Software Engineer Jobs in Bolton

Software Engineer
Manchester > Bolton

As of 6 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Software Engineer salary in Bolton.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 1.35% - 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% - 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £52,500
75th Percentile - - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -3.40%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 120 104 126
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.08% 99.05% 78.26%
Number of salaries quoted 99 70 27
10th Percentile £25,480 £26,175 £28,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.61%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,375 £52,500
90th Percentile - £75,750 £55,750
Manchester median annual salary £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Bolton

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bolton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Bolton.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Bolton

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 Bolton region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Solace
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace