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 5 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 39 77
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 39 90 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.76% 4.36% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 4.58% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26 68 8
10th Percentile £22,500 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £71,875 £72,369 £66,440
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +4.81%

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 1,092 1,967 878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.39% 95.39% 80.11%
Number of salaries quoted 623 1,552 573
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,000 £30,800
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £45,249 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% -9.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £53,875 £62,500 £61,445
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 5 July 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 5 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 +6 38 £55,000 -5.17% 49
Durham 0 1 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (53.85%) Java
3 19 (48.72%) .NET
3 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 19 (48.72%) AWS
4 17 (43.59%) Azure
5 16 (41.03%) C#
5 16 (41.03%) TypeScript
6 14 (35.90%) DevOps
7 13 (33.33%) AngularJS
7 13 (33.33%) SQL
7 13 (33.33%) Finance
8 11 (28.21%) Python
8 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (23.08%) User Experience
10 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
10 8 (20.51%) React
10 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
11 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
11 7 (17.95%) Games
11 7 (17.95%) QA
11 7 (17.95%) Fintech
11 7 (17.95%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
12 6 (15.38%) Degree
12 6 (15.38%) MVC
12 6 (15.38%) CSS

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 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) GitHub
3 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
1 3 (7.69%) Maven
1 3 (7.69%) Selenium
1 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
1 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.13%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Games
3 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) .NET
2 13 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (20.51%) React
4 6 (15.38%) CSS
5 5 (12.82%) .NET Core
5 5 (12.82%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) Node.js
6 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
6 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (10.26%) Spring
6 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 3 (7.69%) JPA
7 3 (7.69%) Kafka
7 3 (7.69%) Redux
7 3 (7.69%) REST
8 2 (5.13%) CSS3
8 2 (5.13%) Jest
8 2 (5.13%) Laravel
8 2 (5.13%) RESTful
8 2 (5.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (17.95%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Online Games
5 2 (5.13%) Robotics
6 1 (2.56%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) DevOps
4 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (23.08%) User Experience
6 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
7 7 (17.95%) Fintech
7 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.38%) MVC
9 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.82%) High Availability
9 5 (12.82%) SDLC
9 5 (12.82%) TDD
10 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
10 4 (10.26%) Microservices
10 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
11 3 (7.69%) Clean Code
11 3 (7.69%) Front End Development
11 3 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Java
2 16 (41.03%) C#
2 16 (41.03%) TypeScript
3 13 (33.33%) SQL
4 11 (28.21%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.26%) SOC 2
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Solace