Software Engineering Jobs in Bolton

Software Engineering
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bolton requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 2.55% - 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% - 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £48,750 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bolton

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 107 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 98.09% 89.92% 98.68%
Number of salaries quoted 128 73 28
10th Percentile £25,480 £30,000 £28,225
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £55,250
Manchester median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% +4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bolton

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Bolton

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Bolton

Software Engineering
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Jest
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Sass
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Classic ASP
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace