Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 224 245
Rank change year-on-year +96 +21 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 302 164 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.85% 1.26% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.42% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 208 106 116
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,875 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £64,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +16.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £71,991 £77,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,125 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

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 15,505 11,528 18,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 88.81% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,970 7,461 11,427
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +67 161 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Yorkshire +68 95 £62,500 -7.41% 1
North East +29 46 £60,000 - 7
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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.

1 302 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 104 (34.44%) AWS
3 100 (33.11%) Agile
4 82 (27.15%) .NET
5 80 (26.49%) Azure
6 69 (22.85%) C#
7 68 (22.52%) JavaScript
8 67 (22.19%) SQL
9 62 (20.53%) DevOps
10 57 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
11 54 (17.88%) Python
12 48 (15.89%) CSS
13 47 (15.56%) TypeScript
14 44 (14.57%) React
15 40 (13.25%) TDD
16 38 (12.58%) Security Cleared
17 37 (12.25%) Java
18 36 (11.92%) Mentoring
19 34 (11.26%) RESTful
19 34 (11.26%) MySQL
19 34 (11.26%) SC Cleared
20 33 (10.93%) .NET Core
21 32 (10.60%) Microservices
21 32 (10.60%) Test Automation
22 31 (10.26%) Coaching
23 30 (9.93%) NoSQL
23 30 (9.93%) Public Sector
24 29 (9.60%) Continuous Deployment
25 28 (9.27%) C++
26 26 (8.61%) GIS

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 26 (8.61%) ArcGIS
1 26 (8.61%) GeoServer
2 9 (2.98%) Tuxedo
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.44%) AWS
2 80 (26.49%) Azure
3 10 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
4 9 (2.98%) Serverless
5 7 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.32%) GCP
6 5 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.99%) Slack
9 2 (0.66%) GitHub
9 2 (0.66%) SaaS
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.32%) Network Security
2 5 (1.66%) MQTT
3 4 (1.32%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.32%) RS-232
3 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.26%) MySQL
3 30 (9.93%) NoSQL
4 26 (8.61%) GIS
4 26 (8.61%) QGIS
5 20 (6.62%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.97%) Redis
7 11 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.99%) Big Data
9 3 (0.99%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (7.28%) Git
2 10 (3.31%) Gatling
3 6 (1.99%) Maven
3 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.66%) GitLab
5 4 (1.32%) Subversion
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.66%) webpack
7 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (9.93%) Public Sector
2 18 (5.96%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.64%) Finance
4 10 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.31%) Retail
5 8 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.65%) Legal
5 8 (2.65%) Tech for Good
6 5 (1.66%) Electronics
6 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.66%) Retail Finance
7 3 (0.99%) Games
7 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
7 3 (0.99%) Local Government
8 2 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (27.15%) .NET
2 48 (15.89%) CSS
3 44 (14.57%) React
4 34 (11.26%) RESTful
5 33 (10.93%) .NET Core
6 26 (8.61%) Leaflet
6 26 (8.61%) OpenLayers
6 26 (8.61%) PostGIS
7 23 (7.62%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.62%) Node.js
7 23 (7.62%) Vue
8 21 (6.95%) ASP.NET
9 20 (6.62%) HTML
10 17 (5.63%) Web Services
11 12 (3.97%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (3.64%) REST
13 10 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (3.31%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.31%) http4s
13 10 (3.31%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.31%) Blog
2 10 (3.31%) Media Streaming
3 8 (2.65%) IoT
4 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.99%) Online Games
7 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.33%) FMCG
9 1 (0.33%) FPGA
9 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.28%) Linux
2 15 (4.97%) Windows
3 9 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.65%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.99%) Android
6 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 100 (33.11%) Agile
3 62 (20.53%) DevOps
4 40 (13.25%) TDD
5 36 (11.92%) Mentoring
6 32 (10.60%) Microservices
6 32 (10.60%) Test Automation
7 31 (10.26%) Coaching
8 29 (9.60%) Continuous Deployment
9 26 (8.61%) Actionable Insight
9 26 (8.61%) Web Development
10 25 (8.28%) Full Stack Development
10 25 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.62%) Open Source
12 21 (6.95%) BDD
12 21 (6.95%) SDLC
13 17 (5.63%) Functional Programming
14 15 (4.97%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (4.97%) Integration Testing
14 15 (4.97%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (22.85%) C#
2 68 (22.52%) JavaScript
3 67 (22.19%) SQL
4 54 (17.88%) Python
5 47 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 37 (12.25%) Java
7 28 (9.27%) C++
8 16 (5.30%) C
9 13 (4.30%) Scala
10 9 (2.98%) COBOL
10 9 (2.98%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 7 (2.32%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.66%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.99%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.66%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Ada
15 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.29%) Degree
4 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.32%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.66%) HND
6 4 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.32%) ISO 9000
2 4 (1.32%) PMO
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) QA
3 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (3.31%) Firmware
2 8 (2.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.98%) Terraform
2 7 (2.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (8.61%) ESRI
2 9 (2.98%) Micro Focus
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.99%) Autodesk
4 3 (0.99%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) F5
6 1 (0.33%) SAP
6 1 (0.33%) Sitecore