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

6 months to
19 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 8,103 9,205 22,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.37% 10.40% 16.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 10.88% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,380 5,704 8,586
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 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
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 £73,250 £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 19 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 19 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 2,384 £91,500 +1.67% 1,266
North of England +10 1,590 £58,500 -6.40% 346
South East +1 1,426 £57,500 -11.54% 660
South West +9 1,239 £55,000 -11.96% 236
North West +14 947 £60,000 -4.38% 209
Midlands +13 876 £55,000 -4.35% 239
East of England +8 533 £60,000 -7.69% 231
Yorkshire +10 516 £55,000 -12.00% 105
West Midlands +26 508 £60,000 - 120
East Midlands +4 368 £50,000 -9.09% 118
North East +10 127 £55,000 +15.79% 34
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
1 476 (5.87%) Apache
2 403 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (2.60%) ArcGIS
4 196 (2.42%) GeoServer
5 148 (1.83%) Confluence
6 112 (1.38%) Apache Spark
7 33 (0.41%) 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%) JBoss
13 8 (0.099%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.086%) Microsoft Exchange
14 7 (0.086%) WinCC
Applications
1 135 (1.67%) 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%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.012%) UXPin
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%) Temenos T24
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
Cloud Services
1 2,395 (29.56%) AWS
2 1,778 (21.94%) Azure
3 793 (9.79%) GCP
4 380 (4.69%) Serverless
5 326 (4.02%) SaaS
6 286 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 259 (3.20%) dbt
8 249 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 217 (2.68%) GitHub
10 214 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 163 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 153 (1.89%) Power Platform
13 130 (1.60%) Amazon S3
14 97 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 87 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
16 82 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (1.00%) OpenShift
18 78 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
19 67 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
20 62 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 116 (1.43%) 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%) MQTT
11 31 (0.38%) Firewall
12 23 (0.28%) 5G
13 21 (0.26%) 4G
13 21 (0.26%) ZigBee
14 19 (0.23%) Modbus
15 17 (0.21%) J1939
16 16 (0.20%) DNS
17 14 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 649 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 352 (4.34%) Apache Ignite
3 346 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 339 (4.18%) MySQL
5 256 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
6 253 (3.12%) Dremio
7 252 (3.11%) Apache Arrow
8 242 (2.99%) NoSQL
9 239 (2.95%) Data Lake
10 235 (2.90%) GIS
11 196 (2.42%) QGIS
12 184 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 134 (1.65%) Redis
14 120 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
15 119 (1.47%) MongoDB
16 91 (1.12%) Big Data
17 89 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
18 85 (1.05%) DynamoDB
19 76 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
20 74 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 836 (10.32%) Git
2 343 (4.23%) JIRA
3 284 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 266 (3.28%) Visual Studio
5 229 (2.83%) GitLab
6 136 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 127 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 91 (1.12%) Subversion
9 67 (0.83%) Selenium
10 64 (0.79%) Sourcetree
11 62 (0.77%) LabVIEW
12 54 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 50 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
14 48 (0.59%) Postman
15 45 (0.56%) JUnit
16 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
17 36 (0.44%) CMake
18 35 (0.43%) Artifactory
19 34 (0.42%) SonarQube
20 33 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 1,317 (16.25%) Finance
2 1,146 (14.14%) Social Skills
3 614 (7.58%) Front Office
4 523 (6.45%) Banking
5 451 (5.57%) Electronics
6 369 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 307 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 272 (3.36%) Investment Banking
9 245 (3.02%) Automotive
10 221 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 198 (2.44%) Public Sector
12 190 (2.34%) Retail
13 189 (2.33%) Aerospace
13 189 (2.33%) Games
14 179 (2.21%) Law
15 174 (2.15%) Marketing
16 120 (1.48%) Legal
17 115 (1.42%) Tech for Good
18 108 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
19 98 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,891 (60.36%) Software Engineer
2 2,148 (26.51%) Senior
3 1,653 (20.40%) Developer
4 1,547 (19.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 914 (11.28%) Embedded Engineer
6 853 (10.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 791 (9.76%) Lead
8 373 (4.60%) Software Developer
9 368 (4.54%) Python Engineer
10 339 (4.18%) Java Engineer
11 333 (4.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 332 (4.10%) Senior Developer
13 325 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 325 (4.01%) Python Software Engineer
14 304 (3.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 298 (3.68%) C++ Software Engineer
16 288 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
17 277 (3.42%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 261 (3.22%) Python Developer
19 255 (3.15%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,536 (18.96%) .NET
2 1,389 (17.14%) React
3 586 (7.23%) .NET Core
4 572 (7.06%) CSS
5 564 (6.96%) AngularJS
6 501 (6.18%) Node.js
7 434 (5.36%) gRPC
8 416 (5.13%) HTML
9 379 (4.68%) Protocol Buffers
10 338 (4.17%) RESTful
11 318 (3.92%) Spring
12 314 (3.88%) Vue
13 291 (3.59%) ASP.NET
14 288 (3.55%) Pandas
15 286 (3.53%) Redux
16 276 (3.41%) NumPy
16 276 (3.41%) REST
17 251 (3.10%) Kafka
18 246 (3.04%) SciPy
19 231 (2.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 540 (6.66%) Fixed Income
2 489 (6.03%) Hedge funds
3 434 (5.36%) Equities
4 387 (4.78%) Derivative
5 367 (4.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 366 (4.52%) Algorithms
7 254 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 251 (3.10%) IoT
9 246 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
10 238 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
11 204 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
12 191 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
13 174 (2.15%) Client/Server
14 172 (2.12%) Product Ownership
15 164 (2.02%) Data Structures
16 138 (1.70%) Mobile App
17 125 (1.54%) Management Information System
18 92 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
19 84 (1.04%) Private Cloud
20 81 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,116 (13.77%) Linux
2 456 (5.63%) Windows
3 211 (2.60%) Embedded Linux
4 143 (1.76%) Android
5 125 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 123 (1.52%) 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 18 (0.22%) 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%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,911 (35.92%) Agile
2 1,445 (17.83%) DevOps
3 1,187 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
4 1,083 (13.37%) Computer Science
5 903 (11.14%) Full Stack Development
6 893 (11.02%) CI/CD
7 707 (8.73%) Mentoring
8 691 (8.53%) Microservices
9 632 (7.80%) Scrum
10 601 (7.42%) Asset Management
11 552 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
12 529 (6.53%) Test Automation
13 521 (6.43%) TDD
14 520 (6.42%) SDLC
15 493 (6.08%) Investment Management
16 460 (5.68%) Machine Learning
17 413 (5.10%) Design Patterns
18 385 (4.75%) Containerisation
19 381 (4.70%) Open Source
20 378 (4.66%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,349 (28.99%) Python
2 1,895 (23.39%) C#
3 1,797 (22.18%) JavaScript
4 1,678 (20.71%) Java
5 1,197 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 1,116 (13.77%) C
7 1,097 (13.54%) SQL
8 1,020 (12.59%) C++
9 283 (3.49%) Go
10 280 (3.46%) PHP
11 274 (3.38%) Kotlin
12 231 (2.85%) Embedded C
13 203 (2.51%) Bash
14 202 (2.49%) Rust
15 143 (1.76%) Scala
16 142 (1.75%) MATLAB
17 105 (1.30%) PowerShell
18 94 (1.16%) T-SQL
19 87 (1.07%) Ruby
20 86 (1.06%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,591 (19.63%) Degree
2 1,121 (13.83%) Security Cleared
3 683 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 542 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 237 (2.92%) Master's Degree
6 193 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 190 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 106 (1.31%) PhD
9 51 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 43 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 35 (0.43%) 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
1 315 (3.89%) 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
11 20 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 19 (0.23%) ISO 13485
13 17 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.20%) IEC 61508
14 16 (0.20%) PMO
15 15 (0.19%) NIST
16 12 (0.15%) NCSC
17 11 (0.14%) IEC 62304
17 11 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 722 (8.91%) Docker
2 221 (2.73%) Firmware
3 106 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
4 44 (0.54%) 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 5 (0.062%) Ceph
10 5 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 5 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.049%) NFS
12 3 (0.037%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.025%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.012%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.012%) LXC
14 1 (0.012%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 760 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 502 (6.20%) Terraform
3 214 (2.64%) Ansible
4 50 (0.62%) Grafana
5 34 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 29 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.35%) 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%) Nessus
12 5 (0.062%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.062%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.062%) Knative
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
1 643 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 288 (3.55%) Google
3 207 (2.55%) ESRI
4 128 (1.58%) Oracle
5 65 (0.80%) SAP
6 62 (0.77%) Red Hat
7 57 (0.70%) IBM
8 54 (0.67%) Xamarin
9 45 (0.56%) Siemens
10 44 (0.54%) Bloomberg
11 40 (0.49%) Databricks
12 36 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 34 (0.42%) Xilinx
14 29 (0.36%) Micro Focus
15 28 (0.35%) VMware
16 27 (0.33%) SaltStack
17 26 (0.32%) Adobe
18 23 (0.28%) ServiceNow
19 22 (0.27%) EMC
20 21 (0.26%) Lauterbach