It's generally frowned upon in the UK, where an engineer must be accredited and chartered with the Engineering Council. Software development is considered a ver

It's generally frowned upon in the UK, where an engineer must be accredited and chartered with the Engineering Council. Software development is considered a very immature discipline that is not yet subject to the same regulation and strict principles that civil engineering for example is. I can't say I've ever seen dev jobs advertised as 'software engineer' positions here before. It's always 'software developer'.