Software Engineering Jobs in the South East

Software Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,426 1,485 2,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.44% 10.39% 13.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.02% 11.00% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 904 1,384
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,647 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +3.78% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,237 13,500 18,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.30% 94.49% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,877 7,867 11,859
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley 0 522 £56,500 -11.72% 126
Hampshire +8 506 £57,500 -4.17% 92
Berkshire +19 256 £60,000 -14.29% 49
Surrey -6 241 £60,000 -14.29% 53
Oxfordshire 0 168 £54,750 +4.29% 53
Buckinghamshire -25 98 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Kent -10 62 £45,000 -18.18% 12
West Sussex +1 53 £64,000 +6.67% 23
Sussex - 24 £52,500 - 2
East Sussex -35 18 £42,500 -29.17% 7
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (2.03%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.03%) GeoServer
2 22 (1.54%) Apache
3 19 (1.33%) Confluence
4 6 (0.42%) nginx
4 6 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
6 2 (0.14%) JBoss
6 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.14%) WordPress
7 1 (0.070%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (5.89%) Simulink
2 27 (1.89%) Stateflow
3 10 (0.70%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.49%) CANalyzer
5 4 (0.28%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
7 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.070%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.070%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.070%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.070%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 226 (15.85%) Azure
2 191 (13.39%) AWS
3 66 (4.63%) SaaS
4 38 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (2.03%) GCP
6 26 (1.82%) GitHub
7 21 (1.47%) Serverless
8 20 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 14 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.56%) IaaS
13 7 (0.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.49%) IBM Cloud
14 6 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.03%) Network Security
2 27 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 26 (1.82%) Wireless
4 23 (1.61%) Ethernet
5 18 (1.26%) Internet
6 14 (0.98%) J1939
7 12 (0.84%) VPN
8 11 (0.77%) Firewall
8 11 (0.77%) RS-485
9 10 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.63%) CTI
11 7 (0.49%) RS-232
12 6 (0.42%) GPRS
13 5 (0.35%) BGP
13 5 (0.35%) IPsec
13 5 (0.35%) LAN
13 5 (0.35%) NGFW
13 5 (0.35%) OSPF
13 5 (0.35%) VLAN
13 5 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.96%) NoSQL
2 51 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.66%) GIS
5 33 (2.31%) MySQL
6 29 (2.03%) QGIS
7 18 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (1.12%) Power BI
9 15 (1.05%) Redis
10 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.42%) CouchDB
10 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.42%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.28%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 190 (13.32%) Git
2 69 (4.84%) Visual Studio
3 65 (4.56%) JIRA
4 53 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.88%) Subversion
6 37 (2.59%) GitLab
7 30 (2.10%) Selenium
8 23 (1.61%) CMake
9 22 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.54%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.47%) ClearCase
10 21 (1.47%) Plastic SCM
10 21 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (1.19%) Vagrant
12 16 (1.12%) JUnit
13 14 (0.98%) ClearQuest
14 11 (0.77%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.56%) Gradle
16 7 (0.49%) NUnit
16 7 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 232 (16.27%) Social Skills
2 154 (10.80%) Electronics
3 107 (7.50%) Finance
4 71 (4.98%) Manufacturing
5 64 (4.49%) Military
6 61 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 49 (3.44%) Automotive
9 38 (2.66%) Public Sector
10 31 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.89%) Law
11 27 (1.89%) Legal
12 25 (1.75%) Tech for Good
13 22 (1.54%) Marketing
14 20 (1.40%) Aviation
15 16 (1.12%) Retail
16 15 (1.05%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.98%) Games
18 13 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (0.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 937 (65.71%) Software Engineer
2 355 (24.89%) Senior
3 263 (18.44%) Senior Software Engineer
4 231 (16.20%) Embedded Engineer
5 212 (14.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 199 (13.96%) Developer
7 149 (10.45%) Lead
8 109 (7.64%) C++ Software Engineer
9 77 (5.40%) Software Developer
10 72 (5.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 68 (4.77%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 59 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (3.86%) Senior Developer
14 46 (3.23%) Team Leader
15 44 (3.09%) Graduate
16 41 (2.88%) C# Software Engineer
17 40 (2.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
18 37 (2.59%) Software Team Leader
19 35 (2.45%) Architect
19 35 (2.45%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (19.78%) .NET
2 153 (10.73%) React
3 82 (5.75%) CSS
4 78 (5.47%) .NET Core
5 73 (5.12%) HTML
6 70 (4.91%) AngularJS
7 58 (4.07%) Qt
8 53 (3.72%) Spring
9 45 (3.16%) ASP.NET
10 42 (2.95%) Middleware
11 38 (2.66%) .NET Framework
12 37 (2.59%) Vue
13 36 (2.52%) WPF
14 29 (2.03%) Leaflet
14 29 (2.03%) OpenLayers
14 29 (2.03%) PostGIS
15 28 (1.96%) STL
16 27 (1.89%) Hibernate
17 26 (1.82%) Jest
17 26 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.61%) Algorithms
2 77 (5.40%) Embedded Systems
3 70 (4.91%) IoT
4 58 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.38%) FPGA
7 33 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.10%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.96%) Robotics
11 27 (1.89%) Device Driver
12 22 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
13 21 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.47%) Satnav
14 20 (1.40%) Analogue Electronics
14 20 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 315 (22.09%) Linux
2 182 (12.76%) Windows
3 68 (4.77%) Embedded Linux
4 36 (2.52%) Android
5 35 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 21 (1.47%) CentOS
7 20 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.84%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.56%) Unix
10 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.070%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (30.50%) Agile
2 265 (18.58%) Computer Science
3 254 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 236 (16.55%) DevOps
5 155 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
6 148 (10.38%) Mathematics
7 140 (9.82%) Mentoring
8 121 (8.49%) Test Automation
9 118 (8.27%) CI/CD
10 107 (7.50%) SDLC
11 100 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
12 99 (6.94%) Machine Learning
13 87 (6.10%) Actionable Insight
14 81 (5.68%) Physics
15 80 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
16 70 (4.91%) Software Testing
17 69 (4.84%) Microservices
17 69 (4.84%) Signal Processing
17 69 (4.84%) Unit Testing
18 68 (4.77%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 382 (26.79%) Python
2 343 (24.05%) C++
3 341 (23.91%) C
4 325 (22.79%) C#
5 241 (16.90%) Java
5 241 (16.90%) JavaScript
6 192 (13.46%) SQL
7 77 (5.40%) TypeScript
8 58 (4.07%) MATLAB
9 57 (4.00%) Embedded C
10 49 (3.44%) Bash
11 45 (3.16%) Kotlin
12 41 (2.88%) Go
12 41 (2.88%) PowerShell
13 24 (1.68%) PHP
14 21 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.40%) Perl
16 19 (1.33%) Ruby
17 17 (1.19%) Haskell
18 14 (0.98%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 447 (31.35%) Degree
2 265 (18.58%) Security Cleared
3 182 (12.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 181 (12.69%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.70%) Master's Degree
6 47 (3.30%) PhD
7 32 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.05%) CISSP
9 12 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.77%) HND
11 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.56%) CISM
12 8 (0.56%) GIAC
12 8 (0.56%) GPEN
12 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.35%) CCIE
13 5 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.35%) JNCIE
13 5 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.47%) QA
2 23 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
3 22 (1.54%) MISRA
4 19 (1.33%) ISO 26262
5 18 (1.26%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (0.98%) AUTOSAR
7 13 (0.91%) NIST
8 10 (0.70%) GDPR
8 10 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.56%) GRC
9 8 (0.56%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.14%) JTAG
12 2 (0.14%) SLA
13 1 (0.070%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.070%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.070%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 116 (8.13%) Docker
2 55 (3.86%) Firmware
3 38 (2.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.070%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (5.89%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.37%) Ansible
3 42 (2.95%) Terraform
4 6 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.42%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.42%) Nessus
5 5 (0.35%) SELinux
5 5 (0.35%) Suricata
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.070%) FTK
7 1 (0.070%) Nagios
7 1 (0.070%) Puppet
7 1 (0.070%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 32 (2.24%) Xilinx
3 30 (2.10%) ESRI
4 29 (2.03%) IBM
5 28 (1.96%) SAP
6 21 (1.47%) Lauterbach
7 16 (1.12%) Oracle
8 15 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 11 (0.77%) Google
10 10 (0.70%) EMC
10 10 (0.70%) IFS
10 10 (0.70%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.63%) VMware
12 8 (0.56%) Siebel
12 8 (0.56%) Siemens
12 8 (0.56%) Splunk
13 6 (0.42%) Cisco
13 6 (0.42%) Qualys
14 5 (0.35%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.35%) YouTube