The average mean Software Engineer (Programmers and software development professionals) full time annual salary in the UK is £43,036 and the median £40,687 for part time employees this drops to a mean of £20,482.
For men the mean full time salary of £43,484 is 13% higher than the full time mean for women £38,360.
This is calculated on the basis of different levels of Software Engineer jobs in the UK and is based on the provisional ONS dataset (Occupation (4 digit SOC) – ASHE: Table 14) which was released on 26 October 2016.
Usually, the starting salary is around £22,000-£27,000 for an entry level, graduate or junior software engineer .However, this salary scale can be around £41,000 – £53,000 for a senior software engineer . For more accurate information on software engineer salaries, please simple make a job search; as the job posts in the UK usually state the salaries.
Besides, the salaries can be considerably higher and vary a lot in cities like London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh. It is also a fact that your salary will depend whether you are a computer, graduate, junior or senior software engineer.