Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 70 40
Rank change year-on-year +44 -30 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 381 230 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.35% 4.71% 7.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.79% 5.15% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 280 145 281
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,905
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,350 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.40% +8.23%
75th Percentile £71,435 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,715 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,894 4,466 5,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 91.48% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,771 2,614 3,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,169 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 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
Salford +16 7 £70,000 +24.44% 1
Oldham +35 5 £52,500 - 1
Stockport +28 2 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham - 1 £47,500 - 1
Bury - 1 £45,000 -
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 8 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 Manchester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 381 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 126 (33.07%) Agile
2 126 (33.07%) Python
3 123 (32.28%) AWS
4 111 (29.13%) Java
5 106 (27.82%) JavaScript
5 106 (27.82%) Azure
6 95 (24.93%) C#
7 91 (23.88%) Linux
8 89 (23.36%) DevOps
9 77 (20.21%) .NET
10 72 (18.90%) React
11 65 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (16.54%) Degree
13 62 (16.27%) C
14 61 (16.01%) Open Source
15 55 (14.44%) Security Cleared
16 53 (13.91%) Social Skills
17 52 (13.65%) CSS
18 51 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
19 49 (12.86%) Computer Science
20 47 (12.34%) SC Cleared
20 47 (12.34%) Actionable Insight
21 46 (12.07%) GIS
22 42 (11.02%) Node.js
23 41 (10.76%) ArcGIS
24 40 (10.50%) SQL
25 39 (10.24%) .NET Core
26 38 (9.97%) Microservices
27 37 (9.71%) Git

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 41 (10.76%) ArcGIS
2 28 (7.35%) GeoServer
3 21 (5.51%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.89%) Apache
5 4 (1.05%) Captiva
5 4 (1.05%) FileNet
5 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (32.28%) AWS
2 106 (27.82%) Azure
3 32 (8.40%) GCP
4 29 (7.61%) Serverless
5 15 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (3.94%) GitHub
5 15 (3.94%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.05%) SaaS
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.52%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (0.52%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (0.52%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.89%) AMQP
2 10 (2.62%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.36%) RS-232
4 7 (1.84%) Firewall
5 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.79%) Network Security
7 2 (0.52%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) LTE
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.07%) GIS
3 29 (7.61%) MySQL
4 28 (7.35%) QGIS
5 21 (5.51%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.46%) Relational Database
7 16 (4.20%) Geospatial Data
7 16 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.67%) Big Data
8 14 (3.67%) Hadoop
8 14 (3.67%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.89%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.57%) Redis
11 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 37 (9.71%) Git
2 23 (6.04%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.15%) JIRA
4 9 (2.36%) GitLab
5 7 (1.84%) IntelliJ
5 7 (1.84%) Spinnaker
5 7 (1.84%) Subversion
6 6 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.31%) Clang
7 5 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.31%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.05%) JUnit
8 4 (1.05%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.05%) Mockito
8 4 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.05%) Selenium
9 3 (0.79%) GCC
9 3 (0.79%) GDB
9 3 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
General
1 53 (13.91%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.66%) Finance
3 15 (3.94%) Automotive
3 15 (3.94%) Retail
4 13 (3.41%) Banking
5 12 (3.15%) Aerospace
5 12 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.62%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.36%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.36%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.10%) Electronics
8 8 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.84%) Legal
10 5 (1.31%) Retail Finance
11 4 (1.05%) Games
11 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Advertising
13 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.52%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.21%) .NET
2 72 (18.90%) React
3 52 (13.65%) CSS
4 42 (11.02%) Node.js
5 39 (10.24%) .NET Core
6 35 (9.19%) PostGIS
7 33 (8.66%) AngularJS
8 32 (8.40%) Leaflet
8 32 (8.40%) OpenLayers
9 28 (7.35%) HTML
9 28 (7.35%) Spring
10 25 (6.56%) RESTful
11 17 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (4.46%) REST
12 16 (4.20%) Spring Boot
13 15 (3.94%) Kafka
13 15 (3.94%) Vue
14 14 (3.67%) JSON
15 13 (3.41%) gRPC
16 12 (3.15%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.72%) IoT
2 17 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
3 15 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.62%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.31%) NHS
8 4 (1.05%) DataPower
8 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.52%) Blog
10 2 (0.52%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.26%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.26%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.26%) NB-IoT
11 1 (0.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 91 (23.88%) Linux
2 19 (4.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (3.94%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.15%) Windows
5 11 (2.89%) CentOS
5 11 (2.89%) Debian
6 9 (2.36%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (1.57%) Unix
8 3 (0.79%) Android
8 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.79%) VMS
9 2 (0.52%) FreeBSD
9 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 126 (33.07%) Agile
3 89 (23.36%) DevOps
4 65 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (16.01%) Open Source
6 49 (12.86%) Computer Science
7 47 (12.34%) Actionable Insight
8 38 (9.97%) Microservices
9 35 (9.19%) Web Development
10 33 (8.66%) Mentoring
11 32 (8.40%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (7.87%) TDD
13 29 (7.61%) Code Quality
14 27 (7.09%) CI/CD
14 27 (7.09%) Collaborative Working
15 25 (6.56%) Coaching
16 23 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (5.77%) Containerisation
17 22 (5.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (33.07%) Python
2 111 (29.13%) Java
3 106 (27.82%) JavaScript
4 95 (24.93%) C#
5 62 (16.27%) C
6 40 (10.50%) SQL
7 33 (8.66%) TypeScript
8 30 (7.87%) C++
9 18 (4.72%) Go
10 17 (4.46%) Rust
11 11 (2.89%) Embedded C
12 8 (2.10%) Bash
12 8 (2.10%) PHP
13 6 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.31%) Fortran
14 5 (1.31%) Perl
14 5 (1.31%) Ruby
14 5 (1.31%) Scala
15 4 (1.05%) SystemVerilog
15 4 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (16.54%) Degree
2 55 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.31%) PhD
8 4 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.05%) GDPR
1 4 (1.05%) PMO
2 3 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 20 (5.25%) Firmware
2 16 (4.20%) Docker
3 10 (2.62%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.30%) Ansible
3 22 (5.77%) Terraform
4 11 (2.89%) Puppet
5 8 (2.10%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.79%) Podman
Vendors
1 35 (9.19%) ESRI
2 21 (5.51%) Oracle
3 19 (4.99%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.89%) Google
4 11 (2.89%) SaltStack
5 8 (2.10%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.84%) Confluent
6 7 (1.84%) F5
7 4 (1.05%) Cadence
7 4 (1.05%) IBM
7 4 (1.05%) Kofax
7 4 (1.05%) Pega
7 4 (1.05%) SAP
7 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.05%) Synopsys
8 3 (0.79%) Autodesk
8 3 (0.79%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.26%) EMC
10 1 (0.26%) Renesas