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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 149 165
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 96 110 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.58% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.70% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 89 173
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £72,500
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% -

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 12,519 6,454 13,811
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.80% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,822 3,621 11,239
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 9 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 9 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 -34 45 £75,000 +15.38% 22
Yorkshire -26 38 £75,000 -12.03% 25
North East -20 13 £75,000 +36.36% 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 9 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 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 32 (33.33%) AWS
3 28 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 27 (28.13%) DevOps
5 21 (21.88%) .NET
5 21 (21.88%) C#
6 19 (19.79%) Agile
6 19 (19.79%) React
7 17 (17.71%) Azure
7 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
7 17 (17.71%) Docker
7 17 (17.71%) NoSQL
8 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 15 (15.63%) Java
9 15 (15.63%) Microservices
9 15 (15.63%) SQL
10 14 (14.58%) Python
10 14 (14.58%) RESTful
10 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
11 12 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (12.50%) Fintech
11 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.46%) TDD
13 10 (10.42%) AI
13 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
13 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (9.38%) Scrum
15 8 (8.33%) Mentoring
15 8 (8.33%) MongoDB
15 8 (8.33%) People Management

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 (2.08%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) AWS
2 17 (17.71%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) SaaS
4 7 (7.29%) Serverless
5 6 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 5 (5.21%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.13%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.04%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
5 2 (2.08%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.08%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Claude Code
1 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.04%) GitLab
2 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 15 (15.63%) Finance
2 8 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 6 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Retail
5 2 (2.08%) Banking
5 2 (2.08%) Games
5 2 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.88%) .NET
2 19 (19.79%) React
3 14 (14.58%) RESTful
4 7 (7.29%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.29%) REST
5 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 6 (6.25%) Flask
5 6 (6.25%) Node.js
6 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.21%) FastAPI
6 5 (5.21%) Micronaut
6 5 (5.21%) Spring
6 5 (5.21%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.17%) Celery
7 4 (4.17%) Django
7 4 (4.17%) Vue
8 3 (3.13%) CSS
8 3 (3.13%) HTML
8 3 (3.13%) HTML5
9 2 (2.08%) Apache Cordova
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.13%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.08%) Life Science
3 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.04%) Derivative
4 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 27 (28.13%) DevOps
4 19 (19.79%) Agile
5 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
6 15 (15.63%) Microservices
7 12 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (12.50%) Fintech
7 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (11.46%) TDD
9 10 (10.42%) AI
10 9 (9.38%) Scrum
11 8 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 8 (8.33%) People Management
12 7 (7.29%) Clean Code
12 7 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (6.25%) Event-Driven
13 6 (6.25%) Pair Programming
13 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.88%) C#
2 15 (15.63%) Java
2 15 (15.63%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) Python
3 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (2.08%) Adobe
2 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.04%) Google
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.04%) New Relic
2 1 (1.04%) OpenAI