Software Engineering Jobs in the North East

Software Engineering
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 36 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 126 95 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.88% 7.37% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 7.62% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 106 26 104
10th Percentile £39,244 £35,313 £35,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,991 £66,875 £63,125
90th Percentile £75,375 £73,850 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,592 1,247 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 86.95% 96.74% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 608 919
10th Percentile £27,873 £30,500 £25,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,625 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +14.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £73,850 £75,000
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear +12 91 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Durham +5 29 £55,000 +17.02% 1
Northumberland -6 5 £55,000 -
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (2.38%) IIS
1 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.22%) AWS
2 15 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (11.90%) Azure
2 15 (11.90%) Serverless
3 9 (7.14%) GitHub
4 7 (5.56%) GCP
5 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.17%) SaaS
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.79%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.84%) MySQL
2 13 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.32%) Redis
3 11 (8.73%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.35%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.76%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.38%) Couchbase
8 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.38%) Power BI
8 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) TeamCity
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.38%) Gradle
4 3 (2.38%) Maven
5 2 (1.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (11.90%) Manufacturing
2 13 (10.32%) Games
3 10 (7.94%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.35%) Finance
5 7 (5.56%) Automotive
5 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.97%) Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (58.73%) Software Engineer
2 54 (42.86%) Senior
3 49 (38.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (19.84%) Embedded Engineer
4 25 (19.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 24 (19.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 24 (19.05%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 15 (11.90%) Lead
7 14 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
7 14 (11.11%) Developer
8 9 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.43%) .NET
2 20 (15.87%) ASP.NET
3 19 (15.08%) RESTful
4 14 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 14 (11.11%) Vue
5 13 (10.32%) Node.js
6 11 (8.73%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (3.97%) CSS
8 4 (3.17%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (2.38%) HTML
9 3 (2.38%) REST
10 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.59%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.59%) Laravel
10 2 (1.59%) XML
11 1 (0.79%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Client/Server
2 10 (7.94%) Online Games
3 8 (6.35%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.38%) NHS
6 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.16%) Agile
2 29 (23.02%) Mentoring
3 19 (15.08%) Coaching
4 18 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 16 (12.70%) Computer Science
5 16 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (10.32%) TDD
6 13 (10.32%) Test Automation
7 12 (9.52%) Manufacturing Engineering
8 11 (8.73%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (8.73%) MVC
8 11 (8.73%) Roadmaps
9 10 (7.94%) Microservices
10 9 (7.14%) Analytics
10 9 (7.14%) Data Engineering
10 9 (7.14%) Design Patterns
10 9 (7.14%) DevOps
10 9 (7.14%) SDLC
11 8 (6.35%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (6.35%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) SQL
2 24 (19.05%) C#
3 22 (17.46%) C++
4 19 (15.08%) C
5 15 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.11%) Java
7 13 (10.32%) TypeScript
8 12 (9.52%) Python
9 6 (4.76%) COBOL
9 6 (4.76%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 5 (3.97%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.38%) Go
12 2 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Degree
2 12 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.59%) PhD
3 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) Firmware
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.38%) IAG
Systems Management
1 19 (15.08%) Terraform
2 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.17%) Grafana
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (4.76%) Micro Focus
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.38%) Autodesk
3 3 (2.38%) Epicor
3 3 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (1.59%) Google
4 2 (1.59%) Northgate
5 1 (0.79%) Panasonic