Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 67 39
Rank change year-on-year +52 -28 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,369 2,875 4,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 4.88% 6.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.38% 5.47% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,179 1,462 2,135
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £83,550
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +19 2,488 £60,000 -7.69% 72
North of England +50 1,011 £55,000 -8.33% 167
South East +38 943 £55,000 -12.00% 340
South West +36 868 £55,000 -8.33% 153
North West +63 580 £57,500 -4.17% 105
Midlands +43 547 £52,500 -4.55% 112
Yorkshire +48 355 £50,000 -16.67% 50
East of England +22 333 £60,000 - 151
West Midlands +47 298 £55,000 -4.35% 60
East Midlands +21 249 £52,500 +3.96% 51
Wales +21 107 £50,000 +22.69% 23
North East +14 76 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Northern Ireland +3 72 £90,000 +50.00% 18
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6,330 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,130 (49.14%) Agile
3 2,192 (34.42%) Finance
4 2,179 (34.21%) Java
5 2,123 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2,082 (32.69%) SDLC
7 2,002 (31.43%) Law
8 1,943 (30.51%) CI/CD
9 1,933 (30.35%) Python
10 1,890 (29.67%) AWS
11 1,778 (27.92%) Operational Stability
12 1,476 (23.17%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,404 (22.04%) Machine Learning
14 1,341 (21.06%) SQL
15 1,269 (19.92%) Community of Practice
16 1,184 (18.59%) JavaScript
17 1,141 (17.91%) React
18 1,045 (16.41%) C#
19 982 (15.42%) Algorithms
20 972 (15.26%) Marketing
21 925 (14.52%) Azure
22 899 (14.12%) C
23 892 (14.01%) Linux
24 855 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
25 850 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
26 836 (13.13%) .NET
27 820 (12.87%) Visualisation
28 792 (12.44%) C++
29 770 (12.09%) Security Cleared
30 769 (12.07%) Degree

Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 567 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 297 (4.66%) ArcGIS
3 284 (4.46%) GeoServer
4 162 (2.54%) Apache
5 117 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 115 (1.81%) FileNet
7 37 (0.58%) Confluence
8 32 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 21 (0.33%) GemFire
11 20 (0.31%) Camunda
12 17 (0.27%) Captiva
13 13 (0.20%) NServiceBus
14 11 (0.17%) CICS
14 11 (0.17%) CMS
14 11 (0.17%) JBoss
14 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 10 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
17 6 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 102 (1.60%) Simulink
2 27 (0.42%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.17%) CANalyzer
4 6 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.094%) Trello
5 5 (0.079%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.047%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.047%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.031%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.031%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.031%) Sketch
9 1 (0.016%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.094%) Magento
4 2 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.031%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.016%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.016%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,890 (29.67%) AWS
2 925 (14.52%) Azure
3 286 (4.49%) GCP
4 201 (3.16%) Serverless
5 152 (2.39%) GitHub
6 140 (2.20%) SaaS
7 139 (2.18%) Amazon S3
8 111 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (1.71%) Datadog
10 98 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
12 75 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
13 64 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
17 51 (0.80%) Amazon EMR
18 42 (0.66%) BlazeMeter
18 42 (0.66%) OpenShift
19 35 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.49%) Wireless
2 87 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.29%) Kerberos
4 64 (1.00%) Ethernet
5 63 (0.99%) RS-232
6 61 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (0.74%) Bluetooth
8 41 (0.64%) Network Security
9 39 (0.61%) RS-485
10 33 (0.52%) Modbus
11 28 (0.44%) AMQP
12 27 (0.42%) MQTT
13 18 (0.28%) ZigBee
14 16 (0.25%) Internet
15 14 (0.22%) J1939
16 13 (0.20%) 4G
17 12 (0.19%) 3G
17 12 (0.19%) 5G
17 12 (0.19%) HTTP
18 11 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (10.44%) NoSQL
2 483 (7.58%) Big Data
3 419 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
4 317 (4.98%) GIS
5 287 (4.51%) Hadoop
6 284 (4.46%) QGIS
7 211 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
8 199 (3.12%) MySQL
9 190 (2.98%) Relational Database
10 164 (2.57%) SQL Server
11 152 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 149 (2.34%) MongoDB
13 131 (2.06%) Apache Hive
14 102 (1.60%) HBase
15 78 (1.22%) Redis
16 67 (1.05%) Metadata
17 51 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
18 48 (0.75%) Data Lake
19 46 (0.72%) Oracle Database
20 45 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 526 (8.26%) Git
2 366 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 210 (3.30%) JUnit
4 172 (2.70%) JIRA
5 120 (1.88%) Jasmine
6 108 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 104 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 89 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 86 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 82 (1.29%) Selenium
11 81 (1.27%) Maven
12 73 (1.15%) Subversion
13 66 (1.04%) Artifactory
13 66 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
14 62 (0.97%) GitLab
14 62 (0.97%) WebDriver
15 60 (0.94%) Protractor
16 50 (0.79%) Mockito
17 40 (0.63%) LabVIEW
18 37 (0.58%) Cucumber
General
1 2,192 (34.42%) Finance
2 2,123 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,002 (31.43%) Law
4 972 (15.26%) Marketing
5 702 (11.02%) Legal
6 575 (9.03%) Social Skills
7 446 (7.00%) Banking
8 374 (5.87%) Electronics
9 302 (4.74%) Investment Banking
10 247 (3.88%) Manufacturing
11 204 (3.20%) Automotive
12 163 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
13 155 (2.43%) Aerospace
14 141 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
15 91 (1.43%) Public Sector
16 86 (1.35%) Retail
17 82 (1.29%) Military
18 77 (1.21%) Financial Institution
19 74 (1.16%) Private Banking
20 73 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,141 (17.91%) React
2 836 (13.13%) .NET
3 720 (11.30%) Spring
4 675 (10.60%) AngularJS
5 624 (9.80%) CSS
6 423 (6.64%) Kafka
7 415 (6.52%) HTML
8 412 (6.47%) .NET Core
9 408 (6.41%) Node.js
10 356 (5.59%) Spring Boot
11 292 (4.58%) PostGIS
12 288 (4.52%) Leaflet
12 288 (4.52%) OpenLayers
13 280 (4.40%) RESTful
14 255 (4.00%) J2EE
15 249 (3.91%) JSON
16 233 (3.66%) Hibernate
17 231 (3.63%) Web Services
18 209 (3.28%) REST
19 179 (2.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 982 (15.42%) Algorithms
2 678 (10.65%) Cloud Native
3 260 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 178 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
5 170 (2.67%) IoT
6 163 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 142 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 130 (2.04%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 102 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 99 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.19%) Device Driver
13 69 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 69 (1.08%) Product Ownership
14 65 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
15 56 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 55 (0.86%) Private Cloud
17 54 (0.85%) Robotics
18 44 (0.69%) Legacy Code
19 39 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 892 (14.01%) Linux
2 305 (4.79%) Windows
3 193 (3.03%) Embedded Linux
4 182 (2.86%) Unix
5 109 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 97 (1.52%) Android
7 62 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 57 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 48 (0.75%) CentOS
10 34 (0.53%) Debian
10 34 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
11 18 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.094%) ThreadX
13 6 (0.094%) Windows Server
14 5 (0.079%) VxWorks
15 4 (0.063%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 3 (0.047%) VMS
17 2 (0.031%) FreeBSD
17 2 (0.031%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,330 (99.39%) Software Engineering
2 3,130 (49.14%) Agile
3 2,082 (32.69%) SDLC
4 1,943 (30.51%) CI/CD
5 1,778 (27.92%) Operational Stability
6 1,476 (23.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,404 (22.04%) Machine Learning
8 1,269 (19.92%) Community of Practice
9 855 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
10 850 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 820 (12.87%) Visualisation
12 736 (11.56%) DevOps
13 721 (11.32%) Microservices
14 693 (10.88%) Risk Management
15 663 (10.41%) Full Stack Development
16 607 (9.53%) Computer Science
17 478 (7.51%) Decision-Making
18 454 (7.13%) Test Automation
19 443 (6.96%) Actionable Insight
20 421 (6.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2,179 (34.21%) Java
2 1,933 (30.35%) Python
3 1,341 (21.06%) SQL
4 1,184 (18.59%) JavaScript
5 1,045 (16.41%) C#
6 899 (14.12%) C
7 792 (12.44%) C++
8 475 (7.46%) TypeScript
9 284 (4.46%) Scala
10 238 (3.74%) Embedded C
11 215 (3.38%) Go
12 190 (2.98%) Bash
13 138 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 107 (1.68%) MATLAB
15 103 (1.62%) Rust
16 96 (1.51%) Kotlin
17 83 (1.30%) PHP
18 79 (1.24%) Ruby
19 77 (1.21%) Perl
20 72 (1.13%) Ada
Qualifications
1 770 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 769 (12.07%) Degree
3 495 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 232 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 124 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 70 (1.10%) PhD
8 58 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.46%) HND
10 26 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.27%) HNC
12 10 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.13%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.11%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.094%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.047%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.031%) Postgraduate
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Developer
18 1 (0.016%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (2.10%) QA
2 64 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.88%) MISRA
4 43 (0.68%) SLA
5 36 (0.57%) PMO
6 34 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 31 (0.49%) GDPR
8 24 (0.38%) ISO 26262
9 23 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
10 21 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
11 18 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 15 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
13 12 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 10 (0.16%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) IEC 61508
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9000
17 6 (0.094%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.094%) WAI
System Software
1 263 (4.13%) Docker
2 177 (2.78%) Firmware
3 102 (1.60%) HDFS
4 81 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (1.07%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.031%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.031%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 528 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 365 (5.73%) Terraform
3 156 (2.45%) Grafana
4 78 (1.22%) Ansible
5 64 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.42%) Puppet
7 26 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.33%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.33%) Kibana
8 21 (0.33%) Zipkin
9 19 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.11%) Graphite
11 6 (0.094%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.079%) SELinux
13 3 (0.047%) Podman
14 2 (0.031%) Istio
14 2 (0.031%) linkerd
14 2 (0.031%) MIIS
15 1 (0.016%) CA Endevor
15 1 (0.016%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 424 (6.66%) Oracle
2 292 (4.58%) ESRI
3 214 (3.36%) Databricks
4 164 (2.57%) Splunk
5 155 (2.43%) Microsoft
6 145 (2.28%) Dynatrace
7 144 (2.26%) Google
8 87 (1.37%) Informatica
9 72 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 60 (0.94%) IBM
11 47 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 46 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 45 (0.71%) SaltStack
14 43 (0.68%) Siemens
15 39 (0.61%) Alteryx
16 37 (0.58%) Pega
16 37 (0.58%) SAP
17 30 (0.47%) Dell
18 24 (0.38%) ServiceNow
19 22 (0.35%) Xamarin