Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 278 218
Rank change year-on-year +156 -60 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,629 713 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.28% 1.21% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 1.35% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 967 433 511
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,466 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland +59 415 £60,000 - 17
North of England +130 336 £60,000 -5.51% 46
South West +140 297 £62,500 -3.85% 42
South East +73 264 £65,000 -7.14% 108
North West +97 193 £60,000 -2.04% 29
Midlands +33 147 £60,000 -4.00% 27
Yorkshire +69 94 £62,500 -3.85% 13
East of England +46 85 £65,000 -7.14% 44
East Midlands +22 81 £62,500 +19.05% 8
West Midlands +26 66 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Wales +42 52 £50,000 -3.85% 10
North East +40 49 £60,000 -2.76% 6
Northern Ireland +28 33 - - 8
Senior Software Engineer
UK

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,628 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 692 (42.48%) Agile
3 454 (27.87%) AWS
4 451 (27.69%) Python
5 390 (23.94%) Azure
6 363 (22.28%) JavaScript
7 362 (22.22%) .NET
8 355 (21.79%) C#
9 335 (20.56%) Java
10 324 (19.89%) Security Cleared
11 314 (19.28%) React
12 294 (18.05%) DevOps
13 293 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
14 273 (16.76%) SDLC
15 271 (16.64%) Linux
16 263 (16.14%) Finance
17 258 (15.84%) SC Cleared
18 254 (15.59%) C++
19 251 (15.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 247 (15.16%) SQL
21 239 (14.67%) CSS
22 234 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
23 230 (14.12%) C
24 210 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
25 209 (12.83%) .NET Core
26 200 (12.28%) Marketing
27 199 (12.22%) Web Development
28 198 (12.15%) Law
28 198 (12.15%) Operational Stability
29 197 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 184 (11.30%) ArcGIS
1 184 (11.30%) GeoServer
2 88 (5.40%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.10%) FileNet
4 17 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
5 10 (0.61%) JBoss
5 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.061%) CMS
7 1 (0.061%) Drupal
7 1 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (0.98%) Simulink
2 15 (0.92%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.43%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.061%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.061%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 454 (27.87%) AWS
2 390 (23.94%) Azure
3 79 (4.85%) GCP
4 49 (3.01%) SaaS
5 37 (2.27%) Serverless
6 34 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 15 (0.92%) Azure Functions
9 14 (0.86%) GitHub
10 11 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.55%) npm
12 7 (0.43%) Azure API Management
12 7 (0.43%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.37%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.31%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.12%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.12%) Power Platform
16 1 (0.061%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.62%) Kerberos
2 30 (1.84%) Wireless
3 27 (1.66%) Network Security
3 27 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.60%) Ethernet
5 22 (1.35%) RS-232
5 22 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (0.86%) J1939
6 14 (0.86%) Modbus
7 10 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.37%) MQTT
9 4 (0.25%) Profibus
10 3 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.061%) 4G
11 1 (0.061%) 5G
11 1 (0.061%) HTTP
11 1 (0.061%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (0.061%) RS-485
11 1 (0.061%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
2 184 (11.30%) GIS
2 184 (11.30%) QGIS
3 109 (6.69%) NoSQL
4 59 (3.62%) MySQL
5 56 (3.44%) Big Data
6 52 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 42 (2.58%) Metadata
8 38 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 34 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.04%) CockroachDB
12 11 (0.68%) Redis
13 10 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.49%) SQLite
15 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
16 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.18%) Hadoop
18 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 130 (7.98%) Git
2 68 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.01%) JIRA
4 48 (2.95%) Bitbucket
5 42 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 39 (2.39%) Visual Studio
7 36 (2.21%) Subversion
8 25 (1.53%) GitLab
9 19 (1.17%) JUnit
10 15 (0.92%) CMake
11 14 (0.86%) ClearCase
11 14 (0.86%) Plastic SCM
12 12 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.61%) IntelliJ
14 9 (0.55%) Maven
14 9 (0.55%) Storybook
15 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
16 7 (0.43%) ClearQuest
17 6 (0.37%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 263 (16.14%) Finance
2 251 (15.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 200 (12.28%) Marketing
4 198 (12.15%) Law
5 107 (6.57%) Social Skills
6 70 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 63 (3.87%) Automotive
8 59 (3.62%) Electronics
9 54 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 40 (2.46%) Military
12 39 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
13 28 (1.72%) Aviation
14 27 (1.66%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.35%) Tech for Good
16 20 (1.23%) Banking
16 20 (1.23%) Retail
17 16 (0.98%) Legal
18 15 (0.92%) Games
18 15 (0.92%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (22.22%) .NET
2 314 (19.28%) React
3 239 (14.67%) CSS
4 209 (12.83%) .NET Core
5 184 (11.30%) Leaflet
5 184 (11.30%) OpenLayers
5 184 (11.30%) PostGIS
6 130 (7.98%) AngularJS
7 124 (7.61%) RESTful
8 95 (5.83%) HTML
9 93 (5.71%) ASP.NET
10 79 (4.85%) JSON
11 76 (4.67%) Node.js
12 73 (4.48%) XML
13 68 (4.17%) Web Services
14 66 (4.05%) Spring
15 65 (3.99%) .NET Framework
16 64 (3.93%) Vue
17 56 (3.44%) Kafka
18 48 (2.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.79%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.19%) Algorithms
3 43 (2.64%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 42 (2.58%) IoT
4 42 (2.58%) Reference Data
5 36 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 33 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 33 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.90%) Device Driver
8 22 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
9 16 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 15 (0.92%) Product Ownership
11 13 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (0.74%) GNSS
13 9 (0.55%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.55%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.55%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.49%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 271 (16.64%) Linux
2 102 (6.26%) Embedded Linux
3 90 (5.52%) Windows
4 42 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.10%) Unix
7 16 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.74%) Android
9 9 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.25%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.061%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.061%) Debian
12 1 (0.061%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,628 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 692 (42.48%) Agile
3 294 (18.05%) DevOps
4 293 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (16.76%) SDLC
6 210 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
7 199 (12.22%) Web Development
8 198 (12.15%) Operational Stability
9 197 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 164 (10.07%) Microservices
11 159 (9.76%) Machine Learning
12 157 (9.64%) CI/CD
13 156 (9.58%) Computer Science
14 155 (9.52%) Tech Ops
15 122 (7.49%) Test Automation
16 113 (6.94%) Decision-Making
17 109 (6.69%) Mentoring
18 78 (4.79%) Full Stack Development
18 78 (4.79%) TDD
19 71 (4.36%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 451 (27.69%) Python
2 363 (22.28%) JavaScript
3 355 (21.79%) C#
4 335 (20.56%) Java
5 254 (15.59%) C++
6 247 (15.16%) SQL
7 230 (14.12%) C
8 144 (8.84%) TypeScript
9 76 (4.67%) Embedded C
10 60 (3.68%) Bash
11 56 (3.44%) Go
12 54 (3.31%) Scala
13 42 (2.58%) Prolog
13 42 (2.58%) SPARQL
14 30 (1.84%) Rust
15 27 (1.66%) Perl
16 25 (1.53%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.98%) MATLAB
17 16 (0.98%) PowerShell
18 11 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 324 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 258 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 173 (10.62%) Degree
4 40 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.35%) HND
7 20 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 14 (0.86%) PhD
9 9 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.061%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.061%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 16 (0.98%) PMO
3 15 (0.92%) ISO 26262
3 15 (0.92%) MISRA
4 14 (0.86%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (0.86%) AUTOSAR
5 13 (0.80%) QA
6 8 (0.49%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.43%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.25%) DICOM
8 4 (0.25%) HL7
9 3 (0.18%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.061%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.061%) SEPA
System Software
1 77 (4.73%) Docker
2 47 (2.89%) Firmware
3 42 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.24%) Terraform
3 10 (0.61%) Ansible
4 5 (0.31%) SELinux
5 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) linkerd
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
8 1 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 184 (11.30%) ESRI
2 30 (1.84%) Microsoft
3 23 (1.41%) Google
4 22 (1.35%) Oracle
5 14 (0.86%) IBM
5 14 (0.86%) Lauterbach
6 12 (0.74%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.68%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.49%) Dell
9 7 (0.43%) F5
10 4 (0.25%) Databricks
10 4 (0.25%) Facebook
10 4 (0.25%) Instagram
10 4 (0.25%) QNX
10 4 (0.25%) SAP
11 3 (0.18%) Autodesk
12 2 (0.12%) Cadence
12 2 (0.12%) IFS
12 2 (0.12%) RedGate
12 2 (0.12%) VMware