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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 332 645 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.07% 12.54% 11.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.85% 14.46% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 231 497 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £93,764 £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% +8.11%

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 2,095 4,460 4,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.10% 86.69% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 3,407 2,566
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,650 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £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 7 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 7 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 +7 13 £55,000 +4.76%
Stockport +18 12 £55,000 +7.32% 20
Altrincham +1 6 - - 21
Salford +10 5 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Sale - 5 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 - - 15
Cheadle - 4 - - 3
Heywood - 4 - -
Bury +1 3 - - 16
Rochdale - 3 £55,000 - 2
Dukinfield - 3 - -
Bolton - 3 £47,500 - 26
Stalybridge - 3 - -
Wigan - 2 - - 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 25 (7.53%) Confluence
2 2 (0.60%) Apache
2 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.30%) CMS
3 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.30%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) nginx
3 1 (0.30%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.30%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 210 (63.25%) AWS
2 127 (38.25%) Azure
3 106 (31.93%) GCP
4 25 (7.53%) Serverless
5 14 (4.22%) SaaS
6 13 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 10 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.11%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (1.81%) GitHub
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.20%) CloudFront
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.90%) Apigee
13 3 (0.90%) AWS IoT
13 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.11%) Wireless
2 4 (1.20%) LoRaWAN
3 3 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.33%) MongoDB
2 21 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.52%) MySQL
4 10 (3.01%) Cloud Spanner
5 8 (2.41%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.51%) Metadata
6 5 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.20%) Big Data
7 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.90%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Zeppelin
10 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.30%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 37 (11.14%) Git
2 34 (10.24%) JIRA
3 31 (9.34%) SonarQube
4 26 (7.83%) GitLab
5 21 (6.33%) Maven
5 21 (6.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (6.02%) Cucumber
7 19 (5.72%) Bitbucket
8 18 (5.42%) Jenkins
8 18 (5.42%) Selenium
9 4 (1.20%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (1.20%) Storybook
10 3 (0.90%) JUnit
11 2 (0.60%) TestRail
11 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (30.12%) Finance
2 74 (22.29%) Banking
3 72 (21.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (16.27%) Social Skills
5 27 (8.13%) Retail
6 23 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.61%) Law
8 9 (2.71%) Corporate Banking
8 9 (2.71%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.41%) Electronics
10 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.51%) Games
12 4 (1.20%) Automotive
12 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Legal
14 2 (0.60%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.60%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 204 (61.45%) Software Engineer
2 127 (38.25%) Senior
3 110 (33.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 74 (22.29%) Lead
5 25 (7.53%) Developer
6 22 (6.63%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (3.31%) AWS Software Engineer
8 11 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (3.01%) Java Engineer
10 9 (2.71%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (2.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (2.71%) Team Leader
10 9 (2.71%) Technical Leader
11 8 (2.41%) JavaScript Engineer
11 8 (2.41%) Principal Software Engineer
12 7 (2.11%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.11%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.11%) Software Engineering Manager
12 7 (2.11%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (34.04%) Node.js
2 100 (30.12%) React
3 96 (28.92%) .NET
4 45 (13.55%) CSS
4 45 (13.55%) HTML
5 42 (12.65%) Spring Boot
6 41 (12.35%) Spring
7 39 (11.75%) Kafka
8 34 (10.24%) RESTful
9 32 (9.64%) AngularJS
10 24 (7.23%) Redux
11 23 (6.93%) REST
12 21 (6.33%) Vue
13 18 (5.42%) JPA
14 17 (5.12%) .NET Core
15 15 (4.52%) Laravel
16 13 (3.92%) Hibernate
16 13 (3.92%) HTML5
16 13 (3.92%) Sass
17 12 (3.61%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.57%) Cyberattack
2 53 (15.96%) Linux Command Line
2 53 (15.96%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (11.14%) Product Ownership
4 25 (7.53%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.12%) Algorithms
6 16 (4.82%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.61%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.41%) IoT
10 8 (2.41%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.81%) Device Driver
11 6 (1.81%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.81%) Legacy Code
12 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.20%) EMV
14 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (23.19%) Linux
2 11 (3.31%) Android
3 6 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.90%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) Windows
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (53.92%) Agile
2 141 (42.47%) Microservices
3 126 (37.95%) Mentoring
4 88 (26.51%) DevOps
5 81 (24.40%) User Experience
6 80 (24.10%) CI/CD
7 75 (22.59%) Scrum
8 72 (21.69%) Machine Learning
9 64 (19.28%) Cloud Security
9 64 (19.28%) TDD
10 61 (18.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 58 (17.47%) Data Engineering
12 51 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (13.55%) Test Automation
15 37 (11.14%) Code Quality
16 36 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 36 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (10.24%) Roadmaps
17 34 (10.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (50.60%) JavaScript
2 152 (45.78%) Java
3 109 (32.83%) Python
4 93 (28.01%) TypeScript
5 70 (21.08%) Go
6 69 (20.78%) C++
7 56 (16.87%) Rust
8 45 (13.55%) SQL
9 34 (10.24%) C#
10 26 (7.83%) PHP
11 16 (4.82%) C
12 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.60%) R
13 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.30%) Bash
14 1 (0.30%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.57%) DV Cleared
3 53 (15.96%) AWS Certification
3 53 (15.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 53 (15.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 46 (13.86%) Degree
5 27 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.90%) PhD
8 1 (0.30%) HND
8 1 (0.30%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.13%) QA
2 18 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 74 (22.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.24%) Terraform
3 4 (1.20%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Istio
5 2 (0.60%) Puppet
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (10.24%) Google
2 18 (5.42%) Solace
3 8 (2.41%) Ping Identity
4 7 (2.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.60%) Databricks
5 2 (0.60%) IBM
5 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.30%) EMC
6 1 (0.30%) Facebook
6 1 (0.30%) New Relic
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle
6 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.30%) Talend
6 1 (0.30%) VMware
6 1 (0.30%) Workday
6 1 (0.30%) Zend