Software Manager Jobs in England

Software Manager
UK > England

The median Software Manager salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 641 561
Rank change year-on-year +228 -80 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 487 292 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.36% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 408 202 617
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -8.82% +30.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,188 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +20.75%

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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in England

Software Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +168 150 £100,000 +11.11% 25
North of England +108 120 £62,500 -16.67% 10
Midlands +29 82 £65,000 - 18
South East +25 71 £65,000 -13.33% 22
North West +43 68 £62,500 -3.85% 6
West Midlands +33 57 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South West +8 49 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Yorkshire +92 32 £70,000 -22.22% 4
East Midlands -2 25 £65,000 +26.83% 7
North East +17 20 £55,000 -9.09%
East of England -6 14 £120,000 +37.14% 3
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Software 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 across the England region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 248 (50.92%) Agile
2 201 (41.27%) Software Engineering
3 111 (22.79%) .NET
4 96 (19.71%) Social Skills
5 93 (19.10%) DevOps
6 89 (18.28%) Azure
7 85 (17.45%) Project Management
8 81 (16.63%) C#
9 69 (14.17%) Roadmaps
10 68 (13.96%) SDLC
10 68 (13.96%) Finance
11 64 (13.14%) Degree
11 64 (13.14%) Mentoring
11 64 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (12.73%) JavaScript
13 58 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (11.91%) Scrum
13 58 (11.91%) Asset Management
14 53 (10.88%) QA
15 52 (10.68%) People Management
16 51 (10.47%) Project Delivery
16 51 (10.47%) AWS
17 49 (10.06%) React
18 48 (9.86%) TypeScript
19 47 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
20 44 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
21 43 (8.83%) Java
22 40 (8.21%) TDD
23 39 (8.01%) SQL
24 37 (7.60%) Test Automation

Software Manager 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 23 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.23%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (4.93%) Endur
2 5 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.82%) Sage 500
3 4 (0.82%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.62%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (18.28%) Azure
2 51 (10.47%) AWS
3 37 (7.60%) GCP
4 18 (3.70%) SaaS
5 16 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.64%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.82%) Intacct
9 3 (0.62%) GitHub
9 3 (0.62%) IaaS
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.41%) PaaS
10 2 (0.41%) Serverless
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.21%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.21%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.21%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.03%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) DSL
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) VoIP
3 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 23 (4.72%) RDBMS
4 15 (3.08%) OLAP
5 4 (0.82%) MySQL
6 3 (0.62%) Power BI
7 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (5.54%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.11%) JIRA
3 14 (2.87%) GitLab
4 13 (2.67%) Git
5 5 (1.03%) Clang
6 4 (0.82%) Subversion
7 3 (0.62%) TestRail
8 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Selenium
8 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.96%) Finance
3 44 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.57%) Front Office
5 31 (6.37%) Marketing
6 28 (5.75%) Games
7 18 (3.70%) Law
8 14 (2.87%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.26%) Retail
10 9 (1.85%) Police
11 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.44%) Legal
11 7 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Back Office
14 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Local Government
14 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (22.79%) .NET
2 49 (10.06%) React
3 37 (7.60%) AngularJS
4 36 (7.39%) Vue
5 35 (7.19%) .NET Core
6 32 (6.57%) Redux
7 11 (2.26%) RESTful
8 10 (2.05%) Node.js
9 9 (1.85%) SOAP
10 7 (1.44%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.23%) jQuery
12 5 (1.03%) LAMP
12 5 (1.03%) Laravel
12 5 (1.03%) LLVM
13 4 (0.82%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.82%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.82%) CSS
13 4 (0.82%) Django
13 4 (0.82%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.57%) Derivative
1 32 (6.57%) Equities
1 32 (6.57%) Fixed Income
1 32 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 32 (6.57%) Hedge funds
2 24 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.72%) Swaptions
4 17 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.46%) FMCG
7 11 (2.26%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.26%) LIMS
8 10 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.64%) RISC-V
11 7 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.23%) NHS
12 6 (1.23%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.67%) Linux
2 8 (1.64%) Windows
3 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (50.92%) Agile
2 201 (41.27%) Software Engineering
3 93 (19.10%) DevOps
4 85 (17.45%) Project Management
5 69 (14.17%) Roadmaps
6 68 (13.96%) SDLC
7 64 (13.14%) Mentoring
7 64 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (11.91%) Asset Management
8 58 (11.91%) Scrum
8 58 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 52 (10.68%) People Management
10 51 (10.47%) Project Delivery
11 47 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (8.21%) TDD
13 37 (7.60%) Test Automation
14 36 (7.39%) Computer Science
15 35 (7.19%) Full Stack Development
16 34 (6.98%) Coaching
17 33 (6.78%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (16.63%) C#
2 62 (12.73%) JavaScript
3 48 (9.86%) TypeScript
4 43 (8.83%) Java
5 39 (8.01%) SQL
6 24 (4.93%) Python
7 23 (4.72%) VB
8 18 (3.70%) C
9 13 (2.67%) PHP
10 9 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.64%) C++
11 8 (1.64%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.03%) Fortran
13 2 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.41%) Rust
14 1 (0.21%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 64 (13.14%) Degree
2 24 (4.93%) PMP
3 22 (4.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.21%) MCP
8 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.88%) QA
2 4 (0.82%) NCSC
2 4 (0.82%) SLA
3 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.21%) GRC
3 1 (0.21%) MISRA
3 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 13 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.29%) Ansible
2 14 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
5 2 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (6.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.13%) Oracle
3 24 (4.93%) OpenLink
4 23 (4.72%) Sybase
4 23 (4.72%) TIBCO
5 7 (1.44%) Google
6 5 (1.03%) Snow
7 4 (0.82%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.82%) Databricks
7 4 (0.82%) Sage
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe
8 2 (0.41%) Brio
8 2 (0.41%) IBM
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.21%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.21%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.21%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.21%) Twitter
9 1 (0.21%) Veeam