Software Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 657 617 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.99% 12.16% 14.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 12.57% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 505 389 549
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,389 4,908 5,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.81% 96.77% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 2,607 3,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.64%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +29 12 £51,250 +57.69% 3
Salford +13 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Oldham +22 5 £52,500 - 2
Bury +6 4 £45,000 - 2
Altrincham - 3 £55,000 - 3
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 42 (6.39%) ArcGIS
2 28 (4.26%) GeoServer
3 24 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.83%) Apache
5 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.61%) Captiva
6 4 (0.61%) FileNet
6 4 (0.61%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Jetty
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 9 (1.37%) Magento
2 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 197 (29.98%) AWS
2 182 (27.70%) Azure
3 54 (8.22%) GCP
4 35 (5.33%) Serverless
5 31 (4.72%) SaaS
6 30 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.11%) GitHub
8 20 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.28%) OpenShift
11 14 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.83%) IaaS
12 12 (1.83%) PaaS
13 9 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.67%) AMQP
1 11 (1.67%) Ethernet
2 10 (1.52%) RS-232
3 9 (1.37%) Firewall
4 6 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.46%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (7.46%) MySQL
3 47 (7.15%) GIS
4 30 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.26%) QGIS
6 26 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 22 (3.35%) Big Data
8 19 (2.89%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
10 15 (2.28%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
11 11 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.37%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.22%) Redis
14 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.76%) OLAP
16 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 67 (10.20%) Git
2 35 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.89%) GitLab
4 14 (2.13%) JIRA
5 13 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 11 (1.67%) Spinnaker
7 9 (1.37%) LabVIEW
8 8 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.07%) IntelliJ
9 7 (1.07%) Subversion
10 6 (0.91%) Postman
10 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.76%) Clang
11 5 (0.76%) webpack
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) JUnit
12 4 (0.61%) Mockito
12 4 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 89 (13.55%) Social Skills
2 64 (9.74%) Finance
3 35 (5.33%) Banking
4 31 (4.72%) Retail
5 29 (4.41%) Automotive
6 26 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Electronics
7 13 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 13 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 12 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.83%) Tech for Good
9 11 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.52%) Law
10 10 (1.52%) Legal
11 8 (1.22%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.07%) Games
13 5 (0.76%) Retail Finance
14 4 (0.61%) Advertising
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 394 (59.97%) Software Engineer
2 198 (30.14%) Senior
3 138 (21.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 102 (15.53%) Developer
5 74 (11.26%) Lead
6 46 (7.00%) Java Engineer
7 39 (5.94%) Architect
7 39 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 35 (5.33%) Embedded Engineer
8 35 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 25 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (3.81%) Software Developer
9 25 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (3.65%) Senior Developer
10 24 (3.65%) Software Manager
11 21 (3.20%) Full Stack Engineer
12 20 (3.04%) .NET Developer
13 19 (2.89%) Technical Leader
14 17 (2.59%) Engineering Manager
15 16 (2.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (19.79%) React
2 125 (19.03%) .NET
3 79 (12.02%) CSS
4 73 (11.11%) Node.js
5 62 (9.44%) HTML
6 53 (8.07%) .NET Core
7 52 (7.91%) AngularJS
8 46 (7.00%) Spring
9 44 (6.70%) RESTful
10 36 (5.48%) PostGIS
11 32 (4.87%) Leaflet
11 32 (4.87%) OpenLayers
12 28 (4.26%) Spring Boot
13 27 (4.11%) Kafka
14 21 (3.20%) JSON
14 21 (3.20%) REST
15 19 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (2.74%) Next.js
17 16 (2.44%) ASP.NET
17 16 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.65%) IoT
4 18 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.52%) Device Driver
9 6 (0.91%) FMCG
9 6 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.91%) NHS
10 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.76%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.61%) DataPower
11 4 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.46%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.46%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 113 (17.20%) Linux
2 23 (3.50%) Windows
3 19 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.28%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.67%) CentOS
5 11 (1.67%) Debian
6 9 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.22%) Unix
8 3 (0.46%) Android
8 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.30%) FreeBSD
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (40.33%) Agile
2 166 (25.27%) DevOps
3 90 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (11.87%) Microservices
5 77 (11.72%) Open Source
6 76 (11.57%) CI/CD
6 76 (11.57%) Full Stack Development
7 74 (11.26%) Mentoring
8 73 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 68 (10.35%) TDD
10 50 (7.61%) Actionable Insight
10 50 (7.61%) Scrum
11 47 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
12 46 (7.00%) Containerisation
13 42 (6.39%) Web Development
14 41 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (6.24%) Test Automation
15 40 (6.09%) Coaching
16 39 (5.94%) Design Patterns
17 37 (5.63%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 177 (26.94%) Java
1 177 (26.94%) Python
2 155 (23.59%) JavaScript
3 138 (21.00%) C#
4 77 (11.72%) TypeScript
5 74 (11.26%) C
6 70 (10.65%) SQL
7 43 (6.54%) C++
8 28 (4.26%) Go
9 23 (3.50%) Rust
10 18 (2.74%) PHP
11 11 (1.67%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.52%) Bash
13 8 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.91%) Ruby
15 5 (0.76%) Fortran
15 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 5 (0.76%) Scala
16 4 (0.61%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 97 (14.76%) Degree
2 77 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 65 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.91%) OCP
7 6 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.76%) PhD
9 4 (0.61%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.15%) OSCE
12 1 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
1 8 (1.22%) QA
2 4 (0.61%) GDPR
2 4 (0.61%) PMO
3 3 (0.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (9.13%) Docker
2 21 (3.20%) Firmware
3 10 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.76%) Terraform
3 28 (4.26%) Ansible
4 11 (1.67%) Puppet
5 8 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.46%) Podman
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Kiali
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (5.48%) ESRI
2 28 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.65%) Oracle
4 20 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 13 (1.98%) Google
6 11 (1.67%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.37%) Confluent
8 6 (0.91%) F5
9 5 (0.76%) IBM
10 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.61%) Cadence
10 4 (0.61%) EMC
10 4 (0.61%) Kofax
10 4 (0.61%) Micro Focus
10 4 (0.61%) Pega
10 4 (0.61%) SAP
10 4 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.61%) Synopsys
11 3 (0.46%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.46%) Xamarin