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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 134 261
Rank change year-on-year -5 +127 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 275 369 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.31% 1.80% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 1.89% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 87 261 104
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% +17.39%
75th Percentile £86,250 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £78,810 £66,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +18.51% -8.28% +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 10,571 19,525 13,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.76% 95.04% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,481 14,670 7,870
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +13 234 £75,000 +25.00% 265
Yorkshire -26 23 £78,810 +28.67% 111
North East +16 18 £55,000 -1.79% 34
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 20 June 2025, 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.

1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 224 (81.45%) Agile
2 224 (81.45%) Java
3 217 (78.91%) AWS
4 208 (75.64%) Python
5 204 (74.18%) JavaScript
6 200 (72.73%) Azure
7 199 (72.36%) Mentoring
8 195 (70.91%) Node.js
8 195 (70.91%) .NET
9 194 (70.55%) GCP
10 192 (69.82%) Microservices
11 185 (67.27%) Machine Learning
12 184 (66.91%) Scrum
13 183 (66.55%) Cloud Security
14 182 (66.18%) Linux
14 182 (66.18%) User Experience
15 181 (65.82%) Go
16 180 (65.45%) C++
17 179 (65.09%) Rust
18 176 (64.00%) Security Cleared
19 173 (62.91%) Cyberattack
19 173 (62.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 172 (62.55%) Self-Motivation
20 172 (62.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 172 (62.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 172 (62.55%) AWS Certified Developer
20 172 (62.55%) Data Engineering
20 172 (62.55%) AWS Certification
20 172 (62.55%) Linux Command Line

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 2 (0.73%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 217 (78.91%) AWS
2 200 (72.73%) Azure
3 194 (70.55%) GCP
4 10 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (1.82%) Apigee
5 5 (1.82%) GitHub
5 5 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.45%) Serverless
7 3 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.73%) SaaS
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.36%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) Wireless
2 5 (1.82%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.73%) HTTP
4 2 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.64%) Cloud Spanner
1 10 (3.64%) MySQL
2 7 (2.55%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.45%) Biml
4 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.45%) Power BI
4 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.36%) Endeca
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Git
2 12 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.18%) JIRA
4 5 (1.82%) JUnit
4 5 (1.82%) Maven
4 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.09%) GitLab
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 172 (62.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (13.09%) Finance
3 24 (8.73%) Banking
4 19 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.27%) Social Skills
6 8 (2.91%) Retail
7 5 (1.82%) Electronics
7 5 (1.82%) Games
8 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (70.91%) .NET
1 195 (70.91%) Node.js
2 30 (10.91%) React
3 24 (8.73%) Spring Boot
4 22 (8.00%) RESTful
5 14 (5.09%) Spring
6 11 (4.00%) REST
7 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.27%) CSS
7 9 (3.27%) Web Services
8 8 (2.91%) HTML
8 8 (2.91%) OAuth
8 8 (2.91%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.55%) JWT
10 6 (2.18%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.82%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.45%) .NET Core
13 3 (1.09%) Kafka
13 3 (1.09%) Laravel
13 3 (1.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 173 (62.91%) Cyberattack
2 172 (62.55%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (62.55%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.27%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.45%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.45%) IoT
9 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.73%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.36%) PKI
11 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 182 (66.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 224 (81.45%) Agile
3 199 (72.36%) Mentoring
4 192 (69.82%) Microservices
5 185 (67.27%) Machine Learning
6 184 (66.91%) Scrum
7 183 (66.55%) Cloud Security
8 182 (66.18%) User Experience
9 173 (62.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 172 (62.55%) Data Engineering
11 47 (17.09%) CI/CD
12 27 (9.82%) Test Automation
13 25 (9.09%) DevOps
14 19 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (6.55%) TDD
16 16 (5.82%) Coaching
17 14 (5.09%) Code Quality
18 13 (4.73%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure as Code
19 12 (4.36%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 224 (81.45%) Java
2 208 (75.64%) Python
3 204 (74.18%) JavaScript
4 181 (65.82%) Go
5 180 (65.45%) C++
6 179 (65.09%) Rust
7 40 (14.55%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.91%) C#
9 12 (4.36%) SQL
10 7 (2.55%) PHP
11 5 (1.82%) C
12 4 (1.45%) Ruby
12 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Elixir
13 1 (0.36%) Erlang
13 1 (0.36%) F#
13 1 (0.36%) Haskell
13 1 (0.36%) Lisp
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 176 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (62.55%) AWS Certification
2 172 (62.55%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (62.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (62.55%) DV Cleared
3 7 (2.55%) Degree
4 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (10.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.09%) Terraform
3 5 (1.82%) Istio
4 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.00%) Google
2 8 (2.91%) Ping Identity
3 5 (1.82%) Xilinx
4 2 (0.73%) ForgeRock
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe
5 1 (0.36%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.36%) New Relic
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle