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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 96 45
Rank change year-on-year +69 -51 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,194 564 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.05% 3.55% 6.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.38% 3.98% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 805 320 554
10th Percentile £35,448 £39,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,350 £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 £66,500 £73,750 £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 18,721 14,174 18,106
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.32% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,116 7,963 10,982
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,136 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 9 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 9 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 +77 703 £57,500 -4.17% 107
Yorkshire +54 401 £50,000 -20.00% 35
North East +41 90 £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 9 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 1,184 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 369 (30.90%) Agile
3 282 (23.62%) C#
4 275 (23.03%) AWS
5 258 (21.61%) .NET
6 251 (21.02%) JavaScript
7 240 (20.10%) Azure
8 230 (19.26%) Python
9 198 (16.58%) DevOps
10 191 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 173 (14.49%) Degree
12 167 (13.99%) React
13 159 (13.32%) Java
14 158 (13.23%) SQL
15 157 (13.15%) Mentoring
16 154 (12.90%) C
17 152 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
18 148 (12.40%) Linux
19 140 (11.73%) CSS
20 129 (10.80%) .NET Core
21 124 (10.39%) Social Skills
22 122 (10.22%) C++
23 121 (10.13%) Computer Science
24 116 (9.72%) Security Cleared
25 107 (8.96%) SC Cleared
26 101 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
27 100 (8.38%) GIS
28 97 (8.12%) Microservices
29 96 (8.04%) Web Development
30 95 (7.96%) ArcGIS

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 95 (7.96%) ArcGIS
2 82 (6.87%) GeoServer
3 19 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.09%) Apache
5 8 (0.67%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Confluence
8 1 (0.084%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.17%) Sketch
3 1 (0.084%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Magento
2 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 275 (23.03%) AWS
2 240 (20.10%) Azure
3 46 (3.85%) Serverless
4 40 (3.35%) GCP
4 40 (3.35%) GitHub
5 28 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 24 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (1.09%) SaaS
10 11 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (0.92%) OpenShift
11 10 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.67%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.59%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.50%) Firebase
16 5 (0.42%) Amazon SQS
17 3 (0.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.93%) RS-232
2 22 (1.84%) MQTT
3 19 (1.59%) RS-485
4 17 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (1.42%) Wireless
5 13 (1.09%) 3G
5 13 (1.09%) 4G
6 11 (0.92%) AMQP
7 10 (0.84%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.59%) Network Security
9 5 (0.42%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.34%) SAN
11 3 (0.25%) Firewall
12 2 (0.17%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.17%) VoIP
13 1 (0.084%) HTTP
13 1 (0.084%) Internet
13 1 (0.084%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (8.38%) GIS
3 82 (6.87%) MySQL
3 82 (6.87%) QGIS
4 63 (5.28%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.03%) SQL Server
6 35 (2.93%) DynamoDB
7 33 (2.76%) Redis
8 29 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 25 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.68%) Big Data
12 16 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (1.17%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
15 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.59%) Power BI
17 5 (0.42%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 75 (6.28%) Git
2 27 (2.26%) JIRA
3 25 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.34%) Gatling
4 16 (1.34%) GitLab
4 16 (1.34%) Subversion
5 14 (1.17%) LabVIEW
6 12 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.50%) Maven
10 5 (0.42%) Clang
10 5 (0.42%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.42%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.42%) JUnit
10 5 (0.42%) Mockito
10 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.42%) webpack
11 4 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 124 (10.39%) Social Skills
2 85 (7.12%) Electronics
3 83 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (4.77%) Manufacturing
5 50 (4.19%) Finance
6 46 (3.85%) Automotive
7 33 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 31 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (2.60%) Tech for Good
9 27 (2.26%) Legal
10 22 (1.84%) Retail
11 19 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.59%) Games
11 19 (1.59%) Mandarin Language
12 18 (1.51%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.34%) Billing
14 13 (1.09%) Banking
15 12 (1.01%) Marketing
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (21.61%) .NET
2 167 (13.99%) React
3 140 (11.73%) CSS
4 129 (10.80%) .NET Core
5 90 (7.54%) PostGIS
6 86 (7.20%) Leaflet
6 86 (7.20%) OpenLayers
7 81 (6.78%) AngularJS
8 73 (6.11%) Node.js
9 60 (5.03%) REST
9 60 (5.03%) RESTful
10 58 (4.86%) Vue
11 56 (4.69%) HTML
12 51 (4.27%) ASP.NET
13 38 (3.18%) Web Services
14 35 (2.93%) Spring
15 30 (2.51%) GraphQL
16 28 (2.35%) Spring Boot
17 26 (2.18%) Lambda Expressions
18 25 (2.09%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.86%) Cyberattack
2 52 (4.36%) IoT
3 48 (4.02%) Embedded Systems
4 33 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (2.43%) Blog
6 27 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.26%) Media Streaming
7 24 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.51%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.09%) Client/Server
12 11 (0.92%) Device Driver
13 10 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.84%) SCADA
14 9 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.75%) Robotics
15 7 (0.59%) NHS
15 7 (0.59%) Online Games
16 5 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 148 (12.40%) Linux
2 38 (3.18%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (2.85%) Windows
4 20 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.26%) FreeRTOS
7 14 (1.17%) Android
8 11 (0.92%) CentOS
8 11 (0.92%) Debian
9 10 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.84%) Unix
10 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.25%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.084%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (99.16%) Software Engineering
2 369 (30.90%) Agile
3 198 (16.58%) DevOps
4 191 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (13.15%) Mentoring
6 121 (10.13%) Computer Science
7 101 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
8 97 (8.12%) Microservices
9 96 (8.04%) Web Development
10 94 (7.87%) User Experience
11 93 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
12 87 (7.29%) Open Source
13 84 (7.04%) Machine Learning
14 82 (6.87%) TDD
15 73 (6.11%) Data Engineering
15 73 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 70 (5.86%) Creative Thinking
17 62 (5.19%) Unit Testing
18 61 (5.11%) OO
18 61 (5.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 282 (23.62%) C#
2 251 (21.02%) JavaScript
3 230 (19.26%) Python
4 159 (13.32%) Java
5 158 (13.23%) SQL
6 154 (12.90%) C
7 122 (10.22%) C++
8 80 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.76%) Embedded C
10 30 (2.51%) Scala
11 19 (1.59%) Rust
12 18 (1.51%) Go
13 16 (1.34%) PHP
14 14 (1.17%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.75%) Perl
15 9 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
16 8 (0.67%) Bash
16 8 (0.67%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.59%) XAML
18 6 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 173 (14.49%) Degree
2 116 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 107 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.01%) PhD
8 7 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.42%) HND
10 4 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) HNC
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.084%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.17%) GDPR
2 9 (0.75%) QA
3 7 (0.59%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.34%) PMO
5 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.084%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 56 (4.69%) Docker
2 49 (4.10%) Firmware
3 15 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.10%) Terraform
3 24 (2.01%) Ansible
4 12 (1.01%) Puppet
5 11 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.25%) Podman
7 1 (0.084%) Grafana
7 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (7.45%) ESRI
2 33 (2.76%) Microsoft
3 19 (1.59%) Red Hat
4 18 (1.51%) Google
5 17 (1.42%) Oracle
6 11 (0.92%) F5
6 11 (0.92%) SaltStack
7 9 (0.75%) Cadence
7 9 (0.75%) Synopsys
8 6 (0.50%) Allen-Bradley
8 6 (0.50%) Facebook
9 5 (0.42%) SAP
10 3 (0.25%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.25%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.25%) Confluent
10 3 (0.25%) EMC
10 3 (0.25%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe
11 2 (0.17%) Databricks
11 2 (0.17%) Siemens