Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,635 1,449 2,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.99% 8.76% 12.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.98% 9.06% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 794 1,320
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,371 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +11.82% +0.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,895 16,001 17,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.86% 96.69% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 7,839 10,706
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,074 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +16 963 £60,000 -4.00% 201
Yorkshire +11 540 £55,000 -12.00% 89
North East +8 132 £55,000 +13.34% 36
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 100 (6.12%) ArcGIS
2 85 (5.20%) GeoServer
3 21 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.86%) Apache
5 7 (0.43%) CMS
5 7 (0.43%) IIS
5 7 (0.43%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.37%) Confluence
6 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.31%) WordPress
8 3 (0.18%) Captiva
8 3 (0.18%) FileNet
8 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.061%) Drupal
10 1 (0.061%) Jetty
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.12%) Simulink
2 2 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.55%) Magento
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.18%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 400 (24.46%) AWS
2 374 (22.87%) Azure
3 74 (4.53%) GCP
4 71 (4.34%) Serverless
5 65 (3.98%) GitHub
6 61 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.55%) SaaS
8 49 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
10 46 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.71%) Amazon S3
12 25 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (1.28%) Power Platform
14 19 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (0.67%) OpenShift
19 10 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.47%) MQTT
2 22 (1.35%) RS-232
3 21 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (0.98%) RS-485
6 15 (0.92%) Wireless
7 12 (0.73%) 3G
7 12 (0.73%) 4G
8 11 (0.67%) AMQP
8 11 (0.67%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.49%) Network Security
10 6 (0.37%) Firewall
10 6 (0.37%) HTTP
11 5 (0.31%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.24%) Internet
13 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
14 2 (0.12%) DSL
14 2 (0.12%) VoIP
15 1 (0.061%) Broadband
15 1 (0.061%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (7.77%) MySQL
3 105 (6.42%) GIS
4 85 (5.20%) QGIS
5 78 (4.77%) SQL Server
6 66 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 54 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (2.45%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.02%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.96%) Redis
11 26 (1.59%) Big Data
12 25 (1.53%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
17 15 (0.92%) Hadoop
18 11 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
19 9 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 146 (8.93%) Git
2 41 (2.51%) JIRA
3 40 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.83%) GitLab
5 22 (1.35%) LabVIEW
5 22 (1.35%) Postman
6 17 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 17 (1.04%) Visual Studio
7 15 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.92%) Subversion
8 13 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.80%) JUnit
9 12 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.67%) Gatling
10 11 (0.67%) Maven
11 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.49%) webpack
13 6 (0.37%) JDeveloper
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 201 (12.29%) Social Skills
2 95 (5.81%) Finance
3 87 (5.32%) Electronics
4 76 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 59 (3.61%) Automotive
6 55 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 47 (2.87%) Retail
8 36 (2.20%) Tech for Good
9 35 (2.14%) Banking
10 29 (1.77%) Legal
11 26 (1.59%) Marketing
12 25 (1.53%) Health Technology
13 23 (1.41%) Games
14 21 (1.28%) Law
15 19 (1.16%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
16 18 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,036 (63.36%) Software Engineer
2 473 (28.93%) Senior
3 343 (20.98%) Senior Software Engineer
4 287 (17.55%) Developer
5 201 (12.29%) Embedded Engineer
5 201 (12.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 173 (10.58%) Lead
7 78 (4.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 78 (4.77%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 76 (4.65%) Software Developer
9 62 (3.79%) Java Engineer
9 62 (3.79%) Technical Leader
10 57 (3.49%) Senior Developer
11 54 (3.30%) Lead Software Engineer
12 52 (3.18%) Java Software Engineer
13 50 (3.06%) C++ Software Engineer
14 48 (2.94%) .NET Software Engineer
15 47 (2.87%) .NET Developer
16 46 (2.81%) Software Manager
17 42 (2.57%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (23.98%) .NET
2 258 (15.78%) React
3 183 (11.19%) .NET Core
3 183 (11.19%) CSS
4 138 (8.44%) Node.js
5 115 (7.03%) AngularJS
6 100 (6.12%) HTML
7 95 (5.81%) RESTful
8 94 (5.75%) PostGIS
9 89 (5.44%) Leaflet
9 89 (5.44%) OpenLayers
10 77 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 77 (4.71%) REST
10 77 (4.71%) Vue
11 75 (4.59%) Spring
12 55 (3.36%) Spring Boot
13 49 (3.00%) Web Services
14 38 (2.32%) .NET Framework
15 35 (2.14%) JSON
16 34 (2.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (3.67%) IoT
2 57 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 56 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
4 45 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
5 41 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 26 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 26 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.35%) Blog
11 19 (1.16%) Media Streaming
11 19 (1.16%) Private Cloud
12 18 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.67%) Device Driver
14 11 (0.67%) NHS
15 10 (0.61%) Online Games
15 10 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 181 (11.07%) Linux
2 59 (3.61%) Windows
3 37 (2.26%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (1.41%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.86%) Android
7 13 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (0.67%) CentOS
8 11 (0.67%) Debian
9 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.55%) Unix
11 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.31%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.18%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
14 2 (0.12%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.061%) HPUX
15 1 (0.061%) Solaris
15 1 (0.061%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (33.21%) Agile
2 357 (21.83%) DevOps
3 215 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (12.05%) Computer Science
5 173 (10.58%) CI/CD
5 173 (10.58%) Mentoring
6 166 (10.15%) Full Stack Development
7 155 (9.48%) Microservices
8 136 (8.32%) TDD
9 132 (8.07%) Open Source
10 115 (7.03%) Web Development
11 109 (6.67%) Coaching
12 102 (6.24%) Actionable Insight
13 98 (5.99%) Test Automation
14 89 (5.44%) Continuous Integration
15 87 (5.32%) Scrum
16 85 (5.20%) SDLC
17 84 (5.14%) Design Patterns
18 79 (4.83%) Roadmaps
19 77 (4.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 410 (25.08%) C#
2 363 (22.20%) JavaScript
3 315 (19.27%) Python
4 259 (15.84%) Java
5 258 (15.78%) SQL
6 177 (10.83%) C
7 147 (8.99%) C++
8 132 (8.07%) TypeScript
9 62 (3.79%) PHP
10 38 (2.32%) Go
11 32 (1.96%) Embedded C
12 25 (1.53%) COBOL
12 25 (1.53%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 22 (1.35%) Rust
13 22 (1.35%) Scala
14 20 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.86%) Bash
16 11 (0.67%) XAML
17 10 (0.61%) Perl
18 9 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 261 (15.96%) Degree
2 168 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 151 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 90 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 24 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 16 (0.98%) PhD
8 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.37%) HND
10 4 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.24%) HNC
11 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.12%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.12%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.12%) OCP
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.061%) MBA
13 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (1.53%) QA
2 18 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 18 (1.10%) GDPR
3 7 (0.43%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.24%) PMO
5 3 (0.18%) SLA
6 2 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.061%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 98 (5.99%) Docker
2 52 (3.18%) Firmware
3 14 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.43%) IAG
6 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 112 (6.85%) Terraform
3 28 (1.71%) Ansible
4 11 (0.67%) Puppet
5 10 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.43%) Grafana
7 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.061%) Istio
9 1 (0.061%) Kiali
9 1 (0.061%) Kibana
9 1 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (5.75%) ESRI
2 84 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 30 (1.83%) Oracle
4 27 (1.65%) Google
5 25 (1.53%) Micro Focus
6 21 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.10%) F5
8 11 (0.67%) SaltStack
9 10 (0.61%) Cadence
10 9 (0.55%) Synopsys
11 7 (0.43%) EMC
12 6 (0.37%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.37%) Autodesk
12 6 (0.37%) SAP
12 6 (0.37%) Splunk
13 5 (0.31%) Confluent
13 5 (0.31%) IBM
13 5 (0.31%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.18%) Epicor
14 3 (0.18%) Kofax