Software Engineering Jobs in England

Software Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7,988 9,459 21,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.30% 10.49% 15.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.88% 10.97% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,328 5,816 8,566
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,611 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
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 England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in England

Software Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the England 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
London +1 2,350 £91,500 +4.57% 867
North of England +9 1,560 £60,000 -3.23% 287
South East -1 1,404 £57,500 -11.54% 338
South West +8 1,231 £55,000 -8.33% 241
North West +8 928 £60,000 -4.00% 172
Midlands +11 865 £55,000 -4.35% 214
East of England +7 523 £60,000 -7.69% 193
West Midlands +24 507 £60,000 - 99
Yorkshire +10 507 £55,000 -12.00% 92
East Midlands +1 358 £50,000 -9.09% 114
North East +9 125 £55,000 +16.40% 27
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 438 (5.48%) Apache
2 366 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.64%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.45%) GeoServer
5 153 (1.92%) Confluence
6 106 (1.33%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.36%) CMS
8 29 (0.36%) nginx
9 19 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.23%) Captiva
10 18 (0.23%) FileNet
11 14 (0.18%) WordPress
12 13 (0.16%) IIS
13 12 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.15%) NServiceBus
14 9 (0.11%) JBoss
14 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
16 7 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 131 (1.64%) Simulink
2 29 (0.36%) Stateflow
3 16 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 10 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.13%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.075%) Trello
8 5 (0.063%) GNU Octave
8 5 (0.063%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.050%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.038%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.013%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 40 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 8 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.088%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.050%) Shopify
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.038%) Endur
7 3 (0.038%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.025%) CiviCRM
8 2 (0.025%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.025%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.025%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.025%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,336 (29.24%) AWS
2 1,763 (22.07%) Azure
3 779 (9.75%) GCP
4 371 (4.64%) Serverless
5 323 (4.04%) SaaS
6 287 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 241 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
8 231 (2.89%) dbt
9 216 (2.70%) GitHub
10 188 (2.35%) Snowflake
11 167 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
12 155 (1.94%) Power Platform
13 133 (1.66%) Amazon S3
14 97 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 89 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
16 81 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
16 81 (1.01%) OpenShift
17 78 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
18 66 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
19 61 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 102 (1.28%) Wireless
3 65 (0.81%) Internet
4 63 (0.79%) Ethernet
5 60 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 52 (0.65%) HTTP
7 51 (0.64%) RS-232
8 48 (0.60%) Bluetooth
8 48 (0.60%) Network Security
9 40 (0.50%) RS-485
10 39 (0.49%) AMQP
11 32 (0.40%) MQTT
12 31 (0.39%) Firewall
13 23 (0.29%) 5G
14 21 (0.26%) 4G
14 21 (0.26%) ZigBee
15 18 (0.23%) J1939
15 18 (0.23%) Modbus
16 17 (0.21%) DNS
17 14 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 635 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 350 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 339 (4.24%) MySQL
4 318 (3.98%) Apache Ignite
5 235 (2.94%) GIS
6 228 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
7 226 (2.83%) NoSQL
8 225 (2.82%) Dremio
9 224 (2.80%) Apache Arrow
10 212 (2.65%) Data Lake
11 196 (2.45%) QGIS
12 185 (2.32%) Relational Database
13 128 (1.60%) Redis
14 121 (1.51%) MongoDB
15 111 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
16 92 (1.15%) Big Data
17 88 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
18 79 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
19 78 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
20 68 (0.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 819 (10.25%) Git
2 356 (4.46%) JIRA
3 282 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 267 (3.34%) Visual Studio
5 215 (2.69%) GitLab
6 134 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 134 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 91 (1.14%) Subversion
8 68 (0.85%) Selenium
9 64 (0.80%) Sourcetree
10 60 (0.75%) LabVIEW
11 54 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 50 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
13 48 (0.60%) Postman
14 44 (0.55%) Cucumber
15 43 (0.54%) JUnit
16 38 (0.48%) Artifactory
17 36 (0.45%) CMake
18 34 (0.43%) Maven
18 34 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 1,300 (16.27%) Finance
2 1,114 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 590 (7.39%) Front Office
4 499 (6.25%) Banking
5 442 (5.53%) Electronics
6 366 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 301 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 249 (3.12%) Investment Banking
9 242 (3.03%) Automotive
10 218 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 197 (2.47%) Games
12 196 (2.45%) Public Sector
13 186 (2.33%) Aerospace
14 184 (2.30%) Retail
15 175 (2.19%) Marketing
16 174 (2.18%) Law
17 122 (1.53%) Legal
18 116 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
19 113 (1.41%) Tech for Good
20 96 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 4,777 (59.80%) Software Engineer
2 2,108 (26.39%) Senior
3 1,657 (20.74%) Developer
4 1,503 (18.82%) Senior Software Engineer
5 899 (11.25%) Embedded Engineer
6 837 (10.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 761 (9.53%) Lead
8 362 (4.53%) Software Developer
9 349 (4.37%) Python Engineer
10 330 (4.13%) Senior Developer
11 328 (4.11%) Java Engineer
12 323 (4.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 308 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
14 305 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
15 299 (3.74%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 294 (3.68%) C++ Software Engineer
17 278 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
18 270 (3.38%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
19 255 (3.19%) .NET Developer
19 255 (3.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,525 (19.09%) .NET
2 1,388 (17.38%) React
3 588 (7.36%) .NET Core
4 570 (7.14%) CSS
5 561 (7.02%) AngularJS
6 499 (6.25%) Node.js
7 415 (5.20%) HTML
8 399 (4.99%) gRPC
9 345 (4.32%) Protocol Buffers
10 324 (4.06%) RESTful
11 310 (3.88%) Spring
12 309 (3.87%) Vue
13 291 (3.64%) ASP.NET
14 282 (3.53%) Redux
15 263 (3.29%) REST
16 260 (3.25%) Pandas
17 249 (3.12%) Kafka
17 249 (3.12%) NumPy
18 230 (2.88%) Spring Boot
19 223 (2.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 511 (6.40%) Fixed Income
2 462 (5.78%) Hedge funds
3 406 (5.08%) Equities
4 367 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 364 (4.56%) Derivative
6 343 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 253 (3.17%) IoT
8 251 (3.14%) Cloud Native
9 250 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
10 235 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
11 203 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
12 184 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
13 173 (2.17%) Client/Server
13 173 (2.17%) Product Ownership
14 167 (2.09%) Data Structures
15 136 (1.70%) Mobile App
16 122 (1.53%) Management Information System
17 101 (1.26%) Virtual Reality
18 88 (1.10%) Private Cloud
19 82 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,117 (13.98%) Linux
2 450 (5.63%) Windows
3 206 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
4 138 (1.73%) Android
5 122 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 121 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 67 (0.84%) Unix
8 57 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.65%) CentOS
10 47 (0.59%) Debian
11 34 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.29%) Windows Server
14 18 (0.23%) VMS
15 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.075%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.075%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.075%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.063%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.063%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,859 (35.79%) Agile
2 1,430 (17.90%) DevOps
3 1,174 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1,064 (13.32%) Computer Science
5 882 (11.04%) Full Stack Development
6 872 (10.92%) CI/CD
7 699 (8.75%) Mentoring
8 677 (8.48%) Microservices
9 633 (7.92%) Scrum
10 573 (7.17%) Asset Management
11 536 (6.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 521 (6.52%) Test Automation
13 518 (6.48%) SDLC
14 503 (6.30%) TDD
15 471 (5.90%) Investment Management
16 447 (5.60%) Machine Learning
17 416 (5.21%) Design Patterns
18 379 (4.74%) Containerisation
19 376 (4.71%) Open Source
20 375 (4.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2,300 (28.79%) Python
2 1,895 (23.72%) C#
3 1,759 (22.02%) JavaScript
4 1,632 (20.43%) Java
5 1,165 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 1,115 (13.96%) C
7 1,099 (13.76%) SQL
8 1,009 (12.63%) C++
9 285 (3.57%) Go
10 278 (3.48%) PHP
11 261 (3.27%) Kotlin
12 227 (2.84%) Embedded C
13 204 (2.55%) Rust
14 201 (2.52%) Bash
15 141 (1.77%) MATLAB
16 128 (1.60%) Scala
17 104 (1.30%) PowerShell
18 97 (1.21%) T-SQL
19 89 (1.11%) Ruby
20 86 (1.08%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,578 (19.75%) Degree
2 1,109 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 679 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 527 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 235 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 200 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 181 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 105 (1.31%) PhD
9 45 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 41 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 34 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.41%) HND
14 26 (0.33%) HNC
15 23 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.25%) CISSP
18 17 (0.21%) ISTQB
19 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
20 12 (0.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (3.92%) QA
2 92 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 68 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 52 (0.65%) MISRA
5 46 (0.58%) GDPR
6 30 (0.38%) ISO 26262
7 27 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 26 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
9 23 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
9 23 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
10 21 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 20 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 19 (0.24%) ISO 13485
13 17 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
15 15 (0.19%) NIST
15 15 (0.19%) PMO
16 12 (0.15%) NCSC
17 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
17 11 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 724 (9.06%) Docker
2 221 (2.77%) Firmware
3 105 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
4 37 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.41%) Active Directory
6 25 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.10%) HDFS
9 7 (0.088%) IAG
10 5 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.050%) Ceph
11 4 (0.050%) NFS
12 3 (0.038%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.013%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.013%) LXC
13 1 (0.013%) OpenSIPS
13 1 (0.013%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 761 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 493 (6.17%) Terraform
3 209 (2.62%) Ansible
4 51 (0.64%) Grafana
5 35 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 31 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.35%) Puppet
8 16 (0.20%) Functional Safety
9 9 (0.11%) Kibana
10 8 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.075%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.075%) Nessus
12 5 (0.063%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.063%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.063%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.063%) Nagios
12 5 (0.063%) SELinux
12 5 (0.063%) Suricata
13 4 (0.050%) Istio
13 4 (0.050%) Knative
Vendors
1 645 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 278 (3.48%) Google
3 207 (2.59%) ESRI
4 131 (1.64%) Oracle
5 71 (0.89%) SAP
6 62 (0.78%) IBM
7 61 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 53 (0.66%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.56%) Siemens
10 43 (0.54%) Bloomberg
11 37 (0.46%) Databricks
12 36 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.38%) Xilinx
14 29 (0.36%) Micro Focus
15 28 (0.35%) Adobe
15 28 (0.35%) ServiceNow
16 27 (0.34%) VMware
17 26 (0.33%) SaltStack
18 22 (0.28%) EMC
19 21 (0.26%) Apple