Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
15 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 161 189
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 71 162 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 1.30% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.37% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 64 95 93
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £43,650
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,050 £82,548
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 8,567 11,789 7,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 94.96% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,087 6,209 5,597
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -4.17% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
North West -2 37 £75,000 +20.00% 45
Yorkshire -11 23 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North East -13 11 £73,750 +12.66% 6
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, Senior 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 of England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (33.80%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Java
3 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
3 21 (29.58%) React
4 20 (28.17%) DevOps
5 17 (23.94%) Agile
6 16 (22.54%) Microservices
7 15 (21.13%) C#
7 15 (21.13%) TypeScript
8 14 (19.72%) .NET
9 13 (18.31%) Azure
10 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
10 12 (16.90%) Docker
10 12 (16.90%) Fintech
10 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
11 10 (14.08%) AI
11 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.08%) TDD
12 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (12.68%) Terraform
13 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
13 8 (11.27%) LLM
13 8 (11.27%) Python
13 8 (11.27%) RESTful
13 8 (11.27%) Spring
13 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
13 8 (11.27%) SQL
14 7 (9.86%) Clean Code
14 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) Azure
3 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
4 2 (2.82%) GCP
4 2 (2.82%) GitHub
4 2 (2.82%) Serverless
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.41%) Datadog
5 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.41%) SaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.41%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) MySQL
1 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
1 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (18.31%) Finance
2 7 (9.86%) Financial Institution
3 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Retail
5 2 (2.82%) Games
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.58%) React
2 14 (19.72%) .NET
3 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
3 8 (11.27%) RESTful
3 8 (11.27%) Spring
3 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.63%) Micronaut
6 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.23%) Node.js
6 3 (4.23%) REST
6 3 (4.23%) Vue
7 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.82%) Celery
7 2 (2.82%) Django
7 2 (2.82%) Flask
7 2 (2.82%) Next.js
7 2 (2.82%) React Native
8 1 (1.41%) HTML5
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
3 20 (28.17%) DevOps
4 17 (23.94%) Agile
5 16 (22.54%) Microservices
6 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
6 12 (16.90%) Fintech
7 10 (14.08%) AI
7 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
7 10 (14.08%) TDD
8 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (11.27%) LLM
10 7 (9.86%) Clean Code
10 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven
10 7 (9.86%) People Management
10 7 (9.86%) SOLID
11 6 (8.45%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (8.45%) Generative AI
11 6 (8.45%) Multi-Agent System
11 6 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Java
2 15 (21.13%) C#
2 15 (21.13%) TypeScript
3 8 (11.27%) Python
3 8 (11.27%) SQL
4 5 (7.04%) C++
4 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.23%) Ruby
6 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
1 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
71 Senior Software Engineer jobs in the North of England