It&#x27;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.<p>I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve ever seen dev jobs advertised as <i>&#x27;software engineer&#x27;</i> positions here before. It&#x27;s always <i>&#x27;software developer&#x27;</i>.