Software Engineering Jobs in the South East

Software Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,480 1,463 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.60% 10.36% 13.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 10.97% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,111 882 1,390
10th Percentile £38,691 £38,750 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,823 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.18% +4.03% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,411 13,340 19,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.75% 94.49% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,973 7,781 11,811
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South East

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 549 £55,000 -14.73% 121
Hampshire +7 519 £57,500 -4.17% 92
Berkshire +20 271 £60,000 -14.29% 52
Surrey -4 248 £60,000 -14.29% 47
Oxfordshire 0 178 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Buckinghamshire -24 100 £50,000 -13.04% 19
Kent -15 62 £45,000 -18.18% 15
West Sussex +1 56 £64,000 +2.40% 31
Sussex - 27 £50,000 - 8
East Sussex -39 19 £42,500 -29.17% 8
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (1.96%) ArcGIS
1 29 (1.96%) GeoServer
2 22 (1.49%) Apache
3 19 (1.28%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) nginx
4 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
6 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.068%) JBoss
7 1 (0.068%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (5.95%) Simulink
2 27 (1.82%) Stateflow
3 10 (0.68%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.47%) CANalyzer
5 4 (0.27%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) TargetLink
7 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.068%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.068%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.068%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.47%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.068%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 234 (15.81%) Azure
2 195 (13.18%) AWS
3 70 (4.73%) SaaS
4 38 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (1.82%) GitHub
6 26 (1.76%) GCP
7 23 (1.55%) Power Platform
8 20 (1.35%) Serverless
9 14 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (0.61%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (0.54%) IaaS
13 7 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.47%) IBM Cloud
14 6 (0.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.89%) Network Security
2 25 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.69%) Wireless
3 23 (1.55%) Ethernet
4 18 (1.22%) Internet
5 14 (0.95%) J1939
6 12 (0.81%) VPN
7 11 (0.74%) Firewall
7 11 (0.74%) RS-485
8 10 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (0.61%) CTI
10 7 (0.47%) RS-232
11 6 (0.41%) GPRS
12 5 (0.34%) BGP
12 5 (0.34%) IPsec
12 5 (0.34%) LAN
12 5 (0.34%) OSPF
12 5 (0.34%) SSL
12 5 (0.34%) VLAN
12 5 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.01%) NoSQL
2 51 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.57%) GIS
5 30 (2.03%) MySQL
6 29 (1.96%) QGIS
7 19 (1.28%) Power BI
8 18 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.01%) Redis
11 9 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.41%) CouchDB
12 6 (0.41%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (0.20%) Power Query
15 2 (0.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 192 (12.97%) Git
2 70 (4.73%) Visual Studio
3 65 (4.39%) JIRA
4 55 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.77%) Subversion
6 38 (2.57%) GitLab
7 32 (2.16%) Selenium
8 23 (1.55%) CMake
9 22 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.49%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.42%) ClearCase
10 21 (1.42%) Plastic SCM
10 21 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (1.28%) Vagrant
12 16 (1.08%) JUnit
13 14 (0.95%) ClearQuest
14 11 (0.74%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.47%) Gradle
15 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 239 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 154 (10.41%) Electronics
3 107 (7.23%) Finance
4 72 (4.86%) Manufacturing
5 64 (4.32%) Military
6 62 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (3.85%) Aerospace
8 51 (3.45%) Automotive
9 36 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 29 (1.96%) Law
10 29 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.82%) Legal
12 26 (1.76%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.35%) Aviation
13 20 (1.35%) Marketing
14 16 (1.08%) Retail
15 15 (1.01%) Health Technology
16 14 (0.95%) Games
17 13 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 974 (65.81%) Software Engineer
2 366 (24.73%) Senior
3 275 (18.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 240 (16.22%) Embedded Engineer
5 221 (14.93%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 203 (13.72%) Developer
7 157 (10.61%) Lead
8 108 (7.30%) C++ Software Engineer
9 79 (5.34%) Software Developer
10 73 (4.93%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 70 (4.73%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 62 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (3.72%) Senior Developer
14 50 (3.38%) Team Leader
15 46 (3.11%) Graduate
16 43 (2.91%) C# Software Engineer
17 42 (2.84%) Architect
17 42 (2.84%) Graduate Software Engineer
18 39 (2.64%) Software Team Leader
19 35 (2.36%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (19.26%) .NET
2 151 (10.20%) React
3 83 (5.61%) CSS
4 79 (5.34%) .NET Core
5 72 (4.86%) HTML
6 70 (4.73%) AngularJS
7 58 (3.92%) Qt
8 53 (3.58%) Spring
9 46 (3.11%) Middleware
10 45 (3.04%) ASP.NET
11 38 (2.57%) .NET Framework
11 38 (2.57%) WPF
12 35 (2.36%) Vue
13 29 (1.96%) Leaflet
13 29 (1.96%) OpenLayers
13 29 (1.96%) PostGIS
14 28 (1.89%) STL
15 27 (1.82%) Hibernate
16 26 (1.76%) Web Services
16 26 (1.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.59%) Algorithms
2 76 (5.14%) Embedded Systems
3 71 (4.80%) IoT
4 59 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.23%) FPGA
6 33 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.09%) Mobile App
9 28 (1.89%) Robotics
10 26 (1.76%) Device Driver
11 22 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
12 20 (1.35%) Analogue Electronics
12 20 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
12 20 (1.35%) Satnav
13 18 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.15%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 321 (21.69%) Linux
2 182 (12.30%) Windows
3 68 (4.59%) Embedded Linux
4 38 (2.57%) Android
5 37 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 23 (1.55%) CentOS
7 22 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.81%) Unix
8 12 (0.81%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (29.66%) Agile
2 275 (18.58%) Computer Science
3 258 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
4 239 (16.15%) DevOps
5 161 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 155 (10.47%) Mathematics
7 140 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 123 (8.31%) Test Automation
9 119 (8.04%) CI/CD
10 112 (7.57%) SDLC
11 104 (7.03%) Machine Learning
12 102 (6.89%) Full Stack Development
13 87 (5.88%) Physics
14 83 (5.61%) Actionable Insight
15 80 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (5.14%) Software Testing
17 74 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
18 73 (4.93%) Signal Processing
19 70 (4.73%) Microservices
20 69 (4.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 393 (26.55%) Python
2 351 (23.72%) C++
3 345 (23.31%) C
4 330 (22.30%) C#
5 246 (16.62%) Java
6 245 (16.55%) JavaScript
7 197 (13.31%) SQL
8 79 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 58 (3.92%) MATLAB
10 56 (3.78%) Embedded C
11 52 (3.51%) Bash
12 49 (3.31%) Kotlin
13 42 (2.84%) PowerShell
14 40 (2.70%) Go
15 24 (1.62%) PHP
16 21 (1.42%) T-SQL
17 19 (1.28%) Fortran
18 18 (1.22%) Perl
19 17 (1.15%) Haskell
19 17 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 457 (30.88%) Degree
2 278 (18.78%) Security Cleared
3 190 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 186 (12.57%) SC Cleared
5 71 (4.80%) Master's Degree
6 52 (3.51%) PhD
7 36 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.01%) CISSP
9 13 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.74%) HND
11 10 (0.68%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.54%) CISM
12 8 (0.54%) GIAC
12 8 (0.54%) GPEN
12 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.34%) CCIE
14 5 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.34%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.20%) QA
2 22 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
3 21 (1.42%) MISRA
4 19 (1.28%) ISO 26262
5 18 (1.22%) Automotive SPICE
6 14 (0.95%) AUTOSAR
7 13 (0.88%) NIST
8 10 (0.68%) GDPR
8 10 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.54%) GRC
9 8 (0.54%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.14%) JTAG
12 2 (0.14%) SLA
13 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.068%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 114 (7.70%) Docker
2 55 (3.72%) Firmware
3 38 (2.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 52 (3.51%) Ansible
3 44 (2.97%) Terraform
4 6 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.41%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.41%) Nessus
5 5 (0.34%) SELinux
5 5 (0.34%) Suricata
6 2 (0.14%) Grafana
6 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.068%) FTK
7 1 (0.068%) Nagios
7 1 (0.068%) Puppet
7 1 (0.068%) SCOM
Vendors
1 139 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.43%) Xilinx
3 30 (2.03%) ESRI
4 29 (1.96%) IBM
5 26 (1.76%) SAP
6 21 (1.42%) Lauterbach
7 15 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 13 (0.88%) Oracle
9 10 (0.68%) EMC
9 10 (0.68%) IFS
9 10 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.61%) Google
10 9 (0.61%) VMware
11 8 (0.54%) Siemens
11 8 (0.54%) Splunk
12 7 (0.47%) Siebel
13 6 (0.41%) Cisco
13 6 (0.41%) Qualys
14 5 (0.34%) Juniper
14 5 (0.34%) Palo Alto