Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 118 291 215
Rank change year-on-year +173 -76 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,716 655 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.16% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.30% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 405 522
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £54,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

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%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer 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
Scotland +59 398 £60,000 +3.00% 8
North of England +128 353 £60,000 -7.69% 47
South West +142 319 £62,500 -3.85% 39
South East +78 294 £62,500 -8.42% 26
North West +99 201 £60,000 -4.00% 32
Midlands +58 164 £65,000 +4.00% 27
Yorkshire +72 104 £62,500 -7.41% 12
East of England +56 100 £65,000 -3.70% 29
East Midlands +30 87 £65,000 +33.33% 8
West Midlands +17 77 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Wales +44 56 £60,000 +15.38% 7
North East +35 48 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Northern Ireland +24 32 - - 6
Senior Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 1,715 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 666 (38.81%) Agile
3 472 (27.51%) Python
4 452 (26.34%) AWS
5 386 (22.49%) Azure
6 373 (21.74%) JavaScript
7 371 (21.62%) .NET
8 365 (21.27%) C#
9 332 (19.35%) Security Cleared
10 315 (18.36%) Java
11 313 (18.24%) React
12 301 (17.54%) DevOps
13 284 (16.55%) Linux
14 277 (16.14%) SDLC
15 275 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
16 268 (15.62%) C++
17 258 (15.03%) SC Cleared
18 253 (14.74%) Finance
19 244 (14.22%) C
19 244 (14.22%) SQL
20 242 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 240 (13.99%) CSS
22 236 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
23 207 (12.06%) .NET Core
24 202 (11.77%) Artificial Intelligence
25 199 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
26 198 (11.54%) Web Development
27 193 (11.25%) Marketing
28 190 (11.07%) Law
28 190 (11.07%) Operational Stability

Senior 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
1 184 (10.72%) ArcGIS
1 184 (10.72%) GeoServer
2 84 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.05%) FileNet
4 17 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
5 6 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Drupal
7 1 (0.058%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (0.93%) Simulink
2 15 (0.87%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.41%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
5 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.058%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.058%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Magento
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 452 (26.34%) AWS
2 386 (22.49%) Azure
3 72 (4.20%) GCP
4 37 (2.16%) SaaS
5 35 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (2.04%) Serverless
6 20 (1.17%) Amazon S3
7 15 (0.87%) Azure Functions
7 15 (0.87%) GitHub
8 11 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (0.52%) npm
10 7 (0.41%) Azure API Management
10 7 (0.41%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (0.41%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.23%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.17%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.12%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.12%) Sentry
14 2 (0.12%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.44%) Kerberos
2 31 (1.81%) Wireless
3 28 (1.63%) Network Security
4 27 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.46%) Ethernet
6 23 (1.34%) RS-232
6 23 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.82%) J1939
7 14 (0.82%) Modbus
8 10 (0.58%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.35%) MQTT
10 4 (0.23%) Profibus
11 3 (0.17%) Internet
12 1 (0.058%) 4G
12 1 (0.058%) DECT
12 1 (0.058%) HTTP
12 1 (0.058%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.058%) NFC
12 1 (0.058%) RS-485
12 1 (0.058%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 184 (10.72%) GIS
2 184 (10.72%) QGIS
3 105 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 60 (3.50%) MySQL
5 54 (3.15%) Big Data
6 50 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 42 (2.45%) Metadata
8 36 (2.10%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (0.99%) CockroachDB
12 12 (0.70%) Redis
13 10 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.47%) SQLite
15 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.17%) Hadoop
17 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 131 (7.63%) Git
2 65 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.80%) Bitbucket
3 48 (2.80%) JIRA
4 42 (2.45%) Artifactory
5 39 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 34 (1.98%) Subversion
7 27 (1.57%) GitLab
8 19 (1.11%) JUnit
9 14 (0.82%) ClearCase
9 14 (0.82%) CMake
9 14 (0.82%) Plastic SCM
10 12 (0.70%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.58%) Maven
12 9 (0.52%) Storybook
13 8 (0.47%) LabVIEW
14 7 (0.41%) ClearQuest
15 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 253 (14.74%) Finance
2 242 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 193 (11.25%) Marketing
4 190 (11.07%) Law
5 109 (6.35%) Social Skills
6 79 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 65 (3.79%) Electronics
8 64 (3.73%) Automotive
9 52 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (2.27%) Military
11 33 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 28 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 27 (1.57%) Aviation
14 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
15 21 (1.22%) Retail
16 18 (1.05%) Legal
17 17 (0.99%) Banking
18 16 (0.93%) Games
19 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (21.62%) .NET
2 313 (18.24%) React
3 240 (13.99%) CSS
4 207 (12.06%) .NET Core
5 184 (10.72%) Leaflet
5 184 (10.72%) OpenLayers
5 184 (10.72%) PostGIS
6 120 (6.99%) AngularJS
7 116 (6.76%) RESTful
8 96 (5.59%) HTML
9 94 (5.48%) ASP.NET
10 79 (4.60%) Node.js
11 69 (4.02%) JSON
12 65 (3.79%) .NET Framework
13 63 (3.67%) Vue
14 62 (3.61%) XML
15 59 (3.44%) Web Services
16 56 (3.26%) Spring
17 55 (3.21%) Kafka
18 49 (2.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 68 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.32%) Algorithms
3 43 (2.51%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 42 (2.45%) IoT
4 42 (2.45%) Reference Data
5 36 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 34 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.81%) Device Driver
7 31 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
9 15 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 15 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 14 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
11 13 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (0.70%) GNSS
13 9 (0.52%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.52%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.47%) FPGA
14 8 (0.47%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 284 (16.55%) Linux
2 108 (6.29%) Embedded Linux
3 82 (4.78%) Windows
4 42 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.40%) Unix
6 21 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.82%) Android
8 9 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,715 (99.94%) Software Engineering
2 666 (38.81%) Agile
3 301 (17.54%) DevOps
4 277 (16.14%) SDLC
5 275 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (11.77%) Artificial Intelligence
7 199 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
8 198 (11.54%) Web Development
9 190 (11.07%) Operational Stability
10 163 (9.50%) Computer Science
10 163 (9.50%) Machine Learning
11 159 (9.27%) CI/CD
11 159 (9.27%) Microservices
12 148 (8.62%) Tech Ops
13 114 (6.64%) Test Automation
14 110 (6.41%) Decision-Making
15 100 (5.83%) Mentoring
16 83 (4.84%) Full Stack Development
17 77 (4.49%) Mathematics
18 71 (4.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 472 (27.51%) Python
2 373 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 365 (21.27%) C#
4 315 (18.36%) Java
5 268 (15.62%) C++
6 244 (14.22%) C
6 244 (14.22%) SQL
7 159 (9.27%) TypeScript
8 79 (4.60%) Embedded C
9 65 (3.79%) Bash
10 56 (3.26%) Go
11 52 (3.03%) Scala
12 42 (2.45%) Prolog
12 42 (2.45%) SPARQL
13 30 (1.75%) Rust
14 26 (1.52%) Perl
14 26 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.93%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.93%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.70%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 332 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 258 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 181 (10.55%) Degree
4 40 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.28%) HND
8 20 (1.17%) PhD
9 9 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.058%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.058%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.058%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (1.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (0.93%) PMO
3 15 (0.87%) ISO 26262
4 14 (0.82%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (0.82%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (0.82%) MISRA
5 13 (0.76%) QA
6 8 (0.47%) ISO 13485
7 7 (0.41%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.23%) DICOM
8 4 (0.23%) HL7
9 3 (0.17%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.058%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.058%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (4.25%) Docker
2 52 (3.03%) Firmware
3 42 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.96%) Terraform
3 14 (0.82%) Ansible
4 5 (0.29%) SELinux
5 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) linkerd
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
Vendors
1 184 (10.72%) ESRI
2 37 (2.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (1.22%) Google
4 20 (1.17%) Oracle
5 14 (0.82%) IBM
5 14 (0.82%) Lauterbach
6 12 (0.70%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.64%) Xamarin
8 7 (0.41%) F5
9 4 (0.23%) Databricks
9 4 (0.23%) Facebook
9 4 (0.23%) Instagram
9 4 (0.23%) QNX
9 4 (0.23%) SAP
10 3 (0.17%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.12%) Cadence
11 2 (0.12%) IFS
11 2 (0.12%) RedGate
11 2 (0.12%) VMware
12 1 (0.058%) Thales