Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 66 33
Rank change year-on-year +36 -33 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,051 4,094 12,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.78% 4.67% 8.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.11% 5.11% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,868 2,410 3,707
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £49,209
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,688 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +11 1,252 £95,000 +11.76% 426
North of England +54 1,025 £55,000 -8.33% 171
South East +39 964 £55,000 -12.00% 172
South West +35 886 £55,000 -8.33% 150
North West +60 587 £57,500 - 108
Midlands +44 564 £52,500 -4.55% 108
Yorkshire +47 360 £50,000 -16.67% 50
East of England +27 342 £60,000 - 98
West Midlands +49 305 £55,000 -4.35% 57
East Midlands +19 259 £52,500 +5.00% 50
North East +15 78 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5,005 (99.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,557 (30.83%) Agile
3 1,548 (30.65%) Python
4 1,466 (29.02%) AWS
5 1,178 (23.32%) JavaScript
6 1,080 (21.38%) C#
7 1,054 (20.87%) Azure
8 1,020 (20.19%) Java
9 936 (18.53%) React
10 888 (17.58%) .NET
11 845 (16.73%) C
12 804 (15.92%) Degree
13 791 (15.66%) C++
14 765 (15.15%) Linux
15 753 (14.91%) TypeScript
16 729 (14.43%) Finance
17 717 (14.20%) Security Cleared
18 663 (13.13%) DevOps
19 580 (11.48%) SQL
20 576 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
21 557 (11.03%) Full Stack Development
22 522 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
23 517 (10.24%) Computer Science
24 506 (10.02%) GCP
25 505 (10.00%) Social Skills
26 423 (8.37%) AngularJS
27 420 (8.32%) SC Cleared
28 417 (8.26%) Front Office
29 406 (8.04%) Asset Management
30 404 (8.00%) Fixed Income

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 368 (7.29%) Apache
2 312 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.14%) ArcGIS
4 196 (3.88%) GeoServer
5 75 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 51 (1.01%) Confluence
7 15 (0.30%) CMS
8 13 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.16%) Captiva
9 8 (0.16%) FileNet
9 8 (0.16%) JBoss
9 8 (0.16%) nginx
9 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.099%) Drupal
13 4 (0.079%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.079%) WinCC
14 3 (0.059%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 102 (2.02%) Simulink
2 27 (0.53%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.22%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Trello
5 5 (0.099%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.059%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.059%) Sketch
6 3 (0.059%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.040%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.020%) UXPin
8 1 (0.020%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
4 6 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.020%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.020%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.020%) Endur
5 1 (0.020%) Findur
5 1 (0.020%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.020%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.020%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,466 (29.02%) AWS
2 1,054 (20.87%) Azure
3 506 (10.02%) GCP
4 197 (3.90%) Serverless
5 170 (3.37%) dbt
6 136 (2.69%) Snowflake
7 121 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
8 110 (2.18%) SaaS
9 108 (2.14%) GitHub
10 98 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (0.93%) OpenShift
13 41 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (0.79%) Power Platform
15 35 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (0.53%) Amazon S3
17 25 (0.49%) Amazon Kinesis
18 23 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (0.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 72 (1.43%) Wireless
3 50 (0.99%) RS-232
4 42 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.81%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.77%) RS-485
7 38 (0.75%) Ethernet
8 36 (0.71%) Internet
9 31 (0.61%) HTTP
10 30 (0.59%) AMQP
11 27 (0.53%) MQTT
12 20 (0.40%) Modbus
13 18 (0.36%) ZigBee
14 14 (0.28%) J1939
15 13 (0.26%) 4G
15 13 (0.26%) Network Security
16 12 (0.24%) 3G
16 12 (0.24%) 5G
17 11 (0.22%) VoIP
18 8 (0.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 522 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 282 (5.58%) Apache Ignite
3 229 (4.53%) GIS
4 196 (3.88%) QGIS
5 195 (3.86%) MySQL
6 181 (3.58%) SQL Server
7 169 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
8 167 (3.31%) Apache Arrow
8 167 (3.31%) Dremio
9 140 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 131 (2.59%) NoSQL
11 86 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 85 (1.68%) MongoDB
13 67 (1.33%) Redis
14 50 (0.99%) Big Data
14 50 (0.99%) DynamoDB
15 38 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
16 33 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 28 (0.55%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 388 (7.68%) Git
2 163 (3.23%) JIRA
3 127 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 89 (1.76%) GitLab
6 87 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 71 (1.41%) Subversion
8 35 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 29 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.53%) CMake
11 26 (0.51%) Selenium
12 24 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 22 (0.44%) ClearCase
13 22 (0.44%) Maven
14 21 (0.42%) Plastic SCM
14 21 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
15 18 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
16 17 (0.34%) JUnit
16 17 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
16 17 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 729 (14.43%) Finance
2 505 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 417 (8.26%) Front Office
4 371 (7.35%) Electronics
5 339 (6.71%) Banking
6 218 (4.32%) Manufacturing
7 202 (4.00%) Automotive
8 170 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 162 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
10 150 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 108 (2.14%) Public Sector
12 100 (1.98%) Retail
13 99 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 89 (1.76%) Marketing
15 80 (1.58%) Military
16 77 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 68 (1.35%) Legal
18 64 (1.27%) Law
19 56 (1.11%) Health Technology
20 53 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 936 (18.53%) React
2 888 (17.58%) .NET
3 423 (8.37%) AngularJS
4 402 (7.96%) .NET Core
5 345 (6.83%) gRPC
6 337 (6.67%) CSS
7 310 (6.14%) Node.js
8 294 (5.82%) Protocol Buffers
9 256 (5.07%) Redux
10 244 (4.83%) Vue
11 204 (4.04%) PostGIS
12 200 (3.96%) Leaflet
12 200 (3.96%) OpenLayers
13 197 (3.90%) RESTful
14 193 (3.82%) ASP.NET
15 190 (3.76%) Pandas
16 188 (3.72%) Spring
17 186 (3.68%) NumPy
18 175 (3.46%) HTML
19 167 (3.31%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 404 (8.00%) Fixed Income
2 334 (6.61%) Hedge funds
3 293 (5.80%) Equities
4 248 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 246 (4.87%) Derivative
6 195 (3.86%) Algorithms
7 179 (3.54%) IoT
8 176 (3.48%) Embedded Systems
9 119 (2.36%) Cloud Native
10 111 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 107 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
12 104 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.41%) Client/Server
14 69 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.29%) Device Driver
16 63 (1.25%) Data Structures
17 56 (1.11%) Robotics
18 53 (1.05%) Product Ownership
19 42 (0.83%) SCADA
20 40 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 765 (15.15%) Linux
2 298 (5.90%) Windows
3 172 (3.41%) Embedded Linux
4 117 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 93 (1.84%) Android
6 77 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 60 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (0.99%) Debian
9 49 (0.97%) CentOS
10 46 (0.91%) Unix
11 30 (0.59%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 4 (0.079%) Windows Server
16 3 (0.059%) VMS
17 2 (0.040%) FreeBSD
17 2 (0.040%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.040%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,005 (99.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,557 (30.83%) Agile
3 663 (13.13%) DevOps
4 576 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
5 557 (11.03%) Full Stack Development
6 517 (10.24%) Computer Science
7 406 (8.04%) Asset Management
8 401 (7.94%) Microservices
9 375 (7.42%) Investment Management
10 361 (7.15%) CI/CD
11 341 (6.75%) Mentoring
12 330 (6.53%) Actionable Insight
13 299 (5.92%) TDD
14 297 (5.88%) Test Automation
15 295 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 281 (5.56%) Web Development
17 263 (5.21%) Machine Learning
18 252 (4.99%) SDLC
19 239 (4.73%) Fintech
20 238 (4.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,548 (30.65%) Python
2 1,178 (23.32%) JavaScript
3 1,080 (21.38%) C#
4 1,020 (20.19%) Java
5 845 (16.73%) C
6 791 (15.66%) C++
7 753 (14.91%) TypeScript
8 580 (11.48%) SQL
9 211 (4.18%) Kotlin
10 194 (3.84%) Embedded C
11 165 (3.27%) Go
11 165 (3.27%) Rust
12 154 (3.05%) Bash
13 119 (2.36%) PHP
14 107 (2.12%) MATLAB
15 96 (1.90%) Scala
16 69 (1.37%) Ada
17 58 (1.15%) Perl
18 54 (1.07%) T-SQL
19 51 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 804 (15.92%) Degree
2 717 (14.20%) Security Cleared
3 420 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 264 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 155 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 101 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 65 (1.29%) PhD
8 61 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.49%) HND
10 24 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.32%) HNC
12 14 (0.28%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.16%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.14%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.079%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.059%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.059%) Sun Certification
17 1 (0.020%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.50%) QA
2 59 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 50 (0.99%) MISRA
4 24 (0.48%) GDPR
4 24 (0.48%) ISO 26262
5 22 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
6 21 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
7 16 (0.32%) PMO
8 15 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
9 12 (0.24%) Def Stans
9 12 (0.24%) ISO 13485
10 11 (0.22%) IEC 62304
11 10 (0.20%) MISRA C
12 9 (0.18%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
14 6 (0.12%) JTAG
15 5 (0.099%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.099%) TickIT
16 2 (0.040%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 299 (5.92%) Docker
2 154 (3.05%) Firmware
3 77 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 24 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.099%) Ceph
7 3 (0.059%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.040%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.020%) KVM
9 1 (0.020%) LXC
Systems Management
1 352 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 234 (4.63%) Terraform
3 124 (2.45%) Ansible
4 28 (0.55%) Puppet
5 17 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 14 (0.28%) Grafana
7 7 (0.14%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.099%) Knative
8 5 (0.099%) SELinux
9 4 (0.079%) Podman
9 4 (0.079%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.059%) Consul
10 3 (0.059%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.059%) Kibana
10 3 (0.059%) Packer
10 3 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.040%) Istio
11 2 (0.040%) linkerd
11 2 (0.040%) MIIS
12 1 (0.020%) Juju
Vendors
1 224 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.04%) ESRI
3 202 (4.00%) Google
4 68 (1.35%) Oracle
5 54 (1.07%) Red Hat
6 41 (0.81%) Siemens
7 40 (0.79%) IBM
8 28 (0.55%) SaltStack
8 28 (0.55%) SAP
9 26 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 24 (0.48%) Xamarin
11 21 (0.42%) Lauterbach
12 18 (0.36%) Xilinx
13 15 (0.30%) ServiceNow
14 13 (0.26%) Databricks
15 12 (0.24%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.24%) F5
16 11 (0.22%) Cadence
17 10 (0.20%) Facebook
18 9 (0.18%) Synopsys