Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Software Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 68 33
Rank change year-on-year +36 -35 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 988 600 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.73% 4.23% 8.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.09% 4.69% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 721 367 687
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,230 12,794 19,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.26% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,600 8,097 12,330
10th Percentile £27,613 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South East

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +60 385 £50,510 -17.20% 62
Hampshire +9 321 £53,500 -10.83% 47
Berkshire +76 180 £58,000 -22.67% 28
Surrey +5 170 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Oxfordshire +41 120 £50,510 -15.82% 29
Buckinghamshire -9 85 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Kent +32 53 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Sussex - 21 £45,000 - 5
West Sussex +16 18 £50,500 -15.83% 24
East Sussex -5 18 £42,500 -39.29% 4
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 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 South East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 981 (99.29%) Software Engineering
2 297 (30.06%) Degree
3 288 (29.15%) Python
4 278 (28.14%) C++
5 273 (27.63%) C
6 240 (24.29%) Linux
7 218 (22.06%) C#
8 217 (21.96%) Agile
9 189 (19.13%) Security Cleared
10 171 (17.31%) .NET
11 170 (17.21%) Computer Science
12 166 (16.80%) JavaScript
13 155 (15.69%) SC Cleared
14 144 (14.57%) Java
15 143 (14.47%) Windows
16 142 (14.37%) Azure
17 141 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
18 135 (13.66%) Electronics
19 123 (12.45%) Mathematics
20 121 (12.25%) Social Skills
21 116 (11.74%) AWS
22 115 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
23 111 (11.23%) DevOps
24 110 (11.13%) Git
25 109 (11.03%) Algorithms
26 102 (10.32%) SQL
27 101 (10.22%) Artificial Intelligence
28 99 (10.02%) React
29 76 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
30 72 (7.29%) Mentoring

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (2.94%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.94%) GeoServer
2 18 (1.82%) Apache
3 17 (1.72%) Confluence
4 6 (0.61%) nginx
4 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.20%) JBoss
5 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (6.07%) Simulink
2 25 (2.53%) Stateflow
3 7 (0.71%) CANalyzer
4 5 (0.51%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.20%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.10%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.10%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.71%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 142 (14.37%) Azure
2 116 (11.74%) AWS
3 29 (2.94%) SaaS
4 20 (2.02%) GitHub
5 18 (1.82%) GCP
6 15 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (0.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (0.61%) IaaS
9 6 (0.61%) Serverless
10 5 (0.51%) Datadog
11 4 (0.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.20%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.20%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.10%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.10%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.10%) Azure Functions
14 1 (0.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.82%) Wireless
2 14 (1.42%) J1939
3 12 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.01%) Ethernet
4 10 (1.01%) RS-485
5 7 (0.71%) Internet
6 6 (0.61%) Bluetooth
6 6 (0.61%) RS-232
7 5 (0.51%) GPRS
8 4 (0.40%) 5G
8 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.30%) Modbus
10 2 (0.20%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.20%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) 4G
11 1 (0.10%) HTTP
11 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.10%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (0.10%) RTP
11 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (3.85%) GIS
3 37 (3.74%) NoSQL
4 29 (2.94%) QGIS
5 25 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.13%) MySQL
7 10 (1.01%) Redis
7 10 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.61%) CouchDB
10 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.40%) Power BI
11 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 110 (11.13%) Git
2 42 (4.25%) JIRA
3 37 (3.74%) Visual Studio
4 36 (3.64%) Subversion
5 25 (2.53%) Jenkins
6 23 (2.33%) CMake
7 21 (2.13%) ClearCase
7 21 (2.13%) Plastic SCM
8 19 (1.92%) Vagrant
9 14 (1.42%) ClearQuest
10 11 (1.11%) GitLab
11 10 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.71%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.71%) TestRail
13 6 (0.61%) Gradle
14 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.20%) GDB
15 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.20%) JDeveloper
General
1 135 (13.66%) Electronics
2 121 (12.25%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.47%) Manufacturing
4 52 (5.26%) Military
5 46 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (4.15%) Automotive
7 40 (4.05%) Finance
8 38 (3.85%) Aerospace
9 23 (2.33%) Tech for Good
10 17 (1.72%) Public Sector
11 15 (1.52%) Aviation
12 13 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.21%) Retail
14 11 (1.11%) Marketing
15 9 (0.91%) Law
16 7 (0.71%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Legal
18 5 (0.51%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (17.31%) .NET
2 99 (10.02%) React
3 60 (6.07%) AngularJS
4 58 (5.87%) .NET Core
5 45 (4.55%) CSS
6 44 (4.45%) Qt
7 38 (3.85%) WPF
8 34 (3.44%) Middleware
9 33 (3.34%) ASP.NET
10 31 (3.14%) HTML
11 29 (2.94%) Leaflet
11 29 (2.94%) OpenLayers
11 29 (2.94%) PostGIS
12 26 (2.63%) STL
12 26 (2.63%) Vue
13 23 (2.33%) Spring
14 22 (2.23%) XML
15 18 (1.82%) .NET Framework
16 17 (1.72%) Django
16 17 (1.72%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 109 (11.03%) Algorithms
2 58 (5.87%) IoT
3 56 (5.67%) Embedded Systems
4 34 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (2.43%) Device Driver
6 22 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.13%) Robotics
8 20 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
8 20 (2.02%) Satnav
9 19 (1.92%) Analogue Electronics
9 19 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
10 16 (1.62%) FPGA
11 14 (1.42%) Acoustics
11 14 (1.42%) Raspberry Pi
12 12 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.21%) VHDL
13 10 (1.01%) Life Science
14 8 (0.81%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 240 (24.29%) Linux
2 143 (14.47%) Windows
3 48 (4.86%) Embedded Linux
4 37 (3.74%) Ubuntu
5 29 (2.94%) Android
6 23 (2.33%) CentOS
7 22 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.42%) Unix
9 11 (1.11%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (99.29%) Software Engineering
2 217 (21.96%) Agile
3 170 (17.21%) Computer Science
4 141 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (12.45%) Mathematics
6 111 (11.23%) DevOps
7 101 (10.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 76 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
9 72 (7.29%) Mentoring
10 68 (6.88%) Full Stack Development
11 66 (6.68%) Physics
12 61 (6.17%) Machine Learning
12 61 (6.17%) Test Automation
13 60 (6.07%) SDLC
14 59 (5.97%) Software Testing
15 52 (5.26%) Signal Processing
16 46 (4.66%) OO
16 46 (4.66%) Web Development
17 45 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
17 45 (4.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 288 (29.15%) Python
2 278 (28.14%) C++
3 273 (27.63%) C
4 218 (22.06%) C#
5 166 (16.80%) JavaScript
6 144 (14.57%) Java
7 102 (10.32%) SQL
8 42 (4.25%) MATLAB
9 41 (4.15%) Bash
10 40 (4.05%) Embedded C
11 34 (3.44%) Kotlin
12 31 (3.14%) TypeScript
13 30 (3.04%) Go
14 21 (2.13%) Fortran
15 20 (2.02%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.82%) Perl
17 17 (1.72%) Haskell
18 14 (1.42%) T-SQL
19 13 (1.32%) PHP
20 11 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 297 (30.06%) Degree
2 189 (19.13%) Security Cleared
3 155 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 115 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (5.16%) Master's Degree
6 46 (4.66%) PhD
7 17 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.11%) HND
9 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.54%) QA
2 22 (2.23%) Software Quality Assurance
3 21 (2.13%) MISRA
4 15 (1.52%) ISO 26262
5 14 (1.42%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.42%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.10%) GDPR
7 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 49 (4.96%) Docker
2 39 (3.95%) Firmware
3 34 (3.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (3.44%) Terraform
2 32 (3.24%) Ansible
3 21 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.51%) SELinux
5 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 66 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.04%) ESRI
3 21 (2.13%) IBM
3 21 (2.13%) Lauterbach
4 18 (1.82%) Xilinx
5 15 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.11%) Oracle
6 11 (1.11%) SAP
7 8 (0.81%) Google
7 8 (0.81%) Siemens
8 7 (0.71%) Siebel
9 6 (0.61%) VMware
10 5 (0.51%) YouTube
11 4 (0.40%) Facebook
11 4 (0.40%) Instagram
11 4 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.40%) Renesas
12 3 (0.30%) IFS
12 3 (0.30%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.30%) Xamarin