Software Development Manager Jobs in England

Software Development Manager
UK > England

The median Software Development Manager salary in England is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 786 907
Rank change year-on-year +105 +121 -207
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 168 128 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 137 109 206
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,300 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £113,500 £103,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Software Development Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Manager in England.

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
London +136 60 £80,000 -8.57% 6
Midlands +9 39 £68,500 +5.38% 1
South East -4 31 £90,000 +12.50% 3
North of England +29 27 £75,000 +7.14% 2
West Midlands -7 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands +2 19 £66,750 +13.62% 1
North West -16 11 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Yorkshire +55 9 £75,000 -16.67% 1
North East -5 7 £80,000 +42.86%
East of England -15 6 £120,000 - 1
South West -33 4 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Software Development Manager
UK

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Software Development Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 80 (47.62%) Agile
2 45 (26.79%) Software Engineering
3 42 (25.00%) .NET
4 36 (21.43%) SDLC
5 35 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 35 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 33 (19.64%) Java
7 31 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (18.45%) People Management
8 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
9 27 (16.07%) Business Transformation
10 26 (15.48%) C#
10 26 (15.48%) SQL Server
11 25 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (14.29%) IT Strategy
13 23 (13.69%) Relational Database
14 22 (13.10%) Games
15 21 (12.50%) Scrum
15 21 (12.50%) TIBCO
15 21 (12.50%) OpenLink
15 21 (12.50%) Endur
15 21 (12.50%) Sybase
15 21 (12.50%) VB
15 21 (12.50%) Oracle
15 21 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
15 21 (12.50%) Data Modelling
15 21 (12.50%) RDBMS
15 21 (12.50%) Swaptions
15 21 (12.50%) Azure
15 21 (12.50%) Technology Strategy

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.57%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (12.50%) Endur
2 5 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.50%) Azure
2 5 (2.98%) AWS
2 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.19%) SaaS
3 2 (1.19%) Serverless
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.60%) GitHub
4 1 (0.60%) IaaS
4 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 23 (13.69%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.36%) OLAP
5 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.19%) MySQL
5 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Git
2 4 (2.38%) JIRA
3 2 (1.19%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.19%) Selenium
3 2 (1.19%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Games
3 19 (11.31%) Marketing
4 14 (8.33%) Finance
5 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.36%) Law
7 6 (3.57%) Wearables
8 4 (2.38%) Music Industry
9 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.19%) Back Office
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.19%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (2.98%) React
3 4 (2.38%) LAMP
3 4 (2.38%) Laravel
4 2 (1.19%) CSS
4 2 (1.19%) CSS3
4 2 (1.19%) HTML
4 2 (1.19%) HTML5
4 2 (1.19%) Jest
4 2 (1.19%) jQuery
4 2 (1.19%) Node.js
4 2 (1.19%) RESTful
4 2 (1.19%) Vue
4 2 (1.19%) Web Services
5 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.60%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Swaptions
2 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) 3D Graphics
3 7 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.57%) PropTech
4 6 (3.57%) RISC-V
5 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.19%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.60%) FMCG
9 1 (0.60%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.62%) Agile
2 45 (26.79%) Software Engineering
3 36 (21.43%) SDLC
4 35 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 35 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 31 (18.45%) People Management
5 31 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (16.07%) Business Transformation
7 25 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (14.29%) IT Strategy
9 21 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
9 21 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 21 (12.50%) Scrum
9 21 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
10 19 (11.31%) Strategic Roadmap
10 19 (11.31%) Workshop Facilitation
11 17 (10.12%) DevOps
11 17 (10.12%) Project Delivery
12 14 (8.33%) Project Management
13 13 (7.74%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.64%) Java
2 26 (15.48%) C#
3 21 (12.50%) VB
4 17 (10.12%) SQL
5 11 (6.55%) C
6 10 (5.95%) PHP
7 7 (4.17%) Python
8 6 (3.57%) Embedded C
9 5 (2.98%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.19%) C++
11 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 10 (5.95%) Degree
2 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.19%) CISSP
3 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.19%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) IEC 62304
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 8 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (12.50%) OpenLink
1 21 (12.50%) Oracle
1 21 (12.50%) Sybase
1 21 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 14 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe
4 1 (0.60%) IBM
4 1 (0.60%) IFS
4 1 (0.60%) Marketo
4 1 (0.60%) SAP
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore