Software Development Manager Jobs

Software Development Manager
UK

The median Software Development Manager salary in the UK is £72,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 843 946
Rank change year-on-year +129 +103 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 172 132 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 145 117 228
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -5.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Software Development Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Manager.

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in the UK

Software Development Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Development Manager within the UK 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
England +121 162 £72,500 -1.36% 13
UK excluding London +7 107 £70,000 - 7
Work from Home +87 87 £70,000 -1.41% 7
London +132 58 £83,500 +1.21% 4
Midlands +13 38 £68,500 +5.38% 2
North of England +32 27 £75,000 +7.14% 1
South East +16 26 £90,000 +12.50% 3
West Midlands +17 20 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -2 18 £66,750 +13.62% 2
North West -5 11 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire +76 9 £75,000 -16.67% 1
North East +5 7 £80,000 +42.86%
East of England -1 7 £120,000 -
South West -26 5 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Wales +12 4 £45,000 -25.00%

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Software Development Manager 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 featuring Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 91 (52.91%) Agile
2 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 40 (23.26%) .NET
3 40 (23.26%) Mentoring
4 37 (21.51%) SDLC
4 37 (21.51%) Roadmaps
5 35 (20.35%) People Management
5 35 (20.35%) Java
5 35 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (16.86%) Business Transformation
6 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
7 28 (16.28%) SQL Server
8 27 (15.70%) C#
9 26 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.53%) IT Strategy
10 25 (14.53%) Relational Database
10 25 (14.53%) Scrum
11 24 (13.95%) Games
12 23 (13.37%) Creative Thinking
12 23 (13.37%) TIBCO
12 23 (13.37%) OpenLink
12 23 (13.37%) Endur
12 23 (13.37%) RDBMS
12 23 (13.37%) VB
12 23 (13.37%) Sybase
12 23 (13.37%) Oracle
12 23 (13.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 23 (13.37%) Data Modelling
12 23 (13.37%) Swaptions
13 22 (12.79%) Technology Strategy

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (13.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.49%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Endur
2 5 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.74%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.05%) Azure
2 5 (2.91%) AWS
2 5 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.91%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.16%) SaaS
3 2 (1.16%) Serverless
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.58%) GitHub
4 1 (0.58%) IaaS
4 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.53%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.37%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.23%) OLAP
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.16%) MySQL
5 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Git
2 4 (2.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.16%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.95%) Games
3 20 (11.63%) Marketing
4 18 (10.47%) Finance
5 12 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.23%) Law
7 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.74%) Back Office
9 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Wearables
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.26%) .NET
2 5 (2.91%) LAMP
2 5 (2.91%) Laravel
3 4 (2.33%) React
4 3 (1.74%) Vue
5 2 (1.16%) CSS
5 2 (1.16%) CSS3
5 2 (1.16%) HTML
5 2 (1.16%) HTML5
5 2 (1.16%) Jest
5 2 (1.16%) jQuery
5 2 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) RESTful
5 2 (1.16%) Web Services
6 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.58%) Lucene
6 1 (0.58%) Spring
6 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.58%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.37%) Swaptions
2 15 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.07%) 3D Graphics
4 7 (4.07%) Client/Server
5 6 (3.49%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.49%) PropTech
5 6 (3.49%) RISC-V
6 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.16%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.58%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.91%) Agile
2 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 40 (23.26%) Mentoring
4 37 (21.51%) Roadmaps
4 37 (21.51%) SDLC
5 35 (20.35%) People Management
5 35 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (16.86%) Business Transformation
7 26 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (14.53%) IT Strategy
8 25 (14.53%) Scrum
9 23 (13.37%) Creative Thinking
9 23 (13.37%) Data Modelling
10 22 (12.79%) Technology Strategy
11 20 (11.63%) Strategic Roadmap
11 20 (11.63%) Workshop Facilitation
12 18 (10.47%) Project Delivery
13 16 (9.30%) DevOps
14 15 (8.72%) Line Management
14 15 (8.72%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.35%) Java
2 27 (15.70%) C#
3 23 (13.37%) VB
4 16 (9.30%) SQL
5 11 (6.40%) C
5 11 (6.40%) PHP
6 9 (5.23%) Python
7 6 (3.49%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.16%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (5.81%) Degree
2 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.16%) CISSP
3 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.65%) QA
2 5 (2.91%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) OpenLink
1 23 (13.37%) Oracle
1 23 (13.37%) Sybase
1 23 (13.37%) TIBCO
2 13 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe
4 1 (0.58%) IFS
4 1 (0.58%) Marketo
4 1 (0.58%) SAP
4 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.58%) Twitter