Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 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 14 77 36
Rank change year-on-year +63 -41 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,684 2,468 5,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.80% 4.36% 7.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.26% 4.91% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,448 1,390 2,129
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,666
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.79% +11.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 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 +20 2,423 £60,000 -4.76% 68
North of England +71 1,110 £55,000 -8.33% 160
South East +40 1,044 £53,500 -14.40% 147
South West +50 948 £55,000 -8.33% 153
North West +76 641 £57,000 -5.00% 113
Midlands +55 612 £52,500 -4.55% 111
Yorkshire +57 386 £50,000 -16.67% 33
East of England +44 364 £60,000 - 103
West Midlands +55 321 £55,000 -4.35% 54
East Midlands +36 291 £52,500 +7.69% 56
Wales +31 112 £50,000 +17.65% 18
North East +40 83 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Northern Ireland +10 71 £90,000 +50.00% 17
Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 6,644 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 3,084 (46.14%) Agile
3 2,110 (31.57%) Finance
4 2,080 (31.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2,070 (30.97%) Java
6 2,038 (30.49%) SDLC
7 1,932 (28.90%) Law
8 1,917 (28.68%) Python
9 1,893 (28.32%) CI/CD
10 1,844 (27.59%) AWS
11 1,712 (25.61%) Operational Stability
12 1,456 (21.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,415 (21.17%) Machine Learning
14 1,301 (19.46%) SQL
15 1,235 (18.48%) Community of Practice
16 1,175 (17.58%) JavaScript
17 1,103 (16.50%) React
18 1,096 (16.40%) C#
19 959 (14.35%) Algorithms
20 938 (14.03%) C
21 927 (13.87%) Marketing
22 919 (13.75%) Linux
23 918 (13.73%) Azure
24 865 (12.94%) C++
25 864 (12.93%) .NET
26 837 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
27 825 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
28 811 (12.13%) Visualisation
29 808 (12.09%) Degree
30 786 (11.76%) Security Cleared

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
1 536 (8.02%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.44%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.25%) GeoServer
4 160 (2.39%) Apache
5 114 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
6 104 (1.56%) FileNet
7 35 (0.52%) Confluence
8 32 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.31%) GemFire
10 18 (0.27%) Camunda
11 14 (0.21%) CMS
12 13 (0.19%) NServiceBus
13 11 (0.16%) CICS
13 11 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.090%) Captiva
14 6 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.090%) nginx
14 6 (0.090%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.075%) SharePoint
Applications
1 103 (1.54%) Simulink
2 27 (0.40%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.19%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.16%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.090%) Trello
7 5 (0.075%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.075%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.045%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.045%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.030%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.030%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.030%) Sketch
10 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.015%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.090%) Magento
3 5 (0.075%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.030%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.015%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.015%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.015%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.015%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,844 (27.59%) AWS
2 918 (13.73%) Azure
3 251 (3.76%) GCP
4 168 (2.51%) Serverless
5 140 (2.09%) GitHub
6 131 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 114 (1.71%) SaaS
8 110 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (1.63%) Datadog
10 96 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
11 87 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 69 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
16 49 (0.73%) Amazon EMR
17 48 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
18 42 (0.63%) BlazeMeter
19 38 (0.57%) OpenShift
20 37 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.41%) Wireless
2 86 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.23%) Kerberos
4 65 (0.97%) RS-232
4 65 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
5 63 (0.94%) Ethernet
6 54 (0.81%) Network Security
7 47 (0.70%) Bluetooth
8 43 (0.64%) RS-485
9 33 (0.49%) Modbus
10 30 (0.45%) AMQP
11 29 (0.43%) MQTT
12 21 (0.31%) ZigBee
13 17 (0.25%) Internet
14 14 (0.21%) 4G
14 14 (0.21%) J1939
15 13 (0.19%) 3G
16 12 (0.18%) 5G
17 11 (0.16%) HTTP
17 11 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 659 (9.86%) NoSQL
2 450 (6.73%) Big Data
3 435 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 318 (4.76%) GIS
5 284 (4.25%) QGIS
6 271 (4.05%) Hadoop
7 199 (2.98%) MySQL
8 192 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
9 165 (2.47%) SQL Server
10 161 (2.41%) Relational Database
11 153 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 137 (2.05%) MongoDB
13 123 (1.84%) Apache Hive
14 98 (1.47%) HBase
15 75 (1.12%) Redis
16 67 (1.00%) Metadata
17 49 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
18 47 (0.70%) Data Lake
19 39 (0.58%) CockroachDB
19 39 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 503 (7.53%) Git
2 350 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 212 (3.17%) JUnit
4 161 (2.41%) JIRA
5 118 (1.77%) Jasmine
6 107 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 103 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 89 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 84 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 77 (1.15%) Maven
11 75 (1.12%) Selenium
12 72 (1.08%) Subversion
13 66 (0.99%) Artifactory
13 66 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
14 63 (0.94%) GitLab
15 62 (0.93%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.90%) Protractor
17 50 (0.75%) Mockito
18 42 (0.63%) LabVIEW
19 35 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 2,110 (31.57%) Finance
2 2,080 (31.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,932 (28.90%) Law
4 927 (13.87%) Marketing
5 686 (10.26%) Legal
6 586 (8.77%) Social Skills
7 416 (6.22%) Electronics
8 411 (6.15%) Banking
9 296 (4.43%) Investment Banking
10 282 (4.22%) Manufacturing
11 225 (3.37%) Automotive
12 170 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
13 169 (2.53%) Aerospace
14 135 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.35%) Retail
16 84 (1.26%) Military
17 81 (1.21%) Public Sector
18 77 (1.15%) Tech for Good
19 73 (1.09%) Financial Institution
20 68 (1.02%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,103 (16.50%) React
2 864 (12.93%) .NET
3 691 (10.34%) Spring
4 659 (9.86%) AngularJS
5 627 (9.38%) CSS
6 418 (6.25%) HTML
7 417 (6.24%) .NET Core
8 404 (6.04%) Kafka
9 384 (5.75%) Node.js
10 342 (5.12%) Spring Boot
11 292 (4.37%) PostGIS
12 288 (4.31%) Leaflet
12 288 (4.31%) OpenLayers
13 268 (4.01%) RESTful
14 251 (3.76%) J2EE
15 237 (3.55%) JSON
16 228 (3.41%) Web Services
17 217 (3.25%) Hibernate
18 213 (3.19%) REST
19 176 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 959 (14.35%) Algorithms
2 653 (9.77%) Cloud Native
3 242 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 184 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
5 173 (2.59%) IoT
6 160 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 131 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 127 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 126 (1.89%) Reference Data
10 108 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 107 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
12 80 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 76 (1.14%) Device Driver
14 69 (1.03%) Product Ownership
15 65 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
16 59 (0.88%) Robotics
17 55 (0.82%) Mobile App
18 42 (0.63%) Legacy Code
18 42 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
19 39 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 919 (13.75%) Linux
2 310 (4.64%) Windows
3 205 (3.07%) Embedded Linux
4 179 (2.68%) Unix
5 114 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 99 (1.48%) Android
7 64 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 52 (0.78%) CentOS
10 37 (0.55%) Debian
11 35 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
12 13 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.12%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.090%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.075%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.075%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 3 (0.045%) VMS
18 2 (0.030%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,644 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 3,084 (46.14%) Agile
3 2,038 (30.49%) SDLC
4 1,893 (28.32%) CI/CD
5 1,712 (25.61%) Operational Stability
6 1,456 (21.78%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,415 (21.17%) Machine Learning
8 1,235 (18.48%) Community of Practice
9 837 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
10 825 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 811 (12.13%) Visualisation
12 712 (10.65%) DevOps
13 688 (10.29%) Microservices
14 674 (10.08%) Risk Management
15 659 (9.86%) Full Stack Development
16 632 (9.46%) Computer Science
17 457 (6.84%) Decision-Making
18 441 (6.60%) Test Automation
19 410 (6.13%) Web Development
20 408 (6.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2,070 (30.97%) Java
2 1,917 (28.68%) Python
3 1,301 (19.46%) SQL
4 1,175 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 1,096 (16.40%) C#
6 938 (14.03%) C
7 865 (12.94%) C++
8 492 (7.36%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.08%) Scala
10 249 (3.73%) Embedded C
11 175 (2.62%) Go
12 165 (2.47%) Bash
13 131 (1.96%) PL/SQL
14 107 (1.60%) MATLAB
15 103 (1.54%) Rust
16 93 (1.39%) Kotlin
17 85 (1.27%) PHP
18 71 (1.06%) Ada
19 68 (1.02%) T-SQL
20 67 (1.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 808 (12.09%) Degree
2 786 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 495 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 244 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 141 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 140 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 81 (1.21%) PhD
8 58 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.43%) HND
10 24 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.25%) HNC
12 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.12%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.10%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.090%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.045%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Developer
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 1 (0.015%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (1.53%) QA
2 59 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 54 (0.81%) MISRA
4 39 (0.58%) SLA
5 34 (0.51%) PMO
6 32 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.37%) ISO 26262
8 22 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
9 21 (0.31%) GDPR
10 20 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
11 18 (0.27%) ISO 13485
12 16 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
13 13 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.15%) IEC 62304
15 9 (0.13%) MISRA C
16 8 (0.12%) IEC 61508
16 8 (0.12%) JTAG
17 7 (0.10%) ISO 9000
18 6 (0.090%) ISO 9001
18 6 (0.090%) WAI
System Software
1 259 (3.87%) Docker
2 184 (2.75%) Firmware
3 98 (1.47%) HDFS
4 85 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.02%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.030%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.030%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 513 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 362 (5.42%) Terraform
3 157 (2.35%) Grafana
4 87 (1.30%) Ansible
5 63 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.46%) Puppet
7 26 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.33%) Kibana
9 21 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
10 20 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.10%) Graphite
12 6 (0.090%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.075%) SELinux
14 3 (0.045%) Podman
15 2 (0.030%) Istio
15 2 (0.030%) linkerd
15 2 (0.030%) MIIS
16 1 (0.015%) CA Endevor
16 1 (0.015%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 365 (5.46%) Oracle
2 292 (4.37%) ESRI
3 205 (3.07%) Databricks
4 173 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 168 (2.51%) Splunk
6 145 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 131 (1.96%) Google
8 85 (1.27%) Informatica
9 68 (1.02%) Cloudera
10 50 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 47 (0.70%) SaltStack
12 45 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 45 (0.67%) IBM
13 43 (0.64%) Siemens
14 39 (0.58%) Alteryx
15 27 (0.40%) SAP
16 24 (0.36%) Pega
17 22 (0.33%) Xamarin
18 21 (0.31%) Lauterbach
19 20 (0.30%) Xilinx