Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 9,161 5,863 9,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 10.05% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.12% 10.51% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,208 3,193 4,702
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £90,450 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,593 55,780 68,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.77% 95.57% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41,777 28,809 41,151
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +2 3,062 £60,000 -7.69% 151
North of England +11 1,618 £57,500 -6.50% 360
South East +4 1,480 £57,500 -11.54% 820
South West +9 1,261 £55,000 -11.93% 245
North West +15 959 £60,000 -4.00% 223
Midlands +13 904 £55,000 -4.35% 236
East of England +10 546 £60,000 -7.69% 236
Yorkshire +10 531 £55,000 -12.00% 90
West Midlands +25 517 £60,000 - 109
East Midlands +6 387 £50,000 -9.09% 120
Wales +7 182 £50,000 - 27
North East +5 128 £55,000 +15.79% 51
Northern Ireland -1 110 £60,000 +20.00% 36
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 655 (7.15%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.27%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.10%) GeoServer
4 207 (2.26%) Apache
5 129 (1.41%) Confluence
6 119 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 110 (1.20%) FileNet
8 32 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 24 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.23%) GemFire
11 20 (0.22%) Camunda
12 18 (0.20%) CMS
12 18 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 17 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (0.15%) NServiceBus
15 13 (0.14%) nginx
16 12 (0.13%) Captiva
17 11 (0.12%) CICS
17 11 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 139 (1.52%) Simulink
2 29 (0.32%) Stateflow
3 19 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.098%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.065%) Trello
10 4 (0.044%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.044%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.033%) GNU Octave
11 3 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.033%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.022%) Sketch
12 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.011%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.098%) Magento
2 9 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.076%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.076%) Siebel CRM
4 4 (0.044%) Shopify
5 3 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.011%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.011%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.011%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.011%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,496 (27.25%) AWS
2 1,366 (14.91%) Azure
3 341 (3.72%) GCP
4 285 (3.11%) SaaS
5 250 (2.73%) Serverless
6 207 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 204 (2.23%) GitHub
8 187 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 155 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.36%) Datadog
11 117 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
12 111 (1.21%) Power Platform
13 95 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
14 93 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
15 89 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
16 88 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
17 69 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 57 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
18 57 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 151 (1.65%) Wireless
2 116 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 92 (1.00%) Ethernet
4 82 (0.90%) Kerberos
5 80 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (0.82%) Network Security
7 65 (0.71%) RS-232
8 55 (0.60%) Bluetooth
9 47 (0.51%) Internet
9 47 (0.51%) MQTT
10 42 (0.46%) HTTP
11 40 (0.44%) RS-485
12 34 (0.37%) AMQP
13 32 (0.35%) Modbus
14 23 (0.25%) 5G
15 21 (0.23%) 4G
15 21 (0.23%) ZigBee
16 20 (0.22%) DSL
17 19 (0.21%) Firewall
18 16 (0.17%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 870 (9.50%) NoSQL
2 587 (6.41%) Big Data
3 485 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 325 (3.55%) GIS
5 298 (3.25%) MySQL
6 294 (3.21%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.10%) QGIS
8 267 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 256 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 218 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 176 (1.92%) MongoDB
12 158 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 132 (1.44%) Apache Hive
14 102 (1.11%) HBase
15 99 (1.08%) Redis
16 79 (0.86%) Data Lake
17 72 (0.79%) Metadata
17 72 (0.79%) Power BI
18 69 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
19 62 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 858 (9.37%) Git
2 457 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 323 (3.53%) JIRA
4 276 (3.01%) Visual Studio
5 242 (2.64%) JUnit
6 186 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 150 (1.64%) GitLab
8 138 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 128 (1.40%) Jasmine
10 120 (1.31%) Selenium
11 96 (1.05%) Maven
12 90 (0.98%) Subversion
13 86 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
14 82 (0.90%) LabVIEW
15 66 (0.72%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
16 64 (0.70%) WebDriver
17 61 (0.67%) Sourcetree
18 60 (0.65%) Protractor
19 50 (0.55%) Mockito
General
1 2,799 (30.55%) Finance
2 2,614 (28.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,442 (26.66%) Law
4 1,347 (14.70%) Marketing
5 1,048 (11.44%) Social Skills
6 738 (8.06%) Legal
7 541 (5.91%) Banking
8 486 (5.31%) Electronics
9 364 (3.97%) Investment Banking
10 361 (3.94%) Manufacturing
11 339 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
12 269 (2.94%) Financial Institution
13 243 (2.65%) Automotive
14 200 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 194 (2.12%) Aerospace
16 167 (1.82%) Games
17 157 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
18 146 (1.59%) Public Sector
19 140 (1.53%) Retail
20 97 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,459 (70.51%) Software Engineer
2 2,128 (23.23%) Senior
3 1,667 (18.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,237 (13.50%) Lead
5 1,121 (12.24%) Developer
6 1,058 (11.55%) Embedded Engineer
7 979 (10.69%) Java Engineer
8 960 (10.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 945 (10.32%) Java Software Engineer
10 898 (9.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 454 (4.96%) Full Stack Engineer
12 425 (4.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 410 (4.48%) Python Engineer
14 404 (4.41%) Python Software Engineer
15 390 (4.26%) Big Data Engineer
15 390 (4.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 361 (3.94%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 355 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
18 354 (3.86%) Software Developer
19 342 (3.73%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,418 (15.48%) React
2 1,359 (14.83%) .NET
3 910 (9.93%) Spring
4 814 (8.89%) AngularJS
5 810 (8.84%) CSS
6 614 (6.70%) HTML
7 545 (5.95%) .NET Core
8 531 (5.80%) Node.js
9 512 (5.59%) Spring Boot
10 484 (5.28%) Kafka
11 422 (4.61%) RESTful
12 309 (3.37%) JSON
13 307 (3.35%) REST
14 300 (3.27%) Web Services
15 294 (3.21%) PostGIS
16 288 (3.14%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.14%) OpenLayers
17 260 (2.84%) Hibernate
18 256 (2.79%) J2EE
19 236 (2.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,096 (11.96%) Algorithms
2 1,035 (11.30%) Cloud Native
3 327 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 247 (2.70%) IoT
5 231 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
6 223 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 222 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 211 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 200 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 196 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 164 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 135 (1.47%) Reference Data
13 127 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 107 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 93 (1.02%) Market Risk
16 90 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 85 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
18 77 (0.84%) Device Driver
19 73 (0.80%) Robotics
20 70 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,153 (12.59%) Linux
2 430 (4.69%) Windows
3 234 (2.55%) Embedded Linux
4 188 (2.05%) Unix
5 133 (1.45%) Android
6 120 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 78 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 65 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 51 (0.56%) CentOS
10 38 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
11 36 (0.39%) Debian
12 20 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.14%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.14%) Windows Server
14 8 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
15 7 (0.076%) VxWorks
16 6 (0.065%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.065%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 5 (0.055%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,192 (45.76%) Agile
2 2,506 (27.36%) SDLC
3 2,503 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 1,878 (20.50%) Operational Stability
5 1,730 (18.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,624 (17.73%) Machine Learning
7 1,321 (14.42%) Community of Practice
8 1,303 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
9 1,276 (13.93%) DevOps
10 1,214 (13.25%) Computer Science
11 989 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 940 (10.26%) Microservices
13 912 (9.96%) Full Stack Development
14 909 (9.92%) Visualisation
15 734 (8.01%) Risk Management
16 709 (7.74%) Mentoring
17 654 (7.14%) Test Automation
18 650 (7.10%) Decision-Making
19 616 (6.72%) Scrum
20 586 (6.40%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,730 (29.80%) Java
2 2,463 (26.89%) Python
3 1,882 (20.54%) SQL
4 1,705 (18.61%) C#
5 1,562 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 1,211 (13.22%) C
7 1,033 (11.28%) C++
8 727 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 369 (4.03%) Scala
10 313 (3.42%) Embedded C
11 250 (2.73%) Go
12 213 (2.33%) PHP
13 208 (2.27%) Bash
14 157 (1.71%) PL/SQL
15 128 (1.40%) MATLAB
16 121 (1.32%) Rust
17 118 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 103 (1.12%) T-SQL
19 95 (1.04%) Ruby
20 85 (0.93%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,423 (15.53%) Degree
2 1,167 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 742 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 436 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 191 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 183 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 168 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 101 (1.10%) PhD
9 51 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 35 (0.38%) HND
12 34 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.27%) HNC
14 20 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.17%) CISSP
16 11 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.12%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.098%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (2.46%) QA
2 96 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 72 (0.79%) SLA
4 55 (0.60%) MISRA
5 37 (0.40%) GDPR
6 36 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 36 (0.39%) PMO
7 29 (0.32%) ISO 26262
8 25 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 24 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
10 22 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
11 21 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
12 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
13 18 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
15 14 (0.15%) NIST
16 11 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 10 (0.11%) GRC
17 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
17 10 (0.11%) MISRA C
System Software
1 511 (5.58%) Docker
2 294 (3.21%) Firmware
3 127 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 102 (1.11%) HDFS
5 79 (0.86%) Active Directory
6 16 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.076%) IAG
10 5 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.044%) NFS
11 4 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.033%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.022%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 774 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 512 (5.59%) Terraform
3 195 (2.13%) Grafana
4 144 (1.57%) Ansible
5 93 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 31 (0.34%) Puppet
8 26 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.24%) Kibana
10 21 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.076%) Graphite
13 6 (0.065%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.065%) Nessus
14 5 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.055%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.055%) Istio
14 5 (0.055%) Nagios
14 5 (0.055%) Suricata
Vendors
1 511 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 452 (4.93%) Oracle
3 296 (3.23%) ESRI
4 268 (2.93%) Databricks
5 200 (2.18%) Splunk
6 196 (2.14%) Google
7 166 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 87 (0.95%) Informatica
9 75 (0.82%) SAP
10 72 (0.79%) Cloudera
11 65 (0.71%) IBM
12 58 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 57 (0.62%) Alteryx
14 54 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 54 (0.59%) Xamarin
15 46 (0.50%) SaltStack
15 46 (0.50%) Siemens
16 38 (0.41%) Xilinx
17 34 (0.37%) Pega
18 29 (0.32%) Micro Focus