Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 66 34
Rank change year-on-year +36 -32 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4,955 4,179 11,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.73% 4.72% 8.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.06% 5.16% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,795 2,439 3,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +7 1,227 £95,000 +11.76% 628
North of England +50 1,016 £55,000 -8.33% 192
South East +36 945 £55,000 -12.00% 349
South West +35 868 £55,000 -8.33% 162
North West +59 583 £57,500 -4.17% 117
Midlands +40 547 £52,500 -4.55% 121
Yorkshire +40 357 £50,000 -16.67% 57
East of England +23 335 £60,000 - 145
West Midlands +48 297 £55,000 -4.35% 70
East Midlands +18 250 £52,500 +4.48% 50
North East +18 76 £55,000 +10.00% 20
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4,910 (99.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,540 (31.08%) Agile
3 1,530 (30.88%) Python
4 1,443 (29.12%) AWS
5 1,164 (23.49%) JavaScript
6 1,069 (21.57%) C#
7 1,052 (21.23%) Azure
8 1,011 (20.40%) Java
9 940 (18.97%) React
10 881 (17.78%) .NET
11 841 (16.97%) C
12 800 (16.15%) Degree
13 780 (15.74%) C++
14 767 (15.48%) Linux
15 734 (14.81%) TypeScript
16 720 (14.53%) Finance
17 704 (14.21%) Security Cleared
18 669 (13.50%) DevOps
19 587 (11.85%) SQL
20 582 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
21 550 (11.10%) Full Stack Development
22 519 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
23 511 (10.31%) Computer Science
24 510 (10.29%) GCP
25 504 (10.17%) Social Skills
26 418 (8.44%) AngularJS
27 415 (8.38%) SC Cleared
28 406 (8.19%) Microservices
29 404 (8.15%) Front Office
30 400 (8.07%) .NET Core

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
1 350 (7.06%) Apache
2 295 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (4.22%) ArcGIS
4 196 (3.96%) GeoServer
5 73 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.05%) Confluence
7 15 (0.30%) CMS
8 13 (0.26%) Captiva
8 13 (0.26%) FileNet
8 13 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 13 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.16%) nginx
10 7 (0.14%) JBoss
10 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.10%) Drupal
12 5 (0.10%) WinCC
13 4 (0.081%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.061%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 102 (2.06%) Simulink
2 27 (0.54%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.22%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.12%) Trello
5 5 (0.10%) Doxygen
5 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.061%) GNU Octave
6 3 (0.061%) Sketch
6 3 (0.061%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.040%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.020%) UXPin
8 1 (0.020%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.020%) C-CURE
4 1 (0.020%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.020%) Endur
4 1 (0.020%) Findur
4 1 (0.020%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.020%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.020%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,443 (29.12%) AWS
2 1,052 (21.23%) Azure
3 510 (10.29%) GCP
4 204 (4.12%) Serverless
5 156 (3.15%) dbt
6 124 (2.50%) Snowflake
7 120 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
8 114 (2.30%) SaaS
9 113 (2.28%) GitHub
10 96 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
12 46 (0.93%) OpenShift
13 40 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (0.81%) Power Platform
14 34 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (0.54%) Amazon S3
16 24 (0.48%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (0.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 81 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 73 (1.47%) Wireless
3 50 (1.01%) RS-232
4 42 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (0.83%) Bluetooth
6 39 (0.79%) RS-485
7 38 (0.77%) Ethernet
8 37 (0.75%) Internet
9 32 (0.65%) HTTP
10 29 (0.59%) AMQP
11 27 (0.54%) MQTT
12 20 (0.40%) Modbus
13 18 (0.36%) ZigBee
14 14 (0.28%) J1939
14 14 (0.28%) Network Security
15 13 (0.26%) 4G
16 12 (0.24%) 3G
16 12 (0.24%) 5G
17 10 (0.20%) VoIP
18 8 (0.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 266 (5.37%) Apache Ignite
3 229 (4.62%) GIS
4 197 (3.98%) MySQL
5 196 (3.96%) QGIS
6 180 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 155 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
8 153 (3.09%) Apache Arrow
8 153 (3.09%) Dremio
9 132 (2.66%) NoSQL
10 128 (2.58%) Data Lake
11 92 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 85 (1.72%) MongoDB
13 67 (1.35%) Redis
14 51 (1.03%) Big Data
15 48 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 38 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
17 32 (0.65%) Hadoop
18 29 (0.59%) RDBMS
19 27 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 392 (7.91%) Git
2 167 (3.37%) JIRA
3 126 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 87 (1.76%) GitLab
5 87 (1.76%) Visual Studio
6 72 (1.45%) Subversion
7 35 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 29 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 27 (0.54%) CMake
10 26 (0.52%) Selenium
11 24 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.46%) Maven
12 23 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.44%) ClearCase
14 21 (0.42%) JDeveloper
14 21 (0.42%) Plastic SCM
14 21 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
15 18 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
16 17 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 720 (14.53%) Finance
2 504 (10.17%) Social Skills
3 404 (8.15%) Front Office
4 363 (7.33%) Electronics
5 335 (6.76%) Banking
6 210 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 197 (3.98%) Automotive
8 162 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
9 158 (3.19%) Investment Banking
10 146 (2.95%) Aerospace
11 108 (2.18%) Public Sector
12 99 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 99 (2.00%) Retail
13 90 (1.82%) Marketing
14 80 (1.61%) Military
15 76 (1.53%) Tech for Good
16 66 (1.33%) Legal
17 63 (1.27%) Law
18 57 (1.15%) Health Technology
19 51 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 940 (18.97%) React
2 881 (17.78%) .NET
3 418 (8.44%) AngularJS
4 400 (8.07%) .NET Core
5 336 (6.78%) CSS
6 329 (6.64%) gRPC
7 313 (6.32%) Node.js
8 278 (5.61%) Protocol Buffers
9 256 (5.17%) Redux
10 243 (4.90%) Vue
11 204 (4.12%) PostGIS
12 200 (4.04%) Leaflet
12 200 (4.04%) OpenLayers
13 197 (3.98%) RESTful
14 192 (3.87%) ASP.NET
15 185 (3.73%) Spring
16 176 (3.55%) HTML
16 176 (3.55%) Pandas
17 172 (3.47%) NumPy
18 160 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 391 (7.89%) Fixed Income
2 323 (6.52%) Hedge funds
3 282 (5.69%) Equities
4 237 (4.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 235 (4.74%) Derivative
6 193 (3.90%) Algorithms
7 179 (3.61%) IoT
8 177 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
9 114 (2.30%) Cloud Native
10 109 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 103 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
12 102 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.43%) Client/Server
14 69 (1.39%) Mobile App
15 66 (1.33%) Device Driver
16 63 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 55 (1.11%) Product Ownership
17 55 (1.11%) Robotics
18 43 (0.87%) SCADA
19 39 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 767 (15.48%) Linux
2 295 (5.95%) Windows
3 171 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
4 116 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 94 (1.90%) Android
6 78 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 59 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (1.01%) Unix
9 49 (0.99%) Debian
10 48 (0.97%) CentOS
11 30 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 3 (0.061%) VMS
15 3 (0.061%) Windows Server
16 2 (0.040%) FreeBSD
16 2 (0.040%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.040%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,910 (99.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,540 (31.08%) Agile
3 669 (13.50%) DevOps
4 582 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
5 550 (11.10%) Full Stack Development
6 511 (10.31%) Computer Science
7 406 (8.19%) Microservices
8 393 (7.93%) Asset Management
9 362 (7.31%) Investment Management
10 352 (7.10%) CI/CD
11 340 (6.86%) Actionable Insight
12 339 (6.84%) Mentoring
13 301 (6.07%) TDD
14 296 (5.97%) Test Automation
15 289 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
16 280 (5.65%) Web Development
17 258 (5.21%) Machine Learning
18 247 (4.98%) SDLC
19 238 (4.80%) Scrum
20 234 (4.72%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,530 (30.88%) Python
2 1,164 (23.49%) JavaScript
3 1,069 (21.57%) C#
4 1,011 (20.40%) Java
5 841 (16.97%) C
6 780 (15.74%) C++
7 734 (14.81%) TypeScript
8 587 (11.85%) SQL
9 211 (4.26%) Kotlin
10 193 (3.90%) Embedded C
11 167 (3.37%) Go
12 164 (3.31%) Rust
13 161 (3.25%) Bash
14 121 (2.44%) PHP
15 107 (2.16%) MATLAB
16 92 (1.86%) Scala
17 71 (1.43%) Ada
18 65 (1.31%) Perl
19 59 (1.19%) Ruby
20 53 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 800 (16.15%) Degree
2 704 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 415 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 261 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 100 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 62 (1.25%) PhD
8 61 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.52%) HND
10 24 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.34%) HNC
12 13 (0.26%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.16%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.14%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.10%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.061%) PMI Certification
17 3 (0.061%) Sun Certification
18 1 (0.020%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (3.69%) QA
2 53 (1.07%) Data Quality
3 51 (1.03%) MISRA
4 29 (0.59%) GDPR
5 24 (0.48%) ISO 26262
6 23 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
7 21 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
8 16 (0.32%) PMO
9 15 (0.30%) Automotive SPICE
10 12 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 12 (0.24%) ISO 13485
11 11 (0.22%) IEC 62304
12 10 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.20%) MISRA C
13 7 (0.14%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.12%) IEC 61508
14 6 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.12%) JTAG
15 5 (0.10%) TickIT
16 2 (0.040%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 300 (6.05%) Docker
2 154 (3.11%) Firmware
3 77 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 23 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.10%) Ceph
7 3 (0.061%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.040%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.020%) KVM
9 1 (0.020%) LXC
Systems Management
1 352 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 231 (4.66%) Terraform
3 120 (2.42%) Ansible
4 27 (0.54%) Puppet
5 17 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 13 (0.26%) Grafana
7 8 (0.16%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.10%) Knative
8 5 (0.10%) SELinux
9 4 (0.081%) Podman
9 4 (0.081%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.061%) Consul
10 3 (0.061%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.061%) Packer
10 3 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.040%) Istio
11 2 (0.040%) Kibana
11 2 (0.040%) linkerd
11 2 (0.040%) MIIS
11 2 (0.040%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 222 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.12%) ESRI
3 201 (4.06%) Google
4 83 (1.68%) Oracle
5 52 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 45 (0.91%) IBM
7 42 (0.85%) Siemens
8 33 (0.67%) SAP
9 27 (0.54%) SaltStack
10 26 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 23 (0.46%) Xamarin
12 21 (0.42%) Lauterbach
13 20 (0.40%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.36%) Xilinx
15 13 (0.26%) Kofax
15 13 (0.26%) Pega
16 12 (0.24%) Databricks
16 12 (0.24%) DevExpress
16 12 (0.24%) F5
17 11 (0.22%) Cadence