Software Engineer Jobs in the North East

Software Engineer
England > North East

The median Software Engineer salary in the North East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 48 75 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.14% 4.02% 4.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.74% 4.20% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41 59 6
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,000 £46,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £64,000 £68,750 £62,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £69,425
England median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -14.29% +7.69%

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 712 1,785 1,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 95.76% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 391 1,435 595
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £26,375 £35,920 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £65,552 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North East

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North East

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 Software Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Tyne and Wear +26 43 £55,000 -8.33% 62
Northumberland +2 4 £61,000 +10.91% 3
Durham 0 1 £70,000 +33.33% 4
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (50.00%) C#
2 24 (50.00%) .NET
3 21 (43.75%) AWS
4 19 (39.58%) Azure
4 19 (39.58%) SQL
4 19 (39.58%) Agile
5 18 (37.50%) Java
6 16 (33.33%) Finance
7 14 (29.17%) E-Commerce
7 14 (29.17%) QA
7 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (27.08%) AngularJS
8 13 (27.08%) Mentoring
8 13 (27.08%) Games
9 10 (20.83%) Python
9 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
9 10 (20.83%) DevOps
9 10 (20.83%) React
9 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (18.75%) Mobile App
10 9 (18.75%) PHP
10 9 (18.75%) MVC
11 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
11 8 (16.67%) CSS
11 8 (16.67%) Degree
11 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 8 (16.67%) TDD
11 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.08%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) GitLab
1 4 (8.33%) Maven
1 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Selenium
2 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.08%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.08%) JUnit
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Games
3 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Electronics
4 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) .NET
2 13 (27.08%) AngularJS
3 10 (20.83%) React
4 8 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 8 (16.67%) CSS
5 7 (14.58%) ASP.NET
5 7 (14.58%) HTML
6 6 (12.50%) Node.js
7 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (8.33%) LAMP
8 4 (8.33%) Laravel
8 4 (8.33%) Spring
8 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 3 (6.25%) JPA
9 3 (6.25%) Kafka
9 3 (6.25%) Redux
10 2 (4.17%) Blazor
10 2 (4.17%) HTML5
10 2 (4.17%) Jest
10 2 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 7 (14.58%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (6.25%) Client/Server
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.25%) Hedge funds
4 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.17%) Online Games
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) PropTech
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (39.58%) Agile
3 14 (29.17%) E-Commerce
4 13 (27.08%) Mentoring
5 10 (20.83%) DevOps
5 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (18.75%) MVC
7 8 (16.67%) SDLC
7 8 (16.67%) TDD
7 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.58%) Clean Code
9 6 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (12.50%) High Availability
9 6 (12.50%) OOP
9 6 (12.50%) Unit Testing
9 6 (12.50%) User Experience
10 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (10.42%) Microservices
10 5 (10.42%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) C#
2 19 (39.58%) SQL
3 18 (37.50%) Java
4 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
5 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 10 (20.83%) Python
6 9 (18.75%) PHP
7 4 (8.33%) C
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
1 4 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Solace