Software Development Manager Jobs

Software Development Manager
UK

The median Software Development Manager salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 709 843 936
Rank change year-on-year +134 +93 -241
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 169 129 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 145 115 231
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.83% +16.00%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Manager.

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +141 159 £75,000 +3.45% 17
UK excluding London +6 106 £70,000 +1.45% 8
Work from Home +85 84 £70,000 -1.41% 9
London +135 55 £84,250 -3.71% 6
Midlands +19 38 £68,500 +5.38% 2
North of England +46 26 £75,000 +3.45%
South East +15 26 £90,000 +12.50% 4
West Midlands +21 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands +10 18 £66,750 +13.62% 2
North West +1 11 £70,000 +3.70%
Yorkshire +77 9 £75,000 -16.67%
East of England +11 7 £120,000 -
North East +1 6 £80,000 +42.86%
South West -20 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Wales +17 4 £45,000 -25.00%

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Software Development 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 featuring Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 93 (55.03%) Agile
2 42 (24.85%) Software Engineering
3 41 (24.26%) .NET
3 41 (24.26%) Mentoring
4 35 (20.71%) People Management
4 35 (20.71%) SDLC
5 34 (20.12%) Roadmaps
5 34 (20.12%) Java
5 34 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (17.16%) C#
6 29 (17.16%) Social Skills
7 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.98%) Business Transformation
8 26 (15.38%) SQL Server
9 25 (14.79%) Scrum
10 23 (13.61%) Relational Database
10 23 (13.61%) IT Strategy
11 22 (13.02%) Games
12 21 (12.43%) Swaptions
12 21 (12.43%) RDBMS
12 21 (12.43%) TIBCO
12 21 (12.43%) OpenLink
12 21 (12.43%) Endur
12 21 (12.43%) Sybase
12 21 (12.43%) Oracle
12 21 (12.43%) VB
12 21 (12.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (12.43%) Data Modelling
12 21 (12.43%) Creative Thinking
13 20 (11.83%) Technology Strategy

Software Development Manager 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 21 (12.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.55%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (12.43%) Endur
2 5 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.78%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.83%) Azure
2 5 (2.96%) AWS
2 5 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.96%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.18%) SaaS
3 2 (1.18%) Serverless
4 1 (0.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.59%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.59%) GitHub
4 1 (0.59%) IaaS
4 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 23 (13.61%) Relational Database
3 21 (12.43%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.33%) OLAP
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.18%) MySQL
5 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Git
2 4 (2.37%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) Selenium
3 2 (1.18%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.02%) Games
3 18 (10.65%) Finance
3 18 (10.65%) Marketing
4 13 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.33%) Law
6 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.78%) Back Office
8 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.18%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.26%) .NET
2 5 (2.96%) LAMP
2 5 (2.96%) Laravel
3 4 (2.37%) React
4 3 (1.78%) RESTful
4 3 (1.78%) Vue
4 3 (1.78%) Web Services
5 2 (1.18%) CSS
5 2 (1.18%) CSS3
5 2 (1.18%) HTML
5 2 (1.18%) HTML5
5 2 (1.18%) Jest
5 2 (1.18%) jQuery
5 2 (1.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.59%) Nuxt
6 1 (0.59%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.59%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.59%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.43%) Swaptions
2 15 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.14%) 3D Graphics
4 7 (4.14%) Client/Server
5 6 (3.55%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.55%) PropTech
5 6 (3.55%) RISC-V
6 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.37%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.78%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) NHS
9 1 (0.59%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (55.03%) Agile
2 42 (24.85%) Software Engineering
3 41 (24.26%) Mentoring
4 35 (20.71%) People Management
4 35 (20.71%) SDLC
5 34 (20.12%) Roadmaps
5 34 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (15.98%) Business Transformation
6 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.79%) Scrum
8 23 (13.61%) IT Strategy
9 21 (12.43%) Creative Thinking
9 21 (12.43%) Data Modelling
10 20 (11.83%) Technology Strategy
11 19 (11.24%) Project Delivery
12 18 (10.65%) Strategic Roadmap
12 18 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
13 16 (9.47%) Project Management
14 15 (8.88%) DevOps
14 15 (8.88%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.12%) Java
2 29 (17.16%) C#
3 21 (12.43%) VB
4 17 (10.06%) SQL
5 11 (6.51%) C
5 11 (6.51%) PHP
6 10 (5.92%) Python
7 6 (3.55%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.78%) C++
11 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (6.51%) Degree
2 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.18%) CISSP
3 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.33%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (4.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (12.43%) OpenLink
1 21 (12.43%) Oracle
1 21 (12.43%) Sybase
1 21 (12.43%) TIBCO
2 14 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.18%) Google
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe
4 1 (0.59%) IFS
4 1 (0.59%) Marketo
4 1 (0.59%) SAP
4 1 (0.59%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.59%) Twitter