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 8 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 160 194
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 135 160 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 1.29% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.36% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 66 94 92
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £43,325
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,188 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -5.77% +6.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,806 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,600 £82,548
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £67,514
% change year-on-year +17.86% +3.68% -3.55%

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 8,734 11,754 7,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 95.00% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,066 6,226 5,680
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 8 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 8 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 +29 100 £75,000 +20.00% 79
Yorkshire -15 23 £75,000 +25.00% 30
North East -7 12 £72,500 +10.75% 16
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 8 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.

1 135 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 88 (65.19%) AWS
3 87 (64.44%) Java
4 80 (59.26%) Agile
5 77 (57.04%) Microservices
6 75 (55.56%) .NET
7 74 (54.81%) Azure
8 72 (53.33%) Python
9 71 (52.59%) Mentoring
10 66 (48.89%) C++
10 66 (48.89%) JavaScript
10 66 (48.89%) User Experience
11 65 (48.15%) Node.js
12 64 (47.41%) Scrum
13 63 (46.67%) Cloud Security
13 63 (46.67%) Data Engineering
13 63 (46.67%) GCP
13 63 (46.67%) Linux
14 62 (45.93%) Go
14 62 (45.93%) Machine Learning
15 61 (45.19%) AWS Certification
15 61 (45.19%) AWS Certified Developer
15 61 (45.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 61 (45.19%) DV Cleared
15 61 (45.19%) Rust
15 61 (45.19%) Security Cleared
15 61 (45.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (17.04%) React
17 20 (14.81%) CI/CD
17 20 (14.81%) DevOps

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 88 (65.19%) AWS
2 74 (54.81%) Azure
3 63 (46.67%) GCP
4 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.48%) GitHub
5 2 (1.48%) Serverless
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.74%) Datadog
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.74%) SaaS
6 1 (0.74%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.74%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.93%) MySQL
2 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (45.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (10.37%) Finance
3 7 (5.19%) Financial Institution
3 7 (5.19%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.96%) Retail
5 2 (1.48%) Games
6 1 (0.74%) Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Law
6 1 (0.74%) Legal
6 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (55.56%) .NET
2 65 (48.15%) Node.js
3 23 (17.04%) React
4 10 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.93%) Spring
5 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.19%) RESTful
7 5 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.70%) REST
8 4 (2.96%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.22%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.22%) Vue
9 3 (2.22%) Web Services
10 2 (1.48%) Celery
10 2 (1.48%) Django
10 2 (1.48%) Flask
10 2 (1.48%) Next.js
10 2 (1.48%) React Native
11 1 (0.74%) Redux
11 1 (0.74%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 61 (45.19%) Cyberattack
1 61 (45.19%) Linux Command Line
1 61 (45.19%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (9.63%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.19%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (46.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (59.26%) Agile
3 77 (57.04%) Microservices
4 71 (52.59%) Mentoring
5 66 (48.89%) User Experience
6 64 (47.41%) Scrum
7 63 (46.67%) Cloud Security
7 63 (46.67%) Data Engineering
8 62 (45.93%) Machine Learning
9 61 (45.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (14.81%) CI/CD
10 20 (14.81%) DevOps
11 13 (9.63%) Fintech
12 11 (8.15%) AI
12 11 (8.15%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (7.41%) TDD
14 9 (6.67%) LLM
15 7 (5.19%) Event-Driven
15 7 (5.19%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 87 (64.44%) Java
2 72 (53.33%) Python
3 66 (48.89%) C++
3 66 (48.89%) JavaScript
4 62 (45.93%) Go
5 61 (45.19%) Rust
6 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
7 14 (10.37%) C#
8 7 (5.19%) SQL
9 3 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (45.19%) AWS Certification
1 61 (45.19%) AWS Certified Developer
1 61 (45.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 61 (45.19%) DV Cleared
1 61 (45.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (8.89%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (1.48%) Ping Identity
2 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
2 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
125 Senior Software Engineer jobs in the North of England