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

6 months to
29 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 5,022 12,058 10,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.16% 11.75% 10.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.77% 13.95% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,089 7,504 6,334
10th Percentile £45,200 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £61,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -12.14% +0.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
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 £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 29 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 29 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 4,265 £67,629 +8.21% 4,724
UK excluding London -5 3,567 £58,033 +0.93% 3,235
Work from Home -9 2,059 £74,870 +15.18% 2,724
London -6 1,271 £100,000 +8.11% 2,313
North of England -5 1,077 £57,836 +0.58% 713
North West -8 794 £55,000 -8.33% 430
South East -14 611 £65,000 +13.04% 1,064
Scotland -5 588 £58,033 -3.28% 252
Midlands -6 494 £65,000 +18.18% 376
South West 0 464 £52,600 -4.36% 355
West Midlands -3 301 £65,000 +8.33% 208
East of England -26 252 £60,000 - 395
Yorkshire -9 221 £68,500 +24.55% 196
East Midlands -18 193 £65,000 +30.00% 150
Wales -9 74 £65,000 +30.00% 62
North East +5 62 £55,000 - 92
Northern Ireland -15 10 £90,000 +50.00% 93

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
1 254 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
2 219 (4.36%) Confluence
3 205 (4.08%) Apache
4 112 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 18 (0.36%) CMS
7 17 (0.34%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.30%) Kinematics
9 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.26%) IIS
11 5 (0.100%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.100%) Liferay
11 5 (0.100%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.080%) Appian
12 4 (0.080%) CICS
13 3 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.060%) Camunda
13 3 (0.060%) SAS
13 3 (0.060%) Solana
13 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 594 (11.83%) Simulink
2 66 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.100%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.100%) 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 12 (0.24%) Shopify
2 8 (0.16%) Magento
3 7 (0.14%) Q-Pulse
4 5 (0.100%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.100%) 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%) Elite 3E
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 Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,646 (32.78%) AWS
2 1,171 (23.32%) Azure
3 777 (15.47%) GCP
4 245 (4.88%) dbt
5 230 (4.58%) Serverless
6 180 (3.58%) GitHub
7 173 (3.44%) SaaS
8 168 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (2.33%) Snowflake
11 110 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
12 100 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
13 92 (1.83%) Amazon S3
14 86 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
15 83 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 76 (1.51%) OpenShift
17 75 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (1.41%) Power Platform
19 50 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
20 41 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.61%) Broadband
2 46 (0.92%) Wireless
3 40 (0.80%) Network Security
4 34 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 27 (0.54%) 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 10 (0.20%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 246 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
3 240 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 231 (4.60%) Apache Iceberg
5 225 (4.48%) Dremio
6 211 (4.20%) Apache Arrow
7 154 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 139 (2.77%) MongoDB
9 138 (2.75%) MySQL
10 124 (2.47%) Apache Ignite
11 101 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 81 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 73 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 72 (1.43%) Big Data
15 44 (0.88%) DynamoDB
16 39 (0.78%) Power BI
17 34 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
18 31 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
19 29 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
19 29 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 384 (7.65%) JIRA
2 351 (6.99%) Git
3 347 (6.91%) GitLab
4 285 (5.68%) Maven
5 284 (5.66%) SonarQube
6 283 (5.64%) Cucumber
7 281 (5.60%) Bitbucket
8 278 (5.54%) Selenium
9 263 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 134 (2.67%) Jenkins
11 66 (1.31%) Artifactory
12 51 (1.02%) Visual Studio
13 48 (0.96%) JUnit
14 30 (0.60%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
16 25 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
17 23 (0.46%) Cypress.io
18 22 (0.44%) Gradle
18 22 (0.44%) webpack
19 20 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,424 (28.36%) Finance
2 790 (15.73%) Banking
3 771 (15.35%) Social Skills
4 768 (15.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 349 (6.95%) Electronics
6 319 (6.35%) Front Office
7 303 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
8 258 (5.14%) Law
9 225 (4.48%) Retail
10 200 (3.98%) Games
11 197 (3.92%) Investment Banking
12 147 (2.93%) Aerospace
13 133 (2.65%) Marketing
14 132 (2.63%) Automotive
15 92 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 90 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
17 89 (1.77%) Public Sector
18 44 (0.88%) Advertising
18 44 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 43 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2,376 (47.31%) Software Engineer
2 1,215 (24.19%) Senior
3 824 (16.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 587 (11.69%) Developer
5 558 (11.11%) Lead
6 520 (10.35%) Systems Engineer
7 435 (8.66%) Principal Engineer
8 273 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
9 271 (5.40%) Java Engineer
10 259 (5.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 259 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 229 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 197 (3.92%) Engineering Manager
13 195 (3.88%) AWS Software Engineer
14 193 (3.84%) Software Assurance Engineer
15 182 (3.62%) Software Developer
16 178 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
17 166 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 143 (2.85%) Principal Software Engineer
19 139 (2.77%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 941 (18.74%) React
2 670 (13.34%) .NET
3 568 (11.31%) Node.js
4 567 (11.29%) Kafka
5 495 (9.86%) Spring
6 494 (9.84%) HTML
7 458 (9.12%) CSS
8 448 (8.92%) Spring Boot
9 332 (6.61%) Redux
10 299 (5.95%) AngularJS
11 253 (5.04%) JPA
12 247 (4.92%) REST
12 247 (4.92%) RESTful
13 196 (3.90%) Pandas
14 190 (3.78%) Hibernate
15 148 (2.95%) NumPy
15 148 (2.95%) Vue
16 135 (2.69%) Jest
17 132 (2.63%) .NET Core
17 132 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 474 (9.44%) Product Ownership
2 294 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
3 278 (5.54%) Algorithms
4 274 (5.46%) Cyberattack
5 260 (5.18%) Cloud Native
6 227 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
7 217 (4.32%) Fixed Income
8 206 (4.10%) Management Information System
9 183 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
9 183 (3.64%) Equities
10 182 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
11 170 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 118 (2.35%) Derivative
13 112 (2.23%) Hedge funds
14 108 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
15 107 (2.13%) Mobile App
16 97 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
17 81 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
18 77 (1.53%) Public Cloud
19 65 (1.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 567 (11.29%) Linux
2 127 (2.53%) Windows
3 98 (1.95%) Android
4 57 (1.14%) Unix
5 50 (1.00%) 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 (0.100%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.100%) 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%) SafeRTOS
15 1 (0.020%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,333 (46.46%) Agile
2 1,125 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 952 (18.96%) Microservices
4 933 (18.58%) DevOps
5 855 (17.03%) Mathematics
5 855 (17.03%) Systems Engineering
6 785 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 766 (15.25%) Computer Science
8 762 (15.17%) SDLC
9 753 (14.99%) Validation
10 707 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 688 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 621 (12.37%) Test Automation
13 541 (10.77%) Containerisation
14 508 (10.12%) SysML
15 503 (10.02%) Verification and Validation
16 491 (9.78%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 478 (9.52%) TDD
18 476 (9.48%) Digital Twin
19 469 (9.34%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,588 (31.62%) Java
2 1,366 (27.20%) Python
3 1,244 (24.77%) JavaScript
4 870 (17.32%) SQL
5 732 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 667 (13.28%) C#
7 637 (12.68%) C++
8 610 (12.15%) MATLAB
9 456 (9.08%) Go
10 412 (8.20%) Rust
11 331 (6.59%) C
12 161 (3.21%) Ada
13 102 (2.03%) PHP
14 52 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 51 (1.02%) Bash
16 48 (0.96%) Ruby
17 47 (0.94%) Scala
18 46 (0.92%) Ada 95
19 35 (0.70%) PowerShell
20 25 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,630 (32.46%) Degree
2 636 (12.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 513 (10.22%) HND
4 481 (9.58%) HNC
5 468 (9.32%) Security Cleared
6 322 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 301 (5.99%) DV Cleared
8 217 (4.32%) AWS Certification
9 204 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 182 (3.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 141 (2.81%) SC Cleared
12 123 (2.45%) Master's Degree
13 117 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
14 73 (1.45%) PhD
15 20 (0.40%) Azure Certification
16 19 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.14%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.12%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.100%) TOGAF Certification
20 4 (0.080%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (8.08%) QA
2 155 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 77 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 33 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 32 (0.64%) 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
10 7 (0.14%) WCAG
11 6 (0.12%) CDISC
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 6 (0.12%) NCSC
11 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 784 (15.61%) Docker
2 75 (1.49%) 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
1 918 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 350 (6.97%) Terraform
3 111 (2.21%) Ansible
4 65 (1.29%) Grafana
5 55 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.24%) Argo
7 11 (0.22%) Istio
8 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.18%) 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
12 4 (0.080%) Mesos
13 3 (0.060%) CA Endevor
13 3 (0.060%) Packer
14 2 (0.040%) Graylog
14 2 (0.040%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 247 (4.92%) Solace
2 214 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 158 (3.15%) Google
4 106 (2.11%) Oracle
5 102 (2.03%) Siemens
6 96 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 88 (1.75%) Databricks
8 44 (0.88%) IBM
9 37 (0.74%) PayPal
10 35 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 29 (0.58%) Splunk
12 27 (0.54%) Salesforce
13 26 (0.52%) Ping Identity
14 22 (0.44%) Apple
15 19 (0.38%) SAP
16 16 (0.32%) Adobe
16 16 (0.32%) New Relic
16 16 (0.32%) VMware
17 11 (0.22%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.20%) OpenAI