
Software Engineer Salary UK 2024: What Developers Really Earn
UK software engineers earn a median of £52,500. Broken down by experience, region, and specialisation with percentile benchmarks.
Pay benchmarks for UK jobs — role by role, region by region, refreshed for 2026.
Every Salary Guide tells you what the role pays now, what shapes the range — region, experience, sector — and where you sit relative to the UK median. Numbers are sourced to official UK earnings data and the relevant pay scale, with the publication date on each chart.

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