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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 119 126
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 287 250 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.26% 2.62% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 2.98% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 252 65 179
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,700 £47,646
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £53,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +31.39% -2.14%

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 21,521 8,391 14,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 87.97% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15,723 4,618 9,140
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,638 £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 29 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 29 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 -25 175 £75,000 +0.67% 68
Yorkshire +11 67 £70,000 -8.98% 12
North East -28 45 £90,000 +800.00% 6
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 29 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.

1 287 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (20.56%) AWS
3 45 (15.68%) Agile
4 43 (14.98%) C#
4 43 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (14.63%) Java
6 41 (14.29%) Python
7 39 (13.59%) .NET
8 38 (13.24%) TypeScript
9 36 (12.54%) Mentoring
9 36 (12.54%) React
10 35 (12.20%) AI
10 35 (12.20%) SQL
11 33 (11.50%) CI/CD
12 30 (10.45%) DevOps
13 29 (10.10%) Azure
14 28 (9.76%) SaaS
15 25 (8.71%) Node.js
16 24 (8.36%) JavaScript
17 21 (7.32%) Microservices
18 20 (6.97%) C++
19 19 (6.62%) Docker
20 16 (5.57%) Next.js
21 15 (5.23%) Coaching
21 15 (5.23%) Code Quality
21 15 (5.23%) Serverless
21 15 (5.23%) Terraform
22 14 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
23 13 (4.53%) SharePoint Server
24 12 (4.18%) Collaborative Culture

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 (4.53%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.70%) Apache
2 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.56%) AWS
2 29 (10.10%) Azure
3 28 (9.76%) SaaS
4 15 (5.23%) Serverless
5 9 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.14%) GCP
6 8 (2.79%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (2.44%) GitHub
8 6 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.05%) Slack
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.70%) Apigee
11 2 (0.70%) dbt
11 2 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) Firewall
1 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.79%) NoSQL
1 8 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.39%) MySQL
5 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.70%) Big Data
6 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.70%) Redis
6 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (2.79%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.09%) Git
3 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.35%) GDB
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) Mocha
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.35%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (5.23%) Public Sector
2 10 (3.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.79%) Finance
4 7 (2.44%) Agriculture
4 7 (2.44%) Automotive
5 6 (2.09%) Billing
5 6 (2.09%) Legal
5 6 (2.09%) Retail
6 4 (1.39%) Games
6 4 (1.39%) Local Government
7 3 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Advertising
8 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.59%) .NET
2 36 (12.54%) React
3 25 (8.71%) Node.js
4 16 (5.57%) Next.js
5 15 (5.23%) Terraform
6 10 (3.48%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.79%) React Native
7 8 (2.79%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (2.79%) Spring
8 7 (2.44%) FastAPI
8 7 (2.44%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.09%) Vue
10 5 (1.74%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.74%) REST
10 5 (1.74%) RESTful
11 4 (1.39%) CSS
11 4 (1.39%) OpenAPI
12 3 (1.05%) Flask
13 2 (0.70%) JWT
13 2 (0.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.80%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.79%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.39%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.05%) Blog
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.05%) NHS
8 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.70%) Life Science
8 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.48%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 45 (15.68%) Agile
3 43 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (12.54%) Mentoring
5 35 (12.20%) AI
6 33 (11.50%) CI/CD
7 30 (10.45%) DevOps
8 21 (7.32%) Microservices
9 15 (5.23%) Coaching
9 15 (5.23%) Code Quality
10 14 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (4.18%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (4.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (3.83%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (3.83%) Test Automation
13 10 (3.48%) B2B
13 10 (3.48%) Containerisation
13 10 (3.48%) Open Source
14 9 (3.14%) Architectural Design
14 9 (3.14%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.98%) C#
2 42 (14.63%) Java
3 41 (14.29%) Python
4 38 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 35 (12.20%) SQL
6 24 (8.36%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.97%) C++
8 11 (3.83%) Ruby
9 10 (3.48%) Rust
10 8 (2.79%) Go
11 6 (2.09%) Delphi
12 3 (1.05%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (2.44%) Degree
1 7 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (2.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 19 (6.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.14%) Splunk
2 3 (1.05%) New Relic
3 2 (0.70%) Databricks
3 2 (0.70%) Google
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft