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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 103 143
Rank change year-on-year -55 +40 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 198 273 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.01% 3.39% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 3.78% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 179 87 245
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,626 £61,875 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 18,510 7,217 17,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.61% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13,232 3,630 13,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,800 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%

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 6 June 2026.

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 6 June 2026. 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 -52 117 £75,000 +7.14% 88
Yorkshire -1 58 £70,000 -11.84% 20
North East -36 23 £80,000 +45.45% 19
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 6 June 2026, 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.

1 198 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (24.75%) AWS
3 41 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (20.20%) C#
5 37 (18.69%) DevOps
6 36 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 34 (17.17%) .NET
8 33 (16.67%) TypeScript
9 32 (16.16%) Agile
9 32 (16.16%) Azure
10 31 (15.66%) Java
10 31 (15.66%) React
10 31 (15.66%) SQL
11 28 (14.14%) Python
12 27 (13.64%) Mentoring
13 26 (13.13%) SaaS
14 24 (12.12%) JavaScript
15 23 (11.62%) Microservices
16 21 (10.61%) AI
17 18 (9.09%) Node.js
17 18 (9.09%) Serverless
18 16 (8.08%) Docker
18 16 (8.08%) NoSQL
19 15 (7.58%) C++
19 15 (7.58%) Containerisation
20 14 (7.07%) Collaborative Culture
20 14 (7.07%) Open Source
21 13 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
21 13 (6.57%) SharePoint Server
22 12 (6.06%) Terraform

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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.57%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (2.02%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.75%) AWS
2 32 (16.16%) Azure
3 26 (13.13%) SaaS
4 18 (9.09%) Serverless
5 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (3.03%) GCP
8 5 (2.53%) GitHub
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.02%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) Apigee
10 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.02%) DocumentDB
4 4 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.02%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.52%) Big Data
5 3 (1.52%) MySQL
5 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Claude Code
2 6 (3.03%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) GDB
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) WinDbg
General
1 9 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 8 (4.04%) Finance
3 7 (3.54%) Agriculture
3 7 (3.54%) Automotive
3 7 (3.54%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.52%) Billing
5 2 (1.01%) Retail
6 1 (0.51%) Banking
6 1 (0.51%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.17%) .NET
2 31 (15.66%) React
3 18 (9.09%) Node.js
4 11 (5.56%) RESTful
5 10 (5.05%) REST
6 9 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.04%) .NET Core
7 8 (4.04%) Next.js
8 7 (3.54%) Spring
8 7 (3.54%) Vue
9 6 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.53%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.53%) Flask
10 5 (2.53%) React Native
10 5 (2.53%) Ruby on Rails
11 4 (2.02%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.01%) Django
12 2 (1.01%) JWT
12 2 (1.01%) OAuth
12 2 (1.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.10%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.53%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.52%) Life Science
6 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.51%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.03%) Linux
2 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (18.69%) DevOps
4 36 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 32 (16.16%) Agile
6 27 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 23 (11.62%) Microservices
8 21 (10.61%) AI
9 15 (7.58%) Containerisation
10 14 (7.07%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (7.07%) Open Source
11 13 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (5.05%) Fintech
12 10 (5.05%) TDD
13 9 (4.55%) SDLC
14 8 (4.04%) Design Thinking
14 8 (4.04%) Observability
14 8 (4.04%) Test Automation
14 8 (4.04%) Unit Testing
15 7 (3.54%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.20%) C#
2 33 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 31 (15.66%) Java
3 31 (15.66%) SQL
4 28 (14.14%) Python
5 24 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.58%) C++
7 5 (2.53%) Ruby
7 5 (2.53%) Rust
8 2 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.53%) Degree
2 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.01%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.06%) Terraform
2 9 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (1.52%) Splunk
2 2 (1.01%) Google