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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 135 261
Rank change year-on-year -40 +126 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 161 331 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.46% 1.91% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 2.01% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 120 216 125
10th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% +10.43%
75th Percentile £80,625 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £79,375 £86,250
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.90% +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 10,115 16,440 15,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 94.96% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,842 12,718 8,308
10th Percentile £26,025 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 4 May 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 4 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
North West -43 115 £65,000 +8.33% 64
Yorkshire +24 30 £78,810 +26.10% 30
North East +15 16 £55,000 -8.33% 21
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 4 May 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.

1 161 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 101 (62.73%) Agile
3 87 (54.04%) Java
4 73 (45.34%) AWS
5 70 (43.48%) JavaScript
6 66 (40.99%) Python
6 66 (40.99%) Mentoring
7 63 (39.13%) Azure
8 61 (37.89%) .NET
9 55 (34.16%) GCP
10 52 (32.30%) Node.js
11 48 (29.81%) Linux
12 47 (29.19%) Microservices
13 44 (27.33%) C++
13 44 (27.33%) CI/CD
14 43 (26.71%) Scrum
14 43 (26.71%) Machine Learning
15 41 (25.47%) C#
15 41 (25.47%) Finance
15 41 (25.47%) Cloud Security
16 39 (24.22%) Rust
17 38 (23.60%) Go
18 36 (22.36%) Security Cleared
19 35 (21.74%) User Experience
20 34 (21.12%) React
21 33 (20.50%) TypeScript
22 31 (19.25%) Continuous Integration
22 31 (19.25%) Cyberattack
22 31 (19.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 30 (18.63%) Self-Motivation

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 (1.24%) CICS
1 2 (1.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.62%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (45.34%) AWS
2 63 (39.13%) Azure
3 55 (34.16%) GCP
4 10 (6.21%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (3.11%) Apigee
5 5 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (2.48%) GitHub
6 4 (2.48%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.48%) Serverless
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.24%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.24%) SaaS
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.62%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.62%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.62%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.83%) Wireless
2 5 (3.11%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (2.48%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.24%) HTTP
4 2 (1.24%) Internet
4 2 (1.24%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.70%) MySQL
3 10 (6.21%) Cloud Spanner
4 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.48%) Biml
6 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.48%) Power BI
6 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.24%) DB2
8 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.62%) Endeca
9 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 29 (18.01%) Git
2 21 (13.04%) JIRA
3 16 (9.94%) Bitbucket
3 16 (9.94%) Jenkins
4 15 (9.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (9.32%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (3.73%) Visual Studio
6 5 (3.11%) JUnit
6 5 (3.11%) Maven
6 5 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.86%) GitLab
8 2 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.24%) Postman
8 2 (1.24%) Selenium
8 2 (1.24%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.62%) Storybook
General
1 41 (25.47%) Finance
2 30 (18.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (16.77%) Banking
4 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.83%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.21%) Electronics
7 9 (5.59%) Aerospace
7 9 (5.59%) Games
8 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.73%) Retail
10 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.48%) Automotive
12 2 (1.24%) Marketing
13 1 (0.62%) Advertising
13 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.62%) Military
13 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (37.89%) .NET
2 52 (32.30%) Node.js
3 34 (21.12%) React
4 23 (14.29%) RESTful
5 22 (13.66%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.32%) CSS
7 14 (8.70%) HTML
8 12 (7.45%) Spring
9 11 (6.83%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.83%) AngularJS
9 11 (6.83%) REST
9 11 (6.83%) Web Services
10 10 (6.21%) Laravel
11 8 (4.97%) OAuth
11 8 (4.97%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.35%) JWT
12 7 (4.35%) Vue
12 7 (4.35%) XML
13 5 (3.11%) .NET Core
13 5 (3.11%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.25%) Cyberattack
2 30 (18.63%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (18.63%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.21%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.59%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.59%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.73%) Device Driver
5 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.73%) IoT
6 5 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.24%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.24%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.62%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 48 (29.81%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Android
2 5 (3.11%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) zOS
4 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 101 (62.73%) Agile
3 66 (40.99%) Mentoring
4 47 (29.19%) Microservices
5 44 (27.33%) CI/CD
6 43 (26.71%) Machine Learning
6 43 (26.71%) Scrum
7 41 (25.47%) Cloud Security
8 35 (21.74%) User Experience
9 31 (19.25%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (19.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (18.63%) Data Engineering
10 30 (18.63%) Test Automation
11 28 (17.39%) TDD
12 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.66%) DevOps
14 17 (10.56%) Design Patterns
15 16 (9.94%) Clean Code
15 16 (9.94%) Coaching
16 15 (9.32%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (54.04%) Java
2 70 (43.48%) JavaScript
3 66 (40.99%) Python
4 44 (27.33%) C++
5 41 (25.47%) C#
6 39 (24.22%) Rust
7 38 (23.60%) Go
8 33 (20.50%) TypeScript
9 27 (16.77%) C
10 16 (9.94%) PHP
11 15 (9.32%) Ada
11 15 (9.32%) VB
12 12 (7.45%) SQL
13 4 (2.48%) T-SQL
13 4 (2.48%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.86%) Ruby
15 2 (1.24%) COBOL
15 2 (1.24%) JCL
16 1 (0.62%) Lisp
16 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 30 (18.63%) AWS Certification
2 30 (18.63%) AWS Certified Developer
2 30 (18.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 30 (18.63%) DV Cleared
3 25 (15.53%) Degree
4 15 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (16.77%) Docker
2 4 (2.48%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.21%) Terraform
3 5 (3.11%) Istio
4 2 (1.24%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.24%) MAINVIEW
4 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.62%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (6.83%) Google
2 8 (4.97%) Ping Identity
3 5 (3.11%) Xilinx
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.24%) BMC
5 2 (1.24%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.24%) IBM
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.62%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.62%) F5
6 1 (0.62%) New Relic
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) Red Hat