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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 377 803 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.26% 13.73% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.41% 16.43% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 220 494 266
10th Percentile £43,625 £42,875 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £93,778 £71,991 £76,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.26%

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 2,297 4,888 4,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.00% 83.56% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 3,477 2,516
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,159 £57,905
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -8.20% +5.28%
75th Percentile £73,563 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,550 £83,750
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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Stockport +7 15 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Oldham 0 13 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Altrincham -6 9 - - 35
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 8 - - 29
Sale -1 8 - -
Salford +5 6 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Cheadle - 6 - - 3
Heywood - 6 - -
Bury +5 5 - - 29
Dukinfield -4 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bolton - 4 £47,500 - 73
Wigan - 3 - - 1
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 29 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (0.80%) IIS
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.27%) Apache
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.27%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 255 (67.64%) AWS
2 159 (42.18%) Azure
3 133 (35.28%) GCP
4 25 (6.63%) Serverless
5 16 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.98%) SaaS
7 12 (3.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (2.92%) GitHub
9 10 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.86%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.33%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.33%) CloudFront
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.80%) Apigee
14 3 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.80%) AWS IoT
14 3 (0.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (0.80%) Internet
2 3 (0.80%) Wireless
3 1 (0.27%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.81%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.16%) MongoDB
3 21 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.18%) MySQL
6 10 (2.65%) Cloud Spanner
7 9 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.86%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.80%) Data Hub
11 3 (0.80%) SQL CLR
11 3 (0.80%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.53%) Big Data
12 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.53%) Metadata
13 1 (0.27%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (12.47%) JIRA
2 41 (10.88%) GitLab
3 36 (9.55%) SonarQube
4 33 (8.75%) Cucumber
4 33 (8.75%) Selenium
5 31 (8.22%) Git
6 30 (7.96%) Maven
6 30 (7.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 28 (7.43%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.45%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.33%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
11 2 (0.53%) TestRail
11 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.53%) webpack
12 1 (0.27%) CMake
12 1 (0.27%) PHPUnit
General
1 114 (30.24%) Finance
2 110 (29.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (20.16%) Banking
4 57 (15.12%) Social Skills
5 37 (9.81%) Retail
6 22 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.77%) Corporate Banking
7 18 (4.77%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.59%) Law
10 5 (1.33%) Electronics
10 5 (1.33%) Games
10 5 (1.33%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.06%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.80%) Back Office
12 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 3 (0.80%) Marketing
13 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 237 (62.86%) Software Engineer
2 146 (38.73%) Senior
3 125 (33.16%) Senior Software Engineer
4 70 (18.57%) Lead
5 36 (9.55%) Developer
6 23 (6.10%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (4.51%) Java Engineer
8 16 (4.24%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (3.98%) AWS Software Engineer
10 14 (3.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (2.92%) Engineering Manager
11 11 (2.92%) Team Leader
12 10 (2.65%) Technical Leader
13 9 (2.39%) Principal Software Engineer
13 9 (2.39%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 7 (1.86%) Lead Developer
15 7 (1.86%) Software Engineering Manager
15 7 (1.86%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (35.01%) Node.js
2 117 (31.03%) .NET
3 98 (25.99%) React
4 64 (16.98%) Spring Boot
5 59 (15.65%) Spring
6 58 (15.38%) Kafka
7 53 (14.06%) CSS
8 52 (13.79%) HTML
9 40 (10.61%) RESTful
10 31 (8.22%) Redux
10 31 (8.22%) REST
11 27 (7.16%) JPA
12 26 (6.90%) AngularJS
13 23 (6.10%) HTML5
13 23 (6.10%) Sass
14 22 (5.84%) Jest
15 20 (5.31%) CSS3
16 16 (4.24%) Hibernate
16 16 (4.24%) Vue
17 15 (3.98%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.28%) Cyberattack
2 82 (21.75%) Linux Command Line
2 82 (21.75%) Self-Motivation
3 55 (14.59%) Product Ownership
4 27 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.31%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.51%) Algorithms
7 16 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.18%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.65%) Wiki
10 9 (2.39%) Mobile App
11 8 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (1.59%) IoT
12 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
14 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.06%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 100 (26.53%) Linux
2 7 (1.86%) Android
2 7 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (58.89%) Agile
2 173 (45.89%) Microservices
3 158 (41.91%) Mentoring
4 122 (32.36%) User Experience
5 110 (29.18%) DevOps
6 102 (27.06%) Machine Learning
7 99 (26.26%) CI/CD
8 97 (25.73%) Scrum
9 94 (24.93%) Cloud Security
10 90 (23.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 87 (23.08%) Data Engineering
12 70 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 64 (16.98%) Test Automation
14 63 (16.71%) TDD
15 49 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (12.20%) Containerisation
17 42 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (10.88%) Code Quality
19 39 (10.34%) Front End Development
20 38 (10.08%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 201 (53.32%) Java
2 194 (51.46%) JavaScript
3 133 (35.28%) Python
4 102 (27.06%) TypeScript
5 99 (26.26%) Go
6 94 (24.93%) C++
7 82 (21.75%) Rust
8 63 (16.71%) SQL
9 34 (9.02%) C#
10 19 (5.04%) PHP
11 9 (2.39%) C
12 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) R
13 1 (0.27%) Bash
13 1 (0.27%) Ruby
13 1 (0.27%) Swift
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 93 (24.67%) DV Cleared
3 82 (21.75%) AWS Certification
3 82 (21.75%) AWS Certified Developer
3 82 (21.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 48 (12.73%) Degree
5 32 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.80%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.53%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.02%) QA
2 29 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) SEPA
4 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (23.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (22.28%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.81%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Grafana
3 3 (0.80%) Istio
4 2 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (7.69%) Google
2 27 (7.16%) Solace
3 10 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.12%) Ping Identity
5 3 (0.80%) VMware
6 2 (0.53%) IBM
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle
6 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.53%) SAP
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe
7 1 (0.27%) Databricks
7 1 (0.27%) Facebook
7 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.27%) Talend
7 1 (0.27%) Workday
7 1 (0.27%) Zend