Software Engineering Director Jobs in the UK excluding London

Director of Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The median Director of Software Engineering salary in the UK excluding London is £95,000 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 711 715 875
Rank change year-on-year +4 +160 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Director 68 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.004% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £70,250 £131,250 -
25th Percentile £78,125 £133,125 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £142,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +29.55% -22.81%
75th Percentile £115,625 £149,375 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,750 £149,750 -
UK median annual salary £125,000 £142,500 £120,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +18.75% +2.13%

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 Engineering Director
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Director in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering Director
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Director in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering Director
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Director in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Director in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering Director
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 Engineering Director 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 - 63 - -
South West - 3 - -
North of England +25 1 £125,000 -13.79% 1
North West -8 1 £125,000 -13.79% 1
Midlands -31 1 £65,000 -53.57%
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Software Engineering Director
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Software Engineering Director 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 Engineering Director in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 66 (97.06%) Finance
2 66 (97.06%) Law
2 66 (97.06%) Decision-Making
2 66 (97.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (92.65%) Cloud Native
3 63 (92.65%) Marketing
4 58 (85.29%) Machine Learning
5 49 (72.06%) Product Management
6 43 (63.24%) Artificial Intelligence
7 41 (60.29%) Agile
8 34 (50.00%) Python
8 34 (50.00%) Data Modelling
8 34 (50.00%) Databricks
9 32 (47.06%) Product Ownership
9 32 (47.06%) AWS
10 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
11 29 (42.65%) Mathematics
11 29 (42.65%) Computer Science
12 28 (41.18%) Analytics
12 28 (41.18%) Data Analysis
12 28 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (39.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (39.71%) Java
14 26 (38.24%) Operational Stability
15 25 (36.76%) Technology Strategy
16 24 (35.29%) Culture Change
16 24 (35.29%) Observability
16 24 (35.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 24 (35.29%) Computer Vision

Software Engineering Director 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 21 (30.88%) Apache
2 19 (27.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) Big Data
2 13 (19.12%) Data Lake
2 13 (19.12%) DB2
2 13 (19.12%) MongoDB
2 13 (19.12%) Tableau
3 6 (8.82%) Flink
General
1 66 (97.06%) Finance
1 66 (97.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 66 (97.06%) Law
2 63 (92.65%) Marketing
3 15 (22.06%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 13 (19.12%) Financial Institution
4 13 (19.12%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) Apache NiFi
2 13 (19.12%) Kafka
3 9 (13.24%) Spring
3 9 (13.24%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.29%) React
5 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 3 (4.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (92.65%) Cloud Native
2 32 (47.06%) Product Ownership
3 15 (22.06%) Taxonomies
4 13 (19.12%) Management Information System
4 13 (19.12%) Public Cloud
5 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 66 (97.06%) Decision-Making
3 58 (85.29%) Machine Learning
4 49 (72.06%) Product Management
5 43 (63.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 41 (60.29%) Agile
7 34 (50.00%) Data Modelling
8 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
9 29 (42.65%) Computer Science
9 29 (42.65%) Mathematics
10 28 (41.18%) Analytics
10 28 (41.18%) Data Analysis
10 28 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (39.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (38.24%) Operational Stability
13 25 (36.76%) Technology Strategy
14 24 (35.29%) Computer Vision
14 24 (35.29%) Culture Change
14 24 (35.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 24 (35.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Python
2 27 (39.71%) Java
3 13 (19.12%) PL/SQL
3 13 (19.12%) Scala
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (50.00%) Databricks
2 13 (19.12%) Alteryx
2 13 (19.12%) Cognos
2 13 (19.12%) Oracle
2 13 (19.12%) Sybase
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft