Software Manager
UK

The median Software Manager salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 668 588
Rank change year-on-year +226 -80 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 529 318 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.34% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 446 226 664
10th Percentile £44,000 £49,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +21.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £122,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +9.85% +5.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Manager 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
England +241 484 £65,000 -16.13% 83
UK excluding London +114 368 £65,000 -10.34% 62
Work from Home +111 197 £65,000 -15.03% 50
London +174 147 £100,000 +11.11% 24
North of England +121 120 £62,500 -16.67% 11
Midlands +35 81 £65,000 - 20
South East +20 70 £65,000 -13.33% 12
North West +48 68 £62,500 -3.85% 8
West Midlands +37 56 £60,000 -7.69% 13
South West +14 49 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire +94 33 £65,000 -27.78% 3
East Midlands +10 25 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Scotland -53 20 £73,950 +13.77% 3
North East +13 19 £55,000 -9.09%
East of England +7 15 £120,000 +37.14% 4
Wales +25 13 £60,000 -2.04% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 263 (49.72%) Agile
2 216 (40.83%) Software Engineering
3 119 (22.50%) .NET
4 104 (19.66%) Social Skills
5 97 (18.34%) DevOps
6 96 (18.15%) Azure
7 93 (17.58%) Project Management
8 88 (16.64%) C#
9 78 (14.74%) Mentoring
10 76 (14.37%) Finance
10 76 (14.37%) Degree
11 72 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (13.61%) Roadmaps
12 68 (12.85%) SDLC
13 66 (12.48%) Scrum
13 66 (12.48%) JavaScript
14 63 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (10.96%) Asset Management
16 57 (10.78%) People Management
17 54 (10.21%) QA
18 53 (10.02%) Project Delivery
19 52 (9.83%) React
20 51 (9.64%) AWS
21 50 (9.45%) TypeScript
22 48 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
23 47 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
24 45 (8.51%) Computer Science
25 43 (8.13%) Java
26 40 (7.56%) TDD
26 40 (7.56%) Coaching

Software Manager Skill Set
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 21 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.13%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.19%) CMS
3 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.16%) Endur
2 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.76%) Sage 500
3 4 (0.76%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.15%) Azure
2 51 (9.64%) AWS
3 37 (6.99%) GCP
4 21 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (3.97%) SaaS
5 8 (1.51%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.76%) Intacct
8 3 (0.57%) GitHub
8 3 (0.57%) IaaS
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.38%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.38%) PaaS
9 2 (0.38%) Serverless
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.19%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.19%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) HTTP
2 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) DSL
3 1 (0.19%) VoIP
3 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 21 (3.97%) RDBMS
4 15 (2.84%) OLAP
5 4 (0.76%) MySQL
6 3 (0.57%) Power BI
7 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.38%) Redis
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (5.10%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.78%) JIRA
3 14 (2.65%) GitLab
4 13 (2.46%) Git
5 5 (0.95%) Clang
6 4 (0.76%) Subversion
7 3 (0.57%) TestRail
8 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.37%) Finance
3 48 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.05%) Front Office
4 32 (6.05%) Marketing
5 26 (4.91%) Games
6 17 (3.21%) Law
7 14 (2.65%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.08%) Legal
8 11 (2.08%) Retail
9 9 (1.70%) Police
10 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.13%) Electronics
12 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Back Office
14 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (22.50%) .NET
2 52 (9.83%) React
3 37 (6.99%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.81%) Vue
5 35 (6.62%) .NET Core
6 32 (6.05%) Redux
7 13 (2.46%) RESTful
8 12 (2.27%) Node.js
9 10 (1.89%) SOAP
10 7 (1.32%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.13%) jQuery
12 5 (0.95%) LAMP
12 5 (0.95%) Laravel
12 5 (0.95%) LLVM
12 5 (0.95%) Web Services
13 4 (0.76%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.76%) ADO.NET
13 4 (0.76%) CSS
13 4 (0.76%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.05%) Derivative
1 32 (6.05%) Equities
1 32 (6.05%) Fixed Income
1 32 (6.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 32 (6.05%) Hedge funds
2 24 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.97%) Swaptions
4 17 (3.21%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.46%) LIMS
7 12 (2.27%) FMCG
8 11 (2.08%) Client/Server
9 9 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.51%) RISC-V
11 7 (1.32%) 3D Graphics
11 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.13%) NHS
12 6 (1.13%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.21%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (49.72%) Agile
2 216 (40.83%) Software Engineering
3 97 (18.34%) DevOps
4 93 (17.58%) Project Management
5 78 (14.74%) Mentoring
6 72 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (13.61%) Roadmaps
7 68 (12.85%) SDLC
8 66 (12.48%) Scrum
9 63 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (10.96%) Asset Management
11 57 (10.78%) People Management
12 53 (10.02%) Project Delivery
13 47 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (8.51%) Computer Science
15 40 (7.56%) Coaching
15 40 (7.56%) Software Delivery
15 40 (7.56%) TDD
16 39 (7.37%) Test Automation
17 35 (6.62%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 88 (16.64%) C#
2 66 (12.48%) JavaScript
3 50 (9.45%) TypeScript
4 43 (8.13%) Java
5 39 (7.37%) SQL
6 25 (4.73%) Python
7 23 (4.35%) C
8 21 (3.97%) VB
9 13 (2.46%) PHP
10 10 (1.89%) C++
11 9 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.51%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.95%) Fortran
14 2 (0.38%) Go
14 2 (0.38%) Rust
15 1 (0.19%) Delphi
15 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 76 (14.37%) Degree
2 24 (4.54%) PMP
2 24 (4.54%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) CISSP
7 2 (0.38%) MCP
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.21%) QA
2 5 (0.95%) NCSC
3 4 (0.76%) SLA
4 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.19%) GRC
5 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.19%) MISRA
5 1 (0.19%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.19%) TickIT
System Software
1 13 (2.46%) Docker
2 7 (1.32%) Firmware
3 6 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.02%) Ansible
1 16 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.76%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.73%) Oracle
3 22 (4.16%) OpenLink
4 21 (3.97%) Sybase
4 21 (3.97%) TIBCO
5 8 (1.51%) Google
6 5 (0.95%) Snow
7 4 (0.76%) Adobe
7 4 (0.76%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.76%) Databricks
7 4 (0.76%) Sage
8 3 (0.57%) IBM
9 2 (0.38%) Brio
9 2 (0.38%) Citrix
9 2 (0.38%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.38%) SAP
9 2 (0.38%) Symantec
9 2 (0.38%) Veritas
9 2 (0.38%) VMware