Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 16 65
Rank change year-on-year -34 +49 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,512 5,906 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.31% 8.95% 4.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.81% 9.43% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 2,868 1,676
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,335 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% +11.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 31,458 62,607 57,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 94.83% 89.65%
Number of salaries quoted 17,843 45,010 32,226
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,215 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
South East -3 425 £60,000 +9.09% 423
North of England -43 324 £62,500 +13.64% 331
South West -14 217 £60,000 +9.09% 178
East of England +4 193 £66,206 +10.34% 222
North West -66 185 £65,000 +13.04% 219
Scotland -33 182 £58,000 -3.33% 169
Midlands -96 103 £57,500 +4.55% 152
Yorkshire -26 95 £62,500 +25.00% 80
West Midlands -86 63 £58,750 +6.82% 76
Wales +5 55 £65,000 +30.00% 28
North East +18 44 £55,000 - 34
East Midlands -54 40 £57,500 +9.52% 74
Northern Ireland -9 13 £90,000 - 16
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,512 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 692 (45.77%) Agile
3 468 (30.95%) Python
4 444 (29.37%) Degree
5 438 (28.97%) AWS
6 427 (28.24%) C#
7 420 (27.78%) Java
8 378 (25.00%) React
9 316 (20.90%) Computer Science
10 296 (19.58%) C++
11 295 (19.51%) TypeScript
12 294 (19.44%) JavaScript
13 291 (19.25%) Kubernetes
14 288 (19.05%) CI/CD
15 277 (18.32%) SQL
16 259 (17.13%) Azure
17 257 (17.00%) Docker
18 244 (16.14%) Node.js
19 242 (16.01%) Finance
20 236 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
21 234 (15.48%) .NET
22 218 (14.42%) Scrum
23 215 (14.22%) Mentoring
24 205 (13.56%) DevOps
25 203 (13.43%) C
26 200 (13.23%) Test Automation
27 198 (13.10%) Linux
27 198 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
28 197 (13.03%) AngularJS
29 184 (12.17%) Git

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 42 (2.78%) Confluence
2 31 (2.05%) Apache
3 5 (0.33%) CMS
4 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.20%) CICS
4 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.20%) Solana
5 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.066%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.066%) Appian
6 1 (0.066%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.066%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.066%) WinCC
Applications
1 36 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.60%) Simulink
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.066%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.066%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.066%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.066%) Revit
5 1 (0.066%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.26%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.066%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 438 (28.97%) AWS
2 259 (17.13%) Azure
3 181 (11.97%) GitHub
4 149 (9.85%) GCP
5 146 (9.66%) Serverless
6 128 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 119 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (7.54%) Amazon SQS
9 113 (7.47%) Amazon Kinesis
10 54 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
10 54 (3.57%) ChatGPT
11 38 (2.51%) SaaS
12 35 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
16 11 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.52%) Wireless
3 15 (0.99%) Network Security
3 15 (0.99%) RS-232
4 14 (0.93%) Bluetooth
5 13 (0.86%) Ethernet
6 12 (0.79%) Modbus
7 9 (0.60%) MQTT
7 9 (0.60%) ZigBee
8 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.46%) Profibus
9 7 (0.46%) RS-485
9 7 (0.46%) WAN
10 6 (0.40%) DNS
10 6 (0.40%) Firewall
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
11 5 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
12 4 (0.26%) 5G
12 4 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (8.07%) DynamoDB
2 122 (8.07%) Redis
3 65 (4.30%) MySQL
4 60 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 53 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 47 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.12%) Big Data
9 13 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (0.79%) RDBMS
10 12 (0.79%) SQLite
11 11 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.66%) Cloud Spanner
13 7 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.40%) DB2
15 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.26%) Biml
16 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 184 (12.17%) Git
2 173 (11.44%) Jenkins
3 84 (5.56%) JIRA
4 49 (3.24%) GitLab
5 31 (2.05%) Bitbucket
5 31 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.92%) Eclipse
7 28 (1.85%) Eclipse RCP
8 22 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 18 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 16 (1.06%) JUnit
11 15 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
12 14 (0.93%) Maven
13 13 (0.86%) webpack
14 12 (0.79%) Subversion
15 11 (0.73%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.73%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 242 (16.01%) Finance
2 173 (11.44%) Social Skills
3 166 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 159 (10.52%) Banking
5 123 (8.13%) Advertising
6 122 (8.07%) Electronics
6 122 (8.07%) Marketing
7 74 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (4.63%) Manufacturing
9 43 (2.84%) Law
10 38 (2.51%) Games
11 37 (2.45%) Retail
12 35 (2.31%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.98%) Automotive
14 21 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.32%) Military
15 20 (1.32%) Public Sector
16 14 (0.93%) Tech for Good
17 11 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (25.00%) React
2 244 (16.14%) Node.js
3 234 (15.48%) .NET
4 197 (13.03%) AngularJS
5 165 (10.91%) REST
6 147 (9.72%) HTML
7 119 (7.87%) Tailwind CSS
8 101 (6.68%) CSS
9 78 (5.16%) Spring Boot
10 76 (5.03%) Spring
11 71 (4.70%) RESTful
12 61 (4.03%) .NET Core
13 49 (3.24%) Kafka
14 39 (2.58%) Middleware
14 39 (2.58%) WPF
15 36 (2.38%) Laravel
16 35 (2.31%) .NET Framework
17 33 (2.18%) Electron
18 30 (1.98%) Web Services
19 29 (1.92%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 114 (7.54%) Blog
2 112 (7.41%) Digital Media
3 69 (4.56%) Algorithms
4 59 (3.90%) Embedded Systems
5 55 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 52 (3.44%) Public Cloud
7 49 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (2.98%) Product Ownership
9 37 (2.45%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.31%) IoT
10 35 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.26%) Device Driver
13 15 (0.99%) Private Cloud
13 15 (0.99%) Robotics
14 14 (0.93%) Acoustics
15 13 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
17 11 (0.73%) CUDA
17 11 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 198 (13.10%) Linux
2 88 (5.82%) Windows
3 42 (2.78%) Unix
4 29 (1.92%) Android
5 28 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
7 12 (0.79%) Rocky
8 5 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
9 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.066%) CentOS
12 1 (0.066%) Debian
12 1 (0.066%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,512 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 692 (45.77%) Agile
3 316 (20.90%) Computer Science
4 288 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 236 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 218 (14.42%) Scrum
7 215 (14.22%) Mentoring
8 205 (13.56%) DevOps
9 200 (13.23%) Test Automation
10 198 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 181 (11.97%) TDD
12 176 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
13 162 (10.71%) E-Commerce
14 158 (10.45%) Mathematics
15 157 (10.38%) User Experience
16 154 (10.19%) SDLC
17 143 (9.46%) UML
18 142 (9.39%) Microservices
18 142 (9.39%) Software Testing
19 133 (8.80%) OO
Programming Languages
1 468 (30.95%) Python
2 427 (28.24%) C#
3 420 (27.78%) Java
4 296 (19.58%) C++
5 295 (19.51%) TypeScript
6 294 (19.44%) JavaScript
7 277 (18.32%) SQL
8 203 (13.43%) C
9 117 (7.74%) Rust
10 99 (6.55%) Ada
11 63 (4.17%) PHP
12 58 (3.84%) Go
13 33 (2.18%) Embedded C
13 33 (2.18%) Ruby
14 22 (1.46%) Bash
15 19 (1.26%) MATLAB
16 16 (1.06%) VB
17 15 (0.99%) Perl
18 14 (0.93%) Clojure
18 14 (0.93%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 444 (29.37%) Degree
2 129 (8.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 85 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 82 (5.42%) Security Cleared
5 56 (3.70%) Chartered Engineer
6 45 (2.98%) SC Cleared
7 43 (2.84%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.26%) PhD
10 11 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.26%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.26%) HNC
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.20%) HND
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.37%) QA
2 38 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 7 (0.46%) MISRA
5 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.33%) Def Stans
6 5 (0.33%) IEC 61508
7 4 (0.26%) IEC 61131
7 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.26%) PMO
7 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.20%) IEC 62304
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 2 (0.13%) CDISC
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.13%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.13%) SEPA
9 2 (0.13%) WCAG
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 257 (17.00%) Docker
2 36 (2.38%) Firmware
3 22 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 73 (4.83%) Terraform
3 18 (1.19%) Ansible
4 11 (0.73%) Istio
5 9 (0.60%) Grafana
5 9 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.40%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.26%) Kibana
8 3 (0.20%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.13%) Argo
9 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.13%) MAINVIEW
10 1 (0.066%) Graylog
10 1 (0.066%) Puppet
10 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.98%) Google
3 36 (2.38%) PayPal
4 27 (1.79%) Oracle
5 19 (1.26%) Databricks
6 18 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 16 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.46%) Adobe
8 7 (0.46%) Epicor
9 6 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.40%) Sawtooth Software
10 5 (0.33%) Apple
10 5 (0.33%) F5
10 5 (0.33%) Intel
10 5 (0.33%) SAP
10 5 (0.33%) Xilinx
11 4 (0.26%) IBM
11 4 (0.26%) Siemens
11 4 (0.26%) Tealium
11 4 (0.26%) Veracode