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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 132 214
Rank change year-on-year +10 +82 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 241 222 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.59% 1.58% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 1.67% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 150 85
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,563 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £82,751 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,000 £84,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,111 13,320 8,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.10% 94.99% 92.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,326 8,027 6,461
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,600 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +63 216 £74,500 +16.86% 29
Yorkshire -35 13 £65,000 +8.33% 19
North East -27 12 £10,000 -81.98% 6
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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.

1 241 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 206 (85.48%) Java
3 200 (82.99%) AWS
4 199 (82.57%) Agile
5 195 (80.91%) .NET
6 192 (79.67%) Python
6 192 (79.67%) Microservices
7 189 (78.42%) Azure
8 184 (76.35%) JavaScript
9 180 (74.69%) Node.js
9 180 (74.69%) User Experience
9 180 (74.69%) Mentoring
9 180 (74.69%) Cloud Security
10 179 (74.27%) Go
11 178 (73.86%) Linux
12 177 (73.44%) C++
12 177 (73.44%) Scrum
13 176 (73.03%) GCP
14 173 (71.78%) Rust
14 173 (71.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 173 (71.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 172 (71.37%) Self-Motivation
15 172 (71.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 172 (71.37%) AWS Certified Developer
15 172 (71.37%) AWS Certification
15 172 (71.37%) Data Engineering
15 172 (71.37%) Cyberattack
15 172 (71.37%) Linux Command Line
15 172 (71.37%) Machine Learning
15 172 (71.37%) DV Cleared

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 200 (82.99%) AWS
2 189 (78.42%) Azure
3 176 (73.03%) GCP
4 4 (1.66%) Apigee
4 4 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.24%) Serverless
6 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.41%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.41%) GitHub
7 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.41%) SaaS
7 1 (0.41%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) AMQP
3 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.73%) MySQL
2 7 (2.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.41%) Endeca
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 4 (1.66%) JUnit
3 4 (1.66%) Maven
3 4 (1.66%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.24%) GitLab
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 173 (71.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (5.39%) Finance
3 7 (2.90%) Retail
4 5 (2.07%) Social Skills
5 4 (1.66%) Banking
6 2 (0.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.41%) Advertising
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.41%) Law
7 1 (0.41%) Legal
7 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (80.91%) .NET
2 180 (74.69%) Node.js
3 24 (9.96%) React
4 14 (5.81%) AngularJS
5 10 (4.15%) RESTful
6 9 (3.73%) Spring
6 9 (3.73%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.32%) REST
8 7 (2.90%) Web Services
9 6 (2.49%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.66%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.24%) OAuth
11 3 (1.24%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.83%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.83%) Flutter
12 2 (0.83%) JWT
12 2 (0.83%) Kafka
12 2 (0.83%) OpenID
12 2 (0.83%) React Native
12 2 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 172 (71.37%) Cyberattack
1 172 (71.37%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (71.37%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (7.47%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.83%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.41%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.41%) IoT
7 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.41%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.41%) PKI
7 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 178 (73.86%) Linux
2 4 (1.66%) Unix
3 2 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 199 (82.57%) Agile
3 192 (79.67%) Microservices
4 180 (74.69%) Cloud Security
4 180 (74.69%) Mentoring
4 180 (74.69%) User Experience
5 177 (73.44%) Scrum
6 173 (71.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 172 (71.37%) Data Engineering
7 172 (71.37%) Machine Learning
8 26 (10.79%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.37%) DevOps
10 15 (6.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (5.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (4.98%) TDD
13 10 (4.15%) Containerisation
13 10 (4.15%) Event-Driven
14 9 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (3.73%) Fintech
14 9 (3.73%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 206 (85.48%) Java
2 192 (79.67%) Python
3 184 (76.35%) JavaScript
4 179 (74.27%) Go
5 177 (73.44%) C++
6 173 (71.78%) Rust
7 26 (10.79%) TypeScript
8 21 (8.71%) C#
9 9 (3.73%) SQL
10 5 (2.07%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (71.37%) AWS Certification
1 172 (71.37%) AWS Certified Developer
1 172 (71.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 172 (71.37%) DV Cleared
1 172 (71.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.83%) QA
2 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.41%) GDPR
2 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.81%) Terraform
2 13 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.66%) Istio
4 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (2.90%) Ping Identity
2 2 (0.83%) ForgeRock
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe
3 1 (0.41%) CyberSource
3 1 (0.41%) Google
3 1 (0.41%) New Relic
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle
3 1 (0.41%) Xilinx