Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the North East

Senior Software Engineer
England > North East

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 63 90
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 16 49 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.05% 2.45% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.57% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9 41 3
10th Percentile - £35,000 £54,040
25th Percentile £10,000 £53,000 £56,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +20.93%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,991 £69,800
90th Percentile £60,750 £73,250 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 1,164 1,906 850
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.08% 95.20% 79.89%
Number of salaries quoted 678 1,495 571
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,000 £30,584
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,889
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £46,457 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% -7.09% +15.61%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £61,348
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,772 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North East

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North East

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North East

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tyne and Wear +9 16 £55,000 -15.98% 5
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
3 11 (68.75%) Java
4 9 (56.25%) AWS
5 8 (50.00%) DevOps
6 7 (43.75%) Azure
6 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
6 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (43.75%) .NET
6 7 (43.75%) Python
7 6 (37.50%) Fintech
7 6 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (37.50%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
7 6 (37.50%) User Experience
8 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
8 4 (25.00%) PHP
8 4 (25.00%) Games
9 3 (18.75%) QA
9 3 (18.75%) Finance
10 2 (12.50%) LAMP
10 2 (12.50%) MVC
10 2 (12.50%) OOP
10 2 (12.50%) MySQL
10 2 (12.50%) CSS
10 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (12.50%) HTML
10 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 2 (12.50%) Git

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Games
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) LAMP
3 2 (12.50%) Laravel
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (37.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (37.50%) Fintech
5 6 (37.50%) User Experience
6 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 2 (12.50%) MVC
7 2 (12.50%) OOP
7 2 (12.50%) SOLID
7 2 (12.50%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Web Development
8 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
8 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
8 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 4 (25.00%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform