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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 100 145
Rank change year-on-year -74 +45 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 168 274 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.87% 3.56% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 3.96% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 151 90 228
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -5.51%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,125 £70,498
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +16.76% -6.90%

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 18,034 6,922 16,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.81% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,348 3,482 12,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,024 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -60 99 £75,000 +7.14% 27
Yorkshire -11 54 £70,000 -11.84% 11
North East -39 15 £80,000 +45.45% 12
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 22 May 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (26.19%) AWS
3 39 (23.21%) DevOps
4 37 (22.02%) C#
4 37 (22.02%) CI/CD
4 37 (22.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (20.24%) .NET
6 33 (19.64%) Agile
7 32 (19.05%) Azure
8 30 (17.86%) Java
9 29 (17.26%) SQL
10 27 (16.07%) TypeScript
11 26 (15.48%) JavaScript
11 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
11 26 (15.48%) React
12 25 (14.88%) Python
13 24 (14.29%) SaaS
14 20 (11.90%) Microservices
15 18 (10.71%) AI
15 18 (10.71%) Serverless
16 16 (9.52%) Node.js
16 16 (9.52%) NoSQL
17 15 (8.93%) Collaborative Culture
17 15 (8.93%) Containerisation
18 14 (8.33%) Docker
18 14 (8.33%) Open Source
19 13 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
20 12 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
21 11 (6.55%) Fintech
21 11 (6.55%) RESTful

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 12 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (2.38%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.19%) AWS
2 32 (19.05%) Azure
3 24 (14.29%) SaaS
4 18 (10.71%) Serverless
5 9 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (3.57%) GCP
8 5 (2.98%) GitHub
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.19%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.19%) Apigee
10 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.38%) DocumentDB
4 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.38%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.79%) Big Data
5 3 (1.79%) MySQL
6 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Claude Code
2 6 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) GDB
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Selenium
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.60%) WinDbg
General
1 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
2 8 (4.76%) Finance
3 7 (4.17%) Agriculture
3 7 (4.17%) Automotive
3 7 (4.17%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.19%) Marketing
5 2 (1.19%) Retail
6 1 (0.60%) Advertising
6 1 (0.60%) Banking
6 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.24%) .NET
2 26 (15.48%) React
3 16 (9.52%) Node.js
4 11 (6.55%) RESTful
5 10 (5.95%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.95%) REST
6 8 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.17%) Vue
8 6 (3.57%) Spring
9 5 (2.98%) Flask
9 5 (2.98%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.38%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.79%) FastAPI
11 3 (1.79%) Next.js
11 3 (1.79%) React Native
11 3 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
12 2 (1.19%) Apache Cordova
12 2 (1.19%) Celery
12 2 (1.19%) Ionic Framework
12 2 (1.19%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.74%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (2.98%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.79%) Life Science
5 3 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.60%) Derivative
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 39 (23.21%) DevOps
3 37 (22.02%) CI/CD
3 37 (22.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (19.64%) Agile
5 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
6 20 (11.90%) Microservices
7 18 (10.71%) AI
8 15 (8.93%) Collaborative Culture
8 15 (8.93%) Containerisation
9 14 (8.33%) Open Source
10 13 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (6.55%) Fintech
12 10 (5.95%) TDD
13 9 (5.36%) SDLC
14 8 (4.76%) Design Thinking
14 8 (4.76%) Observability
14 8 (4.76%) Test Automation
14 8 (4.76%) Unit Testing
15 7 (4.17%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.02%) C#
2 30 (17.86%) Java
3 29 (17.26%) SQL
4 27 (16.07%) TypeScript
5 26 (15.48%) JavaScript
6 25 (14.88%) Python
7 10 (5.95%) C++
8 3 (1.79%) Ruby
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (1.79%) Degree
2 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.19%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.95%) Terraform
2 9 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (1.79%) Google
2 2 (1.19%) Adobe
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.60%) New Relic
3 1 (0.60%) Splunk