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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 288 217
Rank change year-on-year +168 -71 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,686 682 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.18% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.32% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 404 518
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £54,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,991 £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% - +12.00%

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 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,348
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 29 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 29 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 +55 403 £60,000 - 14
North of England +126 347 £60,000 -7.69% 56
South West +142 309 £62,500 -3.85% 44
South East +77 286 £62,500 -10.07% 35
North West +105 196 £60,000 - 41
Midlands +48 160 £62,500 -1.96% 28
Yorkshire +84 102 £62,500 -5.66% 12
East of England +49 95 £65,000 -3.70% 34
East Midlands +19 84 £65,000 +33.33% 7
West Midlands +25 76 £60,000 -11.11% 21
Wales +38 54 £55,000 +5.77% 8
North East +44 49 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Northern Ireland +27 32 - - 9
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 29 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 1,685 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 667 (39.56%) Agile
3 468 (27.76%) Python
4 452 (26.81%) AWS
5 387 (22.95%) Azure
6 369 (21.89%) .NET
7 366 (21.71%) JavaScript
8 363 (21.53%) C#
9 329 (19.51%) Security Cleared
10 318 (18.86%) Java
11 313 (18.56%) React
12 297 (17.62%) DevOps
13 280 (16.61%) SDLC
13 280 (16.61%) Linux
14 279 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
15 265 (15.72%) C++
16 256 (15.18%) Finance
17 254 (15.07%) SC Cleared
18 246 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 244 (14.47%) SQL
20 241 (14.29%) C
21 238 (14.12%) CSS
22 236 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
23 208 (12.34%) .NET Core
24 200 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
25 199 (11.80%) Web Development
25 199 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
26 196 (11.63%) Marketing
27 193 (11.45%) Law
27 193 (11.45%) Operational Stability

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 (10.91%) ArcGIS
1 184 (10.91%) GeoServer
2 86 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.07%) FileNet
4 17 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
5 6 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.059%) CMS
6 1 (0.059%) Drupal
6 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (0.95%) Simulink
2 15 (0.89%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.42%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.059%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.059%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Magento
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 452 (26.81%) AWS
2 387 (22.95%) Azure
3 73 (4.33%) GCP
4 37 (2.19%) SaaS
5 35 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (2.08%) Serverless
6 20 (1.19%) Amazon S3
7 15 (0.89%) Azure Functions
7 15 (0.89%) GitHub
8 11 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (0.53%) npm
10 7 (0.42%) Azure API Management
10 7 (0.42%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (0.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.24%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.12%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.12%) Sentry
14 2 (0.12%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.50%) Kerberos
2 30 (1.78%) Wireless
3 28 (1.66%) Network Security
4 27 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.54%) Ethernet
6 23 (1.36%) RS-232
6 23 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.83%) J1939
7 14 (0.83%) Modbus
8 10 (0.59%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.36%) MQTT
10 4 (0.24%) Profibus
11 3 (0.18%) Internet
12 1 (0.059%) 4G
12 1 (0.059%) 5G
12 1 (0.059%) HTTP
12 1 (0.059%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.059%) NFC
12 1 (0.059%) RS-485
12 1 (0.059%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 184 (10.91%) GIS
2 184 (10.91%) QGIS
3 106 (6.29%) NoSQL
4 59 (3.50%) MySQL
5 55 (3.26%) Big Data
6 51 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 42 (2.49%) Metadata
8 36 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.01%) CockroachDB
12 12 (0.71%) Redis
13 10 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.47%) SQLite
15 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.18%) Hadoop
17 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 128 (7.59%) Git
2 65 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.85%) Bitbucket
4 47 (2.79%) JIRA
5 42 (2.49%) Artifactory
6 39 (2.31%) Visual Studio
7 34 (2.02%) Subversion
8 27 (1.60%) GitLab
9 19 (1.13%) JUnit
10 14 (0.83%) ClearCase
10 14 (0.83%) CMake
10 14 (0.83%) Plastic SCM
11 12 (0.71%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.59%) Maven
13 9 (0.53%) Storybook
14 7 (0.42%) ClearQuest
15 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 256 (15.18%) Finance
2 246 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 196 (11.63%) Marketing
4 193 (11.45%) Law
5 108 (6.41%) Social Skills
6 76 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 64 (3.80%) Automotive
7 64 (3.80%) Electronics
8 53 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
9 39 (2.31%) Military
10 33 (1.96%) Public Sector
11 28 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.60%) Aviation
13 22 (1.30%) Tech for Good
14 21 (1.25%) Retail
15 18 (1.07%) Legal
16 17 (1.01%) Banking
17 16 (0.95%) Games
18 15 (0.89%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (21.89%) .NET
2 313 (18.56%) React
3 238 (14.12%) CSS
4 208 (12.34%) .NET Core
5 184 (10.91%) Leaflet
5 184 (10.91%) OpenLayers
5 184 (10.91%) PostGIS
6 120 (7.12%) AngularJS
7 116 (6.88%) RESTful
8 94 (5.58%) ASP.NET
8 94 (5.58%) HTML
9 79 (4.69%) Node.js
10 69 (4.09%) JSON
11 66 (3.91%) .NET Framework
12 62 (3.68%) Vue
12 62 (3.68%) XML
13 58 (3.44%) Web Services
14 56 (3.32%) Spring
15 55 (3.26%) Kafka
16 49 (2.91%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.38%) Algorithms
3 43 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 42 (2.49%) IoT
4 42 (2.49%) Reference Data
5 37 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 34 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 31 (1.84%) Device Driver
9 23 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
10 16 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 15 (0.89%) Product Ownership
12 14 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
13 13 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.71%) GNSS
15 9 (0.53%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.53%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.47%) FPGA
16 8 (0.47%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 280 (16.61%) Linux
2 106 (6.29%) Embedded Linux
3 82 (4.86%) Windows
4 42 (2.49%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.42%) Unix
6 21 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.77%) Android
8 9 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.24%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,685 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 667 (39.56%) Agile
3 297 (17.62%) DevOps
4 280 (16.61%) SDLC
5 279 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 199 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
7 199 (11.80%) Web Development
8 193 (11.45%) Operational Stability
9 165 (9.79%) Computer Science
10 161 (9.55%) Machine Learning
11 160 (9.49%) Microservices
12 159 (9.43%) CI/CD
13 151 (8.96%) Tech Ops
14 114 (6.76%) Test Automation
15 112 (6.64%) Decision-Making
16 100 (5.93%) Mentoring
17 81 (4.80%) Full Stack Development
18 77 (4.57%) Mathematics
19 71 (4.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 468 (27.76%) Python
2 366 (21.71%) JavaScript
3 363 (21.53%) C#
4 318 (18.86%) Java
5 265 (15.72%) C++
6 244 (14.47%) SQL
7 241 (14.29%) C
8 154 (9.13%) TypeScript
9 78 (4.63%) Embedded C
10 65 (3.86%) Bash
11 56 (3.32%) Go
12 53 (3.14%) Scala
13 42 (2.49%) Prolog
13 42 (2.49%) SPARQL
14 30 (1.78%) Rust
15 26 (1.54%) Perl
15 26 (1.54%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.95%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.95%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.71%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 329 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 254 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 181 (10.74%) Degree
4 41 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.30%) HND
8 20 (1.19%) PhD
9 9 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 16 (0.95%) PMO
3 15 (0.89%) ISO 26262
4 14 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (0.83%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (0.83%) MISRA
5 13 (0.77%) QA
6 8 (0.47%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.42%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.24%) DICOM
8 4 (0.24%) HL7
9 3 (0.18%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.059%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.059%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (4.33%) Docker
2 51 (3.02%) Firmware
3 42 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.09%) Terraform
3 14 (0.83%) Ansible
4 5 (0.30%) SELinux
5 4 (0.24%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) linkerd
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
Vendors
1 184 (10.91%) ESRI
2 37 (2.19%) Microsoft
3 21 (1.25%) Google
4 20 (1.19%) Oracle
5 14 (0.83%) IBM
5 14 (0.83%) Lauterbach
6 12 (0.71%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.65%) Xamarin
8 7 (0.42%) F5
9 4 (0.24%) Databricks
9 4 (0.24%) Facebook
9 4 (0.24%) Instagram
9 4 (0.24%) QNX
9 4 (0.24%) SAP
10 3 (0.18%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.12%) Cadence
11 2 (0.12%) IFS
11 2 (0.12%) RedGate
11 2 (0.12%) VMware
12 1 (0.059%) Thales