Software Developer Jobs in the North East

Software Developer
England > North East

The median Software Developer salary in the North East is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 88 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -46 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 37 24 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.00% 1.86% 5.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 2.32% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 32 16 44
10th Percentile £37,501 £38,125 £19,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% +14.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,313 £53,125
90th Percentile £70,200 £67,500 £60,350
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 East with a recognized job title 1,767 1,035 1,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.62% 80.17% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,426 612 1,010
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £37,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -7.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,313 £73,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
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 Developer within the North East region over the 6 months to 5 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 -3 21 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Durham +11 16 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Software Developer 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 East region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 24 (64.86%) C#
2 22 (59.46%) .NET
3 15 (40.54%) Java
3 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
4 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (32.43%) SQL
5 12 (32.43%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (27.03%) Front End Development
6 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
7 9 (24.32%) Linux
7 9 (24.32%) Agile
7 9 (24.32%) AWS
8 8 (21.62%) Azure
8 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 8 (21.62%) HTML
8 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
9 7 (18.92%) CSS
9 7 (18.92%) MySQL
10 6 (16.22%) Client/Server
10 6 (16.22%) Spring
10 6 (16.22%) Degree
10 6 (16.22%) GDPR
11 5 (13.51%) .NET Core
11 5 (13.51%) IT Strategy
11 5 (13.51%) Serverless
11 5 (13.51%) Vue
11 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (13.51%) Technology Transformation
11 5 (13.51%) Micro Focus COBOL

Software Developer Skill Set
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 4 (10.81%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
1 2 (5.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) MySQL
2 5 (13.51%) Redis
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.11%) Couchbase
4 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.81%) Gradle
2 4 (10.81%) Maven
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Games
4 2 (5.41%) Electronics
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (59.46%) .NET
2 8 (21.62%) HTML
3 7 (18.92%) CSS
4 6 (16.22%) Spring
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Core
5 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
5 5 (13.51%) EDI
5 5 (13.51%) OSGi
5 5 (13.51%) Vue
6 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (10.81%) RESTful
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
7 3 (8.11%) React
8 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
8 2 (5.41%) JSON
8 2 (5.41%) WPF
8 2 (5.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) NHS
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Online Games
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (27.03%) Front End Development
3 9 (24.32%) Agile
4 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
4 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.51%) IT Strategy
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.51%) Technology Transformation
5 5 (13.51%) Time Management
6 4 (10.81%) Clean Code
6 4 (10.81%) MVC
6 4 (10.81%) SDLC
6 4 (10.81%) TDD
7 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
7 3 (8.11%) Mathematics
7 3 (8.11%) Microservices
7 3 (8.11%) OO
7 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
7 3 (8.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) C#
2 15 (40.54%) Java
3 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
4 12 (32.43%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) COBOL
5 5 (13.51%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.41%) PHP
7 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Micro Focus
3 2 (5.41%) Northgate