Software Engineering Jobs in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 29 11
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 968 651 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.36% 8.58% 13.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 9.00% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 737 360 629
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £87,625 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 7,237 9,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.13% 95.44% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,316 3,833 5,295
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,070 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,974
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 £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +12 665 £60,000 -4.00% 155
Cheshire +33 143 £60,000 -22.58% 24
Lancashire +19 86 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Merseyside +3 72 £60,000 -27.27% 11
Cumbria -27 2 £65,000 +85.71% 2
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 71 (7.33%) ArcGIS
2 57 (5.89%) GeoServer
3 19 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.31%) Confluence
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.10%) Jetty
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.21%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.93%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 272 (28.10%) AWS
2 240 (24.79%) Azure
3 48 (4.96%) GCP
4 42 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (3.93%) SaaS
5 38 (3.93%) Serverless
6 33 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 33 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (2.69%) GitHub
8 21 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.14%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (0.93%) PaaS
15 8 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.65%) RS-232
2 12 (1.24%) MQTT
3 11 (1.14%) AMQP
3 11 (1.14%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.62%) HTTP
6 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.52%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.41%) Firewall
8 3 (0.31%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.31%) Network Security
8 3 (0.31%) Wireless
9 2 (0.21%) DSL
9 2 (0.21%) RS-485
10 1 (0.10%) Internet
10 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.85%) GIS
3 58 (5.99%) MySQL
4 57 (5.89%) QGIS
5 49 (5.06%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.62%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.89%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.69%) Big Data
10 25 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.96%) Redis
13 17 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
14 16 (1.65%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.55%) Hadoop
16 14 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
19 9 (0.93%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 98 (10.12%) Git
2 24 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.38%) GitLab
4 21 (2.17%) JIRA
5 17 (1.76%) Postman
6 14 (1.45%) Subversion
6 14 (1.45%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.34%) JUnit
8 12 (1.24%) Gatling
8 12 (1.24%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.83%) Maven
9 8 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.62%) webpack
11 5 (0.52%) Clang
11 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.52%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.52%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.52%) Mockito
12 4 (0.41%) Spinnaker
General
1 128 (13.22%) Social Skills
2 51 (5.27%) Finance
3 50 (5.17%) Electronics
4 38 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.20%) Automotive
5 31 (3.20%) Retail
6 29 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 22 (2.27%) Tech for Good
8 16 (1.65%) Health Technology
8 16 (1.65%) Law
9 13 (1.34%) Banking
10 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.24%) Billing
10 12 (1.24%) Legal
10 12 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.83%) Games
12 8 (0.83%) Marketing
13 5 (0.52%) Retail Finance
14 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 586 (60.54%) Software Engineer
2 285 (29.44%) Senior
3 196 (20.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 176 (18.18%) Developer
5 112 (11.57%) Lead
6 72 (7.44%) Embedded Engineer
6 72 (7.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 44 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 42 (4.34%) Technical Leader
9 39 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
9 39 (4.03%) Software Developer
10 38 (3.93%) Senior Developer
11 37 (3.82%) .NET Developer
11 37 (3.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (3.31%) Architect
13 30 (3.10%) Full Stack Engineer
13 30 (3.10%) Software Manager
14 29 (3.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 29 (3.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 21 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (23.14%) .NET
2 169 (17.46%) React
3 115 (11.88%) CSS
4 98 (10.12%) .NET Core
5 81 (8.37%) Node.js
6 67 (6.92%) HTML
7 65 (6.71%) PostGIS
7 65 (6.71%) Spring
8 61 (6.30%) Leaflet
8 61 (6.30%) OpenLayers
9 58 (5.99%) REST
10 48 (4.96%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.65%) Spring Boot
12 39 (4.03%) RESTful
13 36 (3.72%) Web Services
14 35 (3.62%) GraphQL
15 29 (3.00%) JSON
16 26 (2.69%) ASP.NET
17 23 (2.38%) Vue
18 22 (2.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.06%) IoT
2 42 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (2.38%) Blog
5 23 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 20 (2.07%) Media Streaming
7 15 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.14%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.03%) Device Driver
10 10 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.83%) FMCG
12 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.62%) NHS
13 5 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.52%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 137 (14.15%) Linux
2 41 (4.24%) Windows
3 20 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (2.07%) Ubuntu
4 16 (1.65%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (1.14%) CentOS
5 11 (1.14%) Debian
6 9 (0.93%) Android
7 8 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.41%) Unix
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.10%) HPUX
12 1 (0.10%) Solaris
12 1 (0.10%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (38.33%) Agile
2 247 (25.52%) DevOps
3 127 (13.12%) Computer Science
4 119 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (10.95%) Open Source
6 101 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
7 99 (10.23%) CI/CD
7 99 (10.23%) Mentoring
8 91 (9.40%) Microservices
8 91 (9.40%) TDD
9 72 (7.44%) Continuous Integration
9 72 (7.44%) Web Development
10 70 (7.23%) Actionable Insight
11 62 (6.40%) Scrum
12 54 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (5.58%) SDLC
13 53 (5.48%) Coaching
14 52 (5.37%) Design Patterns
15 46 (4.75%) Test Automation
16 45 (4.65%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 237 (24.48%) C#
2 227 (23.45%) JavaScript
3 216 (22.31%) Python
4 207 (21.38%) Java
5 118 (12.19%) SQL
6 97 (10.02%) C
7 83 (8.57%) TypeScript
8 66 (6.82%) C++
9 41 (4.24%) PHP
10 28 (2.89%) Go
11 23 (2.38%) Scala
12 22 (2.27%) Rust
13 20 (2.07%) Embedded C
14 10 (1.03%) Bash
14 10 (1.03%) COBOL
14 10 (1.03%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 6 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.52%) Fortran
16 5 (0.52%) R
16 5 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 172 (17.77%) Degree
2 113 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.14%) PhD
8 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.52%) HND
10 4 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.21%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.21%) HNC
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.14%) QA
2 10 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.72%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.41%) PMO
5 3 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 53 (5.48%) Docker
2 25 (2.58%) Firmware
3 11 (1.14%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) IAG
4 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (7.44%) Terraform
2 68 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.79%) Ansible
4 12 (1.24%) Puppet
5 11 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.31%) Podman
7 1 (0.10%) Kiali
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
7 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (6.71%) ESRI
2 52 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 20 (2.07%) Google
4 20 (2.07%) Oracle
5 14 (1.45%) F5
6 11 (1.14%) SaltStack
7 10 (1.03%) Micro Focus
8 7 (0.72%) EMC
9 6 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.41%) Cadence
10 4 (0.41%) Confluent
10 4 (0.41%) Synopsys
11 3 (0.31%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.31%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.21%) Adobe
12 2 (0.21%) Allen-Bradley
12 2 (0.21%) IBM
12 2 (0.21%) Siemens
12 2 (0.21%) Twitter