%) SQL
5 727 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 662 (13.31%) C#
7 632 (12.70%) C++
8 610 (12.26%) MATLAB
9 455 (9.15%) Go
10 413 (8.30%) Rust
11 328 (6.59%) C
12 156 (3.14%) Ada
13 99 (1.99%) PHP
14 51 (1.03%) Bash
14 51 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 50 (1.01%) Ruby
16 47 (0.94%) Scala
17 41 (0.82%) Ada 95
18 34 (0.68%) PowerShell
19 25 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,597 (32.10%) Degree
2 616 (12.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 513 (10.31%) HND
4 481 (9.67%) HNC
5 466 (9.37%) Security Cleared
6 315 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 301 (6.05%) DV Cleared
8 215 (4.32%) AWS Certification
9 203 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 181 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
11 139 (2.79%) SC Cleared
12 122 (2.45%) Master's Degree
13 112 (2.25%) Chartered Engineer
14 73 (1.47%) PhD
15 20 (0.40%) Azure Certification
16 19 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.14%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.14%) ISTQB
18 5 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
19 4 (0.080%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (8.14%) QA
2 155 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 72 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 32 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (0.60%) GDPR
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
11 6 (0.12%) CDISC
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.12%) NCSC
11 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.12%) SLA
11 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 788 (15.84%) Docker
2 75 (1.51%) Firmware
3 41 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 19 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.22%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.060%) HDFS
8 1 (0.020%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.020%) NDS
8 1 (0.020%) zsh
Systems Management
1 923 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 355 (7.14%) Terraform
3 110 (2.21%) Ansible
4 64 (1.29%) Grafana
5 55 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.24%) Argo
7 11 (0.22%) Istio
8 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.16%) Kibana
10 7 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.12%) ArcSight ESM
11 6 (0.12%) Puppet
11 6 (0.12%) QRadar
12 4 (0.080%) BMC PATROL
13 3 (0.060%) CA Endevor
13 3 (0.060%) Mesos
13 3 (0.060%) Packer
14 2 (0.040%) Graylog
14 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.040%) Podman
Vendors
1 247 (4.96%) Solace
2 211 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 154 (3.10%) Google
4 102 (2.05%) Oracle
5 94 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 93 (1.87%) Siemens
7 87 (1.75%) Databricks
8 44 (0.88%) IBM
9 36 (0.72%) PayPal
10 34 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 27 (0.54%) Splunk
12 26 (0.52%) Ping Identity
12 26 (0.52%) Salesforce
13 22 (0.44%) Apple
14 19 (0.38%) SAP
15 16 (0.32%) Adobe
15 16 (0.32%) New Relic
15 16 (0.32%) VMware
16 10 (0.20%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.20%) Red Hat