Software Engineer Jobs in England

Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 68 32
Rank change year-on-year +39 -36 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5,436 3,689 12,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.96% 4.38% 8.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.29% 4.79% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,104 2,352 3,706
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in England

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +17 1,325 £95,000 +8.57% 473
North of England +70 1,114 £55,000 -8.33% 180
South East +40 1,050 £53,000 -15.20% 156
South West +51 951 £56,250 -6.25% 156
North West +78 642 £57,000 -5.00% 133
Midlands +54 615 £52,500 -4.55% 116
Yorkshire +57 387 £50,000 -16.67% 33
East of England +40 364 £60,000 - 113
West Midlands +57 321 £55,000 -4.35% 54
East Midlands +34 294 £52,500 +7.69% 61
North East +38 85 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Software Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5,390 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 1,628 (29.95%) Agile
3 1,617 (29.75%) Python
4 1,524 (28.04%) AWS
5 1,213 (22.31%) JavaScript
6 1,121 (20.62%) C#
7 1,066 (19.61%) Azure
8 1,042 (19.17%) Java
9 944 (17.37%) React
10 904 (16.63%) .NET
11 880 (16.19%) C
12 849 (15.62%) C++
13 845 (15.54%) Degree
14 802 (14.75%) Linux
15 794 (14.61%) TypeScript
16 762 (14.02%) Finance
17 732 (13.47%) Security Cleared
18 668 (12.29%) DevOps
19 604 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
20 591 (10.87%) SQL
21 576 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
22 550 (10.12%) Computer Science
23 540 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
24 531 (9.77%) Social Skills
25 524 (9.64%) GCP
26 433 (7.97%) Front Office
27 427 (7.86%) Asset Management
27 427 (7.86%) AngularJS
28 425 (7.82%) SC Cleared
29 421 (7.74%) Fixed Income

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 389 (7.16%) Apache
2 332 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
3 209 (3.84%) ArcGIS
4 196 (3.61%) GeoServer
5 74 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 51 (0.94%) Confluence
7 18 (0.33%) CMS
8 13 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.15%) nginx
10 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.092%) Drupal
12 4 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.074%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.074%) WinCC
13 3 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.037%) Captiva
14 2 (0.037%) FileNet
14 2 (0.037%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.037%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.018%) SharePoint
Applications
1 105 (1.93%) Simulink
2 27 (0.50%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.20%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.11%) Trello
7 5 (0.092%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.055%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.055%) Sketch
8 3 (0.055%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.037%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.018%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.018%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.018%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.018%) UXPin
10 1 (0.018%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.11%) Magento
4 5 (0.092%) Ripple
4 5 (0.092%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.037%) C-CURE
5 2 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.018%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.018%) Endur
6 1 (0.018%) Findur
6 1 (0.018%) Ripple XRP
6 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.018%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.018%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,524 (28.04%) AWS
2 1,066 (19.61%) Azure
3 524 (9.64%) GCP
4 188 (3.46%) dbt
5 184 (3.38%) Serverless
6 154 (2.83%) Snowflake
7 120 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (2.01%) GitHub
9 109 (2.01%) SaaS
10 53 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (0.77%) OpenShift
11 42 (0.77%) Power Platform
12 35 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (0.61%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (0.52%) Amazon S3
15 27 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (0.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 72 (1.32%) Wireless
3 50 (0.92%) RS-232
4 44 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 42 (0.77%) RS-485
6 40 (0.74%) Bluetooth
7 38 (0.70%) Ethernet
8 37 (0.68%) Internet
9 31 (0.57%) AMQP
9 31 (0.57%) HTTP
10 29 (0.53%) MQTT
11 21 (0.39%) Network Security
12 20 (0.37%) Modbus
13 19 (0.35%) ZigBee
14 14 (0.26%) 4G
14 14 (0.26%) J1939
15 13 (0.24%) 3G
16 12 (0.22%) 5G
17 11 (0.20%) VoIP
18 6 (0.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 540 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 301 (5.54%) Apache Ignite
3 230 (4.23%) GIS
4 199 (3.66%) MySQL
5 196 (3.61%) QGIS
6 186 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
7 184 (3.38%) Apache Arrow
7 184 (3.38%) Dremio
8 183 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 156 (2.87%) Data Lake
10 145 (2.67%) NoSQL
11 79 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 78 (1.43%) Relational Database
13 72 (1.32%) Redis
14 61 (1.12%) DynamoDB
15 51 (0.94%) Big Data
16 34 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 34 (0.63%) Hadoop
17 29 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 385 (7.08%) Git
2 157 (2.89%) JIRA
3 118 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.71%) GitLab
5 90 (1.66%) Visual Studio
6 87 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 71 (1.31%) Subversion
8 37 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 29 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 27 (0.50%) CMake
11 24 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.40%) ClearCase
12 22 (0.40%) Maven
13 21 (0.39%) Plastic SCM
13 21 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
13 21 (0.39%) Selenium
13 21 (0.39%) Vagrant
14 19 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
15 18 (0.33%) JUnit
16 14 (0.26%) ClearQuest
General
1 762 (14.02%) Finance
2 531 (9.77%) Social Skills
3 433 (7.97%) Front Office
4 402 (7.40%) Electronics
5 345 (6.35%) Banking
6 245 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 214 (3.94%) Automotive
8 185 (3.40%) Investment Banking
9 166 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
10 159 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 142 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 103 (1.89%) Retail
13 100 (1.84%) Public Sector
14 89 (1.64%) Marketing
15 82 (1.51%) Military
15 82 (1.51%) Tech for Good
16 80 (1.47%) Legal
17 77 (1.42%) Law
18 60 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 59 (1.09%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 944 (17.37%) React
2 904 (16.63%) .NET
3 427 (7.86%) AngularJS
4 404 (7.43%) .NET Core
5 363 (6.68%) gRPC
6 343 (6.31%) CSS
7 313 (5.76%) Protocol Buffers
8 307 (5.65%) Node.js
9 259 (4.76%) Redux
10 248 (4.56%) Vue
11 207 (3.81%) Pandas
12 204 (3.75%) PostGIS
13 203 (3.73%) NumPy
14 200 (3.68%) Leaflet
14 200 (3.68%) OpenLayers
15 193 (3.55%) ASP.NET
15 193 (3.55%) RESTful
16 189 (3.48%) Spring
17 184 (3.38%) SciPy
18 183 (3.37%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 421 (7.74%) Fixed Income
2 351 (6.46%) Hedge funds
3 308 (5.67%) Equities
4 263 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 261 (4.80%) Derivative
6 202 (3.72%) Algorithms
7 183 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
8 182 (3.35%) IoT
9 125 (2.30%) Cloud Native
10 123 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
11 115 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
12 107 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.31%) Client/Server
14 68 (1.25%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.20%) Device Driver
16 64 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 61 (1.12%) Robotics
18 59 (1.09%) Product Ownership
19 43 (0.79%) SCADA
20 42 (0.77%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 802 (14.75%) Linux
2 306 (5.63%) Windows
3 182 (3.35%) Embedded Linux
4 123 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 98 (1.80%) Android
6 76 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 65 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (0.99%) CentOS
9 52 (0.96%) Debian
10 51 (0.94%) Unix
11 31 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
12 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 12 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.11%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.092%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 4 (0.074%) Windows Server
17 3 (0.055%) VMS
18 2 (0.037%) Alpine Linux
18 2 (0.037%) FreeBSD
18 2 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,390 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 1,628 (29.95%) Agile
3 668 (12.29%) DevOps
4 604 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 576 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
6 550 (10.12%) Computer Science
7 427 (7.86%) Asset Management
8 405 (7.45%) Microservices
9 395 (7.27%) Mentoring
10 389 (7.16%) Investment Management
11 371 (6.82%) CI/CD
12 323 (5.94%) Machine Learning
13 321 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence
14 305 (5.61%) Actionable Insight
15 303 (5.57%) Test Automation
16 300 (5.52%) TDD
17 280 (5.15%) Web Development
18 276 (5.08%) SDLC
19 258 (4.75%) Fintech
20 242 (4.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,617 (29.75%) Python
2 1,213 (22.31%) JavaScript
3 1,121 (20.62%) C#
4 1,042 (19.17%) Java
5 880 (16.19%) C
6 849 (15.62%) C++
7 794 (14.61%) TypeScript
8 591 (10.87%) SQL
9 224 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 202 (3.72%) Embedded C
11 171 (3.15%) Rust
12 158 (2.91%) Go
13 155 (2.85%) Bash
14 124 (2.28%) PHP
15 114 (2.10%) Scala
16 107 (1.97%) MATLAB
17 70 (1.29%) Ada
18 53 (0.97%) PowerShell
18 53 (0.97%) T-SQL
19 47 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 845 (15.54%) Degree
2 732 (13.47%) Security Cleared
3 425 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 271 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 166 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 117 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 74 (1.36%) PhD
8 61 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.46%) HND
10 24 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.29%) HNC
12 15 (0.28%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.15%) Chartered Engineer
13 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.13%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.074%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.055%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.055%) Sun Certification
17 2 (0.037%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (3.02%) QA
2 66 (1.21%) Data Quality
3 47 (0.86%) MISRA
4 23 (0.42%) ISO 26262
5 22 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
6 20 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
7 19 (0.35%) GDPR
8 16 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
8 16 (0.29%) PMO
9 13 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 12 (0.22%) ISO 13485
11 11 (0.20%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.17%) MISRA C
13 7 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.11%) JTAG
15 5 (0.092%) TickIT
16 2 (0.037%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 310 (5.70%) Docker
2 160 (2.94%) Firmware
3 84 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 26 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.092%) Ceph
7 3 (0.055%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.018%) KVM
9 1 (0.018%) LXC
Systems Management
1 366 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 247 (4.54%) Terraform
3 135 (2.48%) Ansible
4 31 (0.57%) Puppet
5 18 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 15 (0.28%) Grafana
7 7 (0.13%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.092%) Knative
8 5 (0.092%) SELinux
9 4 (0.074%) Podman
9 4 (0.074%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.055%) Consul
10 3 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.055%) Kibana
10 3 (0.055%) Packer
10 3 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.037%) Istio
11 2 (0.037%) linkerd
11 2 (0.037%) MIIS
12 1 (0.018%) Argo
Vendors
1 244 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 208 (3.83%) Google
3 204 (3.75%) ESRI
4 55 (1.01%) Red Hat
5 46 (0.85%) Oracle
6 41 (0.75%) Siemens
7 34 (0.63%) IBM
8 29 (0.53%) SaltStack
9 27 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 24 (0.44%) SAP
10 24 (0.44%) Xamarin
11 22 (0.40%) Xilinx
12 21 (0.39%) Lauterbach
13 13 (0.24%) Databricks
14 12 (0.22%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.22%) F5
15 11 (0.20%) Cadence
16 10 (0.18%) Facebook
17 9 (0.17%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.17%) Synopsys