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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 82 48
Rank change year-on-year +52 -34 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 979 721 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.65% 4.12% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.96% 4.61% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 709 373 624
10th Percentile £36,120 £38,750 £37,615
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,333
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.43% +5.40%
75th Percentile £69,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,400 £83,500 £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 16,439 15,644 17,375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 89.43% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,717 8,302 11,128
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 3 May 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 3 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
North West +55 562 £57,500 - 91
Yorkshire +43 342 £50,000 -16.67% 50
North East +16 75 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 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 North of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 970 (99.08%) Software Engineering
2 293 (29.93%) Agile
3 249 (25.43%) C#
4 246 (25.13%) AWS
5 244 (24.92%) JavaScript
6 237 (24.21%) Azure
7 232 (23.70%) Python
8 223 (22.78%) .NET
9 187 (19.10%) DevOps
10 186 (19.00%) Java
11 173 (17.67%) React
12 153 (15.63%) Linux
13 152 (15.53%) SQL
14 148 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
15 143 (14.61%) Degree
16 139 (14.20%) C
17 129 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
18 128 (13.07%) CSS
19 120 (12.26%) .NET Core
20 118 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
21 117 (11.95%) Security Cleared
22 110 (11.24%) SC Cleared
23 107 (10.93%) C++
24 103 (10.52%) GIS
25 99 (10.11%) Web Development
26 98 (10.01%) Computer Science
26 98 (10.01%) ArcGIS
27 93 (9.50%) PostGIS
28 92 (9.40%) Microservices
28 92 (9.40%) ESRI

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 98 (10.01%) ArcGIS
2 85 (8.68%) GeoServer
3 21 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.23%) Captiva
4 12 (1.23%) FileNet
4 12 (1.23%) WebSphere
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 8 (0.82%) JBoss
6 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (0.72%) CMS
8 6 (0.61%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.20%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 246 (25.13%) AWS
2 237 (24.21%) Azure
3 58 (5.92%) Serverless
4 49 (5.01%) GCP
5 48 (4.90%) GitHub
6 27 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (1.53%) OpenShift
9 11 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.02%) SaaS
11 8 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (0.72%) Amazon S3
12 7 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.51%) Firebase
15 4 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (0.31%) Entra ID
16 3 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.15%) RS-232
2 20 (2.04%) MQTT
3 16 (1.63%) RS-485
3 16 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (1.53%) Wireless
5 12 (1.23%) 3G
5 12 (1.23%) 4G
6 11 (1.12%) AMQP
7 10 (1.02%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.72%) Firewall
8 7 (0.72%) Network Security
9 5 (0.51%) ZigBee
10 2 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.20%) VoIP
11 1 (0.10%) HTTP
11 1 (0.10%) Internet
11 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (10.52%) GIS
3 85 (8.68%) QGIS
4 78 (7.97%) MySQL
5 53 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 39 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 33 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.84%) Big Data
10 16 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
10 16 (1.63%) Redis
11 14 (1.43%) Hadoop
12 11 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
13 9 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.92%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.82%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.51%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 84 (8.58%) Git
2 36 (3.68%) JIRA
3 32 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.53%) LabVIEW
4 15 (1.53%) Subversion
5 14 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 14 (1.43%) GitLab
6 13 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 12 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.92%) JDeveloper
9 9 (0.92%) Spinnaker
10 7 (0.72%) Maven
11 6 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.61%) Selenium
11 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.61%) webpack
12 5 (0.51%) Clang
12 5 (0.51%) Mockito
12 5 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (9.30%) Social Skills
2 66 (6.74%) Electronics
3 59 (6.03%) Finance
4 42 (4.29%) Automotive
5 40 (4.09%) Manufacturing
6 37 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.96%) Banking
9 27 (2.76%) Tech for Good
10 22 (2.25%) Legal
11 18 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.84%) Retail
12 17 (1.74%) Mandarin Language
13 16 (1.63%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.43%) Games
14 14 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.33%) Marketing
16 9 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.51%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (22.78%) .NET
2 173 (17.67%) React
3 128 (13.07%) CSS
4 120 (12.26%) .NET Core
5 93 (9.50%) PostGIS
6 89 (9.09%) Leaflet
6 89 (9.09%) OpenLayers
7 75 (7.66%) Node.js
8 73 (7.46%) AngularJS
9 61 (6.23%) RESTful
10 50 (5.11%) Vue
11 47 (4.80%) Spring
12 44 (4.49%) ASP.NET
12 44 (4.49%) HTML
13 42 (4.29%) REST
14 26 (2.66%) Spring Boot
15 21 (2.15%) Web Services
16 20 (2.04%) JSON
16 20 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (2.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.11%) IoT
2 42 (4.29%) Embedded Systems
3 24 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 13 (1.33%) Client/Server
6 13 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 12 (1.23%) DataPower
8 11 (1.12%) Device Driver
9 10 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.02%) SCADA
10 7 (0.72%) Online Games
11 6 (0.61%) NHS
11 6 (0.61%) Product Ownership
11 6 (0.61%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.51%) Life Science
12 5 (0.51%) Robotics
12 5 (0.51%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 153 (15.63%) Linux
2 35 (3.58%) Windows
3 30 (3.06%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.25%) Unix
6 19 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 11 (1.12%) Debian
9 9 (0.92%) Android
10 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.31%) VMS
12 2 (0.20%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.10%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (99.08%) Software Engineering
2 293 (29.93%) Agile
3 187 (19.10%) DevOps
4 148 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
6 99 (10.11%) Web Development
7 98 (10.01%) Computer Science
8 92 (9.40%) Microservices
9 87 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
10 77 (7.87%) Mentoring
11 75 (7.66%) TDD
12 68 (6.95%) Open Source
13 57 (5.82%) Test Automation
14 51 (5.21%) CI/CD
15 50 (5.11%) Coaching
15 50 (5.11%) Continuous Integration
16 48 (4.90%) Design Patterns
17 46 (4.70%) OO
17 46 (4.70%) SDLC
18 42 (4.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 249 (25.43%) C#
2 244 (24.92%) JavaScript
3 232 (23.70%) Python
4 186 (19.00%) Java
5 152 (15.53%) SQL
6 139 (14.20%) C
7 107 (10.93%) C++
8 61 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.96%) Embedded C
10 24 (2.45%) Go
11 20 (2.04%) Ruby
12 18 (1.84%) Perl
13 17 (1.74%) PHP
13 17 (1.74%) Rust
14 16 (1.63%) Bash
15 13 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
17 8 (0.82%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 143 (14.61%) Degree
2 117 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 110 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.02%) PhD
8 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.51%) HND
10 4 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.20%) HNC
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.55%) GDPR
2 17 (1.74%) QA
3 7 (0.72%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.41%) PMO
5 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 56 (5.72%) Docker
2 46 (4.70%) Firmware
3 12 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.47%) Terraform
3 25 (2.55%) Ansible
4 11 (1.12%) Puppet
5 10 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.31%) Podman
7 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 92 (9.40%) ESRI
2 35 (3.58%) Oracle
3 26 (2.66%) Microsoft
4 19 (1.94%) Red Hat
5 14 (1.43%) Google
6 13 (1.33%) SAP
7 12 (1.23%) IBM
7 12 (1.23%) Kofax
7 12 (1.23%) Pega
7 12 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.12%) F5
8 11 (1.12%) SaltStack
9 9 (0.92%) Cadence
9 9 (0.92%) Synopsys
10 7 (0.72%) Confluent
11 6 (0.61%) Facebook
12 3 (0.31%) Adobe
12 3 (0.31%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.31%) EMC
12 3 (0.31%) Xamarin