Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 66 39
Rank change year-on-year +50 -27 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,303 2,938 4,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.88% 4.88% 6.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.36% 5.47% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,137 1,510 2,137
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,150 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland +19 2,494 £60,000 -7.69% 81
North of England +51 987 £55,000 -8.33% 155
South East +38 926 £55,000 -12.00% 193
South West +34 854 £55,000 -8.33% 162
North West +56 564 £57,500 - 95
Midlands +42 539 £52,500 -4.55% 115
Yorkshire +46 348 £50,000 -16.67% 49
East of England +22 325 £60,000 - 122
West Midlands +54 294 £55,000 -4.35% 60
East Midlands +11 245 £52,500 - 54
Wales +19 106 £50,000 +20.11% 23
North East +16 75 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Northern Ireland +5 72 £90,000 +50.00% 16
Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 6,264 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 3,126 (49.60%) Agile
3 2,197 (34.86%) Finance
4 2,183 (34.63%) Java
5 2,127 (33.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2,080 (33.00%) SDLC
7 2,002 (31.76%) Law
8 1,941 (30.79%) CI/CD
9 1,919 (30.45%) Python
10 1,881 (29.84%) AWS
11 1,778 (28.21%) Operational Stability
12 1,469 (23.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,399 (22.20%) Machine Learning
14 1,345 (21.34%) SQL
15 1,269 (20.13%) Community of Practice
16 1,175 (18.64%) JavaScript
17 1,143 (18.13%) React
18 1,037 (16.45%) C#
19 983 (15.60%) Algorithms
20 972 (15.42%) Marketing
21 922 (14.63%) Azure
22 903 (14.33%) C
23 895 (14.20%) Linux
24 851 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
25 849 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
26 826 (13.10%) .NET
27 821 (13.03%) Visualisation
28 786 (12.47%) C++
29 763 (12.11%) Degree
30 755 (11.98%) Security Cleared

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
1 567 (9.00%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.71%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.51%) GeoServer
4 161 (2.55%) Apache
5 120 (1.90%) FileNet
6 117 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.57%) Confluence
8 32 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 27 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 22 (0.35%) Captiva
11 21 (0.33%) GemFire
12 20 (0.32%) Camunda
13 12 (0.19%) CMS
13 12 (0.19%) JBoss
14 11 (0.17%) CICS
14 11 (0.17%) NServiceBus
14 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 10 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
17 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
Applications
1 100 (1.59%) Simulink
2 27 (0.43%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.17%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.095%) Trello
5 5 (0.079%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.048%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.048%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.032%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.032%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.032%) Sketch
9 1 (0.016%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.095%) Magento
4 3 (0.048%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.032%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.016%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.016%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1,881 (29.84%) AWS
2 922 (14.63%) Azure
3 292 (4.63%) GCP
4 199 (3.16%) Serverless
5 154 (2.44%) GitHub
6 140 (2.22%) SaaS
7 139 (2.21%) Amazon S3
8 110 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (1.73%) Datadog
10 97 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
12 74 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
13 64 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
17 51 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
18 42 (0.67%) BlazeMeter
19 40 (0.63%) OpenShift
20 34 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 99 (1.57%) Wireless
2 89 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.30%) Kerberos
4 64 (1.02%) Ethernet
5 63 (1.00%) RS-232
6 62 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (0.75%) Bluetooth
8 39 (0.62%) Network Security
8 39 (0.62%) RS-485
9 33 (0.52%) Modbus
10 27 (0.43%) AMQP
10 27 (0.43%) MQTT
11 18 (0.29%) ZigBee
12 15 (0.24%) Internet
13 14 (0.22%) J1939
14 13 (0.21%) 4G
15 12 (0.19%) 3G
15 12 (0.19%) 5G
16 11 (0.17%) Wireshark
17 10 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 659 (10.46%) NoSQL
2 483 (7.66%) Big Data
3 412 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
4 317 (5.03%) GIS
5 287 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 284 (4.51%) QGIS
7 212 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 199 (3.16%) MySQL
9 189 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 162 (2.57%) SQL Server
11 153 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 150 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 131 (2.08%) Apache Hive
14 103 (1.63%) HBase
15 72 (1.14%) Redis
16 67 (1.06%) Metadata
17 51 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
18 48 (0.76%) Data Lake
18 48 (0.76%) Oracle Database
19 45 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 520 (8.25%) Git
2 362 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 211 (3.35%) JUnit
4 178 (2.82%) JIRA
5 120 (1.90%) Jasmine
6 108 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 102 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 88 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 86 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
10 82 (1.30%) Maven
10 82 (1.30%) Selenium
11 73 (1.16%) Subversion
12 66 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 66 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
13 62 (0.98%) WebDriver
14 61 (0.97%) GitLab
15 60 (0.95%) Protractor
16 50 (0.79%) Mockito
17 39 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
18 38 (0.60%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,197 (34.86%) Finance
2 2,127 (33.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,002 (31.76%) Law
4 972 (15.42%) Marketing
5 701 (11.12%) Legal
6 570 (9.04%) Social Skills
7 453 (7.19%) Banking
8 369 (5.85%) Electronics
9 302 (4.79%) Investment Banking
10 242 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 198 (3.14%) Automotive
12 160 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
13 152 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 142 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 92 (1.46%) Public Sector
16 82 (1.30%) Military
16 82 (1.30%) Retail
17 77 (1.22%) Financial Institution
18 74 (1.17%) Private Banking
19 71 (1.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,143 (18.13%) React
2 826 (13.10%) .NET
3 719 (11.41%) Spring
4 674 (10.69%) AngularJS
5 625 (9.92%) CSS
6 423 (6.71%) Kafka
7 417 (6.62%) HTML
8 413 (6.55%) .NET Core
9 405 (6.43%) Node.js
10 355 (5.63%) Spring Boot
11 292 (4.63%) PostGIS
12 288 (4.57%) Leaflet
12 288 (4.57%) OpenLayers
13 280 (4.44%) RESTful
14 255 (4.05%) J2EE
15 249 (3.95%) JSON
16 231 (3.66%) Hibernate
17 227 (3.60%) Web Services
18 201 (3.19%) REST
19 179 (2.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 983 (15.60%) Algorithms
2 678 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 260 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 175 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
5 171 (2.71%) IoT
6 163 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 142 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 130 (2.06%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 102 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 98 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 77 (1.22%) Device Driver
13 68 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 68 (1.08%) Product Ownership
14 65 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
15 60 (0.95%) Private Cloud
16 56 (0.89%) Mobile App
17 54 (0.86%) Robotics
18 44 (0.70%) Legacy Code
19 36 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 895 (14.20%) Linux
2 302 (4.79%) Windows
3 192 (3.05%) Embedded Linux
4 188 (2.98%) Unix
5 106 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 92 (1.46%) Android
7 60 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 45 (0.71%) CentOS
10 34 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
11 32 (0.51%) Debian
12 19 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.095%) ThreadX
14 6 (0.095%) VxWorks
15 4 (0.063%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 3 (0.048%) VMS
16 3 (0.048%) Windows Server
17 2 (0.032%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,264 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 3,126 (49.60%) Agile
3 2,080 (33.00%) SDLC
4 1,941 (30.79%) CI/CD
5 1,778 (28.21%) Operational Stability
6 1,469 (23.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,399 (22.20%) Machine Learning
8 1,269 (20.13%) Community of Practice
9 851 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
10 849 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 821 (13.03%) Visualisation
12 731 (11.60%) DevOps
13 719 (11.41%) Microservices
14 693 (10.99%) Risk Management
15 660 (10.47%) Full Stack Development
16 604 (9.58%) Computer Science
17 478 (7.58%) Decision-Making
18 452 (7.17%) Test Automation
19 443 (7.03%) Actionable Insight
20 418 (6.63%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 2,183 (34.63%) Java
2 1,919 (30.45%) Python
3 1,345 (21.34%) SQL
4 1,175 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 1,037 (16.45%) C#
6 903 (14.33%) C
7 786 (12.47%) C++
8 468 (7.43%) TypeScript
9 280 (4.44%) Scala
10 237 (3.76%) Embedded C
11 215 (3.41%) Go
12 189 (3.00%) Bash
13 137 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 106 (1.68%) MATLAB
15 104 (1.65%) Rust
16 94 (1.49%) Kotlin
17 81 (1.29%) PHP
17 81 (1.29%) Ruby
18 75 (1.19%) Perl
19 72 (1.14%) Ada
Qualifications
1 763 (12.11%) Degree
2 755 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 484 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 225 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 121 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 72 (1.14%) PhD
8 61 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.46%) HND
10 26 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.27%) HNC
12 10 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.13%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.11%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.095%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.048%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.032%) Postgraduate
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Developer
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (2.17%) QA
2 64 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 57 (0.90%) MISRA
4 43 (0.68%) SLA
5 36 (0.57%) GDPR
6 35 (0.56%) PMO
7 34 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 25 (0.40%) ISO 26262
9 23 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
10 21 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
11 18 (0.29%) ISO 13485
12 15 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
13 12 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 10 (0.16%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) IEC 61508
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9000
17 6 (0.095%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.095%) WAI
System Software
1 264 (4.19%) Docker
2 179 (2.84%) Firmware
3 102 (1.62%) HDFS
4 84 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.08%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.032%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.032%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 524 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 361 (5.73%) Terraform
3 155 (2.46%) Grafana
4 71 (1.13%) Ansible
5 64 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
6 26 (0.41%) Puppet
7 21 (0.33%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.33%) Kibana
7 21 (0.33%) Zipkin
8 19 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.11%) Graphite
10 6 (0.095%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.079%) SELinux
12 3 (0.048%) Podman
13 2 (0.032%) Istio
13 2 (0.032%) linkerd
13 2 (0.032%) MIIS
14 1 (0.016%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.016%) Rancher
Vendors
1 430 (6.82%) Oracle
2 292 (4.63%) ESRI
3 214 (3.40%) Databricks
4 164 (2.60%) Splunk
5 155 (2.46%) Microsoft
6 145 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 145 (2.30%) Google
7 87 (1.38%) Informatica
8 72 (1.14%) Cloudera
9 66 (1.05%) IBM
10 46 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 46 (0.73%) Red Hat
11 44 (0.70%) SaltStack
12 43 (0.68%) SAP
12 43 (0.68%) Siemens
13 42 (0.67%) Pega
14 39 (0.62%) Alteryx
15 32 (0.51%) Dell
16 29 (0.46%) ServiceNow
17 22 (0.35%) Kofax