Junior Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Junior Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £31,250 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 685 663 615
Rank change year-on-year -22 -48 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Software Engineer 95 65 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 80 56 60
10th Percentile - £23,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £30,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £35,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.45% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £37,500
90th Percentile £42,750 £48,685 £47,625
UK median annual salary £32,500 £39,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -17.20% +12.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Junior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Junior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Junior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Junior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Junior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Junior Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Software Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East -21 36 £39,370 +12.48% 3
North of England +24 21 £30,000 -25.00% 4
South West -30 17 £24,000 -36.00% 3
Yorkshire +72 12 £33,750 -15.63%
Midlands -30 12 £27,500 -8.33% 6
North West -16 9 £30,000 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -5 8 £27,500 -8.33% 6
Scotland -63 6 £24,000 -32.87% 3
East Midlands -27 4 £20,000 -35.48%
Wales +11 3 £24,000 +6.67%
Junior Software Engineer
UK

Junior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Junior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (37.89%) C
2 36 (37.89%) C#
3 35 (36.84%) Degree
4 30 (31.58%) C++
5 26 (27.37%) Computer Science
6 24 (25.26%) Python
7 21 (22.11%) JavaScript
8 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 17 (17.89%) Java
10 16 (16.84%) Agile
11 15 (15.79%) Linux
11 15 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (13.68%) React
12 13 (13.68%) .NET
13 12 (12.63%) Electronics
13 12 (12.63%) Embedded Systems
13 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
14 10 (10.53%) OO
14 10 (10.53%) Docker
14 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
15 9 (9.47%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (9.47%) SQL
16 8 (8.42%) Spring
16 8 (8.42%) Manufacturing
17 7 (7.37%) Google
17 7 (7.37%) Embedded C
17 7 (7.37%) Code Quality
18 6 (6.32%) Collaborative Working

Junior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.11%) Apache
1 2 (2.11%) CMS
1 2 (2.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.05%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (1.05%) Fusion 360
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.05%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.16%) AWS
1 3 (3.16%) Azure
1 3 (3.16%) GitHub
2 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) RS-232
2 1 (1.05%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.05%) FlexRay
2 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.05%) Wireless
2 1 (1.05%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) GIS
1 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.11%) Redis
2 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Git
1 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.11%) LabVIEW
2 2 (2.11%) Subversion
3 1 (1.05%) GDB
3 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (12.63%) Electronics
1 12 (12.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.42%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.21%) Finance
4 4 (4.21%) Legal
4 4 (4.21%) Marketing
4 4 (4.21%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) .NET
1 13 (13.68%) React
2 8 (8.42%) Spring
3 6 (6.32%) WPF
4 4 (4.21%) CSS
5 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.16%) HTML
6 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (2.11%) Celery
6 2 (2.11%) Dask
6 2 (2.11%) Django
6 2 (2.11%) Flask
6 2 (2.11%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.11%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.11%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (2.11%) Node.js
6 2 (2.11%) NumPy
7 1 (1.05%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.05%) CSS3
7 1 (1.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (9.47%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (4.21%) CAN bus
3 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.21%) IoT
3 4 (4.21%) Robotics
4 3 (3.16%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (27.37%) Computer Science
3 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (16.84%) Agile
5 10 (10.53%) OO
5 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (7.37%) Code Quality
7 6 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (5.26%) DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (4.21%) Coaching
9 4 (4.21%) Decision-Making
9 4 (4.21%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (4.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (4.21%) Software Testing
10 3 (3.16%) CI/CD
10 3 (3.16%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (3.16%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (3.16%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.89%) C
1 36 (37.89%) C#
2 30 (31.58%) C++
3 24 (25.26%) Python
4 21 (22.11%) JavaScript
5 17 (17.89%) Java
6 9 (9.47%) SQL
7 7 (7.37%) Embedded C
8 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.11%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.05%) Ada
10 1 (1.05%) Go
10 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (36.84%) Degree
2 15 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.05%) ISO 26262
1 1 (1.05%) MISRA
1 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Google
2 3 (3.16%) F5
2 3 (3.16%) SAP
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Autodesk