Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer salary in the North West is £57,000 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 26 104 38
Rank change year-on-year +78 -66 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 642 248 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.99% 3.36% 7.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.32% 3.76% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 430 142 310
10th Percentile £38,066 £42,500 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £83,425
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 10,164 6,599 9,230
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.53% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,697 4,001 5,389
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,351 £40,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +67 422 £57,500 - 100
Cheshire +42 109 £60,000 -17.24% 11
Lancashire +34 64 £45,000 -47.06% 16
Merseyside +19 46 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Cumbria -6 1 £45,000 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 634 (98.75%) Software Engineering
2 228 (35.51%) Agile
3 190 (29.60%) AWS
4 161 (25.08%) Python
5 158 (24.61%) C#
6 155 (24.14%) Azure
7 150 (23.36%) JavaScript
8 144 (22.43%) .NET
9 138 (21.50%) DevOps
10 134 (20.87%) Java
11 118 (18.38%) Linux
12 114 (17.76%) Degree
13 102 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
13 102 (15.89%) React
13 102 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
14 85 (13.24%) Mentoring
15 83 (12.93%) Social Skills
15 83 (12.93%) CSS
16 82 (12.77%) Security Cleared
17 81 (12.62%) Open Source
17 81 (12.62%) C
18 78 (12.15%) Computer Science
19 75 (11.68%) SC Cleared
19 75 (11.68%) GIS
20 73 (11.37%) .NET Core
21 70 (10.90%) ArcGIS
22 68 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
23 64 (9.97%) PostGIS
23 64 (9.97%) Web Development
23 64 (9.97%) ESRI

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 70 (10.90%) ArcGIS
2 57 (8.88%) GeoServer
3 18 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.71%) Apache
5 2 (0.31%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.31%) Sketch
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 190 (29.60%) AWS
2 155 (24.14%) Azure
3 32 (4.98%) GCP
3 32 (4.98%) Serverless
4 22 (3.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 16 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (2.34%) GitHub
7 14 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 11 (1.71%) SaaS
10 7 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.47%) Datadog
14 2 (0.31%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (0.31%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.49%) RS-232
2 11 (1.71%) AMQP
3 10 (1.56%) Ethernet
4 9 (1.40%) MQTT
5 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.78%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.62%) Firewall
7 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.62%) Wireless
8 3 (0.47%) Network Security
8 3 (0.47%) RS-485
9 2 (0.31%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.16%) HTTP
10 1 (0.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (11.68%) GIS
3 57 (8.88%) QGIS
4 43 (6.70%) NoSQL
5 37 (5.76%) MySQL
6 35 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.89%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (2.96%) Redis
10 18 (2.80%) Big Data
11 16 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
12 14 (2.18%) Hadoop
12 14 (2.18%) Relational Database
13 13 (2.02%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.71%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.78%) MS Access
17 4 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.47%) DocumentDB
18 3 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (8.41%) Git
2 20 (3.12%) JIRA
3 17 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.18%) Subversion
5 13 (2.02%) Gatling
5 13 (2.02%) GitLab
6 6 (0.93%) Maven
6 6 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.78%) Clang
7 5 (0.78%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.78%) IntelliJ
7 5 (0.78%) JUnit
7 5 (0.78%) Mockito
7 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.62%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.62%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.47%) GCC
9 3 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 83 (12.93%) Social Skills
2 43 (6.70%) Electronics
3 38 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (4.83%) Finance
5 24 (3.74%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.49%) Automotive
7 16 (2.49%) Tech for Good
8 15 (2.34%) Retail
9 13 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.02%) Billing
10 9 (1.40%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.40%) Legal
11 8 (1.25%) Banking
11 8 (1.25%) Public Sector
12 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.78%) Retail Finance
14 4 (0.62%) Games
14 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (22.43%) .NET
2 102 (15.89%) React
3 83 (12.93%) CSS
4 73 (11.37%) .NET Core
5 64 (9.97%) PostGIS
6 61 (9.50%) Leaflet
6 61 (9.50%) OpenLayers
7 50 (7.79%) Node.js
8 40 (6.23%) REST
9 34 (5.30%) HTML
10 33 (5.14%) Spring
11 32 (4.98%) AngularJS
11 32 (4.98%) Web Services
12 26 (4.05%) Spring Boot
13 25 (3.89%) GraphQL
14 22 (3.43%) http4s
14 22 (3.43%) Lambda Expressions
14 22 (3.43%) RESTful
14 22 (3.43%) Scalaz
15 18 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.54%) IoT
2 30 (4.67%) Cyberattack
3 24 (3.74%) Blog
3 24 (3.74%) Embedded Systems
4 22 (3.43%) Media Streaming
5 20 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.56%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.78%) Life Science
11 5 (0.78%) NHS
11 5 (0.78%) Smart Energy
12 4 (0.62%) SCADA
13 3 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.47%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.31%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 118 (18.38%) Linux
2 29 (4.52%) Windows
3 19 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (2.96%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.34%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (1.71%) CentOS
5 11 (1.71%) Debian
6 10 (1.56%) Unix
7 7 (1.09%) Android
8 6 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.47%) VMS
11 2 (0.31%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (98.75%) Software Engineering
2 228 (35.51%) Agile
3 138 (21.50%) DevOps
4 102 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (13.24%) Mentoring
6 81 (12.62%) Open Source
7 78 (12.15%) Computer Science
8 68 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
9 64 (9.97%) Web Development
10 59 (9.19%) Full Stack Development
11 53 (8.26%) Microservices
12 47 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
13 45 (7.01%) TDD
14 42 (6.54%) CI/CD
15 38 (5.92%) User Experience
16 37 (5.76%) Unit Testing
17 36 (5.61%) Machine Learning
18 33 (5.14%) Data Engineering
18 33 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 31 (4.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 161 (25.08%) Python
2 158 (24.61%) C#
3 150 (23.36%) JavaScript
4 134 (20.87%) Java
5 81 (12.62%) C
6 55 (8.57%) SQL
7 50 (7.79%) C++
8 37 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 25 (3.89%) Scala
10 20 (3.12%) Embedded C
11 19 (2.96%) Rust
12 17 (2.65%) Go
13 10 (1.56%) PHP
14 8 (1.25%) Bash
14 8 (1.25%) Perl
14 8 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.93%) Ruby
16 5 (0.78%) Fortran
16 5 (0.78%) R
16 5 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (17.76%) Degree
2 82 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 75 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 40 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.78%) HND
7 5 (0.78%) PhD
8 4 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.31%) HNC
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.09%) ISO 9000
2 4 (0.62%) PMO
3 1 (0.16%) GDPR
3 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 26 (4.05%) Docker
2 21 (3.27%) Firmware
3 11 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.36%) Terraform
3 24 (3.74%) Ansible
4 12 (1.87%) Puppet
5 11 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.47%) Podman
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (9.97%) ESRI
2 19 (2.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.96%) Red Hat
3 17 (2.65%) Google
4 14 (2.18%) Oracle
5 11 (1.71%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.09%) F5
7 6 (0.93%) Facebook
8 4 (0.62%) Allen-Bradley
8 4 (0.62%) Cadence
8 4 (0.62%) Confluent
8 4 (0.62%) Synopsys
9 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.47%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.47%) EMC
9 3 (0.47%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe
10 2 (0.31%) Siemens
11 1 (0.16%) Atmel
11 1 (0.16%) SAP