Software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k
Live software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k, observed on public careers and vacancy pages and updated hourly. Annual salary filters and contract-rate displays retain their stated basis.
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We are currently tracking 14 live vacancies matching software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k, across 8 source domains. The source labels with the most observed roles in this slice are Policyinpractice, Gembaadvantage, Cheekypreview and Clinicbooking. Every role links back to the public careers or vacancy page where it was observed.
Of the 14 roles, 13 publish an annual salary. The median advertised range midpoint is £85,000. The middle half of the market sits between £77,500 and £90,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k. Contract day and hourly rates are excluded from this annual-salary comparison.
On working pattern, 14% of roles with a known arrangement are fully remote, 71% of roles with a known arrangement are hybrid and 7% of roles with a known basis are contract. By seniority, 50% at senior level and 36% at mid level. Filter by any of these on the left.
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The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k are there right now?
We are tracking 14 live vacancies across 8 source domains. The crawler revisits public careers and vacancy pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do software Engineering jobs in the UK paying over £80k pay?
The median advertised annual salary midpoint is £85,000, based on the 13 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £77,500 to £90,000. Day and hourly rates are kept out of this annual-salary benchmark.
Can these roles be done remotely?
14% are advertised as fully remote and 71% as hybrid. Based on 7 roles that state an arrangement; 7 unknowns are excluded.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
7% of roles with a stated basis are contract or fixed-term; unknowns are excluded. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which sources list the most roles?
The most active source labels right now are Policyinpractice, Gembaadvantage, Cheekypreview, Clinicbooking and Rewardgateway. Every vacancy links to its public source page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company.
How much does a software engineering specialist earn in the UK?
£85,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 100% above the £42,500 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the midpoint of each advertised annual range rather than an offer: 1 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a software engineering specialist in the UK?
6 of the 14 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 1 fully remote and 5 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate software engineering specialist jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Senior Software Engineer, Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (Better Off Calculator), Senior Software Engineer (Low Income Family Tracker) and Software Engineer (Low Income Family Tracker). Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
How much experience do these roles need?
The largest group is senior level (50% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.
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