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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 62 130 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.28% 6.76% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 7.90% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 52 109 23
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,001 £35,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,063 £71,991 £56,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,400 £64,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £74,500
% change year-on-year +8.80% -16.11% +6.43%

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 718 1,646 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.27% 85.60% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 373 1,333 600
10th Percentile £24,606 £27,898 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,750 £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 28 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 28 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 +13 58 £55,000 -8.33% 259
Northumberland -1 2 £61,000 +10.91% 6
Durham -10 2 £70,000 +27.27% 6
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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) IIS
2 1 (1.61%) SAS
2 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) AWS
2 18 (29.03%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.61%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) Big Data
4 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.61%) HBase
4 1 (1.61%) Impala
4 1 (1.61%) Metadata
4 1 (1.61%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.61%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.84%) GitLab
3 3 (4.84%) Maven
3 3 (4.84%) Selenium
3 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.61%) JUnit
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Games
4 3 (4.84%) Advertising
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (62.90%) Software Engineer
2 21 (33.87%) Senior
3 16 (25.81%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Engineering Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (9.68%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.84%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.16%) .NET
2 14 (22.58%) React
3 12 (19.35%) AngularJS
4 9 (14.52%) .NET Core
5 8 (12.90%) Node.js
6 7 (11.29%) CSS
7 6 (9.68%) HTML
8 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
8 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (6.45%) Kafka
9 4 (6.45%) Spring
9 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.84%) JPA
10 3 (4.84%) LAMP
10 3 (4.84%) Laravel
10 3 (4.84%) Next.js
10 3 (4.84%) Redux
10 3 (4.84%) REST
11 2 (3.23%) HTML5
11 2 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.68%) Hedge funds
2 6 (9.68%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.84%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Online Games
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.61%) PropTech
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Solaris
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Agile
2 16 (25.81%) DevOps
2 16 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (24.19%) Mentoring
4 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
5 12 (19.35%) Fintech
6 11 (17.74%) E-Commerce
7 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.13%) SDLC
8 9 (14.52%) User Experience
9 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 8 (12.90%) MVC
10 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
10 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (11.29%) OOP
10 7 (11.29%) Project Management
11 6 (9.68%) TDD
12 5 (8.06%) Software Testing
12 5 (8.06%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.94%) C#
2 21 (33.87%) Java
3 20 (32.26%) TypeScript
4 18 (29.03%) SQL
5 16 (25.81%) Python
6 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.68%) PHP
8 2 (3.23%) C
9 1 (1.61%) Bash
9 1 (1.61%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.19%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.45%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
1 8 (12.90%) Terraform
2 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Kibana
3 1 (1.61%) logstash
3 1 (1.61%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.84%) Solace
2 1 (1.61%) Databricks
2 1 (1.61%) Informatica
2 1 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle
2 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.61%) SAP