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 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 86 46
Rank change year-on-year +56 -40 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,046 645 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.75% 3.90% 6.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 4.36% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 762 329 575
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,715 £83,811 £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 17,298 14,787 17,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.36% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,332 8,028 10,986
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 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +62 594 £57,500 - 113
Yorkshire +49 373 £50,000 -16.67% 43
North East +18 79 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 1,036 (99.04%) Software Engineering
2 294 (28.11%) Agile
3 270 (25.81%) C#
4 262 (25.05%) AWS
5 250 (23.90%) JavaScript
6 249 (23.80%) .NET
7 236 (22.56%) Azure
8 228 (21.80%) Python
9 195 (18.64%) DevOps
10 169 (16.16%) React
11 164 (15.68%) Java
12 159 (15.20%) Degree
13 149 (14.24%) SQL
14 148 (14.15%) Linux
15 146 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
16 142 (13.58%) C
17 134 (12.81%) CSS
18 130 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
19 128 (12.24%) .NET Core
20 115 (10.99%) Security Cleared
21 112 (10.71%) Social Skills
22 110 (10.52%) Computer Science
23 109 (10.42%) C++
24 106 (10.13%) SC Cleared
25 103 (9.85%) GIS
26 102 (9.75%) Actionable Insight
27 98 (9.37%) ArcGIS
27 98 (9.37%) Web Development
28 95 (9.08%) Microservices
29 94 (8.99%) 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 (9.37%) ArcGIS
2 85 (8.13%) GeoServer
3 19 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.05%) Apache
5 7 (0.67%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.57%) CMS
7 4 (0.38%) Confluence
8 3 (0.29%) Captiva
8 3 (0.29%) FileNet
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.096%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.19%) Sketch
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.096%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Magento
2 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (25.05%) AWS
2 236 (22.56%) Azure
3 50 (4.78%) Serverless
4 43 (4.11%) GitHub
5 42 (4.02%) GCP
6 26 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.15%) SaaS
11 11 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (1.05%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (0.67%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.48%) Firebase
16 5 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 4 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
18 3 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.01%) MQTT
1 21 (2.01%) RS-232
2 16 (1.53%) RS-485
2 16 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (1.43%) Wireless
4 12 (1.15%) 3G
4 12 (1.15%) 4G
5 11 (1.05%) AMQP
6 10 (0.96%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.67%) Network Security
8 5 (0.48%) Firewall
8 5 (0.48%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.19%) VoIP
10 1 (0.096%) HTTP
10 1 (0.096%) Internet
10 1 (0.096%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.85%) GIS
3 85 (8.13%) QGIS
4 79 (7.55%) MySQL
5 57 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 56 (5.35%) NoSQL
7 29 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.58%) Redis
9 25 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (1.72%) Big Data
12 16 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (1.34%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
15 7 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.57%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.48%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 78 (7.46%) Git
2 30 (2.87%) JIRA
3 27 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.34%) GitLab
4 14 (1.34%) LabVIEW
4 14 (1.34%) Subversion
5 11 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.05%) Gatling
6 10 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.57%) JDeveloper
8 6 (0.57%) Maven
8 6 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.48%) Clang
9 5 (0.48%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.48%) IntelliJ
9 5 (0.48%) JUnit
9 5 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 112 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 79 (7.55%) Electronics
3 48 (4.59%) Finance
3 48 (4.59%) Manufacturing
4 44 (4.21%) Automotive
5 33 (3.15%) Public Sector
6 31 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.87%) Tech for Good
8 26 (2.49%) Legal
9 21 (2.01%) Retail
10 20 (1.91%) Banking
11 18 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.72%) Health Technology
11 18 (1.72%) Mandarin Language
12 14 (1.34%) Games
13 13 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.15%) Marketing
15 11 (1.05%) Billing
16 9 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (23.80%) .NET
2 169 (16.16%) React
3 134 (12.81%) CSS
4 128 (12.24%) .NET Core
5 93 (8.89%) PostGIS
6 89 (8.51%) Leaflet
6 89 (8.51%) OpenLayers
7 76 (7.27%) AngularJS
7 76 (7.27%) Node.js
8 58 (5.54%) RESTful
9 53 (5.07%) Vue
10 51 (4.88%) HTML
10 51 (4.88%) REST
11 50 (4.78%) ASP.NET
12 34 (3.25%) Spring
13 30 (2.87%) Web Services
14 27 (2.58%) Spring Boot
15 22 (2.10%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
16 19 (1.82%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.97%) IoT
2 44 (4.21%) Embedded Systems
3 29 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.01%) Blog
6 21 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.82%) Media Streaming
8 14 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.24%) Client/Server
10 12 (1.15%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.05%) Device Driver
12 10 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.96%) SCADA
13 9 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.67%) NHS
14 7 (0.67%) Online Games
15 6 (0.57%) Robotics
16 5 (0.48%) Life Science
16 5 (0.48%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 148 (14.15%) Linux
2 35 (3.35%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (3.25%) Windows
4 23 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
6 13 (1.24%) Unix
7 12 (1.15%) Android
8 11 (1.05%) CentOS
8 11 (1.05%) Debian
9 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.29%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.096%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (99.04%) Software Engineering
2 294 (28.11%) Agile
3 195 (18.64%) DevOps
4 130 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (10.52%) Computer Science
6 102 (9.75%) Actionable Insight
7 98 (9.37%) Web Development
8 95 (9.08%) Microservices
9 94 (8.99%) Full Stack Development
10 82 (7.84%) Open Source
11 77 (7.36%) TDD
12 74 (7.07%) Mentoring
13 57 (5.45%) Test Automation
14 56 (5.35%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (5.26%) CI/CD
15 55 (5.26%) Unit Testing
16 52 (4.97%) OO
17 47 (4.49%) SDLC
18 45 (4.30%) Software Testing
19 44 (4.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 270 (25.81%) C#
2 250 (23.90%) JavaScript
3 228 (21.80%) Python
4 164 (15.68%) Java
5 149 (14.24%) SQL
6 142 (13.58%) C
7 109 (10.42%) C++
8 70 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.87%) Embedded C
10 23 (2.20%) Go
11 22 (2.10%) Scala
12 17 (1.63%) Rust
13 16 (1.53%) PHP
14 15 (1.43%) Perl
15 14 (1.34%) Bash
15 14 (1.34%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.15%) Ruby
17 9 (0.86%) SystemVerilog
18 8 (0.76%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 159 (15.20%) Degree
2 115 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 106 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.10%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.96%) PhD
7 7 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.48%) HND
9 4 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) HNC
12 1 (0.096%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.096%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.53%) GDPR
2 13 (1.24%) QA
3 7 (0.67%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.38%) PMO
5 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 52 (4.97%) Docker
2 46 (4.40%) Firmware
3 13 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.25%) Terraform
3 23 (2.20%) Ansible
4 11 (1.05%) Puppet
5 10 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.29%) Podman
7 1 (0.096%) Grafana
7 1 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (8.80%) ESRI
2 30 (2.87%) Microsoft
3 26 (2.49%) Oracle
4 19 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.53%) Google
6 11 (1.05%) F5
6 11 (1.05%) SaltStack
7 9 (0.86%) Cadence
7 9 (0.86%) Synopsys
8 6 (0.57%) Facebook
9 5 (0.48%) Confluent
10 4 (0.38%) SAP
11 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.29%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.29%) EMC
11 3 (0.29%) IBM
11 3 (0.29%) Kofax
11 3 (0.29%) Pega
11 3 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.29%) Xamarin