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 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 13 24 13
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 939 793 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.68% 9.96% 12.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.65% 10.40% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 727 456 661
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £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 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 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 27 April 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 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
Manchester +8 652 £60,000 -4.00% 132
Cheshire +33 137 £60,000 -22.58% 22
Lancashire +12 76 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Merseyside +1 71 £60,000 -27.27% 8
Cumbria -23 2 £65,000 +85.71% 4
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 (7.56%) ArcGIS
2 57 (6.07%) GeoServer
3 23 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.28%) Apache
5 6 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.53%) JBoss
6 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.43%) Captiva
7 4 (0.43%) FileNet
7 4 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.11%) Jetty
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.21%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.96%) Magento
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.30%) AWS
2 240 (25.56%) Azure
3 55 (5.86%) GCP
4 45 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (4.47%) Serverless
6 33 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (3.51%) GitHub
6 33 (3.51%) SaaS
7 20 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (1.70%) Amazon S3
9 15 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (1.60%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.60%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.06%) IaaS
12 10 (1.06%) PaaS
13 8 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.70%) RS-232
2 11 (1.17%) AMQP
2 11 (1.17%) Ethernet
3 9 (0.96%) MQTT
4 8 (0.85%) Firewall
5 7 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.53%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.43%) HTTP
7 4 (0.43%) Wireless
8 3 (0.32%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.32%) Network Security
9 2 (0.21%) RS-485
10 1 (0.11%) Internet
10 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.09%) GIS
3 60 (6.39%) MySQL
4 57 (6.07%) QGIS
5 39 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.77%) Big Data
8 23 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.24%) NoSQL
9 21 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 20 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
12 15 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
14 11 (1.17%) OLAP
15 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.75%) Redis
17 6 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (10.76%) Git
2 35 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.34%) JIRA
4 19 (2.02%) GitLab
5 15 (1.60%) Postman
6 14 (1.49%) Subversion
6 14 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.06%) IntelliJ
7 10 (1.06%) LabVIEW
7 10 (1.06%) Spinnaker
8 9 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.96%) Maven
9 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.64%) JDeveloper
10 6 (0.64%) JUnit
10 6 (0.64%) webpack
11 5 (0.53%) Clang
11 5 (0.53%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 109 (11.61%) Social Skills
2 69 (7.35%) Finance
3 38 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (3.62%) Electronics
5 32 (3.41%) Banking
6 30 (3.19%) Retail
7 29 (3.09%) Automotive
8 22 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.13%) Law
10 19 (2.02%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.70%) Health Technology
11 16 (1.70%) Public Sector
12 14 (1.49%) Legal
13 12 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.85%) Games
15 8 (0.85%) Marketing
16 5 (0.53%) Retail Finance
17 4 (0.43%) Advertising
17 4 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 564 (60.06%) Software Engineer
2 282 (30.03%) Senior
3 196 (20.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 160 (17.04%) Developer
5 97 (10.33%) Lead
6 72 (7.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 71 (7.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 55 (5.86%) Java Engineer
9 48 (5.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 39 (4.15%) Architect
11 37 (3.94%) Software Developer
12 36 (3.83%) Technical Leader
13 34 (3.62%) Full Stack Engineer
14 31 (3.30%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.19%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 30 (3.19%) Software Manager
16 29 (3.09%) .NET Developer
16 29 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
16 29 (3.09%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 25 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (22.15%) .NET
2 177 (18.85%) React
3 111 (11.82%) CSS
4 94 (10.01%) .NET Core
5 79 (8.41%) Node.js
6 68 (7.24%) HTML
7 66 (7.03%) Spring
8 65 (6.92%) PostGIS
9 61 (6.50%) Leaflet
9 61 (6.50%) OpenLayers
10 57 (6.07%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.90%) RESTful
12 44 (4.69%) Spring Boot
13 38 (4.05%) REST
14 32 (3.41%) JSON
15 26 (2.77%) Kafka
16 24 (2.56%) Vue
17 23 (2.45%) ASP.NET
18 21 (2.24%) Web Services
19 20 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.22%) IoT
2 38 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.28%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.06%) Device Driver
12 8 (0.85%) FMCG
12 8 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.64%) NHS
14 5 (0.53%) Blog
14 5 (0.53%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 142 (15.12%) Linux
2 44 (4.69%) Windows
3 20 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.70%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (1.17%) CentOS
6 11 (1.17%) Debian
7 8 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.85%) Unix
8 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.43%) Android
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) HPUX
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (39.30%) Agile
2 233 (24.81%) DevOps
3 132 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (11.93%) Computer Science
5 99 (10.54%) Mentoring
6 97 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
7 95 (10.12%) CI/CD
8 88 (9.37%) Actionable Insight
8 88 (9.37%) Microservices
8 88 (9.37%) Open Source
9 81 (8.63%) TDD
10 75 (7.99%) Web Development
11 62 (6.60%) Scrum
12 60 (6.39%) Design Patterns
13 59 (6.28%) SDLC
14 58 (6.18%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (5.86%) Coaching
16 51 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 49 (5.22%) Code Quality
18 48 (5.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 225 (23.96%) JavaScript
2 222 (23.64%) C#
3 219 (23.32%) Python
4 217 (23.11%) Java
5 112 (11.93%) SQL
6 95 (10.12%) C
7 80 (8.52%) TypeScript
8 69 (7.35%) C++
9 42 (4.47%) PHP
10 32 (3.41%) Go
11 23 (2.45%) Rust
12 19 (2.02%) Embedded C
13 14 (1.49%) Bash
14 11 (1.17%) Ruby
15 10 (1.06%) COBOL
15 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 8 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.85%) Perl
17 7 (0.75%) Scala
18 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 149 (15.87%) Degree
2 115 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 103 (10.97%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.17%) PhD
7 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.64%) OCP
7 6 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.53%) HND
9 4 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.21%) HNC
11 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) MBA
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
12 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.28%) QA
2 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.75%) ISO 9000
4 5 (0.53%) GDPR
5 4 (0.43%) PMO
6 3 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 63 (6.71%) Docker
2 25 (2.66%) Firmware
3 11 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.35%) Terraform
3 29 (3.09%) Ansible
4 11 (1.17%) Puppet
5 10 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) Podman
7 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Kiali
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (6.92%) ESRI
2 50 (5.32%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.88%) Oracle
4 21 (2.24%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.70%) Google
6 14 (1.49%) F5
7 11 (1.17%) SaltStack
8 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus
9 8 (0.85%) Confluent
10 6 (0.64%) EMC
10 6 (0.64%) IBM
11 5 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.53%) SAP
12 4 (0.43%) Cadence
12 4 (0.43%) Kofax
12 4 (0.43%) Pega
12 4 (0.43%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) Synopsys
13 3 (0.32%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.32%) Xamarin