Software Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 11,619 11,002 26,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.73% 10.87% 16.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.71% 11.37% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,200 6,686 9,652
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £116,250 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK

Software Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London +9 8,921 £57,500 -6.50% 1,540
England +2 7,974 £62,500 -13.79% 2,307
Work from Home 0 4,080 £65,000 -8.32% 1,401
Scotland +2 3,062 £60,000 -7.69% 130
London +1 2,342 £91,500 +4.57% 927
North of England +9 1,559 £60,000 -3.23% 316
South East -1 1,402 £57,500 -11.54% 369
South West +8 1,230 £55,000 -8.33% 251
North West +9 927 £60,000 -4.00% 189
Midlands +11 863 £55,000 -4.35% 231
East of England +8 523 £60,000 -7.69% 199
West Midlands +25 507 £60,000 - 108
Yorkshire +10 507 £55,000 -12.00% 102
East Midlands +3 356 £50,000 -9.09% 122
Wales +6 178 £50,000 - 37
North East +10 125 £55,000 +16.40% 29
Northern Ireland -1 106 £60,000 +26.32% 37

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 723 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 590 (5.08%) Apache
3 495 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 346 (2.98%) ArcGIS
5 330 (2.84%) GeoServer
6 169 (1.45%) Confluence
7 126 (1.08%) FileNet
8 38 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 36 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
10 34 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 30 (0.26%) nginx
12 29 (0.25%) CMS
13 28 (0.24%) Captiva
14 21 (0.18%) GemFire
15 20 (0.17%) Camunda
15 20 (0.17%) IIS
16 19 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 15 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
18 14 (0.12%) Jupyter
18 14 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 131 (1.13%) Simulink
2 29 (0.25%) Stateflow
3 23 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.095%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.086%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.086%) OrCAD
8 6 (0.052%) Trello
9 5 (0.043%) GNU Octave
9 5 (0.043%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.034%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.026%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.026%) Sketch
11 3 (0.026%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.017%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.009%) Blender
13 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 49 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.077%) Magento
4 8 (0.069%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.060%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.034%) Shopify
7 3 (0.026%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.026%) Endur
8 2 (0.017%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.017%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.017%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.017%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.017%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.017%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.017%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.017%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.017%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.009%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.009%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,860 (33.22%) AWS
2 2,199 (18.93%) Azure
3 982 (8.45%) GCP
4 481 (4.14%) Serverless
5 408 (3.51%) SaaS
6 326 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 309 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
8 299 (2.57%) GitHub
9 262 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 239 (2.06%) dbt
11 200 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 197 (1.70%) Snowflake
13 191 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 151 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
15 146 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
17 137 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
18 134 (1.15%) Datadog
19 123 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
20 98 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 160 (1.38%) Wireless
2 152 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 92 (0.79%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
5 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
6 81 (0.70%) Network Security
7 71 (0.61%) HTTP
8 69 (0.59%) Internet
9 65 (0.56%) RS-232
10 57 (0.49%) Bluetooth
11 47 (0.40%) MQTT
12 40 (0.34%) RS-485
13 39 (0.34%) AMQP
14 37 (0.32%) Modbus
15 31 (0.27%) Firewall
16 25 (0.22%) 5G
17 21 (0.18%) 4G
17 21 (0.18%) ZigBee
18 20 (0.17%) DSL
19 18 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 931 (8.01%) NoSQL
2 793 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 627 (5.40%) Big Data
4 395 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 389 (3.35%) MySQL
6 371 (3.19%) GIS
7 365 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 330 (2.84%) Apache Ignite
8 330 (2.84%) QGIS
9 320 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 286 (2.46%) Data Lake
11 261 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
12 243 (2.09%) MongoDB
13 236 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
14 233 (2.01%) Dremio
15 232 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
16 174 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
17 170 (1.46%) Redis
18 151 (1.30%) Apache Hive
19 120 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,074 (9.24%) Git
2 577 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 416 (3.58%) JIRA
4 301 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 260 (2.24%) GitLab
6 256 (2.20%) JUnit
7 231 (1.99%) Cypress.io
8 203 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 143 (1.23%) Selenium
10 126 (1.08%) Jasmine
11 106 (0.91%) Maven
12 104 (0.90%) Artifactory
13 94 (0.81%) Subversion
14 86 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
15 80 (0.69%) LabVIEW
16 73 (0.63%) Cucumber
17 71 (0.61%) WebDriver
18 66 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
19 64 (0.55%) Sourcetree
20 62 (0.53%) Protractor
General
1 3,740 (32.19%) Finance
2 2,776 (23.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,525 (21.73%) Law
4 1,501 (12.92%) Social Skills
5 1,431 (12.32%) Marketing
6 981 (8.44%) Banking
7 795 (6.84%) Legal
8 617 (5.31%) Front Office
9 608 (5.23%) Investment Banking
10 505 (4.35%) Electronics
11 457 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
12 363 (3.12%) Manufacturing
13 293 (2.52%) Financial Institution
14 251 (2.16%) Automotive
15 242 (2.08%) Public Sector
16 238 (2.05%) Games
17 211 (1.82%) Aerospace
18 205 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
19 199 (1.71%) Retail
20 173 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7,591 (65.33%) Software Engineer
2 2,813 (24.21%) Senior
3 2,069 (17.81%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,915 (16.48%) Developer
5 1,519 (13.07%) Lead
6 1,154 (9.93%) Java Engineer
7 1,103 (9.49%) Java Software Engineer
8 1,048 (9.02%) Embedded Engineer
9 1,015 (8.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 948 (8.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 697 (6.00%) Python Engineer
12 653 (5.62%) Python Software Engineer
13 566 (4.87%) Full Stack Engineer
14 513 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
15 503 (4.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 456 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
17 446 (3.84%) Software Developer
18 412 (3.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 391 (3.37%) Big Data Engineer
20 390 (3.36%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,108 (18.14%) React
2 1,854 (15.96%) .NET
3 1,023 (8.80%) AngularJS
4 1,008 (8.68%) Spring
5 985 (8.48%) CSS
6 778 (6.70%) Node.js
7 747 (6.43%) .NET Core
8 746 (6.42%) HTML
9 651 (5.60%) Kafka
10 594 (5.11%) Spring Boot
11 561 (4.83%) RESTful
12 411 (3.54%) gRPC
13 396 (3.41%) REST
14 361 (3.11%) Vue
15 357 (3.07%) Protocol Buffers
16 355 (3.06%) Web Services
17 350 (3.01%) JSON
18 347 (2.99%) ASP.NET
19 340 (2.93%) PostGIS
20 334 (2.87%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 1,210 (10.41%) Algorithms
2 1,176 (10.12%) Cloud Native
3 521 (4.48%) Fixed Income
4 471 (4.05%) Hedge funds
5 418 (3.60%) Equities
6 372 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 370 (3.18%) Derivative
8 347 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 316 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 297 (2.56%) Data Structures
11 282 (2.43%) Product Ownership
12 274 (2.36%) IoT
13 272 (2.34%) Onboarding
14 266 (2.29%) Management Information System
15 244 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
16 241 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
17 199 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
18 173 (1.49%) Client/Server
19 137 (1.18%) Mobile App
19 137 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1,393 (11.99%) Linux
2 484 (4.17%) Windows
3 231 (1.99%) Embedded Linux
4 216 (1.86%) Unix
5 173 (1.49%) Android
6 146 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 127 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 62 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.45%) CentOS
10 51 (0.44%) Debian
11 39 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
12 32 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.20%) Windows Server
14 18 (0.15%) VMS
15 13 (0.11%) Windows 10
16 7 (0.060%) VxWorks
17 6 (0.052%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.052%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.052%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.043%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,427 (46.71%) Agile
2 2,939 (25.29%) CI/CD
3 2,648 (22.79%) SDLC
4 1,971 (16.96%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1,894 (16.30%) Operational Stability
6 1,873 (16.12%) Machine Learning
7 1,812 (15.60%) DevOps
8 1,694 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 1,612 (13.87%) Computer Science
10 1,347 (11.59%) Full Stack Development
11 1,339 (11.52%) Community of Practice
12 1,253 (10.78%) Microservices
13 1,114 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 963 (8.29%) Visualisation
15 938 (8.07%) Mentoring
16 841 (7.24%) Test Automation
17 820 (7.06%) Scrum
18 813 (7.00%) TDD
19 789 (6.79%) Risk Management
20 760 (6.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3,589 (30.89%) Python
2 3,523 (30.32%) Java
3 2,336 (20.11%) JavaScript
4 2,315 (19.92%) SQL
5 2,294 (19.74%) C#
6 1,456 (12.53%) TypeScript
7 1,357 (11.68%) C
8 1,162 (10.00%) C++
9 477 (4.11%) Scala
10 442 (3.80%) Go
11 314 (2.70%) Embedded C
12 295 (2.54%) Kotlin
13 290 (2.50%) PHP
14 272 (2.34%) Bash
15 217 (1.87%) Rust
16 171 (1.47%) Ruby
17 160 (1.38%) PL/SQL
18 143 (1.23%) MATLAB
19 131 (1.13%) T-SQL
20 123 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,845 (15.88%) Degree
2 1,329 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 878 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 622 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 295 (2.54%) Master's Degree
6 229 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 185 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 128 (1.10%) PhD
9 61 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 57 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 38 (0.33%) HND
13 34 (0.29%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.24%) HNC
15 23 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.18%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.17%) CISSP
18 17 (0.15%) ISTQB
19 16 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
20 12 (0.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (3.33%) QA
2 146 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 125 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 73 (0.63%) SLA
5 57 (0.49%) MISRA
6 56 (0.48%) GDPR
7 37 (0.32%) PMO
8 30 (0.26%) ISO 26262
9 27 (0.23%) ISO 13485
10 26 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
10 26 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 23 (0.20%) Automotive SPICE
11 23 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 21 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 20 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 17 (0.15%) IEC 61508
14 17 (0.15%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.13%) NIST
16 13 (0.11%) JTAG
16 13 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 848 (7.30%) Docker
2 301 (2.59%) Firmware
3 131 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 110 (0.95%) HDFS
5 104 (0.90%) Active Directory
6 37 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.095%) IAG
8 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.077%) KVM
10 5 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.034%) Ceph
11 4 (0.034%) NFS
11 4 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.026%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.026%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.017%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.009%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.009%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,185 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 771 (6.64%) Terraform
3 230 (1.98%) Grafana
4 224 (1.93%) Ansible
5 112 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 43 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 34 (0.29%) Kibana
8 32 (0.28%) Puppet
9 26 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (0.18%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
11 16 (0.14%) Functional Safety
12 8 (0.069%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.069%) Istio
13 7 (0.060%) Graphite
14 6 (0.052%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.052%) Nessus
15 5 (0.043%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.043%) Nagios
15 5 (0.043%) Suricata
Vendors
1 729 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 521 (4.48%) Oracle
3 399 (3.43%) Google
4 342 (2.94%) ESRI
5 303 (2.61%) Databricks
6 210 (1.81%) Splunk
7 172 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 99 (0.85%) IBM
9 98 (0.84%) SAP
10 95 (0.82%) Informatica
11 84 (0.72%) Cloudera
12 61 (0.53%) Red Hat
13 57 (0.49%) Alteryx
14 56 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 55 (0.47%) Xamarin
16 50 (0.43%) Pega
17 49 (0.42%) Siemens
18 45 (0.39%) SaltStack
19 43 (0.37%) Bloomberg
20 42 (0.36%) ServiceNow