Software Engineering Jobs in Lancashire

Software Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 37 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -21 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 76 40 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.89% 5.82% 14.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 6.12% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 68 12 30
10th Percentile £34,250 - £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £58,945
90th Percentile £80,000 - £60,125
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,026 654 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.53% 95.20% 96.62%
Number of salaries quoted 866 335 352
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,894 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,125 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £44,306
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +7.21% +8.73%
75th Percentile £62,250 £57,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £65,750 £69,988
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Lancashire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Chorley +18 18 £75,000 - 3
Blackburn -4 9 £40,000 - 2
Burnley - 9 £40,000 -
Blackpool - 6 £79,932 -
Preston +5 5 £47,500 - 4
Accrington - 3 £30,000 -
Nelson - 2 £48,000 -
Rossendale - 1 £30,000 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.63%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.42%) AWS
2 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (11.84%) Amazon Kinesis
2 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.26%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) SaaS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Wireless
2 3 (3.95%) HTTP
2 3 (3.95%) MQTT
2 3 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.95%) ZigBee
3 2 (2.63%) RS-232
3 2 (2.63%) RS-485
4 1 (1.32%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (11.84%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (11.84%) MySQL
1 9 (11.84%) RDBMS
1 9 (11.84%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Git
2 9 (11.84%) Postman
3 6 (7.89%) Maven
4 2 (2.63%) Subversion
5 1 (1.32%) JUnit
General
1 15 (19.74%) Electronics
2 6 (7.89%) Tech for Good
3 5 (6.58%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 43 (56.58%) Software Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Lead
3 15 (19.74%) Electronics Engineer
3 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 15 (19.74%) Technical Leader
4 14 (18.42%) Embedded Engineer
5 13 (17.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 8 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Junior
9 3 (3.95%) Junior Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Junior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.63%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) Spring
2 15 (19.74%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.84%) JSON
4 5 (6.58%) React
5 4 (5.26%) CSS
5 4 (5.26%) HTML
6 3 (3.95%) Laravel
6 3 (3.95%) Node.js
7 2 (2.63%) .NET
8 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.32%) Wayland
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) IoT
2 9 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.84%) Agile
2 18 (23.68%) Roadmaps
3 14 (18.42%) DevOps
4 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
4 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
5 12 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 11 (14.47%) SDLC
7 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (11.84%) Agile Project Management
8 9 (11.84%) Coaching
8 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
8 9 (11.84%) Design Patterns
8 9 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.84%) Logical Data Model
8 9 (11.84%) Physical Data Model
8 9 (11.84%) Product Strategy
8 9 (11.84%) Project Management
9 6 (7.89%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) Java
2 14 (18.42%) PHP
3 11 (14.47%) C
4 9 (11.84%) C#
4 9 (11.84%) Python
4 9 (11.84%) SQL
5 8 (10.53%) C++
6 6 (7.89%) COBOL
6 6 (7.89%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 10 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.63%) HNC
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Firmware
2 2 (2.63%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Terraform
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Micro Focus
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.63%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.63%) EMC
3 2 (2.63%) Siemens