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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,116 9,199 22,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.38% 10.40% 16.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 10.88% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 5,694 8,677
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £73,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +5.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.80% +15.75%

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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £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 £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 2,392 £92,500 +2.78% 1,218
North of England +11 1,592 £58,500 -6.40% 355
South East +1 1,430 £57,500 -11.54% 649
South West +9 1,238 £55,000 -11.96% 249
North West +15 949 £60,000 -6.25% 212
Midlands +14 878 £55,000 -4.35% 234
East of England +9 534 £60,000 -7.69% 222
Yorkshire +9 516 £55,000 -12.00% 108
West Midlands +25 509 £60,000 - 120
East Midlands +3 369 £50,000 -9.09% 113
North East +9 127 £55,000 +15.79% 38
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
1 488 (6.01%) Apache
2 415 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.60%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.41%) GeoServer
5 147 (1.81%) Confluence
6 114 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 32 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.36%) nginx
9 27 (0.33%) CMS
10 14 (0.17%) NServiceBus
10 14 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.17%) WordPress
11 13 (0.16%) Captiva
11 13 (0.16%) FileNet
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
12 12 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.099%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.086%) Ethereum
14 7 (0.086%) JBoss
14 7 (0.086%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 135 (1.66%) Simulink
2 29 (0.36%) Stateflow
3 17 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.14%) CANalyzer
6 10 (0.12%) OrCAD
7 9 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.074%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.074%) Trello
9 5 (0.062%) GNU Octave
10 4 (0.049%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.037%) Sketch
11 3 (0.037%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.012%) UXPin
13 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 41 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.11%) Magento
4 8 (0.099%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.086%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.049%) Shopify
7 3 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.037%) Endur
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%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.012%) C-CURE
9 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.012%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.012%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.012%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,409 (29.68%) AWS
2 1,779 (21.92%) Azure
3 802 (9.88%) GCP
4 377 (4.65%) Serverless
5 326 (4.02%) SaaS
6 285 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 267 (3.29%) dbt
8 249 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 222 (2.74%) Snowflake
10 220 (2.71%) GitHub
11 162 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 151 (1.86%) Power Platform
13 131 (1.61%) Amazon S3
14 98 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 89 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
16 84 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (1.00%) OpenShift
18 79 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
19 68 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
20 63 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 100 (1.23%) Wireless
3 66 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 66 (0.81%) Internet
4 59 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 53 (0.65%) HTTP
6 52 (0.64%) RS-232
7 51 (0.63%) Network Security
8 47 (0.58%) Bluetooth
9 40 (0.49%) AMQP
9 40 (0.49%) RS-485
10 32 (0.39%) Firewall
10 32 (0.39%) MQTT
11 23 (0.28%) 5G
12 21 (0.26%) 4G
12 21 (0.26%) ZigBee
13 19 (0.23%) Modbus
14 17 (0.21%) J1939
15 16 (0.20%) DNS
16 14 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 364 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
3 346 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 339 (4.18%) MySQL
5 264 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
6 261 (3.22%) Dremio
7 260 (3.20%) Apache Arrow
8 247 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 246 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 235 (2.90%) GIS
11 196 (2.41%) QGIS
12 185 (2.28%) Relational Database
13 133 (1.64%) Redis
14 121 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
14 121 (1.49%) MongoDB
15 91 (1.12%) Big Data
16 89 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
17 86 (1.06%) DynamoDB
18 77 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
19 73 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 834 (10.28%) Git
2 342 (4.21%) JIRA
3 282 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 265 (3.27%) Visual Studio
5 230 (2.83%) GitLab
6 140 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 126 (1.55%) Bitbucket
8 91 (1.12%) Subversion
9 68 (0.84%) Selenium
10 64 (0.79%) Sourcetree
11 62 (0.76%) LabVIEW
12 52 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 50 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
14 48 (0.59%) Postman
15 45 (0.55%) JUnit
16 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
17 36 (0.44%) CMake
18 35 (0.43%) Artifactory
18 35 (0.43%) SonarQube
19 33 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 1,325 (16.33%) Finance
2 1,142 (14.07%) Social Skills
3 624 (7.69%) Front Office
4 537 (6.62%) Banking
5 453 (5.58%) Electronics
6 370 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 306 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 282 (3.47%) Investment Banking
9 246 (3.03%) Automotive
10 219 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 198 (2.44%) Public Sector
12 189 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 189 (2.33%) Retail
13 187 (2.30%) Games
14 179 (2.21%) Law
15 173 (2.13%) Marketing
16 120 (1.48%) Legal
17 115 (1.42%) Tech for Good
18 107 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
19 98 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,910 (60.50%) Software Engineer
2 2,152 (26.52%) Senior
3 1,657 (20.42%) Developer
4 1,551 (19.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 915 (11.27%) Embedded Engineer
6 854 (10.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 801 (9.87%) Lead
8 379 (4.67%) Software Developer
9 375 (4.62%) Python Engineer
10 342 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 341 (4.20%) Java Engineer
12 332 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
12 332 (4.09%) Python Software Engineer
12 332 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 305 (3.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 300 (3.70%) C++ Software Engineer
15 290 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
16 278 (3.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 266 (3.28%) Python Developer
18 256 (3.15%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,538 (18.95%) .NET
2 1,391 (17.14%) React
3 587 (7.23%) .NET Core
4 573 (7.06%) CSS
5 564 (6.95%) AngularJS
6 500 (6.16%) Node.js
7 446 (5.50%) gRPC
8 417 (5.14%) HTML
9 391 (4.82%) Protocol Buffers
10 339 (4.18%) RESTful
11 317 (3.91%) Spring
12 315 (3.88%) Vue
13 296 (3.65%) Pandas
14 291 (3.59%) ASP.NET
14 291 (3.59%) Redux
15 284 (3.50%) NumPy
16 279 (3.44%) REST
17 254 (3.13%) Kafka
17 254 (3.13%) SciPy
18 231 (2.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 550 (6.78%) Fixed Income
2 499 (6.15%) Hedge funds
3 446 (5.50%) Equities
4 393 (4.84%) Derivative
5 375 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 365 (4.50%) Algorithms
7 253 (3.12%) Cloud Native
8 252 (3.10%) IoT
9 244 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
10 238 (2.93%) Embedded Systems
11 207 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
12 194 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
13 174 (2.14%) Client/Server
14 172 (2.12%) Product Ownership
15 163 (2.01%) Data Structures
16 135 (1.66%) Mobile App
17 126 (1.55%) Management Information System
18 91 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
19 85 (1.05%) Private Cloud
20 81 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,118 (13.78%) Linux
2 455 (5.61%) Windows
3 210 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 142 (1.75%) Android
5 125 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 122 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 61 (0.75%) Unix
8 60 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 55 (0.68%) CentOS
10 49 (0.60%) Debian
11 34 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.28%) Windows Server
14 16 (0.20%) VMS
15 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
16 7 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
17 6 (0.074%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.074%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.062%) Windows Embedded Compact
18 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,927 (36.06%) Agile
2 1,447 (17.83%) DevOps
3 1,187 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
4 1,080 (13.31%) Computer Science
5 911 (11.22%) Full Stack Development
6 897 (11.05%) CI/CD
7 706 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 693 (8.54%) Microservices
9 630 (7.76%) Scrum
10 611 (7.53%) Asset Management
11 554 (6.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 531 (6.54%) Test Automation
13 520 (6.41%) TDD
14 518 (6.38%) SDLC
15 495 (6.10%) Investment Management
16 464 (5.72%) Machine Learning
17 412 (5.08%) Design Patterns
18 385 (4.74%) Containerisation
19 383 (4.72%) Open Source
20 381 (4.69%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,359 (29.07%) Python
2 1,896 (23.36%) C#
3 1,804 (22.23%) JavaScript
4 1,690 (20.82%) Java
5 1,209 (14.90%) TypeScript
6 1,116 (13.75%) C
7 1,099 (13.54%) SQL
8 1,024 (12.62%) C++
9 282 (3.47%) Go
10 281 (3.46%) PHP
11 277 (3.41%) Kotlin
12 231 (2.85%) Embedded C
13 203 (2.50%) Rust
14 200 (2.46%) Bash
15 147 (1.81%) Scala
16 142 (1.75%) MATLAB
17 102 (1.26%) PowerShell
18 94 (1.16%) T-SQL
19 87 (1.07%) Ruby
20 86 (1.06%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,588 (19.57%) Degree
2 1,120 (13.80%) Security Cleared
3 682 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 539 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 236 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 193 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 189 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 106 (1.31%) PhD
9 51 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 42 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 34 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.41%) HND
14 26 (0.32%) HNC
15 24 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.27%) ISTQB
17 21 (0.26%) PMI Certification
18 20 (0.25%) CISSP
19 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
20 12 (0.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (3.87%) QA
2 103 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 68 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 51 (0.63%) MISRA
5 41 (0.51%) GDPR
6 29 (0.36%) ISO 26262
7 25 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
8 23 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 22 (0.27%) Automotive SPICE
10 21 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 20 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 19 (0.23%) ISO 13485
12 19 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 17 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
14 16 (0.20%) PMO
15 15 (0.18%) NIST
16 13 (0.16%) NCSC
17 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
17 11 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 723 (8.91%) Docker
2 221 (2.72%) Firmware
3 106 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
4 43 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.41%) Active Directory
6 26 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.11%) KVM
8 8 (0.099%) HDFS
9 7 (0.086%) IAG
10 6 (0.074%) Ceph
11 5 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.049%) NFS
12 4 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.037%) Hyper-V
13 3 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.025%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.012%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.012%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 763 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 500 (6.16%) Terraform
3 216 (2.66%) Ansible
4 50 (0.62%) Grafana
5 34 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 29 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.34%) Puppet
8 16 (0.20%) Functional Safety
9 9 (0.11%) Kibana
10 8 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.074%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.074%) Knative
11 6 (0.074%) Nessus
12 5 (0.062%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.062%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.062%) Nagios
12 5 (0.062%) SELinux
12 5 (0.062%) Suricata
13 4 (0.049%) Istio
Vendors
1 642 (7.91%) Microsoft
2 291 (3.59%) Google
3 207 (2.55%) ESRI
4 127 (1.56%) Oracle
5 65 (0.80%) SAP
6 62 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 57 (0.70%) IBM
8 54 (0.67%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.55%) Siemens
10 44 (0.54%) Bloomberg
11 39 (0.48%) Databricks
12 36 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 34 (0.42%) Xilinx
14 29 (0.36%) Micro Focus
15 27 (0.33%) SaltStack
15 27 (0.33%) VMware
16 25 (0.31%) Adobe
17 23 (0.28%) ServiceNow
18 22 (0.27%) EMC
19 21 (0.26%) Lauterbach