Software Engineer Job Trends in the North East

Software Engineer
England > North East

The median Software Engineer salary in the North East is £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 24 32
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 24 81 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.44% 6.08% 5.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 6.43% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13 36 26
10th Percentile £10,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £68,650
England median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.92% -7.14% +0.80%

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 860 1,260 524
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.58% 94.59% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 530 686 427
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,960 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £57,188 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies 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 19 October 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 19 October 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 -18 24 £56,500 +0.89% 25
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) Java
3 13 (54.17%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) AWS
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
5 9 (37.50%) Azure
5 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 8 (33.33%) TypeScript
7 7 (29.17%) .NET
7 7 (29.17%) Fintech
7 7 (29.17%) User Experience
8 6 (25.00%) Python
9 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
9 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
9 5 (20.83%) Microservices
10 4 (16.67%) C
10 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 4 (16.67%) Docker
10 4 (16.67%) Firmware
10 4 (16.67%) GitLab
10 4 (16.67%) JIRA
10 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 4 (16.67%) QA
10 4 (16.67%) React
10 4 (16.67%) Spring
10 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
11 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
11 3 (12.50%) C#
11 3 (12.50%) C++

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) Maven
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Electronics
2 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Games
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) React
3 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.50%) CSS
4 3 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) JPA
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Redux
4 3 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (8.33%) CSS3
5 2 (8.33%) HTML5
5 2 (8.33%) Jest
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) Sass
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (20.83%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (8.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (8.33%) Robotics
6 1 (4.17%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (4.17%) IoT
6 1 (4.17%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Fedora
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (54.17%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (29.17%) Fintech
6 7 (29.17%) User Experience
7 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.50%) Front End Development
9 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (12.50%) SDLC
9 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
9 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.33%) Migration
10 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
10 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) C
5 3 (12.50%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Embedded C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
1 4 (16.67%) Firmware
2 3 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Solace
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
32 Software Engineer jobs in the North East