Software Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 6,030 open Software Engineering jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 1,532 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, ai and python.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | year | £60,000 | £78,000 | £100,000 | 395 |
| GBP | day | £465 | £625 | £700 | 43 |
| USD | year | $166,100 | $192,750 | $215,000 | 38 |
| EUR | year | €102,500 | €113,850 | €124,845 | 14 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 34%
- ai 31%
- python 31%
- java 30%
- api 29%
- ci-cd 24%
- aws 23%
- agile 23%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 1,260 · 21%
- Remote 424 · 7%
- Onsite 179 · 3%
Visa sponsorship offered in 53% of the 684 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,739
- Lead 456
- Staff 228
- Principal 185
- Junior 147
- Middle 107
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 774
- 501-1000 employees 422
- 51-200 employees 201
- 11-50 employees 117
- 201-500 employees 36
- 1-10 employees 14
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer building and maintaining back-end systems for ASK4’s managed internet and smart-building platform, using PHP, Go, Kubernetes, and observability tools.
Software Developer
Build desktop and web services in C#/.NET to control robotic lab systems and visualize cancer-research data, using WPF/MVVM and ASP.NET Core with REST APIs.
Senior Software Engineer
Build and deploy AI models to predict Wi-Fi performance, detect anomalies, and optimize home-network connectivity for millions of devices using cloud and edge architectures.
Lead Software Engineer
Lead a small team building an AI-powered customer-experience platform; write Python/Django services on AWS, own end-to-end features, and integrate LLM pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer
Build and ship features end-to-end in a Kotlin/React stack that powers automated accounting and real-time financial reporting for global companies.
Senior Software Engineer
Build APIs and backend services in Ruby, Go, TypeScript and Elixir to embed global connectivity into products, migrating a Rails monolith toward a distributed architecture.
Senior Software Engineer
Lead a small engineering team building a SaaS platform that centralizes hospitality data and integrates with delivery/EPOS systems using React, TypeScript, and AWS serverless tools.
Lead Software Engineer
Lead backend and edge/IoT engineering for high-stakes AI projects in defence, mentoring engineers and shipping production-grade Python/Rust/C++ systems with Kubernetes and CI/CD.
Senior Software Engineer
Build and deploy serverless Python services on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB) using TDD and DDD to automate working-capital lending for UK SMEs, leveraging open banking and AI coding tools.
Software Engineer III
Build and extend Zilch’s payment platform using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS; design microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure while ensuring security and performance.
Senior Software Engineer
Build and maintain core domain services for a RegTech SaaS platform using C#/.NET, event-driven patterns, and AWS, ensuring auditable, resilient systems for financial regulatory reporting.
Lead Software Engineer
Lead a team building scalable travel systems: high-performance search, real-time pricing, supplier integrations, and AI-powered customer tools using TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, and Python.
Senior Software Engineer
Build and own scalable commerce services, APIs, and event flows using Java/Go/Kotlin, integrating AI-driven workflows across backend and frontend systems.
Software Engineer - Wexler
Build and scale Wexler’s full-stack litigation AI platform, integrating LLM-powered document analysis with Node.js/TypeScript backend, Python AI services, and modern cloud infrastructure.
Software Engineer
Builds secure, bespoke software for cybersecurity clients using Python, Rust, JS/TS, Go, or C++ across web, native, cloud, and on-premise systems.
Senior / Principal Biological Software Engineer in Bio AI
Build and scale software systems that support AI-driven biological research and treatment development at a leading biotech company.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer builds and optimizes search systems for a large travel-rental platform, using TypeScript, React, Kotlin, and cloud-native AWS tools to power property discovery for millions of guests.