Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 681 716
Rank change year-on-year +9 +35 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 108 47 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.085% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.096% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 76
10th Percentile £38,066 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,875 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £73,886 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £87,774 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 -3 65 - -
South West -27 17 £72,500 +28.89% 1
North of England -7 13 £42,572 -14.86%
North West -21 13 £42,572 -14.86%
South East -28 6 £50,000 -35.48% 1
East of England - 6 £53,750 - 2
East Midlands -29 1 - - 1
Midlands -39 1 - - 1
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 87 (80.56%) Agile
3 82 (75.93%) CI/CD
4 75 (69.44%) Python
5 72 (66.67%) Java
6 69 (63.89%) Finance
6 69 (63.89%) AWS
7 68 (62.96%) SDLC
8 67 (62.04%) Machine Learning
9 66 (61.11%) Algorithms
10 65 (60.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (60.19%) Community of Practice
10 65 (60.19%) Visualisation
10 65 (60.19%) Artificial Intelligence
10 65 (60.19%) Law
10 65 (60.19%) Operational Stability
10 65 (60.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 61 (56.48%) NoSQL
12 57 (52.78%) Microservices
12 57 (52.78%) Unix
13 56 (51.85%) Git
14 55 (50.93%) Open Source
15 54 (50.00%) Apache Hive
15 54 (50.00%) Apache Spark
15 54 (50.00%) Test Automation
16 53 (49.07%) SQL
16 53 (49.07%) Jenkins
17 50 (46.30%) Terraform
17 50 (46.30%) TDD
18 49 (45.37%) Hadoop

Developer/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 54 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.70%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 69 (63.89%) AWS
2 7 (6.48%) Serverless
3 4 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 3 (2.78%) Azure
4 3 (2.78%) npm
5 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.93%) GCP
6 1 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (56.48%) NoSQL
2 54 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 49 (45.37%) Hadoop
3 49 (45.37%) HBase
4 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 10 (9.26%) MySQL
5 10 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.63%) Big Data
6 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (3.70%) GIS
7 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.70%) Redis
8 2 (1.85%) Power BI
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 56 (51.85%) Git
2 53 (49.07%) Jenkins
3 49 (45.37%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (5.56%) JIRA
5 3 (2.78%) Maven
6 2 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.93%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
General
1 69 (63.89%) Finance
2 65 (60.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (60.19%) Law
3 37 (34.26%) Legal
4 23 (21.30%) Marketing
5 9 (8.33%) Banking
6 6 (5.56%) Social Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Private Banking
8 4 (3.70%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.85%) Automotive
9 2 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.81%) Node.js
2 13 (12.04%) React
2 13 (12.04%) Spring
3 12 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.26%) CSS
4 10 (9.26%) HTML
5 8 (7.41%) .NET
5 8 (7.41%) ASP.NET
5 8 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.56%) HTML5
6 6 (5.56%) RESTful
7 5 (4.63%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.63%) Kafka
7 5 (4.63%) XML
8 4 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.70%) CSS3
8 4 (3.70%) GeoJSON
8 4 (3.70%) PostGIS
8 4 (3.70%) REST
8 4 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 66 (61.11%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.78%) NHS
3 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.85%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (52.78%) Unix
2 12 (11.11%) Linux
3 8 (7.41%) Apple iOS
4 7 (6.48%) Windows
5 4 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 87 (80.56%) Agile
3 82 (75.93%) CI/CD
4 68 (62.96%) SDLC
5 67 (62.04%) Machine Learning
6 65 (60.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 65 (60.19%) Community of Practice
6 65 (60.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (60.19%) Operational Stability
6 65 (60.19%) Visualisation
7 57 (52.78%) Microservices
8 55 (50.93%) Open Source
9 54 (50.00%) Test Automation
10 50 (46.30%) TDD
11 49 (45.37%) Batch Processing
12 37 (34.26%) Risk Management
13 21 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (14.81%) Mentoring
15 12 (11.11%) MVVM
16 11 (10.19%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 75 (69.44%) Python
2 72 (66.67%) Java
3 53 (49.07%) SQL
4 49 (45.37%) PL/SQL
5 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.41%) C#
7 6 (5.56%) Perl
7 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.56%) Ruby
7 6 (5.56%) Swift
8 4 (3.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.85%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.85%) PHP
9 2 (1.85%) Rust
9 2 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Go
10 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) ISO 13485
1 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 49 (45.37%) HDFS
2 7 (6.48%) Docker
3 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (46.30%) Terraform
2 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (45.37%) Cloudera
1 49 (45.37%) Databricks
1 49 (45.37%) Informatica
2 6 (5.56%) Facebook
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (3.70%) ESRI
4 2 (1.85%) Google
4 2 (1.85%) QNX
4 2 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) Splunk