Software Development Manager Jobs in England

Software Development Manager
UK > England

The median Software Development Manager salary in England is £72,500 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 689 762 925
Rank change year-on-year +73 +163 -214
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 175 132 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 141 110 207
10th Percentile £53,250 £53,400 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +1.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £103,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in England

Software Development 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 Development Manager within the England 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
London +125 63 £80,000 -8.57% 2
Midlands -19 39 £68,500 +5.38% 2
South East -21 33 £90,000 +5.88% 2
North of England +10 29 £75,000 +3.45% 1
West Midlands -9 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -12 19 £66,750 +13.62% 2
North West -25 12 £65,000 -3.70%
Yorkshire +61 10 £75,000 -16.67% 1
North East -11 7 £80,000 +42.86%
East of England -21 6 £120,000 - 1
South West -45 4 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Software Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software Development 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 80 (45.71%) Agile
2 49 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 43 (24.57%) .NET
4 39 (22.29%) Mentoring
5 36 (20.57%) Roadmaps
6 35 (20.00%) SDLC
7 31 (17.71%) People Management
7 31 (17.71%) Social Skills
7 31 (17.71%) Java
7 31 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (16.00%) C#
9 25 (14.29%) Business Transformation
10 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.71%) SQL Server
11 23 (13.14%) Scrum
11 23 (13.14%) IT Strategy
12 21 (12.00%) Azure
12 21 (12.00%) Relational Database
13 20 (11.43%) Games
13 20 (11.43%) Technology Strategy
14 19 (10.86%) Swaptions
14 19 (10.86%) TIBCO
14 19 (10.86%) OpenLink
14 19 (10.86%) Endur
14 19 (10.86%) Sybase
14 19 (10.86%) VB
14 19 (10.86%) Oracle
14 19 (10.86%) Microsoft Exchange
14 19 (10.86%) Data Modelling
14 19 (10.86%) RDBMS

Software Development 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 19 (10.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.43%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Endur
2 5 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.00%) Azure
2 5 (2.86%) AWS
2 5 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.29%) Amazon Alexa
4 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.14%) SaaS
4 2 (1.14%) Serverless
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.57%) GitHub
5 1 (0.57%) IaaS
5 1 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.71%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 19 (10.86%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.14%) OLAP
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.14%) MySQL
5 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Git
2 4 (2.29%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) Selenium
3 2 (1.14%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.43%) Games
3 18 (10.29%) Finance
3 18 (10.29%) Marketing
4 13 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.14%) Law
6 7 (4.00%) Wearables
7 5 (2.86%) Music Industry
8 3 (1.71%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.57%) .NET
2 6 (3.43%) Web Services
3 5 (2.86%) Laravel
3 5 (2.86%) React
4 4 (2.29%) LAMP
5 2 (1.14%) CSS
5 2 (1.14%) CSS3
5 2 (1.14%) HTML
5 2 (1.14%) HTML5
5 2 (1.14%) Jest
5 2 (1.14%) jQuery
5 2 (1.14%) Node.js
5 2 (1.14%) RESTful
5 2 (1.14%) Vue
6 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) Lucene
6 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.57%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Swaptions
2 15 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.57%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.00%) 3D Graphics
5 7 (4.00%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.43%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.43%) PropTech
6 6 (3.43%) RISC-V
7 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.57%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Android
2 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (45.71%) Agile
2 49 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 39 (22.29%) Mentoring
4 36 (20.57%) Roadmaps
5 35 (20.00%) SDLC
6 31 (17.71%) People Management
6 31 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (14.29%) Business Transformation
8 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (13.14%) IT Strategy
9 23 (13.14%) Scrum
10 20 (11.43%) Technology Strategy
11 19 (10.86%) Creative Thinking
11 19 (10.86%) Data Modelling
12 18 (10.29%) Coaching
12 18 (10.29%) DevOps
12 18 (10.29%) Strategic Roadmap
12 18 (10.29%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (9.71%) Project Delivery
14 14 (8.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.71%) Java
2 28 (16.00%) C#
3 19 (10.86%) VB
4 17 (9.71%) SQL
5 11 (6.29%) C
6 10 (5.71%) PHP
7 7 (4.00%) Python
8 6 (3.43%) Embedded C
8 6 (3.43%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.14%) C++
10 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) RPG
Qualifications
1 11 (6.29%) Degree
2 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.14%) CISSP
3 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) NCSC
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.57%) IEC 62304
3 1 (0.57%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 8 (4.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (10.86%) OpenLink
1 19 (10.86%) Oracle
1 19 (10.86%) Sybase
1 19 (10.86%) TIBCO
2 14 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe
4 1 (0.57%) IBM
4 1 (0.57%) IFS
4 1 (0.57%) Marketo
4 1 (0.57%) SAP
4 1 (0.57%) Sitecore