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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 122 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 275 253 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 2.63% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 2.98% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 239 68 196
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,275 £48,809
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,253 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.03% +26.30% -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 20,987 8,503 14,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 88.32% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,301 4,567 9,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -24 166 £75,000 +3.81% 71
Yorkshire +25 70 £70,000 -11.18% 12
North East -32 39 £90,000 +800.00% 17
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 15 August 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.

1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 62 (22.55%) AWS
3 47 (17.09%) C#
4 44 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (15.64%) Agile
6 42 (15.27%) Python
7 41 (14.91%) .NET
7 41 (14.91%) Java
8 40 (14.55%) TypeScript
9 39 (14.18%) React
10 37 (13.45%) SQL
11 36 (13.09%) Mentoring
12 34 (12.36%) Azure
13 33 (12.00%) AI
13 33 (12.00%) DevOps
14 32 (11.64%) CI/CD
15 29 (10.55%) SaaS
16 26 (9.45%) JavaScript
17 25 (9.09%) Node.js
18 21 (7.64%) Docker
18 21 (7.64%) Microservices
19 20 (7.27%) C++
20 17 (6.18%) Serverless
21 16 (5.82%) Next.js
22 15 (5.45%) Coaching
22 15 (5.45%) Code Quality
22 15 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
22 15 (5.45%) Terraform
23 14 (5.09%) Collaborative Culture
24 13 (4.73%) 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 (4.73%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.73%) Apache
3 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 62 (22.55%) AWS
2 34 (12.36%) Azure
3 29 (10.55%) SaaS
4 17 (6.18%) Serverless
5 10 (3.64%) GCP
6 9 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.91%) GitHub
8 6 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.09%) Slack
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.73%) Apigee
11 2 (0.73%) dbt
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.36%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.45%) MySQL
6 3 (1.09%) Big Data
6 3 (1.09%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.09%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.73%) Redis
7 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.18%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.36%) GDB
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Mocha
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (5.45%) Public Sector
2 11 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.27%) Finance
4 7 (2.55%) Agriculture
4 7 (2.55%) Automotive
5 6 (2.18%) Billing
5 6 (2.18%) Retail
6 5 (1.82%) Legal
7 4 (1.45%) Local Government
8 3 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.09%) Games
8 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.73%) Advertising
9 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.73%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.91%) .NET
2 39 (14.18%) React
3 25 (9.09%) Node.js
4 16 (5.82%) Next.js
5 11 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (2.91%) FastAPI
6 8 (2.91%) React Native
6 8 (2.91%) Ruby on Rails
6 8 (2.91%) Spring
7 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.55%) Vue
8 6 (2.18%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.18%) REST
8 6 (2.18%) RESTful
9 5 (1.82%) Flask
10 4 (1.45%) CSS
10 4 (1.45%) OpenAPI
11 2 (0.73%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.73%) Celery
11 2 (0.73%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.27%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) Blog
8 3 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.09%) Life Science
8 3 (1.09%) NHS
8 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.64%) Linux
2 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (15.64%) Agile
4 36 (13.09%) Mentoring
5 33 (12.00%) AI
5 33 (12.00%) DevOps
6 32 (11.64%) CI/CD
7 21 (7.64%) Microservices
8 15 (5.45%) Coaching
8 15 (5.45%) Code Quality
8 15 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (5.09%) Collaborative Culture
10 12 (4.36%) Containerisation
10 12 (4.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (4.00%) B2B
11 11 (4.00%) Open Source
11 11 (4.00%) Test Automation
12 10 (3.64%) B2C
12 10 (3.64%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (3.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.09%) C#
2 42 (15.27%) Python
3 41 (14.91%) Java
4 40 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 37 (13.45%) SQL
6 26 (9.45%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.27%) C++
8 11 (4.00%) Ruby
9 10 (3.64%) Rust
10 8 (2.91%) Go
11 6 (2.18%) Delphi
12 3 (1.09%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (2.91%) Degree
2 7 (2.55%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 21 (7.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (5.45%) Terraform
2 11 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.27%) Splunk
2 3 (1.09%) New Relic
3 2 (0.73%) Databricks
3 2 (0.73%) Google
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft