Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 97 46
Rank change year-on-year +70 -51 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,114 575 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.89% 3.58% 6.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 4.00% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 782 323 561
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 18,018 14,359 17,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 89.34% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,757 7,992 10,930
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +78 642 £57,000 -5.00% 133
Yorkshire +57 387 £50,000 -16.67% 33
North East +38 85 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,104 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 332 (29.80%) Agile
3 276 (24.78%) C#
4 267 (23.97%) AWS
5 254 (22.80%) .NET
6 247 (22.17%) JavaScript
7 239 (21.45%) Azure
8 227 (20.38%) Python
9 195 (17.50%) DevOps
10 165 (14.81%) React
10 165 (14.81%) Degree
11 158 (14.18%) Java
12 157 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
13 155 (13.91%) SQL
14 152 (13.64%) Linux
15 149 (13.38%) C
15 149 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
16 135 (12.12%) CSS
17 129 (11.58%) .NET Core
18 117 (10.50%) Security Cleared
18 117 (10.50%) Social Skills
19 116 (10.41%) C++
20 114 (10.23%) Computer Science
21 113 (10.14%) Mentoring
22 108 (9.69%) SC Cleared
23 103 (9.25%) GIS
24 98 (8.80%) ArcGIS
24 98 (8.80%) Web Development
25 96 (8.62%) Actionable Insight
26 95 (8.53%) Full Stack Development

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 98 (8.80%) ArcGIS
2 85 (7.63%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.99%) Apache
5 7 (0.63%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.54%) CMS
7 4 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) Captiva
8 2 (0.18%) FileNet
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.090%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Sketch
3 1 (0.090%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Magento
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (23.97%) AWS
2 239 (21.45%) Azure
3 44 (3.95%) Serverless
4 42 (3.77%) GitHub
5 41 (3.68%) GCP
6 26 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (1.17%) SaaS
11 11 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (0.99%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (0.63%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.45%) Firebase
16 5 (0.45%) Power Platform
17 4 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.97%) MQTT
1 22 (1.97%) RS-232
2 18 (1.62%) RS-485
3 17 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.53%) Wireless
4 13 (1.17%) 3G
4 13 (1.17%) 4G
5 11 (0.99%) AMQP
6 10 (0.90%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.63%) Network Security
8 5 (0.45%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
10 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.18%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) VoIP
11 1 (0.090%) HTTP
11 1 (0.090%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.25%) GIS
3 85 (7.63%) QGIS
4 79 (7.09%) MySQL
5 59 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 58 (5.21%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.60%) Redis
8 28 (2.51%) DynamoDB
9 22 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.62%) Big Data
12 16 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (1.26%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
15 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.45%) MS Access
16 5 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (6.55%) Git
2 29 (2.60%) JIRA
3 26 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.35%) GitLab
4 15 (1.35%) Subversion
5 14 (1.26%) LabVIEW
6 13 (1.17%) Gatling
7 11 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.54%) Maven
11 5 (0.45%) Clang
11 5 (0.45%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.45%) JUnit
11 5 (0.45%) Mockito
11 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 117 (10.50%) Social Skills
2 81 (7.27%) Electronics
3 53 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 50 (4.49%) Finance
5 47 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.04%) Automotive
7 33 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 31 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (2.69%) Tech for Good
10 25 (2.24%) Legal
11 22 (1.97%) Retail
12 19 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.62%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.62%) Mandarin Language
14 17 (1.53%) Banking
15 16 (1.44%) Games
16 13 (1.17%) Billing
17 12 (1.08%) Marketing
18 9 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (22.80%) .NET
2 165 (14.81%) React
3 135 (12.12%) CSS
4 129 (11.58%) .NET Core
5 93 (8.35%) PostGIS
6 89 (7.99%) Leaflet
6 89 (7.99%) OpenLayers
7 76 (6.82%) AngularJS
8 72 (6.46%) Node.js
9 58 (5.21%) RESTful
10 55 (4.94%) REST
11 54 (4.85%) Vue
12 52 (4.67%) HTML
13 50 (4.49%) ASP.NET
14 34 (3.05%) Spring
15 33 (2.96%) Web Services
16 27 (2.42%) Spring Boot
17 25 (2.24%) GraphQL
18 22 (1.97%) Lambda Expressions
18 22 (1.97%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.67%) IoT
2 47 (4.22%) Embedded Systems
3 34 (3.05%) Cyberattack
4 31 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.15%) Blog
6 24 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.97%) Media Streaming
8 21 (1.89%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.35%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 11 (0.99%) Device Driver
13 10 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.90%) SCADA
14 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.72%) Robotics
16 7 (0.63%) NHS
16 7 (0.63%) Online Games
17 5 (0.45%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 152 (13.64%) Linux
2 37 (3.32%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (3.05%) Windows
4 23 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.26%) FreeRTOS
7 13 (1.17%) Android
8 12 (1.08%) Unix
9 11 (0.99%) CentOS
9 11 (0.99%) Debian
10 9 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.090%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 332 (29.80%) Agile
3 195 (17.50%) DevOps
4 157 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (10.23%) Computer Science
6 113 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 98 (8.80%) Web Development
8 96 (8.62%) Actionable Insight
9 95 (8.53%) Full Stack Development
10 91 (8.17%) Microservices
11 81 (7.27%) Open Source
12 79 (7.09%) TDD
13 59 (5.30%) Test Automation
14 57 (5.12%) CI/CD
14 57 (5.12%) User Experience
15 56 (5.03%) OO
16 54 (4.85%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (4.76%) Unit Testing
18 48 (4.31%) SDLC
18 48 (4.31%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 276 (24.78%) C#
2 247 (22.17%) JavaScript
3 227 (20.38%) Python
4 158 (14.18%) Java
5 155 (13.91%) SQL
6 149 (13.38%) C
7 116 (10.41%) C++
8 74 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.78%) Embedded C
10 25 (2.24%) Scala
11 19 (1.71%) Rust
12 17 (1.53%) Go
13 16 (1.44%) PHP
14 14 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.81%) Perl
15 9 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
16 8 (0.72%) Bash
16 8 (0.72%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.63%) XAML
18 6 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 165 (14.81%) Degree
2 117 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 108 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.99%) PhD
8 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.45%) HND
10 4 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.18%) HNC
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.44%) GDPR
2 8 (0.72%) QA
3 7 (0.63%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.36%) PMO
5 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.090%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 54 (4.85%) Docker
2 47 (4.22%) Firmware
3 14 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.14%) Terraform
3 24 (2.15%) Ansible
4 12 (1.08%) Puppet
5 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.27%) Podman
7 1 (0.090%) Grafana
7 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (8.26%) ESRI
2 31 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 19 (1.71%) Oracle
3 19 (1.71%) Red Hat
4 17 (1.53%) Google
5 11 (0.99%) F5
5 11 (0.99%) SaltStack
6 9 (0.81%) Cadence
6 9 (0.81%) Synopsys
7 6 (0.54%) Facebook
8 5 (0.45%) SAP
9 4 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
9 4 (0.36%) Confluent
10 3 (0.27%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.27%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.27%) EMC
10 3 (0.27%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe
11 2 (0.18%) Kofax
11 2 (0.18%) Siemens