Software Engineering Jobs in the North East

Software Engineering
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 62 123 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.11% 11.91% 12.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.81% 12.50% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 49 59 146
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,925 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 484 984 1,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 94.53% 95.26% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 409 627 908
10th Percentile £27,652 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,557 £50,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +14.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £61,445 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +5 43 £57,500 -8.00% 46
Durham +9 17 £52,500 +17.32% 7
Northumberland -6 1 £49,557 -1.38% 10
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 1 (1.61%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) AWS
3 3 (4.84%) GCP
3 3 (4.84%) IaaS
3 3 (4.84%) PaaS
3 3 (4.84%) SaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.23%) dbt
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.61%) npm
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.45%) MySQL
3 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Event Store
6 1 (1.61%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) GitLab
2 7 (11.29%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) Maven
4 4 (6.45%) Mocha
5 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.61%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.68%) Automotive
3 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Electronics
5 4 (6.45%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Police
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Software Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Architect
3 10 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (11.29%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.84%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Lead
9 3 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) .NET
2 9 (14.52%) Middleware
3 7 (11.29%) HTML
3 7 (11.29%) Node.js
4 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.06%) Spring
5 4 (6.45%) Chai
5 4 (6.45%) CSS
5 4 (6.45%) CSS3
5 4 (6.45%) HTML5
5 4 (6.45%) Jest
5 4 (6.45%) React
5 4 (6.45%) REST
5 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.23%) Django
7 1 (1.61%) Velocity
7 1 (1.61%) Vue
7 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Educational Technology
2 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.23%) Blog
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) Agile
2 14 (22.58%) DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
5 9 (14.52%) Critical Thinking
5 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (14.52%) Integration Testing
5 9 (14.52%) Software Testing
5 9 (14.52%) TOGAF
6 8 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (12.90%) TDD
7 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
7 6 (9.68%) Scrum
8 5 (8.06%) Design Patterns
8 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.06%) Kanban
8 5 (8.06%) Prototyping
8 5 (8.06%) SDLC
8 5 (8.06%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.19%) Java
2 13 (20.97%) SQL
3 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) C
5 7 (11.29%) C++
6 6 (9.68%) C#
7 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.84%) Python
9 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.61%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.61%) MISRA
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Kiali
3 1 (1.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Xamarin