Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,300 8,995 22,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.43% 10.34% 16.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.17% 10.82% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,518 5,528 8,608
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,823 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +4.03% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,397
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.87% +15.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,286 83,164 132,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.41% 95.59% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,336 49,441 73,222
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,384
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +1 2,433 £91,500 +1.67% 1,321
North of England +11 1,618 £57,500 -6.50% 355
South East +4 1,480 £57,500 -11.54% 818
South West +9 1,261 £55,000 -11.93% 243
North West +15 959 £60,000 -4.00% 219
Midlands +13 904 £55,000 -4.35% 232
East of England +10 546 £60,000 -7.69% 237
Yorkshire +10 531 £55,000 -12.00% 90
West Midlands +25 517 £60,000 - 108
East Midlands +6 387 £50,000 -9.09% 117
North East +5 128 £55,000 +15.79% 50
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 512 (6.17%) Apache
2 442 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.54%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.36%) GeoServer
5 145 (1.75%) Confluence
6 116 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.34%) nginx
9 27 (0.33%) CMS
10 14 (0.17%) NServiceBus
11 13 (0.16%) WordPress
12 12 (0.14%) IIS
12 12 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.11%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.096%) Captiva
14 8 (0.096%) FileNet
14 8 (0.096%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.084%) Ethereum
15 7 (0.084%) JBoss
15 7 (0.084%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 139 (1.67%) Simulink
2 29 (0.35%) Stateflow
3 17 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 12 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.12%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.072%) Trello
10 5 (0.060%) GNU Octave
10 5 (0.060%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.048%) Doxygen
12 3 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.036%) Sketch
12 3 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.036%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.024%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.012%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 43 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 7 (0.084%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.084%) Siebel CRM
5 4 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.036%) Endur
7 2 (0.024%) CiviCRM
7 2 (0.024%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.024%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.024%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.012%) C-CURE
8 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.012%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.012%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.012%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.012%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,441 (29.41%) AWS
2 1,793 (21.60%) Azure
3 804 (9.69%) GCP
4 370 (4.46%) Serverless
5 325 (3.92%) SaaS
6 291 (3.51%) dbt
7 289 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 246 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 241 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 216 (2.60%) GitHub
11 166 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 158 (1.90%) Power Platform
13 129 (1.55%) Amazon S3
14 97 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 89 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
16 84 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 77 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
18 74 (0.89%) OpenShift
19 69 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
20 65 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 113 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 97 (1.17%) Wireless
3 66 (0.80%) Ethernet
4 65 (0.78%) Internet
5 58 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 52 (0.63%) HTTP
6 52 (0.63%) RS-232
7 50 (0.60%) Network Security
8 46 (0.55%) Bluetooth
9 41 (0.49%) AMQP
10 40 (0.48%) RS-485
11 31 (0.37%) Firewall
11 31 (0.37%) MQTT
12 23 (0.28%) 5G
13 21 (0.25%) 4G
13 21 (0.25%) ZigBee
14 19 (0.23%) Modbus
15 16 (0.19%) DNS
15 16 (0.19%) J1939
16 14 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 664 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 386 (4.65%) Apache Ignite
3 343 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 335 (4.04%) MySQL
5 287 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
6 284 (3.42%) Dremio
7 280 (3.37%) Apache Arrow
8 269 (3.24%) Data Lake
9 251 (3.02%) NoSQL
10 235 (2.83%) GIS
11 196 (2.36%) QGIS
12 178 (2.14%) Relational Database
13 135 (1.63%) Redis
14 120 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
15 116 (1.40%) MongoDB
16 93 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
17 91 (1.10%) DynamoDB
18 90 (1.08%) Big Data
19 71 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
20 70 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 832 (10.02%) Git
2 336 (4.05%) JIRA
3 272 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 266 (3.20%) Visual Studio
5 234 (2.82%) GitLab
6 134 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 124 (1.49%) Bitbucket
8 90 (1.08%) Subversion
9 64 (0.77%) Sourcetree
10 63 (0.76%) Selenium
11 62 (0.75%) LabVIEW
12 53 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 51 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
14 48 (0.58%) Postman
15 47 (0.57%) JUnit
16 37 (0.45%) Cucumber
17 36 (0.43%) CMake
18 33 (0.40%) SonarQube
19 32 (0.39%) CircleCI
19 32 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 1,341 (16.16%) Finance
2 1,157 (13.94%) Social Skills
3 642 (7.73%) Front Office
4 547 (6.59%) Banking
5 462 (5.57%) Electronics
6 371 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 321 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 300 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 248 (2.99%) Automotive
10 219 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 196 (2.36%) Public Sector
12 194 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 192 (2.31%) Retail
14 187 (2.25%) Games
15 182 (2.19%) Law
16 172 (2.07%) Marketing
17 121 (1.46%) Legal
18 116 (1.40%) Tech for Good
19 107 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
20 100 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5,065 (61.02%) Software Engineer
2 2,211 (26.64%) Senior
3 1,663 (20.04%) Developer
4 1,611 (19.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 946 (11.40%) Embedded Engineer
6 886 (10.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 833 (10.04%) Lead
8 391 (4.71%) Python Engineer
9 383 (4.61%) Software Developer
10 352 (4.24%) Java Engineer
11 345 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
11 345 (4.16%) Python Software Engineer
12 342 (4.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 336 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 312 (3.76%) C++ Software Engineer
15 311 (3.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 301 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
17 287 (3.46%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 267 (3.22%) Python Developer
19 257 (3.10%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,552 (18.70%) .NET
2 1,383 (16.66%) React
3 592 (7.13%) .NET Core
4 575 (6.93%) CSS
5 568 (6.84%) AngularJS
6 500 (6.02%) Node.js
7 468 (5.64%) gRPC
8 418 (5.04%) HTML
9 413 (4.98%) Protocol Buffers
10 342 (4.12%) RESTful
11 320 (3.86%) Pandas
11 320 (3.86%) Spring
12 315 (3.80%) Vue
13 307 (3.70%) NumPy
14 294 (3.54%) ASP.NET
15 290 (3.49%) Redux
16 289 (3.48%) REST
17 277 (3.34%) SciPy
18 254 (3.06%) Kafka
19 231 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 567 (6.83%) Fixed Income
2 513 (6.18%) Hedge funds
3 461 (5.55%) Equities
4 408 (4.92%) Derivative
5 391 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 371 (4.47%) Algorithms
7 261 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 252 (3.04%) IoT
9 245 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
10 236 (2.84%) Embedded Systems
11 206 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
12 199 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 176 (2.12%) Client/Server
14 168 (2.02%) Product Ownership
15 164 (1.98%) Data Structures
16 139 (1.67%) Mobile App
17 127 (1.53%) Management Information System
18 90 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
19 82 (0.99%) Private Cloud
19 82 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,124 (13.54%) Linux
2 459 (5.53%) Windows
3 214 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
4 144 (1.73%) Android
5 128 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 122 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 63 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 59 (0.71%) Unix
9 57 (0.69%) CentOS
10 51 (0.61%) Debian
11 34 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 24 (0.29%) Windows Server
14 17 (0.20%) VMS
15 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.096%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.072%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.072%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.060%) Windows Embedded Compact
18 5 (0.060%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,952 (35.57%) Agile
2 1,438 (17.33%) DevOps
3 1,193 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
4 1,097 (13.22%) Computer Science
5 918 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
6 906 (10.92%) CI/CD
7 715 (8.61%) Mentoring
8 697 (8.40%) Microservices
9 630 (7.59%) Asset Management
10 626 (7.54%) Scrum
11 570 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
12 536 (6.46%) Test Automation
13 530 (6.39%) SDLC
14 519 (6.25%) TDD
15 516 (6.22%) Investment Management
16 478 (5.76%) Machine Learning
17 406 (4.89%) Design Patterns
18 388 (4.67%) Open Source
19 381 (4.59%) Continuous Integration
20 378 (4.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,398 (28.89%) Python
2 1,911 (23.02%) C#
3 1,828 (22.02%) JavaScript
4 1,706 (20.55%) Java
5 1,242 (14.96%) TypeScript
6 1,120 (13.49%) C
7 1,098 (13.23%) SQL
8 1,037 (12.49%) C++
9 283 (3.41%) Kotlin
10 278 (3.35%) PHP
11 276 (3.33%) Go
12 232 (2.80%) Embedded C
13 201 (2.42%) Rust
14 198 (2.39%) Bash
15 156 (1.88%) Scala
16 142 (1.71%) MATLAB
17 105 (1.27%) PowerShell
18 95 (1.14%) T-SQL
19 84 (1.01%) Ada
20 77 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,605 (19.34%) Degree
2 1,149 (13.84%) Security Cleared
3 696 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 551 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 241 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 204 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 188 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (1.35%) PhD
9 51 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 43 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 36 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.40%) HND
14 27 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 26 (0.31%) HNC
16 22 (0.27%) ISTQB
17 21 (0.25%) PMI Certification
18 20 (0.24%) CISSP
19 16 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
20 12 (0.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (3.72%) QA
2 116 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 66 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 49 (0.59%) MISRA
5 36 (0.43%) GDPR
6 28 (0.34%) ISO 26262
7 24 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
8 22 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
9 21 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
9 21 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 20 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 19 (0.23%) ISO 13485
12 18 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 17 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 16 (0.19%) PMO
15 15 (0.18%) NIST
16 13 (0.16%) NCSC
17 11 (0.13%) IEC 62304
17 11 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 717 (8.64%) Docker
2 219 (2.64%) Firmware
3 106 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 46 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.40%) Active Directory
6 25 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.096%) HDFS
9 7 (0.084%) IAG
10 6 (0.072%) Ceph
11 5 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.048%) NFS
12 4 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.036%) Hyper-V
13 3 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.024%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.012%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.012%) LXC
15 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 760 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 505 (6.08%) Terraform
3 221 (2.66%) Ansible
4 50 (0.60%) Grafana
5 32 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 29 (0.35%) Puppet
7 28 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.084%) Kibana
11 6 (0.072%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.072%) Knative
11 6 (0.072%) Nessus
12 5 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.060%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.060%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.060%) Nagios
12 5 (0.060%) SELinux
12 5 (0.060%) Suricata
13 4 (0.048%) Istio
Vendors
1 656 (7.90%) Microsoft
2 290 (3.49%) Google
3 207 (2.49%) ESRI
4 110 (1.33%) Oracle
5 63 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 57 (0.69%) SAP
7 55 (0.66%) Xamarin
8 52 (0.63%) IBM
9 44 (0.53%) Siemens
10 43 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 40 (0.48%) Databricks
12 38 (0.46%) Xilinx
13 36 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 29 (0.35%) Micro Focus
15 28 (0.34%) SaltStack
16 26 (0.31%) VMware
17 25 (0.30%) Adobe
18 23 (0.28%) EMC
19 21 (0.25%) Lauterbach
20 20 (0.24%) Splunk