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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 126 140
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 330 234 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 2.46% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.82% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 279 52 126
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £76,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% +1.08%

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 22,380 8,305 13,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 87.18% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,329 4,382 7,534
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,224
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -7 207 £75,000 +7.14% 124
Yorkshire +17 73 £70,000 +7.69% 35
North East -23 50 £85,000 +750.00% 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 26 September 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.

1 330 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 62 (18.79%) AWS
3 53 (16.06%) Java
4 51 (15.45%) Agile
5 47 (14.24%) TypeScript
6 46 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (13.64%) AI
8 41 (12.42%) C#
8 41 (12.42%) React
9 40 (12.12%) .NET
9 40 (12.12%) Python
10 38 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 38 (11.52%) Mentoring
11 35 (10.61%) DevOps
12 33 (10.00%) SQL
13 27 (8.18%) Microservices
14 26 (7.88%) Node.js
15 23 (6.97%) SaaS
16 21 (6.36%) Azure
16 21 (6.36%) Code Quality
17 19 (5.76%) JavaScript
18 17 (5.15%) C++
18 17 (5.15%) Docker
18 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
19 16 (4.85%) Next.js
20 15 (4.55%) Serverless
20 15 (4.55%) Spring
21 14 (4.24%) Coaching
21 14 (4.24%) Containerisation
21 14 (4.24%) Spring Boot

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 (3.94%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.61%) Apache
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.79%) AWS
2 23 (6.97%) SaaS
3 21 (6.36%) Azure
4 15 (4.55%) Serverless
5 8 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.42%) GCP
6 6 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.21%) GitHub
9 3 (0.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.91%) Slack
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.61%) dbt
10 2 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.61%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.61%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.42%) Internet
2 3 (0.91%) Firewall
2 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.21%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.91%) MySQL
6 2 (0.61%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.61%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.61%) Redis
6 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (1.82%) Git
2 5 (1.52%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.30%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.30%) Mocha
General
1 15 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.24%) Public Sector
3 13 (3.94%) Finance
4 6 (1.82%) Billing
4 6 (1.82%) Legal
4 6 (1.82%) Publishing
4 6 (1.82%) Retail
5 5 (1.52%) Agriculture
5 5 (1.52%) Automotive
6 4 (1.21%) Banking
6 4 (1.21%) Games
6 4 (1.21%) Local Government
7 3 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.61%) Advertising
8 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.42%) React
2 40 (12.12%) .NET
3 26 (7.88%) Node.js
4 16 (4.85%) Next.js
5 15 (4.55%) Spring
6 14 (4.24%) Spring Boot
6 14 (4.24%) Terraform
7 8 (2.42%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.42%) React Native
7 8 (2.42%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (2.42%) Vue
8 7 (2.12%) FastAPI
8 7 (2.12%) Kafka
9 5 (1.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.21%) CSS
10 4 (1.21%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.21%) REST
10 4 (1.21%) RESTful
11 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
12 1 (0.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.39%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.82%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.82%) Media Streaming
6 6 (1.82%) Podcast
7 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.91%) Blog
8 3 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.91%) NHS
9 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.12%) Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (15.45%) Agile
3 46 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (13.64%) AI
5 38 (11.52%) CI/CD
5 38 (11.52%) Mentoring
6 35 (10.61%) DevOps
7 27 (8.18%) Microservices
8 21 (6.36%) Code Quality
9 14 (4.24%) Coaching
9 14 (4.24%) Containerisation
10 13 (3.94%) Observability
10 13 (3.94%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (3.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (3.64%) Software Delivery
12 10 (3.03%) B2B
12 10 (3.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (3.03%) Data Science
12 10 (3.03%) Software Architecture
12 10 (3.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (16.06%) Java
2 47 (14.24%) TypeScript
3 41 (12.42%) C#
4 40 (12.12%) Python
5 33 (10.00%) SQL
6 19 (5.76%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.15%) C++
8 11 (3.33%) Ruby
9 10 (3.03%) Rust
10 8 (2.42%) Go
11 6 (1.82%) Delphi
12 3 (0.91%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (2.12%) Degree
1 7 (2.12%) SC Cleared
1 7 (2.12%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 17 (5.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (2.73%) Splunk
2 3 (0.91%) New Relic
3 2 (0.61%) Databricks
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.30%) Google