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 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 151 167
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 104 104 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 1.56% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.68% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 99 88 189
10th Percentile £58,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,938 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -1.27%

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 13,132 6,175 14,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 92.43% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,259 3,686 11,437
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £68,333 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £79,760
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -25 51 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Yorkshire -18 40 £75,000 -12.03% 9
North East -22 13 £75,000 +36.36% 3
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 19 March 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.

1 104 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (33.65%) AWS
3 29 (27.88%) CI/CD
4 27 (25.96%) DevOps
5 26 (25.00%) Agile
6 24 (23.08%) C#
7 22 (21.15%) .NET
7 22 (21.15%) Azure
8 19 (18.27%) Java
8 19 (18.27%) React
8 19 (18.27%) SQL
9 18 (17.31%) NoSQL
10 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
10 17 (16.35%) Microservices
11 16 (15.38%) Docker
12 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
12 15 (14.42%) RESTful
13 14 (13.46%) Python
13 14 (13.46%) TypeScript
14 13 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (12.50%) TDD
15 12 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 11 (10.58%) AI
16 11 (10.58%) Fintech
16 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
16 11 (10.58%) Mentoring
16 11 (10.58%) SaaS
17 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
18 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
19 8 (7.69%) Performance Tuning

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 2 (1.92%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) AWS
2 22 (21.15%) Azure
3 11 (10.58%) SaaS
4 7 (6.73%) Serverless
5 6 (5.77%) Azure AKS
6 5 (4.81%) GCP
7 4 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.85%) GitHub
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.96%) Datadog
10 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Big Data
4 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.92%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Claude Code
2 3 (2.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) GDB
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.96%) WinDbg
General
1 13 (12.50%) Finance
2 7 (6.73%) Financial Institution
3 6 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.88%) Retail
5 2 (1.92%) Games
5 2 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (0.96%) Advertising
6 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.96%) Automotive
6 1 (0.96%) Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.15%) .NET
2 19 (18.27%) React
3 15 (14.42%) RESTful
4 8 (7.69%) REST
5 7 (6.73%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.73%) Flask
6 6 (5.77%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.77%) Node.js
7 5 (4.81%) Vue
8 4 (3.85%) Celery
8 4 (3.85%) Django
8 4 (3.85%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.85%) Micronaut
8 4 (3.85%) Spring
8 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.92%) Apache Cordova
9 2 (1.92%) HTML5
9 2 (1.92%) Ionic Framework
9 2 (1.92%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.88%) Hedge funds
2 3 (2.88%) Life Science
2 3 (2.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
3 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.96%) Derivative
3 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (27.88%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.96%) DevOps
4 26 (25.00%) Agile
5 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
5 17 (16.35%) Microservices
6 13 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 13 (12.50%) TDD
7 12 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (10.58%) AI
8 11 (10.58%) Fintech
8 11 (10.58%) Mentoring
9 8 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (7.69%) Scrum
10 7 (6.73%) Clean Code
10 7 (6.73%) Pair Programming
10 7 (6.73%) People Management
10 7 (6.73%) Software Architecture
11 6 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.08%) C#
2 19 (18.27%) Java
2 19 (18.27%) SQL
3 14 (13.46%) Python
3 14 (13.46%) TypeScript
4 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (1.92%) Adobe
2 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
2 1 (0.96%) Google
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.96%) New Relic