Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in England is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 June 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 551 547
Rank change year-on-year +43 -4 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 373 374 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 367 359 739
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £125,625
90th Percentile £153,750 £151,250 £135,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £98,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.27% +9.72%

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 86,925 76,146 136,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.26% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63,919 49,810 75,593
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,640 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +1.07% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,500 £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%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in England

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +89 331 £110,000 +7.32% 11
South West -22 18 £72,246 +28.44% 1
North of England +11 13 £42,572 -14.86% 1
North West -6 13 £42,572 -14.86%
East of England - 6 £53,750 - 3
South East -10 5 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Developer/Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 England region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 361 (96.78%) Software Engineering
2 334 (89.54%) AWS
3 331 (88.74%) Agile
4 324 (86.86%) Front Office
5 321 (86.06%) Finance
6 318 (85.25%) Fixed Income
7 317 (84.99%) Asset Management
7 317 (84.99%) GCP
8 312 (83.65%) TypeScript
9 297 (79.62%) Python
10 272 (72.92%) Investment Management
11 260 (69.71%) React
12 249 (66.76%) Hedge funds
13 232 (62.20%) JavaScript
14 229 (61.39%) Redux
15 227 (60.86%) gRPC
15 227 (60.86%) Apache Airflow
15 227 (60.86%) Protocol Buffers
16 215 (57.64%) Apache
16 215 (57.64%) Apache Ignite
17 214 (57.37%) Equities
18 203 (54.42%) Azure
19 186 (49.87%) Banking
20 185 (49.60%) Full Stack Development
21 165 (44.24%) Derivative
22 162 (43.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 121 (32.44%) Material-UI
24 120 (32.17%) AngularJS
25 117 (31.37%) Vue
26 109 (29.22%) PostgreSQL

Developer/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
1 227 (60.86%) Apache Airflow
2 215 (57.64%) Apache
3 4 (1.07%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 334 (89.54%) AWS
2 317 (84.99%) GCP
3 203 (54.42%) Azure
4 96 (25.74%) dbt
5 62 (16.62%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.14%) Serverless
7 6 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.07%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.80%) npm
10 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (57.64%) Apache Ignite
2 109 (29.22%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (25.74%) Amazon Athena
3 96 (25.74%) Apache Arrow
3 96 (25.74%) Dremio
4 62 (16.62%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.95%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.68%) MySQL
8 4 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.07%) GIS
8 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.07%) Redis
8 4 (1.07%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.27%) KDB
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 63 (16.89%) Cypress.io
2 7 (1.88%) Git
3 6 (1.61%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.80%) Maven
5 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
General
1 324 (86.86%) Front Office
2 321 (86.06%) Finance
3 186 (49.87%) Banking
4 83 (22.25%) Investment Banking
5 45 (12.06%) Back Office
6 6 (1.61%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.07%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.80%) Advertising
9 2 (0.54%) Automotive
9 2 (0.54%) Electronics
9 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.54%) Retail
9 2 (0.54%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (69.71%) React
2 229 (61.39%) Redux
3 227 (60.86%) gRPC
3 227 (60.86%) Protocol Buffers
4 121 (32.44%) Material-UI
5 120 (32.17%) AngularJS
6 117 (31.37%) Vue
7 108 (28.95%) Pandas
8 96 (25.74%) NumPy
8 96 (25.74%) SciPy
9 93 (24.93%) .NET
10 66 (17.69%) Node.js
11 50 (13.40%) .NET Core
12 46 (12.33%) ASP.NET
13 35 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (3.75%) Spring
14 14 (3.75%) Spring Boot
15 13 (3.49%) HTML
16 11 (2.95%) GraphQL
16 11 (2.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 318 (85.25%) Fixed Income
2 249 (66.76%) Hedge funds
3 214 (57.37%) Equities
4 165 (44.24%) Derivative
5 162 (43.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.07%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.07%) IoT
8 3 (0.80%) NHS
8 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.54%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.27%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.49%) Linux
2 10 (2.68%) Windows
3 8 (2.14%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.14%) Unix
4 4 (1.07%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (96.78%) Software Engineering
2 331 (88.74%) Agile
3 317 (84.99%) Asset Management
4 272 (72.92%) Investment Management
5 185 (49.60%) Full Stack Development
6 100 (26.81%) Machine Learning
7 99 (26.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 99 (26.54%) Automated Trading
8 93 (24.93%) Fintech
9 65 (17.43%) Line Management
10 50 (13.40%) Performance Attribution
11 43 (11.53%) DevOps
12 40 (10.72%) TDD
13 36 (9.65%) Analytics
14 31 (8.31%) Mentoring
15 24 (6.43%) User Experience
16 20 (5.36%) CI/CD
16 20 (5.36%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 20 (5.36%) Front End Development
17 12 (3.22%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 312 (83.65%) TypeScript
2 297 (79.62%) Python
3 232 (62.20%) JavaScript
4 107 (28.69%) Java
5 93 (24.93%) C#
6 92 (24.66%) SQL
7 14 (3.75%) Kotlin
7 14 (3.75%) Ruby
8 9 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.14%) Scala
10 6 (1.61%) Perl
10 6 (1.61%) Swift
11 2 (0.54%) C++
11 2 (0.54%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.54%) Rust
11 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Go
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (2.68%) Degree
2 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.72%) QA
2 3 (0.80%) EMIR
2 3 (0.80%) ISO 13485
2 3 (0.80%) MiFID
3 2 (0.54%) GDPR
3 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.54%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 12 (3.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.54%) Firmware
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Grafana
2 1 (0.27%) Kibana
2 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 101 (27.08%) Google
2 6 (1.61%) Bloomberg
2 6 (1.61%) Facebook
2 6 (1.61%) Oracle
2 6 (1.61%) Reuters
3 4 (1.07%) ESRI
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.54%) QNX
4 2 (0.54%) VMware
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.27%) Splunk