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

6 months to
31 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 5,170 12,166 9,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.26% 11.73% 10.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 13.96% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 7,572 6,275
10th Percentile £45,400 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £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 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,033 £57,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +0.93% -5.74% +6.09%

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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
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 31 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 31 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 4,373 £68,000 +8.80% 4,420
UK excluding London -5 3,630 £58,033 +0.93% 2,689
Work from Home -10 2,077 £75,000 +15.38% 2,633
London -5 1,354 £100,000 +9.29% 2,164
North of England -5 1,081 £57,836 +0.58% 719
North West -8 798 £55,000 -8.33% 459
Scotland -3 626 £58,033 -3.28% 267
South East -16 616 £65,000 +15.04% 503
Midlands -6 498 £65,000 +18.18% 354
South West 0 470 £52,600 -4.36% 331
West Midlands -4 304 £65,000 +8.33% 211
East of England -27 257 £60,000 - 319
Yorkshire -11 221 £67,750 +23.18% 174
East Midlands -18 194 £65,000 +30.00% 141
Wales -8 75 £65,000 +30.00% 48
North East +5 62 £55,000 - 92
Northern Ireland -14 10 £90,000 +50.00% 118

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
1 262 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 219 (4.24%) Confluence
3 208 (4.02%) Apache
4 121 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 18 (0.35%) CMS
7 17 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.29%) Kinematics
9 14 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.097%) Camunda
11 5 (0.097%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.097%) Liferay
11 5 (0.097%) nginx
11 5 (0.097%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.077%) Appian
12 4 (0.077%) CICS
12 4 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.058%) SAS
13 3 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 594 (11.49%) Simulink
2 66 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.058%) Trello
7 2 (0.039%) Blender
7 2 (0.039%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.039%) Maya
8 1 (0.019%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.019%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.019%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.019%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.23%) Shopify
2 9 (0.17%) Magento
3 7 (0.14%) Q-Pulse
4 5 (0.097%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.039%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.039%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.039%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.019%) BASE24
8 1 (0.019%) Eikon
8 1 (0.019%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.019%) Endur
8 1 (0.019%) LabWindows
8 1 (0.019%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.019%) RMDS
8 1 (0.019%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.019%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,711 (33.09%) AWS
2 1,194 (23.09%) Azure
3 795 (15.38%) GCP
4 249 (4.82%) dbt
5 235 (4.55%) Serverless
6 189 (3.66%) GitHub
7 175 (3.38%) SaaS
8 173 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
9 126 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 117 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 106 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
13 95 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 91 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
15 83 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 76 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 75 (1.45%) OpenShift
18 72 (1.39%) Power Platform
19 53 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
20 41 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.57%) Broadband
2 48 (0.93%) Wireless
3 39 (0.75%) Network Security
4 35 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 27 (0.52%) Modbus
6 26 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
7 25 (0.48%) HTTP
8 21 (0.41%) WAN
9 20 (0.39%) Bluetooth
9 20 (0.39%) MQTT
10 16 (0.31%) 5G
10 16 (0.31%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.27%) Firewall
11 14 (0.27%) Internet
11 14 (0.27%) Multicast
12 13 (0.25%) DNS
12 13 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.23%) RS-232
14 10 (0.19%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 255 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
2 255 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
3 240 (4.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 230 (4.45%) Dremio
5 216 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
6 169 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 147 (2.84%) MySQL
8 141 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 124 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
10 117 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 85 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 82 (1.59%) Big Data
13 74 (1.43%) Data Lake
14 49 (0.95%) DynamoDB
15 39 (0.75%) Power BI
16 35 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
17 32 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
18 30 (0.58%) BigQuery
19 29 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 386 (7.47%) JIRA
2 364 (7.04%) Git
3 346 (6.69%) GitLab
4 288 (5.57%) Maven
5 284 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 283 (5.47%) Cucumber
7 282 (5.45%) Selenium
8 281 (5.44%) Bitbucket
9 263 (5.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 142 (2.75%) Jenkins
11 66 (1.28%) Artifactory
12 52 (1.01%) JUnit
13 51 (0.99%) Visual Studio
14 30 (0.58%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
16 25 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
17 24 (0.46%) webpack
18 22 (0.43%) Gradle
19 21 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,544 (29.86%) Finance
2 887 (17.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 859 (16.62%) Banking
4 800 (15.47%) Social Skills
5 377 (7.29%) Law
6 350 (6.77%) Electronics
7 335 (6.48%) Front Office
8 322 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
9 227 (4.39%) Retail
10 209 (4.04%) Investment Banking
11 201 (3.89%) Games
12 172 (3.33%) Marketing
13 147 (2.84%) Aerospace
14 132 (2.55%) Automotive
15 92 (1.78%) Public Sector
16 90 (1.74%) Corporate Banking
16 90 (1.74%) Manufacturing
17 55 (1.06%) Legal
18 46 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 44 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,492 (48.20%) Software Engineer
2 1,248 (24.14%) Senior
3 844 (16.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 621 (12.01%) Developer
4 621 (12.01%) Lead
5 520 (10.06%) Systems Engineer
6 436 (8.43%) Principal Engineer
7 312 (6.03%) Java Engineer
8 299 (5.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 287 (5.55%) AWS Engineer
10 285 (5.51%) Python Engineer
11 282 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 207 (4.00%) AWS Software Engineer
13 205 (3.97%) Python Software Engineer
14 200 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
15 193 (3.73%) Software Assurance Engineer
16 191 (3.69%) Software Developer
17 178 (3.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 144 (2.79%) Principal Software Engineer
19 142 (2.75%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 985 (19.05%) React
2 676 (13.08%) .NET
3 597 (11.55%) Kafka
4 577 (11.16%) Node.js
5 529 (10.23%) Spring
6 503 (9.73%) HTML
7 469 (9.07%) Spring Boot
8 467 (9.03%) CSS
9 334 (6.46%) Redux
10 315 (6.09%) AngularJS
11 268 (5.18%) RESTful
12 261 (5.05%) REST
13 254 (4.91%) JPA
14 203 (3.93%) Pandas
15 194 (3.75%) Hibernate
16 158 (3.06%) Vue
17 154 (2.98%) NumPy
18 140 (2.71%) Jest
19 136 (2.63%) PySpark
19 136 (2.63%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 483 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 307 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 304 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 297 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
5 274 (5.30%) Cyberattack
6 227 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
7 226 (4.37%) Fixed Income
8 212 (4.10%) Management Information System
9 201 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
10 194 (3.75%) Equities
11 183 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
12 181 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 128 (2.48%) Derivative
14 112 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
14 112 (2.17%) Hedge funds
15 110 (2.13%) Mobile App
16 99 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
17 92 (1.78%) Public Cloud
18 81 (1.57%) Video\Live Streaming
19 71 (1.37%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 579 (11.20%) Linux
2 129 (2.50%) Windows
3 99 (1.91%) Android
4 60 (1.16%) Unix
5 51 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 38 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
7 11 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.17%) zOS
10 6 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.12%) VMS
11 5 (0.097%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.058%) Rocky
13 2 (0.039%) Debian
13 2 (0.039%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.019%) CentOS
14 1 (0.019%) Solaris
14 1 (0.019%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,442 (47.23%) Agile
2 1,206 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 976 (18.88%) Microservices
4 945 (18.28%) DevOps
5 870 (16.83%) Mathematics
6 854 (16.52%) Systems Engineering
7 849 (16.42%) SDLC
8 797 (15.42%) Mentoring
9 790 (15.28%) Computer Science
10 754 (14.58%) Validation
11 752 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
12 712 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 639 (12.36%) Test Automation
14 547 (10.58%) Containerisation
15 521 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
16 509 (9.85%) Machine Learning
17 508 (9.83%) SysML
18 503 (9.73%) Verification and Validation
19 491 (9.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
20 487 (9.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,663 (32.17%) Java
2 1,426 (27.58%) Python
3 1,269 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 900 (17.41%) SQL
5 759 (14.68%) TypeScript
6 673 (13.02%) C#
7 648 (12.53%) C++
8 610 (11.80%) MATLAB
9 468 (9.05%) Go
10 415 (8.03%) Rust
11 337 (6.52%) C
12 161 (3.11%) Ada
13 104 (2.01%) PHP
14 60 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 54 (1.04%) Bash
16 52 (1.01%) Scala
17 48 (0.93%) Ruby
18 46 (0.89%) Ada 95
19 36 (0.70%) PowerShell
20 25 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,644 (31.80%) Degree
2 636 (12.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 513 (9.92%) HND
4 481 (9.30%) HNC
5 470 (9.09%) Security Cleared
6 332 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 302 (5.84%) DV Cleared
8 223 (4.31%) AWS Certification
9 205 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 183 (3.54%) AWS Certified Developer
11 140 (2.71%) SC Cleared
12 121 (2.34%) Master's Degree
13 117 (2.26%) Chartered Engineer
14 71 (1.37%) PhD
15 22 (0.43%) Azure Certification
16 19 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.14%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.12%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.097%) PMP
19 5 (0.097%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (7.97%) QA
2 158 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 77 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 35 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 34 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.62%) GDPR
7 16 (0.31%) NIST
7 16 (0.31%) PMO
8 15 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.14%) IEC 61131
11 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.14%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) CDISC
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
12 6 (0.12%) NCSC
12 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 802 (15.51%) Docker
2 77 (1.49%) Firmware
3 42 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
4 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.23%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.058%) HDFS
8 2 (0.039%) zsh
9 1 (0.019%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.019%) NDS
Systems Management
1 958 (18.53%) Kubernetes
2 371 (7.18%) Terraform
3 115 (2.22%) Ansible
4 69 (1.33%) Grafana
5 58 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.27%) Argo
7 11 (0.21%) Istio
7 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.17%) Kibana
9 7 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.14%) Puppet
10 6 (0.12%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.12%) Mesos
10 6 (0.12%) QRadar
11 3 (0.058%) BMC PATROL
11 3 (0.058%) CA Endevor
11 3 (0.058%) Packer
12 2 (0.039%) Netcool
12 2 (0.039%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 2 (0.039%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 247 (4.78%) Solace
2 219 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 161 (3.11%) Google
4 120 (2.32%) Oracle
5 102 (1.97%) Siemens
6 97 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 96 (1.86%) Databricks
8 42 (0.81%) IBM
9 37 (0.72%) PayPal
10 35 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 34 (0.66%) Splunk
12 27 (0.52%) Salesforce
13 26 (0.50%) Ping Identity
14 22 (0.43%) Apple
15 19 (0.37%) SAP
16 18 (0.35%) Adobe
17 16 (0.31%) New Relic
17 16 (0.31%) VMware
18 14 (0.27%) Dynatrace
19 12 (0.23%) Red Hat