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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8,932 6,167 8,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.58% 10.30% 12.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.98% 10.77% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,052 3,390 4,649
10th Percentile £37,551 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +7.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

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 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £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% +10.53%
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 11 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 11 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 3,068 £60,000 -7.69% 125
North of England +9 1,559 £60,000 -4.00% 290
South East -1 1,403 £57,500 -11.54% 338
South West +8 1,233 £55,000 -8.33% 238
North West +9 927 £60,000 -4.00% 175
Midlands +11 864 £55,000 -4.35% 212
East of England +7 523 £60,000 -7.69% 184
Yorkshire +10 507 £55,000 -12.00% 91
West Midlands +21 506 £60,000 - 97
East Midlands +2 358 £50,000 -9.09% 115
Wales +7 178 £50,000 - 30
North East +12 125 £55,000 +16.40% 28
Northern Ireland 0 106 £60,000 +26.32% 30
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
1 659 (7.38%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.36%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.18%) GeoServer
4 205 (2.30%) Apache
5 140 (1.57%) Confluence
6 120 (1.34%) FileNet
7 119 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
8 32 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 28 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 26 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 22 (0.25%) Captiva
12 21 (0.24%) GemFire
13 20 (0.22%) Camunda
13 20 (0.22%) CMS
14 18 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 15 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
16 13 (0.15%) nginx
17 12 (0.13%) IIS
17 12 (0.13%) JBoss
17 12 (0.13%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 131 (1.47%) Simulink
2 29 (0.32%) Stateflow
3 18 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 6 (0.067%) Trello
9 4 (0.045%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.045%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.034%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.034%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.022%) Sketch
11 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.011%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 32 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.10%) Magento
2 9 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.090%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.045%) Shopify
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.034%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.022%) SAP FI-GL
7 2 (0.022%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,483 (27.80%) AWS
2 1,358 (15.20%) Azure
3 365 (4.09%) GCP
4 290 (3.25%) SaaS
5 259 (2.90%) Serverless
6 208 (2.33%) GitHub
7 206 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 189 (2.12%) Amazon S3
9 154 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.40%) Datadog
11 119 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 109 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
13 107 (1.20%) Power Platform
14 94 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
16 91 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
17 87 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 68 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 55 (0.62%) Amazon EMR
20 51 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 161 (1.80%) Wireless
2 118 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 91 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 83 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 82 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 71 (0.79%) Network Security
7 65 (0.73%) RS-232
8 57 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 46 (0.52%) Internet
9 46 (0.52%) MQTT
10 40 (0.45%) HTTP
10 40 (0.45%) RS-485
11 32 (0.36%) AMQP
11 32 (0.36%) Modbus
12 23 (0.26%) 5G
13 21 (0.24%) 4G
13 21 (0.24%) ZigBee
14 20 (0.22%) DSL
15 19 (0.21%) Firewall
16 18 (0.20%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 848 (9.49%) NoSQL
2 593 (6.64%) Big Data
3 468 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
4 325 (3.64%) GIS
5 302 (3.38%) MySQL
6 296 (3.31%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.18%) QGIS
8 276 (3.09%) Relational Database
9 259 (2.90%) SQL Server
10 229 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
11 184 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 160 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 132 (1.48%) Apache Hive
14 103 (1.15%) HBase
15 92 (1.03%) Redis
16 77 (0.86%) Data Lake
17 73 (0.82%) RDBMS
18 72 (0.81%) Metadata
19 66 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
19 66 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 866 (9.70%) Git
2 462 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 344 (3.85%) JIRA
4 282 (3.16%) Visual Studio
5 239 (2.68%) JUnit
6 196 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 146 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 146 (1.63%) GitLab
8 126 (1.41%) Jasmine
9 124 (1.39%) Selenium
10 98 (1.10%) Maven
11 91 (1.02%) Subversion
12 86 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
13 80 (0.90%) LabVIEW
14 66 (0.74%) Artifactory
14 66 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
15 64 (0.72%) WebDriver
16 61 (0.68%) Sourcetree
17 60 (0.67%) Protractor
18 56 (0.63%) Cucumber
General
1 2,811 (31.47%) Finance
2 2,628 (29.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,439 (27.31%) Law
4 1,352 (15.14%) Marketing
5 1,023 (11.45%) Social Skills
6 739 (8.27%) Legal
7 560 (6.27%) Banking
8 466 (5.22%) Electronics
9 363 (4.06%) Investment Banking
10 341 (3.82%) Manufacturing
11 335 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
12 269 (3.01%) Financial Institution
13 234 (2.62%) Automotive
14 202 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
15 184 (2.06%) Aerospace
16 176 (1.97%) Games
17 168 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
18 146 (1.63%) Public Sector
19 136 (1.52%) Retail
20 98 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,263 (70.12%) Software Engineer
2 2,061 (23.07%) Senior
3 1,601 (17.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,193 (13.36%) Lead
5 1,119 (12.53%) Developer
6 1,015 (11.36%) Embedded Engineer
7 979 (10.96%) Java Engineer
8 946 (10.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 915 (10.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 872 (9.76%) Lead Software Engineer
11 450 (5.04%) Full Stack Engineer
12 423 (4.74%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 408 (4.57%) Python Engineer
14 403 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
15 390 (4.37%) Big Data Engineer
15 390 (4.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 354 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
17 347 (3.88%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 345 (3.86%) Software Developer
19 341 (3.82%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,436 (16.08%) React
2 1,332 (14.91%) .NET
3 909 (10.18%) Spring
4 814 (9.11%) AngularJS
5 810 (9.07%) CSS
6 617 (6.91%) HTML
7 538 (6.02%) .NET Core
8 533 (5.97%) Node.js
9 515 (5.77%) Spring Boot
10 490 (5.49%) Kafka
11 419 (4.69%) RESTful
12 313 (3.50%) JSON
13 294 (3.29%) PostGIS
14 289 (3.24%) Web Services
15 288 (3.22%) Leaflet
15 288 (3.22%) OpenLayers
16 285 (3.19%) REST
17 260 (2.91%) Hibernate
18 256 (2.87%) J2EE
19 233 (2.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,096 (12.27%) Algorithms
2 1,031 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 325 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 247 (2.77%) IoT
5 230 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
6 227 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 223 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 210 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 202 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 195 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
11 159 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 135 (1.51%) Reference Data
13 119 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
14 105 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 99 (1.11%) Private Cloud
16 96 (1.07%) Virtual Reality
17 93 (1.04%) Market Risk
18 80 (0.90%) Device Driver
19 73 (0.82%) Robotics
20 70 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,143 (12.80%) Linux
2 426 (4.77%) Windows
3 227 (2.54%) Embedded Linux
4 195 (2.18%) Unix
5 127 (1.42%) Android
6 114 (1.28%) Ubuntu
7 77 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 61 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (0.50%) CentOS
10 38 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
11 32 (0.36%) Debian
12 26 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 10 (0.11%) Windows Server
15 7 (0.078%) VxWorks
16 6 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
16 6 (0.067%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.067%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.056%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.056%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,199 (47.01%) Agile
2 2,500 (27.99%) CI/CD
3 2,497 (27.96%) SDLC
4 1,878 (21.03%) Operational Stability
5 1,706 (19.10%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,610 (18.03%) Machine Learning
7 1,322 (14.80%) Community of Practice
8 1,307 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 1,281 (14.34%) DevOps
10 1,192 (13.35%) Computer Science
11 989 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 943 (10.56%) Microservices
13 908 (10.17%) Visualisation
14 897 (10.04%) Full Stack Development
15 734 (8.22%) Risk Management
16 686 (7.68%) Mentoring
17 650 (7.28%) Test Automation
18 649 (7.27%) Decision-Making
19 632 (7.08%) Scrum
20 587 (6.57%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,745 (30.73%) Java
2 2,440 (27.32%) Python
3 1,884 (21.09%) SQL
4 1,689 (18.91%) C#
5 1,557 (17.43%) JavaScript
6 1,213 (13.58%) C
7 1,010 (11.31%) C++
8 707 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 361 (4.04%) Scala
10 310 (3.47%) Embedded C
11 263 (2.94%) Go
12 218 (2.44%) Bash
13 214 (2.40%) PHP
14 157 (1.76%) PL/SQL
15 127 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 125 (1.40%) Rust
17 112 (1.25%) Kotlin
18 108 (1.21%) Ruby
19 103 (1.15%) T-SQL
20 87 (0.97%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,405 (15.73%) Degree
2 1,135 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 727 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 413 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 195 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 183 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 151 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 96 (1.07%) PhD
9 52 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.38%) HND
12 32 (0.36%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.27%) HNC
14 19 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 16 (0.18%) CISSP
17 12 (0.13%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
19 9 (0.10%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (2.64%) QA
2 97 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.82%) SLA
4 57 (0.64%) MISRA
5 47 (0.53%) GDPR
6 36 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 35 (0.39%) PMO
8 30 (0.34%) ISO 26262
9 28 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 26 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
11 25 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 23 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
12 23 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
13 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
15 14 (0.16%) 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
1 519 (5.81%) Docker
2 298 (3.34%) Firmware
3 131 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 102 (1.14%) HDFS
5 79 (0.88%) Active Directory
6 15 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.078%) IAG
10 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.045%) NFS
11 4 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.034%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.011%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.011%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 775 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 505 (5.65%) Terraform
3 193 (2.16%) Grafana
4 131 (1.47%) Ansible
5 93 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 29 (0.32%) Puppet
8 26 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.25%) Kibana
10 21 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.16%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.078%) Graphite
13 6 (0.067%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.067%) Nessus
14 5 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.056%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.056%) Istio
14 5 (0.056%) Nagios
14 5 (0.056%) Suricata
Vendors
1 511 (5.72%) Microsoft
2 479 (5.36%) Oracle
3 296 (3.31%) ESRI
4 268 (3.00%) Databricks
5 204 (2.28%) Google
6 199 (2.23%) Splunk
7 166 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 89 (1.00%) SAP
9 87 (0.97%) Informatica
10 78 (0.87%) IBM
11 72 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 57 (0.64%) Alteryx
13 56 (0.63%) Red Hat
14 54 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 53 (0.59%) Xamarin
16 46 (0.52%) Siemens
17 44 (0.49%) Pega
17 44 (0.49%) SaltStack
18 33 (0.37%) Dell
19 32 (0.36%) ServiceNow