Software Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 264 646 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.39% 12.63% 12.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 14.55% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 229 500 370
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £92,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £86,250 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +5.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,025 4,439 4,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.03% 86.82% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 3,402 2,563
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,920 £69,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Oldham +6 8 £55,000 +4.76%
Stockport +15 7 £55,000 +7.32% 23
Salford +10 4 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Rochdale - 4 £55,000 - 2
Bolton - 2 £47,500 - 31
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 16 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) Apache
2 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) CMS
3 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
3 1 (0.38%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.38%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 139 (52.65%) AWS
2 57 (21.59%) Azure
3 45 (17.05%) GCP
4 24 (9.09%) Serverless
5 14 (5.30%) SaaS
6 12 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
7 10 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.65%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (2.27%) GitHub
11 5 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.52%) CloudFront
13 3 (1.14%) Apigee
13 3 (1.14%) AWS IoT
13 3 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.65%) Wireless
2 4 (1.52%) LoRaWAN
3 3 (1.14%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.95%) MongoDB
1 21 (7.95%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.44%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.30%) MySQL
4 10 (3.79%) Cloud Spanner
5 8 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.89%) Metadata
6 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.52%) Big Data
8 3 (1.14%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.14%) TimescaleDB
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.38%) Apache Zeppelin
10 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 42 (15.91%) Git
2 18 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.06%) JIRA
4 13 (4.92%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.03%) GitLab
5 8 (3.03%) Maven
6 4 (1.52%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.52%) Storybook
7 3 (1.14%) JUnit
7 3 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.76%) TestRail
8 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (31.06%) Finance
2 56 (21.21%) Banking
3 54 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.82%) Retail
6 12 (4.55%) Law
7 10 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.03%) Electronics
9 7 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.89%) Games
12 4 (1.52%) Automotive
12 4 (1.52%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.76%) Legal
14 2 (0.76%) Retail Finance
15 1 (0.38%) Back Office
15 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 132 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 77 (29.17%) Senior
3 73 (27.65%) Lead
4 56 (21.21%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (9.09%) Developer
6 22 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.68%) Java Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Technical Leader
11 8 (3.03%) JavaScript Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Principal Software Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Team Leader
12 7 (2.65%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.65%) Software Engineering Manager
12 7 (2.65%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (30.68%) React
2 60 (22.73%) Node.js
3 43 (16.29%) .NET
4 32 (12.12%) AngularJS
5 27 (10.23%) CSS
5 27 (10.23%) HTML
6 25 (9.47%) RESTful
7 24 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 23 (8.71%) Spring
9 21 (7.95%) Kafka
9 21 (7.95%) Vue
10 17 (6.44%) .NET Core
11 15 (5.68%) Laravel
12 14 (5.30%) REST
13 12 (4.55%) GraphQL
13 12 (4.55%) Software Packaging
14 10 (3.79%) Web Services
15 9 (3.41%) React Native
16 8 (3.03%) .NET Framework
16 8 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.44%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.03%) IoT
7 8 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.27%) Device Driver
9 6 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.27%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.89%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.89%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.52%) EMV
12 3 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.09%) Linux
2 11 (4.17%) Android
3 6 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) Windows
6 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.91%) Agile
2 75 (28.41%) DevOps
3 70 (26.52%) Microservices
4 69 (26.14%) Mentoring
5 62 (23.48%) CI/CD
6 60 (22.73%) TDD
7 48 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence
9 37 (14.02%) Code Quality
10 36 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (12.88%) Roadmaps
12 33 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (11.74%) Computer Science
14 30 (11.36%) Coaching
14 30 (11.36%) Event-Driven
15 29 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (10.23%) Test Automation
17 24 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
18 23 (8.71%) Line Management
19 22 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.74%) JavaScript
2 85 (32.20%) Java
3 83 (31.44%) TypeScript
4 56 (21.21%) Python
5 34 (12.88%) C#
6 27 (10.23%) SQL
7 26 (9.85%) PHP
8 17 (6.44%) Go
9 16 (6.06%) C
9 16 (6.06%) C++
10 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.76%) R
11 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (17.80%) Degree
2 27 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.52%) PhD
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) HND
6 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) Accessibility
1 9 (3.41%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (21.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.88%) Terraform
3 4 (1.52%) Grafana
4 3 (1.14%) Istio
5 2 (0.76%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (12.88%) Google
2 8 (3.03%) Ping Identity
3 7 (2.65%) IBM
3 7 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.76%) Databricks
5 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.38%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.38%) EMC
6 1 (0.38%) Facebook
6 1 (0.38%) New Relic
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle
6 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.38%) Talend
6 1 (0.38%) VMware
6 1 (0.38%) Workday
6 1 (0.38%) Zend