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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 75 35
Rank change year-on-year +61 -40 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6,871 2,428 5,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.70% 4.36% 7.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.17% 4.91% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,623 1,373 2,138
10th Percentile £38,117 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,350 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,666
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.79% +11.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 9 June 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 9 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
Scotland +21 2,345 £60,000 -4.76% 78
North of England +69 1,194 £55,000 -8.33% 161
South East +42 1,107 £53,500 -14.40% 179
South West +49 1,003 £57,500 -4.17% 172
North West +77 703 £57,500 -4.17% 110
Midlands +49 650 £52,500 -4.55% 119
Yorkshire +54 401 £50,000 -20.00% 35
East of England +41 385 £60,000 - 111
West Midlands +51 332 £55,000 -4.35% 58
East Midlands +35 318 £50,000 +5.26% 60
Wales +33 118 £50,000 +17.65% 21
North East +41 90 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Northern Ireland +8 69 £90,000 +50.00% 19
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6,831 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 3,029 (44.08%) Agile
3 2,019 (29.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,012 (29.28%) Finance
5 1,996 (29.05%) Java
6 1,956 (28.47%) SDLC
7 1,900 (27.65%) Python
8 1,830 (26.63%) Law
9 1,811 (26.36%) CI/CD
10 1,774 (25.82%) AWS
11 1,615 (23.50%) Operational Stability
12 1,405 (20.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1,397 (20.33%) Machine Learning
14 1,254 (18.25%) SQL
15 1,181 (17.19%) Community of Practice
16 1,178 (17.14%) JavaScript
17 1,128 (16.42%) C#
18 1,083 (15.76%) React
19 988 (14.38%) C
20 930 (13.54%) Algorithms
21 929 (13.52%) Linux
22 926 (13.48%) C++
23 899 (13.08%) Azure
24 879 (12.79%) .NET
25 872 (12.69%) Marketing
26 863 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
27 846 (12.31%) Degree
28 802 (11.67%) Security Cleared
29 792 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
30 783 (11.40%) Visualisation

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
1 502 (7.31%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.18%) ArcGIS
3 274 (3.99%) GeoServer
4 152 (2.21%) Apache
5 109 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 102 (1.48%) FileNet
7 34 (0.49%) Confluence
8 32 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.31%) GemFire
10 15 (0.22%) CMS
11 14 (0.20%) Camunda
11 14 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 11 (0.16%) CICS
12 11 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.087%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.087%) nginx
14 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.073%) SharePoint
16 4 (0.058%) Captiva
Applications
1 105 (1.53%) Simulink
2 26 (0.38%) Stateflow
3 17 (0.25%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.16%) CANalyzer
5 7 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.087%) Trello
7 5 (0.073%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.073%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.044%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.044%) TargetLink
9 2 (0.029%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.029%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.029%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.029%) Revit
9 2 (0.029%) Sketch
10 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.015%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.087%) Magento
3 4 (0.058%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.058%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.015%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.015%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.015%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,774 (25.82%) AWS
2 899 (13.08%) Azure
3 233 (3.39%) GCP
4 165 (2.40%) Serverless
5 135 (1.96%) GitHub
6 131 (1.91%) Amazon S3
7 109 (1.59%) Datadog
8 108 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (1.57%) SaaS
9 91 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
12 59 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
13 58 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 50 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
15 45 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
16 42 (0.61%) BlazeMeter
17 38 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.38%) Wireless
2 88 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 82 (1.19%) Kerberos
4 68 (0.99%) RS-232
5 66 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
6 65 (0.95%) Ethernet
6 65 (0.95%) Network Security
7 47 (0.68%) Bluetooth
8 46 (0.67%) RS-485
9 34 (0.49%) Modbus
10 30 (0.44%) AMQP
11 29 (0.42%) MQTT
12 22 (0.32%) ZigBee
13 18 (0.26%) Internet
14 15 (0.22%) 4G
15 14 (0.20%) J1939
16 13 (0.19%) 3G
16 13 (0.19%) 5G
17 12 (0.17%) HTTP
18 11 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 637 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 433 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 422 (6.14%) Big Data
4 308 (4.48%) GIS
5 274 (3.99%) QGIS
6 252 (3.67%) Hadoop
7 201 (2.93%) MySQL
8 190 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
9 167 (2.43%) SQL Server
10 157 (2.28%) Relational Database
11 153 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 130 (1.89%) MongoDB
13 113 (1.64%) Apache Hive
14 91 (1.32%) HBase
15 79 (1.15%) Redis
16 67 (0.98%) Metadata
17 49 (0.71%) Data Lake
18 45 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
19 43 (0.63%) DynamoDB
20 42 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 508 (7.39%) Git
2 337 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 212 (3.09%) JUnit
4 157 (2.28%) JIRA
5 117 (1.70%) Jasmine
6 108 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 104 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 90 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 81 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
10 74 (1.08%) Selenium
10 74 (1.08%) Subversion
11 72 (1.05%) Maven
12 66 (0.96%) Artifactory
12 66 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
13 65 (0.95%) GitLab
14 62 (0.90%) WebDriver
15 60 (0.87%) Protractor
16 50 (0.73%) Mockito
17 45 (0.65%) LabVIEW
18 32 (0.47%) Cucumber
General
1 2,019 (29.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,012 (29.28%) Finance
3 1,830 (26.63%) Law
4 872 (12.69%) Marketing
5 661 (9.62%) Legal
6 601 (8.75%) Social Skills
7 454 (6.61%) Electronics
8 387 (5.63%) Banking
9 301 (4.38%) Manufacturing
10 285 (4.15%) Investment Banking
11 239 (3.48%) Automotive
12 178 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
13 170 (2.47%) Aerospace
14 123 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 91 (1.32%) Retail
16 89 (1.30%) Military
17 82 (1.19%) Public Sector
18 80 (1.16%) Tech for Good
19 66 (0.96%) Financial Institution
20 63 (0.92%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,083 (15.76%) React
2 879 (12.79%) .NET
3 660 (9.61%) Spring
4 645 (9.39%) AngularJS
5 626 (9.11%) CSS
6 419 (6.10%) .NET Core
7 418 (6.08%) HTML
8 393 (5.72%) Kafka
9 386 (5.62%) Node.js
10 324 (4.72%) Spring Boot
11 282 (4.10%) PostGIS
12 278 (4.05%) Leaflet
12 278 (4.05%) OpenLayers
13 263 (3.83%) RESTful
14 244 (3.55%) J2EE
15 236 (3.43%) JSON
16 227 (3.30%) Web Services
17 217 (3.16%) Hibernate
18 208 (3.03%) REST
19 176 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 930 (13.54%) Algorithms
2 634 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 214 (3.11%) Public Cloud
4 191 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
5 175 (2.55%) IoT
6 149 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 127 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 124 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 121 (1.76%) Reference Data
10 112 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 108 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 85 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
13 78 (1.14%) Cyberattack
14 76 (1.11%) Device Driver
15 71 (1.03%) Product Ownership
16 65 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
17 62 (0.90%) Robotics
18 55 (0.80%) Mobile App
19 43 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
20 39 (0.57%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 929 (13.52%) Linux
2 315 (4.58%) Windows
3 210 (3.06%) Embedded Linux
4 174 (2.53%) Unix
5 107 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 103 (1.50%) Android
7 66 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 58 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 54 (0.79%) CentOS
10 39 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
11 37 (0.54%) Debian
12 14 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.12%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.087%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.073%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.073%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 3 (0.044%) VMS
18 2 (0.029%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,831 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 3,029 (44.08%) Agile
3 1,956 (28.47%) SDLC
4 1,811 (26.36%) CI/CD
5 1,615 (23.50%) Operational Stability
6 1,405 (20.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,397 (20.33%) Machine Learning
8 1,181 (17.19%) Community of Practice
9 863 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
10 792 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 783 (11.40%) Visualisation
12 702 (10.22%) DevOps
13 671 (9.77%) Microservices
14 655 (9.53%) Full Stack Development
15 651 (9.47%) Computer Science
16 640 (9.31%) Risk Management
17 442 (6.43%) Mentoring
18 431 (6.27%) Test Automation
19 430 (6.26%) Decision-Making
20 406 (5.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,996 (29.05%) Java
2 1,900 (27.65%) Python
3 1,254 (18.25%) SQL
4 1,178 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 1,128 (16.42%) C#
6 988 (14.38%) C
7 926 (13.48%) C++
8 497 (7.23%) TypeScript
9 264 (3.84%) Embedded C
10 262 (3.81%) Scala
11 170 (2.47%) Go
12 169 (2.46%) Bash
13 127 (1.85%) PL/SQL
14 111 (1.62%) MATLAB
15 103 (1.50%) Rust
16 96 (1.40%) Kotlin
17 85 (1.24%) PHP
18 71 (1.03%) Ada
19 67 (0.98%) SPARQL
19 67 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 846 (12.31%) Degree
2 802 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 497 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 258 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 148 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 85 (1.24%) PhD
8 58 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (0.47%) HND
10 21 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.25%) HNC
12 10 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.12%) Chartered Engineer
14 7 (0.10%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.087%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.058%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Developer
17 1 (0.015%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 1 (0.015%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (1.48%) QA
2 57 (0.83%) MISRA
3 52 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 35 (0.51%) SLA
5 31 (0.45%) PMO
6 30 (0.44%) ISO 26262
7 28 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 22 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
9 19 (0.28%) GDPR
9 19 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 18 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 12 (0.17%) IEC 62304
14 9 (0.13%) IEC 61508
14 9 (0.13%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.12%) JTAG
16 7 (0.10%) ISO 9000
16 7 (0.10%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.087%) TickIT
System Software
1 265 (3.86%) Docker
2 195 (2.84%) Firmware
3 91 (1.32%) HDFS
4 87 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 68 (0.99%) Active Directory
6 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.029%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.029%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 511 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 353 (5.14%) Terraform
3 154 (2.24%) Grafana
4 95 (1.38%) Ansible
5 63 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.45%) Puppet
7 26 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.32%) Kibana
9 21 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.31%) Zipkin
10 20 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.10%) Graphite
12 6 (0.087%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.073%) SELinux
14 3 (0.044%) Podman
15 2 (0.029%) Istio
15 2 (0.029%) linkerd
15 2 (0.029%) MIIS
16 1 (0.015%) CA Endevor
16 1 (0.015%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 350 (5.09%) Oracle
2 282 (4.10%) ESRI
3 197 (2.87%) Databricks
4 178 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 166 (2.42%) Splunk
6 142 (2.07%) Dynatrace
7 128 (1.86%) Google
8 82 (1.19%) Informatica
9 61 (0.89%) Cloudera
10 50 (0.73%) Red Hat
11 47 (0.68%) SaltStack
12 43 (0.63%) Atlassian
12 43 (0.63%) Siemens
13 42 (0.61%) IBM
14 39 (0.57%) Alteryx
15 28 (0.41%) SAP
16 23 (0.33%) Xamarin
17 22 (0.32%) Xilinx
18 21 (0.31%) Lauterbach
19 18 (0.26%) Pega