Developer/Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer/Developer
UK

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK is £110,000 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 523 604 573
Rank change year-on-year +81 -31 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 436 370 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.39% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 354 354 730
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £152,625 £151,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +126.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the UK 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
England +32 360 £110,000 +10.00% 12
London +101 318 £110,000 +7.32% 6
Work from Home -57 191 £102,500 - 9
UK excluding London +38 118 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Scotland +10 76 - -
South West -12 18 £72,246 +28.44% 1
North of England +15 13 £42,572 -14.86% 1
North West -2 13 £42,572 -14.86%
East of England - 6 £53,750 - 3
South East -9 5 £60,000 -22.58% 1

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Developer/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 featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 424 (97.25%) Software Engineering
2 395 (90.60%) Agile
3 387 (88.76%) AWS
4 385 (88.30%) Finance
5 350 (80.28%) Python
6 316 (72.48%) Asset Management
7 312 (71.56%) Front Office
8 306 (70.18%) Fixed Income
9 305 (69.95%) GCP
10 300 (68.81%) TypeScript
11 280 (64.22%) Investment Management
12 257 (58.94%) React
13 239 (54.82%) Hedge funds
14 227 (52.06%) Redux
15 219 (50.23%) JavaScript
16 213 (48.85%) Protocol Buffers
16 213 (48.85%) gRPC
16 213 (48.85%) Apache Airflow
17 204 (46.79%) Equities
18 202 (46.33%) Azure
19 201 (46.10%) Apache
19 201 (46.10%) Apache Ignite
20 196 (44.95%) Full Stack Development
21 187 (42.89%) Banking
22 176 (40.37%) Machine Learning
23 175 (40.14%) Artificial Intelligence
24 164 (37.61%) Java
25 154 (35.32%) Derivative
26 152 (34.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
27 139 (31.88%) SQL

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 213 (48.85%) Apache Airflow
2 201 (46.10%) Apache
3 65 (14.91%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.92%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 387 (88.76%) AWS
2 305 (69.95%) GCP
3 202 (46.33%) Azure
4 84 (19.27%) dbt
5 52 (11.93%) Snowflake
6 8 (1.83%) Serverless
7 4 (0.92%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.69%) npm
9 2 (0.46%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (46.10%) Apache Ignite
2 109 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (19.27%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (19.27%) Apache Arrow
3 84 (19.27%) Dremio
4 65 (14.91%) Apache Hive
4 65 (14.91%) NoSQL
5 54 (12.39%) Hadoop
5 54 (12.39%) HBase
6 52 (11.93%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.67%) Big Data
8 13 (2.98%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.29%) MySQL
10 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.92%) GIS
10 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.92%) Redis
10 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.46%) Power BI
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (14.45%) Cypress.io
2 61 (13.99%) Git
3 58 (13.30%) Jenkins
4 54 (12.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (1.38%) JIRA
6 3 (0.69%) Maven
6 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.23%) GitLab
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.23%) JMeter
8 1 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 385 (88.30%) Finance
2 312 (71.56%) Front Office
3 187 (42.89%) Banking
4 76 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (17.43%) Law
5 73 (16.74%) Investment Banking
6 44 (10.09%) Back Office
7 37 (8.49%) Legal
8 28 (6.42%) Marketing
9 11 (2.52%) Private Banking
10 6 (1.38%) Social Skills
11 4 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Automotive
12 2 (0.46%) Electronics
12 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.46%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (58.94%) React
2 227 (52.06%) Redux
3 213 (48.85%) gRPC
3 213 (48.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 129 (29.59%) AngularJS
5 123 (28.21%) Material-UI
6 115 (26.38%) Vue
7 96 (22.02%) Pandas
8 92 (21.10%) .NET
9 84 (19.27%) NumPy
9 84 (19.27%) SciPy
10 64 (14.68%) Node.js
11 50 (11.47%) .NET Core
12 45 (10.32%) ASP.NET
13 35 (8.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 25 (5.73%) Spring
15 14 (3.21%) Spring Boot
16 13 (2.98%) GraphQL
17 12 (2.75%) HTML
18 11 (2.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 306 (70.18%) Fixed Income
2 239 (54.82%) Hedge funds
3 204 (46.79%) Equities
4 154 (35.32%) Derivative
5 152 (34.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 77 (17.66%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.75%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.69%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.46%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.46%) Product Ownership
14 1 (0.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.22%) Unix
2 13 (2.98%) Linux
3 9 (2.06%) Windows
4 8 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (97.25%) Software Engineering
2 395 (90.60%) Agile
3 316 (72.48%) Asset Management
4 280 (64.22%) Investment Management
5 196 (44.95%) Full Stack Development
6 176 (40.37%) Machine Learning
7 175 (40.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 99 (22.71%) Automated Trading
9 95 (21.79%) CI/CD
10 94 (21.56%) TDD
11 91 (20.87%) Fintech
12 78 (17.89%) SDLC
13 76 (17.43%) Community of Practice
13 76 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 76 (17.43%) Operational Stability
13 76 (17.43%) Visualisation
14 64 (14.68%) Microservices
15 59 (13.53%) Open Source
15 59 (13.53%) Test Automation
16 55 (12.61%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 350 (80.28%) Python
2 300 (68.81%) TypeScript
3 219 (50.23%) JavaScript
4 164 (37.61%) Java
5 139 (31.88%) SQL
6 92 (21.10%) C#
7 54 (12.39%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.67%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.21%) Ruby
10 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.83%) Scala
11 6 (1.38%) Perl
11 6 (1.38%) Swift
12 2 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.46%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.46%) Rust
12 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (4.82%) Degree
2 6 (1.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.46%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.17%) QA
2 3 (0.69%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.46%) EMIR
3 2 (0.46%) GDPR
3 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.46%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 54 (12.39%) HDFS
2 12 (2.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.46%) Firmware
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (12.61%) Terraform
2 16 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 101 (23.17%) Google
2 54 (12.39%) Cloudera
2 54 (12.39%) Databricks
2 54 (12.39%) Informatica
3 6 (1.38%) Facebook
3 6 (1.38%) Oracle
4 4 (0.92%) ESRI
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.46%) QNX
6 2 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.23%) Splunk