Software Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 533 522
Rank change year-on-year +116 -11 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 392 207 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.37% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 329 135 283
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +18.52%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +99 116 £62,500 -15.25% 6
Midlands +19 85 £65,000 - 17
South East +31 84 £65,000 -13.33% 15
North West +37 67 £62,500 -3.85% 4
West Midlands +6 61 £60,000 -7.69% 10
South West +7 50 £57,500 -19.30% 7
Yorkshire +70 29 £75,000 -16.67% 2
Scotland -50 28 £77,500 +19.23% 5
East Midlands -6 24 £65,000 +8.33% 7
North East +8 20 £55,000 -9.09%
Wales +24 17 £60,000 -2.04% 1
East of England -16 12 £120,000 - 2
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 163 (41.58%) Agile
2 140 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 84 (21.43%) .NET
4 79 (20.15%) Project Management
5 77 (19.64%) Social Skills
6 61 (15.56%) Degree
7 59 (15.05%) DevOps
8 49 (12.50%) Azure
8 49 (12.50%) C#
8 49 (12.50%) Scrum
9 48 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (11.48%) Mentoring
11 44 (11.22%) Project Delivery
12 42 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 40 (10.20%) Test Automation
14 39 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (9.95%) SQL
15 37 (9.44%) Computer Science
16 36 (9.18%) Software Delivery
17 35 (8.93%) People Management
18 33 (8.42%) Coaching
19 32 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
20 31 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
21 30 (7.65%) SDLC
21 30 (7.65%) PRINCE2
22 28 (7.14%) JavaScript
23 27 (6.89%) Kanban
24 26 (6.63%) Microsoft
25 24 (6.12%) Jenkins
25 24 (6.12%) Collaborative Working

Software Manager 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 5 (1.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.02%) Sage 200
2 4 (1.02%) Sage 500
2 4 (1.02%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.50%) Azure
2 18 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (4.59%) SaaS
3 15 (3.83%) AWS
4 10 (2.55%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.28%) GCP
7 4 (1.02%) Intacct
8 3 (0.77%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.26%) GitHub
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) Broadband
1 2 (0.51%) DSL
1 2 (0.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.57%) OLAP
2 6 (1.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.77%) MySQL
4 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.51%) Power BI
4 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.08%) JIRA
3 12 (3.06%) Git
4 11 (2.81%) GitLab
5 5 (1.28%) Clang
6 4 (1.02%) Subversion
7 3 (0.77%) Selenium
7 3 (0.77%) TestRail
8 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (4.59%) Finance
4 17 (4.34%) Law
5 14 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 14 (3.57%) Marketing
6 9 (2.30%) Police
7 8 (2.04%) Electronics
8 7 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.53%) Wearables
10 5 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.02%) Games
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Legal
11 4 (1.02%) Local Government
11 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.43%) .NET
2 13 (3.32%) React
3 10 (2.55%) Node.js
3 10 (2.55%) RESTful
4 8 (2.04%) ASP.NET
4 8 (2.04%) SOAP
5 6 (1.53%) jQuery
6 5 (1.28%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.28%) LLVM
7 4 (1.02%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.02%) ADO.NET
7 4 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.02%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.02%) LAMP
7 4 (1.02%) Laravel
8 3 (0.77%) WPF
9 2 (0.51%) CSS3
9 2 (0.51%) HTML
9 2 (0.51%) HTML5
9 2 (0.51%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.81%) LIMS
4 10 (2.55%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.79%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.53%) RISC-V
8 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.28%) NHS
8 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.02%) CMDB
9 4 (1.02%) Tandem
10 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.83%) Linux
2 8 (2.04%) Windows
3 6 (1.53%) Android
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (41.58%) Agile
2 140 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 79 (20.15%) Project Management
4 59 (15.05%) DevOps
5 49 (12.50%) Scrum
6 48 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (11.48%) Mentoring
8 44 (11.22%) Project Delivery
9 42 (10.71%) Roadmaps
10 40 (10.20%) Test Automation
11 39 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (9.44%) Computer Science
13 36 (9.18%) Software Delivery
14 35 (8.93%) People Management
15 33 (8.42%) Coaching
16 31 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (7.65%) PRINCE2
17 30 (7.65%) SDLC
18 27 (6.89%) Kanban
19 24 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.50%) C#
2 39 (9.95%) SQL
3 28 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.08%) C
5 12 (3.06%) Python
6 11 (2.81%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.04%) PHP
9 6 (1.53%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.53%) Java
10 5 (1.28%) C++
10 5 (1.28%) Fortran
11 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.26%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (15.56%) Degree
2 23 (5.87%) PMP
3 22 (5.61%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.51%) CISSP
8 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.10%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) IEC 62304
2 1 (0.26%) ISO 13485
2 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.55%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.83%) Ansible
2 14 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.28%) Google
3 4 (1.02%) CheckPoint
3 4 (1.02%) Databricks
3 4 (1.02%) Sage
4 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.77%) Snow
5 2 (0.51%) Brio
6 1 (0.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.26%) IFS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP
6 1 (0.26%) Veeam