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 £55,000 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 14 78 36
Rank change year-on-year +64 -42 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,648 2,484 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.81% 4.36% 7.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.28% 4.90% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,413 1,399 2,127
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,666
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.79% +11.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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
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 71,665 50,662 70,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 88.95% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,431 29,528 42,704
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,985
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%

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 31 May 2024.

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 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
Scotland +20 2,447 £60,000 -7.69% 78
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
Wales +31 112 £50,000 +17.65% 22
North East +36 81 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Northern Ireland +12 72 £90,000 +50.00% 18
Software Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6,608 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 3,088 (46.45%) Agile
3 2,135 (32.11%) Finance
4 2,098 (31.56%) Java
5 2,087 (31.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2,063 (31.03%) SDLC
7 1,959 (29.47%) Law
8 1,929 (29.02%) Python
9 1,915 (28.81%) CI/CD
10 1,860 (27.98%) AWS
11 1,737 (26.13%) Operational Stability
12 1,468 (22.08%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,407 (21.16%) Machine Learning
14 1,316 (19.80%) SQL
15 1,249 (18.79%) Community of Practice
16 1,180 (17.75%) JavaScript
17 1,115 (16.77%) React
18 1,090 (16.40%) C#
19 968 (14.56%) Algorithms
20 944 (14.20%) Marketing
21 933 (14.03%) C
22 916 (13.78%) Azure
22 916 (13.78%) Linux
23 860 (12.94%) .NET
24 857 (12.89%) C++
25 833 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
26 831 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
27 818 (12.30%) Visualisation
28 804 (12.09%) Degree
29 782 (11.76%) Security Cleared

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
1 543 (8.17%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.47%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.27%) GeoServer
4 160 (2.41%) Apache
5 114 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 104 (1.56%) FileNet
7 35 (0.53%) Confluence
8 32 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.32%) GemFire
10 19 (0.29%) Camunda
11 14 (0.21%) CMS
12 13 (0.20%) NServiceBus
13 11 (0.17%) CICS
13 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.090%) Captiva
14 6 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.090%) nginx
14 6 (0.090%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.075%) SharePoint
Applications
1 103 (1.55%) Simulink
2 27 (0.41%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.17%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.090%) Trello
7 5 (0.075%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.075%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.045%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.045%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.030%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.030%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.030%) Sketch
10 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.015%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.090%) Magento
2 6 (0.090%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.030%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.015%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.015%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.015%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,860 (27.98%) AWS
2 916 (13.78%) Azure
3 252 (3.79%) GCP
4 178 (2.68%) Serverless
5 140 (2.11%) GitHub
6 131 (1.97%) Amazon S3
7 115 (1.73%) SaaS
8 110 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (1.64%) Datadog
10 96 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
13 63 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (0.75%) Amazon EMR
17 49 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
18 42 (0.63%) BlazeMeter
19 37 (0.56%) OpenShift
20 36 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.41%) Wireless
2 86 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.23%) Kerberos
4 65 (0.98%) RS-232
4 65 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
5 63 (0.95%) Ethernet
6 53 (0.80%) Network Security
7 47 (0.71%) Bluetooth
8 42 (0.63%) RS-485
9 32 (0.48%) Modbus
10 29 (0.44%) AMQP
10 29 (0.44%) MQTT
11 21 (0.32%) ZigBee
12 17 (0.26%) Internet
13 14 (0.21%) 4G
13 14 (0.21%) J1939
14 13 (0.20%) 3G
15 12 (0.18%) 5G
16 11 (0.17%) HTTP
16 11 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (10.02%) NoSQL
2 458 (6.89%) Big Data
3 433 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 318 (4.78%) GIS
5 284 (4.27%) QGIS
6 274 (4.12%) Hadoop
7 199 (2.99%) MySQL
8 193 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
9 173 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 165 (2.48%) SQL Server
11 153 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 139 (2.09%) MongoDB
13 126 (1.90%) Apache Hive
14 99 (1.49%) HBase
15 75 (1.13%) Redis
16 67 (1.01%) Metadata
17 50 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
18 47 (0.71%) Data Lake
19 39 (0.59%) CockroachDB
19 39 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 513 (7.72%) Git
2 353 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 212 (3.19%) JUnit
4 161 (2.42%) JIRA
5 118 (1.77%) Jasmine
6 106 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 103 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 89 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 85 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
10 78 (1.17%) Maven
11 75 (1.13%) Selenium
12 71 (1.07%) Subversion
13 66 (0.99%) Artifactory
13 66 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
14 63 (0.95%) GitLab
15 62 (0.93%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.90%) Protractor
17 50 (0.75%) Mockito
18 42 (0.63%) LabVIEW
19 36 (0.54%) Gradle
General
1 2,135 (32.11%) Finance
2 2,087 (31.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,959 (29.47%) Law
4 944 (14.20%) Marketing
5 692 (10.41%) Legal
6 580 (8.72%) Social Skills
7 416 (6.26%) Banking
8 412 (6.20%) Electronics
9 299 (4.50%) Investment Banking
10 279 (4.20%) Manufacturing
11 223 (3.35%) Automotive
12 170 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
13 167 (2.51%) Aerospace
14 137 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.35%) Retail
16 84 (1.26%) Military
17 81 (1.22%) Public Sector
18 77 (1.16%) Tech for Good
19 75 (1.13%) Financial Institution
20 70 (1.05%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,115 (16.77%) React
2 860 (12.94%) .NET
3 698 (10.50%) Spring
4 663 (9.97%) AngularJS
5 627 (9.43%) CSS
6 418 (6.29%) HTML
7 417 (6.27%) .NET Core
8 407 (6.12%) Kafka
9 393 (5.91%) Node.js
10 348 (5.23%) Spring Boot
11 292 (4.39%) PostGIS
12 288 (4.33%) Leaflet
12 288 (4.33%) OpenLayers
13 270 (4.06%) RESTful
14 253 (3.81%) J2EE
15 237 (3.56%) JSON
16 229 (3.44%) Web Services
17 218 (3.28%) Hibernate
18 212 (3.19%) REST
19 177 (2.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 968 (14.56%) Algorithms
2 661 (9.94%) Cloud Native
3 249 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 183 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
5 172 (2.59%) IoT
6 162 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 132 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 128 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 128 (1.93%) Reference Data
9 107 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 106 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 78 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 76 (1.14%) Device Driver
13 69 (1.04%) Product Ownership
14 65 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
15 58 (0.87%) Robotics
16 55 (0.83%) Mobile App
17 43 (0.65%) Legacy Code
18 42 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
19 40 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 916 (13.78%) Linux
2 309 (4.65%) Windows
3 205 (3.08%) Embedded Linux
4 180 (2.71%) Unix
5 112 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 99 (1.49%) Android
7 63 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 51 (0.77%) CentOS
10 36 (0.54%) Debian
11 35 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.12%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.090%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.075%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.075%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 3 (0.045%) VMS
18 2 (0.030%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,608 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 3,088 (46.45%) Agile
3 2,063 (31.03%) SDLC
4 1,915 (28.81%) CI/CD
5 1,737 (26.13%) Operational Stability
6 1,468 (22.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,407 (21.16%) Machine Learning
8 1,249 (18.79%) Community of Practice
9 833 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 831 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 818 (12.30%) Visualisation
12 714 (10.74%) DevOps
13 701 (10.54%) Microservices
14 681 (10.24%) Risk Management
15 666 (10.02%) Full Stack Development
16 632 (9.51%) Computer Science
17 464 (6.98%) Decision-Making
18 444 (6.68%) Test Automation
19 413 (6.21%) Architectural Design
20 410 (6.17%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2,098 (31.56%) Java
2 1,929 (29.02%) Python
3 1,316 (19.80%) SQL
4 1,180 (17.75%) JavaScript
5 1,090 (16.40%) C#
6 933 (14.03%) C
7 857 (12.89%) C++
8 487 (7.33%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.17%) Scala
10 249 (3.75%) Embedded C
11 185 (2.78%) Go
12 175 (2.63%) Bash
13 134 (2.02%) PL/SQL
14 107 (1.61%) MATLAB
15 102 (1.53%) Rust
16 93 (1.40%) Kotlin
17 84 (1.26%) PHP
18 71 (1.07%) Ada
19 68 (1.02%) T-SQL
20 67 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 804 (12.09%) Degree
2 782 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 491 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 244 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 136 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 81 (1.22%) PhD
8 58 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.44%) HND
10 25 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.26%) HNC
12 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.12%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.11%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.090%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.045%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Developer
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 1 (0.015%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (1.70%) QA
2 61 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 54 (0.81%) MISRA
4 41 (0.62%) SLA
5 35 (0.53%) PMO
6 33 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.38%) ISO 26262
8 22 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
9 21 (0.32%) GDPR
9 21 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
10 18 (0.27%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
12 13 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 10 (0.15%) IEC 62304
14 9 (0.14%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.12%) IEC 61508
15 8 (0.12%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9000
17 6 (0.090%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.090%) WAI
System Software
1 260 (3.91%) Docker
2 182 (2.74%) Firmware
3 99 (1.49%) HDFS
4 84 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.02%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.030%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.030%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 512 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 363 (5.46%) Terraform
3 157 (2.36%) Grafana
4 86 (1.29%) Ansible
5 63 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.45%) Puppet
7 26 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.33%) Kibana
9 21 (0.32%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 20 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.11%) Graphite
12 6 (0.090%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.075%) SELinux
14 3 (0.045%) Podman
15 2 (0.030%) Istio
15 2 (0.030%) linkerd
15 2 (0.030%) MIIS
16 1 (0.015%) CA Endevor
16 1 (0.015%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 381 (5.73%) Oracle
2 292 (4.39%) ESRI
3 208 (3.13%) Databricks
4 169 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 168 (2.53%) Splunk
6 145 (2.18%) Dynatrace
7 130 (1.96%) Google
8 86 (1.29%) Informatica
9 69 (1.04%) Cloudera
10 49 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 46 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 46 (0.69%) SaltStack
12 45 (0.68%) IBM
13 43 (0.65%) Siemens
14 39 (0.59%) Alteryx
15 26 (0.39%) SAP
16 25 (0.38%) Pega
17 22 (0.33%) Xamarin
18 21 (0.32%) Lauterbach
19 20 (0.30%) Xilinx