Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 69 32
Rank change year-on-year +40 -37 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,345 3,691 12,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.91% 4.36% 8.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.24% 4.77% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 2,349 3,711
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,263 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 85,614 77,363 135,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 91.32% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,242 50,157 75,088
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +18 1,312 £95,000 +11.76% 478
North of England +72 1,085 £55,000 -8.33% 169
South East +40 1,033 £54,000 -13.60% 157
South West +47 934 £55,000 -8.33% 159
North West +73 621 £57,000 -0.87% 113
Midlands +52 604 £52,500 -4.55% 117
Yorkshire +55 383 £50,000 -17.70% 41
East of England +43 361 £60,000 - 117
West Midlands +59 318 £55,000 -4.35% 56
East Midlands +33 286 £52,500 +10.53% 60
North East +36 81 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 5,299 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 1,610 (30.12%) Python
3 1,600 (29.93%) Agile
4 1,513 (28.31%) AWS
5 1,207 (22.58%) JavaScript
6 1,111 (20.79%) C#
7 1,059 (19.81%) Azure
8 1,038 (19.42%) Java
9 946 (17.70%) React
10 900 (16.84%) .NET
11 874 (16.35%) C
12 837 (15.66%) C++
13 836 (15.64%) Degree
14 795 (14.87%) Linux
15 786 (14.71%) TypeScript
16 755 (14.13%) Finance
17 725 (13.56%) Security Cleared
18 663 (12.40%) DevOps
19 591 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
20 587 (10.98%) SQL
21 575 (10.76%) Full Stack Development
22 542 (10.14%) Computer Science
23 536 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
24 523 (9.78%) Social Skills
25 521 (9.75%) GCP
26 433 (8.10%) Front Office
27 425 (7.95%) Asset Management
27 425 (7.95%) AngularJS
28 421 (7.88%) Fixed Income
29 418 (7.82%) SC Cleared

Software Engineer 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
1 388 (7.26%) Apache
2 332 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (3.91%) ArcGIS
4 196 (3.67%) GeoServer
5 73 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 51 (0.95%) Confluence
7 18 (0.34%) CMS
8 13 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.15%) nginx
10 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.094%) Drupal
12 4 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.075%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.075%) WinCC
13 3 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.037%) Captiva
14 2 (0.037%) FileNet
14 2 (0.037%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.037%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.019%) JBoss
Applications
1 103 (1.93%) Simulink
2 27 (0.51%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.21%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.11%) Trello
7 5 (0.094%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.056%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.056%) Sketch
8 3 (0.056%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.037%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.019%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.019%) UXPin
10 1 (0.019%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.11%) Magento
3 6 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.056%) Ripple
5 2 (0.037%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.019%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Findur
6 1 (0.019%) Ripple XRP
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.019%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,513 (28.31%) AWS
2 1,059 (19.81%) Azure
3 521 (9.75%) GCP
4 190 (3.55%) Serverless
5 188 (3.52%) dbt
6 154 (2.88%) Snowflake
7 119 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (2.04%) GitHub
8 109 (2.04%) SaaS
9 108 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (0.77%) OpenShift
12 40 (0.75%) Power Platform
13 35 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
15 28 (0.52%) Amazon S3
16 27 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (0.43%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 72 (1.35%) Wireless
3 50 (0.94%) RS-232
4 44 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.77%) RS-485
6 40 (0.75%) Bluetooth
7 38 (0.71%) Ethernet
8 37 (0.69%) Internet
9 31 (0.58%) HTTP
10 30 (0.56%) AMQP
11 29 (0.54%) MQTT
12 20 (0.37%) Network Security
13 19 (0.36%) Modbus
13 19 (0.36%) ZigBee
14 14 (0.26%) 4G
14 14 (0.26%) J1939
15 13 (0.24%) 3G
16 12 (0.22%) 5G
17 11 (0.21%) VoIP
18 6 (0.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 301 (5.63%) Apache Ignite
3 230 (4.30%) GIS
4 199 (3.72%) MySQL
5 196 (3.67%) QGIS
6 186 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
7 184 (3.44%) Apache Arrow
7 184 (3.44%) Dremio
8 183 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 156 (2.92%) Data Lake
10 141 (2.64%) NoSQL
11 83 (1.55%) Relational Database
12 79 (1.48%) MongoDB
13 71 (1.33%) Redis
14 58 (1.09%) DynamoDB
15 50 (0.94%) Big Data
16 34 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
17 33 (0.62%) Hadoop
18 28 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
19 26 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 389 (7.28%) Git
2 157 (2.94%) JIRA
3 118 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.74%) GitLab
5 89 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 87 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 70 (1.31%) Subversion
8 37 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 29 (0.54%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.51%) CMake
11 24 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.41%) ClearCase
12 22 (0.41%) Maven
13 21 (0.39%) Plastic SCM
13 21 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
13 21 (0.39%) Selenium
14 19 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (0.36%) Vagrant
15 18 (0.34%) JUnit
16 14 (0.26%) ClearQuest
General
1 755 (14.13%) Finance
2 523 (9.78%) Social Skills
3 433 (8.10%) Front Office
4 395 (7.39%) Electronics
5 343 (6.42%) Banking
6 241 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 212 (3.97%) Automotive
8 185 (3.46%) Investment Banking
9 165 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
10 157 (2.94%) Aerospace
11 121 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 103 (1.93%) Retail
13 100 (1.87%) Public Sector
14 89 (1.67%) Marketing
15 82 (1.53%) Military
16 80 (1.50%) Tech for Good
17 77 (1.44%) Legal
18 74 (1.38%) Law
19 59 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 57 (1.07%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (17.70%) React
2 900 (16.84%) .NET
3 425 (7.95%) AngularJS
4 404 (7.56%) .NET Core
5 362 (6.77%) gRPC
6 341 (6.38%) CSS
7 313 (5.86%) Node.js
7 313 (5.86%) Protocol Buffers
8 259 (4.85%) Redux
9 247 (4.62%) Vue
10 207 (3.87%) Pandas
11 204 (3.82%) PostGIS
12 203 (3.80%) NumPy
13 200 (3.74%) Leaflet
13 200 (3.74%) OpenLayers
14 193 (3.61%) ASP.NET
14 193 (3.61%) RESTful
15 186 (3.48%) Spring
16 184 (3.44%) SciPy
17 181 (3.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 421 (7.88%) Fixed Income
2 350 (6.55%) Hedge funds
3 308 (5.76%) Equities
4 263 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 261 (4.88%) Derivative
6 202 (3.78%) Algorithms
7 182 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
8 181 (3.39%) IoT
9 124 (2.32%) Cloud Native
10 121 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
11 112 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
12 107 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.33%) Client/Server
14 68 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.22%) Device Driver
16 64 (1.20%) Data Structures
17 59 (1.10%) Robotics
18 57 (1.07%) Product Ownership
19 43 (0.80%) SCADA
20 42 (0.79%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 795 (14.87%) Linux
2 305 (5.71%) Windows
3 182 (3.41%) Embedded Linux
4 119 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 95 (1.78%) Android
6 76 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 62 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 51 (0.95%) CentOS
8 51 (0.95%) Debian
8 51 (0.95%) Unix
9 31 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.11%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.094%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 4 (0.075%) Windows Server
14 3 (0.056%) VMS
15 2 (0.037%) FreeBSD
15 2 (0.037%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.037%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,299 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 1,600 (29.93%) Agile
3 663 (12.40%) DevOps
4 591 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
5 575 (10.76%) Full Stack Development
6 542 (10.14%) Computer Science
7 425 (7.95%) Asset Management
8 407 (7.61%) Microservices
9 389 (7.28%) Investment Management
10 371 (6.94%) CI/CD
11 369 (6.90%) Mentoring
12 314 (5.87%) Actionable Insight
13 313 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence
14 304 (5.69%) Test Automation
15 299 (5.59%) TDD
16 295 (5.52%) Machine Learning
17 280 (5.24%) Web Development
18 274 (5.13%) SDLC
19 256 (4.79%) Fintech
20 239 (4.47%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,610 (30.12%) Python
2 1,207 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 1,111 (20.79%) C#
4 1,038 (19.42%) Java
5 874 (16.35%) C
6 837 (15.66%) C++
7 786 (14.71%) TypeScript
8 587 (10.98%) SQL
9 220 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 202 (3.78%) Embedded C
11 168 (3.14%) Rust
12 163 (3.05%) Go
13 161 (3.01%) Bash
14 123 (2.30%) PHP
15 111 (2.08%) Scala
16 107 (2.00%) MATLAB
17 70 (1.31%) Ada
18 53 (0.99%) Perl
18 53 (0.99%) PowerShell
18 53 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 836 (15.64%) Degree
2 725 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 418 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 268 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 114 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 74 (1.38%) PhD
8 61 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.47%) HND
10 24 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.30%) HNC
12 15 (0.28%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.15%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.13%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.075%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.056%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.056%) Sun Certification
17 2 (0.037%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (3.22%) QA
2 66 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 47 (0.88%) MISRA
4 23 (0.43%) ISO 26262
5 22 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
6 21 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
7 19 (0.36%) GDPR
8 16 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
8 16 (0.30%) PMO
9 13 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 12 (0.22%) ISO 13485
11 11 (0.21%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.17%) MISRA C
13 7 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.11%) JTAG
15 5 (0.094%) TickIT
16 2 (0.037%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 308 (5.76%) Docker
2 158 (2.96%) Firmware
3 83 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 26 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.094%) Ceph
7 3 (0.056%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.019%) KVM
9 1 (0.019%) LXC
Systems Management
1 356 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 244 (4.57%) Terraform
3 132 (2.47%) Ansible
4 30 (0.56%) Puppet
5 18 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 15 (0.28%) Grafana
7 7 (0.13%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.094%) Knative
8 5 (0.094%) SELinux
9 4 (0.075%) Podman
9 4 (0.075%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.056%) Consul
10 3 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.056%) Kibana
10 3 (0.056%) Packer
10 3 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.037%) Istio
11 2 (0.037%) linkerd
11 2 (0.037%) MIIS
12 1 (0.019%) Argo
Vendors
1 239 (4.47%) Microsoft
2 207 (3.87%) Google
3 204 (3.82%) ESRI
4 54 (1.01%) Oracle
4 54 (1.01%) Red Hat
5 41 (0.77%) Siemens
6 34 (0.64%) IBM
7 28 (0.52%) SaltStack
8 27 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 24 (0.45%) Xamarin
10 22 (0.41%) SAP
11 21 (0.39%) Lauterbach
12 20 (0.37%) Xilinx
13 13 (0.24%) Databricks
14 12 (0.22%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.22%) F5
15 11 (0.21%) Cadence
16 10 (0.19%) Facebook
17 9 (0.17%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.17%) Synopsys