Software Engineering Jobs in the North East

Software Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 75 127 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.31% 6.74% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 7.79% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 65 107 23
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,501 £35,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £57,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £75,050 £65,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,647
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.97% +3.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 726 1,630 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 90.07% 86.56% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 394 1,325 593
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,924 £30,500
25th Percentile £26,563 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +12.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,541 £75,772 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North East

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 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 +11 69 £55,000 -8.33% 121
Northumberland +1 4 £61,000 +10.91% 7
Durham -11 2 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
2 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.00%) AWS
2 22 (29.33%) Azure
3 7 (9.33%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Serverless
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.33%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.00%) MySQL
3 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.33%) Big Data
4 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.33%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) HBase
4 1 (1.33%) Impala
4 1 (1.33%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.33%) Redis
4 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) GitLab
2 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 4 (5.33%) Maven
2 4 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.00%) Selenium
3 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.33%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) JUnit
General
1 20 (26.67%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.33%) Games
4 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Electronics
4 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.33%) Retail
5 3 (4.00%) Advertising
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Automotive
6 2 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (64.00%) Software Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Senior
3 18 (24.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Developer
5 9 (12.00%) PHP Software Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.33%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.33%) .NET
2 18 (24.00%) React
3 15 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 12 (16.00%) .NET Core
5 9 (12.00%) Node.js
6 8 (10.67%) ASP.NET
6 8 (10.67%) CSS
7 7 (9.33%) HTML
8 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (6.67%) Spring
8 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.33%) Kafka
9 4 (5.33%) LAMP
9 4 (5.33%) Laravel
10 3 (4.00%) Blazor
10 3 (4.00%) JPA
10 3 (4.00%) Next.js
10 3 (4.00%) Redux
10 3 (4.00%) RESTful
11 2 (2.67%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Hedge funds
1 9 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.33%) Client/Server
2 7 (9.33%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.33%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (5.33%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.67%) Online Games
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) PropTech
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Solaris
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 21 (28.00%) Mentoring
3 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (21.33%) Test Automation
5 15 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (18.67%) DevOps
6 14 (18.67%) E-Commerce
6 14 (18.67%) SDLC
7 12 (16.00%) Fintech
7 12 (16.00%) OOP
8 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
8 11 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (13.33%) Unit Testing
10 9 (12.00%) MVC
10 9 (12.00%) TDD
11 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.67%) Clean Code
12 7 (9.33%) Design Patterns
12 7 (9.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.33%) C#
2 23 (30.67%) Java
2 23 (30.67%) SQL
3 21 (28.00%) TypeScript
4 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
5 15 (20.00%) Python
6 9 (12.00%) PHP
7 4 (5.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) PROC SQL
8 1 (1.33%) R
8 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Degree
2 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.00%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
5 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
1 4 (5.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (5.33%) Firmware
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.67%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.33%) Kibana
4 1 (1.33%) logstash
4 1 (1.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Solace
3 1 (1.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.33%) Informatica
3 1 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle
3 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.33%) SAP