Software Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 9,006 5,986 9,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.58% 10.15% 12.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.05% 10.62% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,091 3,301 4,677
10th Percentile £37,501 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,450 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +8.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.00% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the UK excluding London

Software Engineering
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 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 +2 3,061 £60,000 -7.69% 125
North of England +10 1,588 £58,500 -6.40% 319
South East +1 1,426 £57,500 -11.54% 632
South West +9 1,240 £55,000 -11.96% 236
North West +14 945 £60,000 -4.38% 193
Midlands +15 876 £55,000 -4.35% 223
East of England +9 531 £60,000 -7.69% 230
Yorkshire +10 516 £55,000 -12.00% 100
West Midlands +26 508 £60,000 - 109
East Midlands +6 368 £50,000 -9.09% 113
Wales +5 179 £50,000 - 33
North East +9 127 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Northern Ireland -3 107 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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
1 659 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 300 (3.33%) ArcGIS
3 284 (3.15%) GeoServer
4 206 (2.29%) Apache
5 134 (1.49%) Confluence
6 119 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
7 115 (1.28%) FileNet
8 32 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 24 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 21 (0.23%) GemFire
12 20 (0.22%) Camunda
13 18 (0.20%) CMS
14 17 (0.19%) Captiva
14 17 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
15 14 (0.16%) NServiceBus
16 13 (0.14%) nginx
17 11 (0.12%) CICS
17 11 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 135 (1.50%) Simulink
2 29 (0.32%) Stateflow
3 19 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.12%) CANalyzer
7 10 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.100%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.067%) Trello
10 5 (0.056%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.044%) Doxygen
12 3 (0.033%) GNU Octave
12 3 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.033%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.022%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.022%) Sketch
13 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.011%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.011%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.011%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.100%) Magento
2 9 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.089%) Siebel CRM
4 7 (0.078%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.044%) Shopify
6 3 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.022%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.022%) SAP FI-GL
7 2 (0.022%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.011%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,496 (27.71%) AWS
2 1,365 (15.16%) Azure
3 357 (3.96%) GCP
4 293 (3.25%) SaaS
5 261 (2.90%) Serverless
6 208 (2.31%) GitHub
7 206 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 190 (2.11%) Amazon S3
9 155 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (1.39%) Datadog
11 117 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 110 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
13 107 (1.19%) Power Platform
14 95 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
15 92 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
16 88 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
17 69 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 55 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
19 53 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 156 (1.73%) Wireless
2 118 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 92 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 82 (0.91%) Kerberos
5 81 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (0.83%) Network Security
7 65 (0.72%) RS-232
8 56 (0.62%) Bluetooth
9 47 (0.52%) Internet
9 47 (0.52%) MQTT
10 42 (0.47%) HTTP
11 40 (0.44%) RS-485
12 33 (0.37%) AMQP
13 32 (0.36%) Modbus
14 23 (0.26%) 5G
15 21 (0.23%) 4G
15 21 (0.23%) ZigBee
16 20 (0.22%) DSL
17 19 (0.21%) Firewall
18 17 (0.19%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 860 (9.55%) NoSQL
2 592 (6.57%) Big Data
3 476 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 325 (3.61%) GIS
5 301 (3.34%) MySQL
6 296 (3.29%) Hadoop
7 284 (3.15%) QGIS
8 276 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 258 (2.86%) SQL Server
10 228 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 182 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 158 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
13 132 (1.47%) Apache Hive
14 102 (1.13%) HBase
15 99 (1.10%) Redis
16 78 (0.87%) Data Lake
17 73 (0.81%) RDBMS
18 72 (0.80%) Metadata
19 68 (0.76%) Power BI
20 66 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 868 (9.64%) Git
2 466 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 331 (3.68%) JIRA
4 279 (3.10%) Visual Studio
5 240 (2.66%) JUnit
6 190 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 148 (1.64%) GitLab
8 144 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 128 (1.42%) Jasmine
10 124 (1.38%) Selenium
11 97 (1.08%) Maven
12 91 (1.01%) Subversion
13 86 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 82 (0.91%) LabVIEW
15 66 (0.73%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
16 64 (0.71%) WebDriver
17 61 (0.68%) Sourcetree
18 60 (0.67%) Protractor
19 55 (0.61%) Cucumber
General
1 2,804 (31.13%) Finance
2 2,622 (29.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,441 (27.10%) Law
4 1,350 (14.99%) Marketing
5 1,038 (11.53%) Social Skills
6 738 (8.19%) Legal
7 553 (6.14%) Banking
8 473 (5.25%) Electronics
9 363 (4.03%) Investment Banking
10 347 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 337 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
12 269 (2.99%) Financial Institution
13 239 (2.65%) Automotive
14 201 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
15 188 (2.09%) Aerospace
16 169 (1.88%) Games
17 160 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
18 147 (1.63%) Public Sector
19 139 (1.54%) Retail
20 97 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 6,330 (70.29%) Software Engineer
2 2,092 (23.23%) Senior
3 1,629 (18.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1,209 (13.42%) Lead
5 1,118 (12.41%) Developer
6 1,027 (11.40%) Embedded Engineer
7 977 (10.85%) Java Engineer
8 943 (10.47%) Java Software Engineer
9 928 (10.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 882 (9.79%) Lead Software Engineer
11 452 (5.02%) Full Stack Engineer
12 424 (4.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 409 (4.54%) Python Engineer
14 403 (4.47%) Python Software Engineer
15 390 (4.33%) Big Data Engineer
15 390 (4.33%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 356 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
17 352 (3.91%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 351 (3.90%) Software Developer
19 342 (3.80%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,433 (15.91%) React
2 1,346 (14.95%) .NET
3 912 (10.13%) Spring
4 814 (9.04%) AngularJS
5 810 (8.99%) CSS
6 615 (6.83%) HTML
7 540 (6.00%) .NET Core
8 538 (5.97%) Node.js
9 514 (5.71%) Spring Boot
10 490 (5.44%) Kafka
11 421 (4.67%) RESTful
12 311 (3.45%) JSON
13 296 (3.29%) REST
14 294 (3.26%) PostGIS
15 293 (3.25%) Web Services
16 288 (3.20%) Leaflet
16 288 (3.20%) OpenLayers
17 263 (2.92%) Hibernate
18 256 (2.84%) J2EE
19 234 (2.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,096 (12.17%) Algorithms
2 1,034 (11.48%) Cloud Native
3 326 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 245 (2.72%) IoT
5 233 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
6 225 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 222 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 210 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 203 (2.25%) Data Structures
10 196 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
11 161 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 135 (1.50%) Reference Data
13 121 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
14 106 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 94 (1.04%) Private Cloud
16 93 (1.03%) Market Risk
17 88 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
18 79 (0.88%) Device Driver
19 72 (0.80%) Robotics
20 70 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1,145 (12.71%) Linux
2 432 (4.80%) Windows
3 230 (2.55%) Embedded Linux
4 189 (2.10%) Unix
5 132 (1.47%) Android
6 117 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 79 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 63 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (0.53%) CentOS
10 38 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
11 34 (0.38%) Debian
12 24 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.14%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.14%) Windows Server
14 7 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
14 7 (0.078%) VxWorks
15 6 (0.067%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.067%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.056%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.056%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,202 (46.66%) Agile
2 2,501 (27.77%) CI/CD
3 2,496 (27.71%) SDLC
4 1,878 (20.85%) Operational Stability
5 1,716 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,615 (17.93%) Machine Learning
7 1,322 (14.68%) Community of Practice
8 1,311 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 1,287 (14.29%) DevOps
10 1,201 (13.34%) Computer Science
11 990 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 946 (10.50%) Microservices
13 908 (10.08%) Visualisation
14 906 (10.06%) Full Stack Development
15 734 (8.15%) Risk Management
16 695 (7.72%) Mentoring
17 655 (7.27%) Test Automation
18 650 (7.22%) Decision-Making
19 623 (6.92%) Scrum
20 587 (6.52%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,747 (30.50%) Java
2 2,457 (27.28%) Python
3 1,884 (20.92%) SQL
4 1,691 (18.78%) C#
5 1,565 (17.38%) JavaScript
6 1,211 (13.45%) C
7 1,019 (11.31%) C++
8 713 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 366 (4.06%) Scala
10 312 (3.46%) Embedded C
11 263 (2.92%) Go
12 219 (2.43%) Bash
13 216 (2.40%) PHP
14 158 (1.75%) PL/SQL
15 128 (1.42%) MATLAB
16 124 (1.38%) Rust
17 116 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 106 (1.18%) Ruby
19 102 (1.13%) T-SQL
20 87 (0.97%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,410 (15.66%) Degree
2 1,145 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 732 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 424 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 184 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 160 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 95 (1.05%) PhD
9 50 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.38%) HND
12 33 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.27%) HNC
14 20 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.18%) CISSP
16 11 (0.12%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.100%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (2.60%) QA
2 97 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.81%) SLA
4 56 (0.62%) MISRA
5 42 (0.47%) GDPR
6 36 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 36 (0.40%) PMO
7 29 (0.32%) ISO 26262
8 25 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
8 25 (0.28%) ISO 13485
9 23 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
10 22 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
11 21 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 20 (0.22%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.19%) IEC 61508
14 14 (0.16%) NIST
15 11 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 10 (0.11%) GRC
16 10 (0.11%) IEC 62304
16 10 (0.11%) MISRA C
System Software
1 519 (5.76%) Docker
2 296 (3.29%) Firmware
3 129 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 102 (1.13%) HDFS
5 79 (0.88%) Active Directory
6 16 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.078%) IAG
10 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.044%) NFS
11 4 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.033%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.022%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.011%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.011%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 779 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 509 (5.65%) Terraform
3 193 (2.14%) Grafana
4 138 (1.53%) Ansible
5 92 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 30 (0.33%) Puppet
8 26 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 22 (0.24%) Kibana
10 21 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.16%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.078%) Graphite
13 6 (0.067%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.067%) Nessus
14 5 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.056%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.056%) Nagios
14 5 (0.056%) SELinux
14 5 (0.056%) Suricata
Vendors
1 504 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 473 (5.25%) Oracle
3 296 (3.29%) ESRI
4 268 (2.98%) Databricks
5 204 (2.27%) Google
6 199 (2.21%) Splunk
7 166 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 87 (0.97%) Informatica
9 83 (0.92%) SAP
10 72 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 72 (0.80%) IBM
11 57 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 57 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 54 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 54 (0.60%) Xamarin
13 46 (0.51%) Siemens
14 45 (0.50%) SaltStack
15 39 (0.43%) Pega
16 34 (0.38%) Xilinx
17 31 (0.34%) Dell