Software Engineering Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 42 16
Rank change year-on-year +16 -26 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 90 59 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.83% 6.43% 10.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 6.64% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 78 18 91
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,438 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,375 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,513 £69,375
90th Percentile £74,725 £95,195 £85,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,151 889 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.33% 96.84% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 967 451 645
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,049 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,963 £78,750 £82,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -5.56%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 26 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +1 50 £65,465 +13.85% 22
Sunderland -1 21 £62,500 - 7
Wallsend - 12 £50,000 -
Gateshead +3 1 £55,000 -
Software Engineering
North East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (3.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 15 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (16.67%) Serverless
3 14 (15.56%) Azure
4 9 (10.00%) GitHub
5 6 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.44%) SaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.11%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.78%) MySQL
2 13 (14.44%) Redis
3 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.33%) Couchbase
4 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.33%) Power BI
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 15 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 13 (14.44%) Games
3 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.67%) Finance
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (57.78%) Software Engineer
2 41 (45.56%) Senior
3 37 (41.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Lead
6 9 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Java Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Technical Leader
9 6 (6.67%) C Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) RESTful
2 17 (18.89%) .NET
3 13 (14.44%) ASP.NET
3 13 (14.44%) Node.js
4 12 (13.33%) Vue
5 11 (12.22%) .NET Core
5 11 (12.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.33%) REST
7 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.22%) Laravel
8 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.11%) CSS
8 1 (1.11%) HTML
8 1 (1.11%) Next.js
8 1 (1.11%) NumPy
8 1 (1.11%) Pandas
8 1 (1.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Client/Server
2 10 (11.11%) Online Games
3 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Windows
1 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) Agile
1 25 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 19 (21.11%) Coaching
3 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.44%) Computer Science
4 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
5 12 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 12 (13.33%) Manufacturing Engineering
6 11 (12.22%) MVC
6 11 (12.22%) TDD
7 9 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.00%) SDLC
8 8 (8.89%) BDD
8 8 (8.89%) Continuous Deployment
8 8 (8.89%) Design Patterns
8 8 (8.89%) DevOps
8 8 (8.89%) Microservices
8 8 (8.89%) OOP
9 7 (7.78%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.00%) SQL
2 19 (21.11%) C#
3 14 (15.56%) C++
4 12 (13.33%) C
4 12 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.22%) Java
5 11 (12.22%) Python
5 11 (12.22%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.67%) COBOL
6 6 (6.67%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 3 (3.33%) Go
7 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.22%) PhD
3 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.33%) IAG
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) Grafana
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (6.67%) Micro Focus
2 3 (3.33%) Autodesk
2 3 (3.33%) Epicor
2 3 (3.33%) Splunk
3 2 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.11%) Panasonic