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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 123 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 307 244 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 2.60% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.98% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 266 60 159
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,021
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -

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 21,944 8,187 13,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 87.20% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,024 4,432 8,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,550
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -12 192 £75,000 +0.67% 48
Yorkshire +7 69 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North East -28 46 £85,000 +750.00% 5
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 12 September 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.

1 307 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (19.22%) AWS
3 49 (15.96%) Agile
4 44 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (14.33%) Java
4 44 (14.33%) TypeScript
5 42 (13.68%) C#
6 40 (13.03%) .NET
6 40 (13.03%) AI
7 39 (12.70%) Mentoring
7 39 (12.70%) Python
7 39 (12.70%) React
8 36 (11.73%) SQL
9 35 (11.40%) CI/CD
10 33 (10.75%) DevOps
11 26 (8.47%) Azure
12 25 (8.14%) Node.js
12 25 (8.14%) SaaS
13 24 (7.82%) Microservices
14 22 (7.17%) JavaScript
15 20 (6.51%) C++
16 18 (5.86%) Code Quality
17 17 (5.54%) Docker
18 16 (5.21%) Next.js
19 15 (4.89%) Coaching
19 15 (4.89%) Serverless
19 15 (4.89%) Terraform
20 14 (4.56%) Problem-Solving
21 13 (4.23%) Kubernetes
21 13 (4.23%) SharePoint Server

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 (4.23%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.65%) Apache
2 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.22%) AWS
2 26 (8.47%) Azure
3 25 (8.14%) SaaS
4 15 (4.89%) Serverless
5 9 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.93%) GCP
6 6 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (1.63%) GitHub
8 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.98%) Slack
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.65%) Apigee
10 2 (0.65%) dbt
10 2 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) Internet
2 3 (0.98%) Firewall
2 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.95%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.65%) Redis
6 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Claude Code
1 6 (1.95%) Git
2 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.33%) GDB
3 1 (0.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.33%) Mocha
3 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.33%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (4.89%) Public Sector
2 13 (4.23%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.58%) Finance
4 7 (2.28%) Agriculture
4 7 (2.28%) Automotive
5 6 (1.95%) Billing
5 6 (1.95%) Legal
5 6 (1.95%) Retail
6 4 (1.30%) Games
6 4 (1.30%) Local Government
7 3 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (0.98%) Publishing
8 2 (0.65%) Advertising
8 2 (0.65%) Banking
8 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.03%) .NET
2 39 (12.70%) React
3 25 (8.14%) Node.js
4 16 (5.21%) Next.js
5 15 (4.89%) Terraform
6 11 (3.58%) Spring
7 10 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.26%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.93%) Vue
9 8 (2.61%) React Native
9 8 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (2.28%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.63%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.63%) REST
11 5 (1.63%) RESTful
12 4 (1.30%) CSS
12 4 (1.30%) Kafka
12 4 (1.30%) OpenAPI
13 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
13 2 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.10%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.30%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.98%) Blog
7 3 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (0.98%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.98%) NHS
7 3 (0.98%) Podcast
8 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (15.96%) Agile
3 44 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (13.03%) AI
5 39 (12.70%) Mentoring
6 35 (11.40%) CI/CD
7 33 (10.75%) DevOps
8 24 (7.82%) Microservices
9 18 (5.86%) Code Quality
10 15 (4.89%) Coaching
11 14 (4.56%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (3.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (3.58%) Containerisation
13 11 (3.58%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (3.58%) Test Automation
14 10 (3.26%) B2B
14 10 (3.26%) Collaborative Culture
14 10 (3.26%) Observability
14 10 (3.26%) Open Source
15 9 (2.93%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.33%) Java
1 44 (14.33%) TypeScript
2 42 (13.68%) C#
3 39 (12.70%) Python
4 36 (11.73%) SQL
5 22 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.51%) C++
7 11 (3.58%) Ruby
8 10 (3.26%) Rust
9 8 (2.61%) Go
10 6 (1.95%) Delphi
11 3 (0.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (2.28%) Degree
1 7 (2.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (2.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 17 (5.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (2.93%) Splunk
2 3 (0.98%) New Relic
3 2 (0.65%) Databricks
3 2 (0.65%) Google
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft