Software Engineer Jobs in the North East

Software Engineer
England > North East

The median Software Engineer salary in the North East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 62 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 75 54 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.11% 4.24% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.30% 5.31% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59 8 24
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,000 £34,650
25th Percentile £49,375 £48,313 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,850 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,250 - £72,000
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 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 1,745 1,017 1,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 79.76% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 607 988
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,963 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -8.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,625 £74,325 £71,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Tyne and Wear +19 52 £60,000 -11.70% 18
Durham +3 17 £52,500 +11.70% 1
Northumberland -6 5 £55,000 - 1
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (98.67%) Software Engineering
2 28 (37.33%) SQL
3 20 (26.67%) MySQL
3 20 (26.67%) AWS
4 19 (25.33%) Agile
5 18 (24.00%) .NET
6 17 (22.67%) ASP.NET
7 16 (21.33%) C++
8 15 (20.00%) C#
8 15 (20.00%) Degree
8 15 (20.00%) RESTful
9 13 (17.33%) C
10 11 (14.67%) Serverless
10 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (13.33%) Redis
11 10 (13.33%) Azure
11 10 (13.33%) Client/Server
11 10 (13.33%) Games
12 9 (12.00%) Java
12 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
12 9 (12.00%) Computer Science
12 9 (12.00%) Vue
12 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.67%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
13 8 (10.67%) Microservices
13 8 (10.67%) GitHub
13 8 (10.67%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (10.67%) BDD

Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (14.67%) Serverless
3 10 (13.33%) Azure
4 8 (10.67%) GitHub
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) MySQL
2 10 (13.33%) Redis
3 8 (10.67%) MongoDB
3 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.00%) Couchbase
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 10 (13.33%) Games
2 7 (9.33%) Automotive
2 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Electronics
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) .NET
2 17 (22.67%) ASP.NET
3 15 (20.00%) RESTful
4 9 (12.00%) Vue
5 8 (10.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (9.33%) .NET Core
6 7 (9.33%) Node.js
7 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.00%) CSS
9 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.33%) HTML
10 1 (1.33%) Next.js
10 1 (1.33%) QML
10 1 (1.33%) Qt
10 1 (1.33%) React
10 1 (1.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Client/Server
2 7 (9.33%) Data Structures
2 7 (9.33%) Online Games
3 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (98.67%) Software Engineering
2 19 (25.33%) Agile
3 9 (12.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (10.67%) BDD
4 8 (10.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
4 8 (10.67%) Microservices
4 8 (10.67%) MVC
4 8 (10.67%) Software Testing
4 8 (10.67%) TDD
5 7 (9.33%) Coaching
5 7 (9.33%) Design Patterns
5 7 (9.33%) OOP
5 7 (9.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
6 6 (8.00%) SDLC
7 5 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (4.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (4.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.33%) SQL
2 16 (21.33%) C++
3 15 (20.00%) C#
4 13 (17.33%) C
5 9 (12.00%) Java
5 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.67%) PhD
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Docker
1 7 (9.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana