Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 134 259
Rank change year-on-year -9 +125 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 267 360 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.04% 1.85% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 1.94% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 79 252 108
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +16.72%
75th Percentile £84,625 £71,435 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £78,810 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +16.76% -6.90% +3.57%

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 11,445 18,558 13,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.42% 95.19% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 13,747 7,895
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £64,025 £65,000 £69,574
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +5 232 £75,000 +25.00% 208
Yorkshire -40 19 £78,810 +26.10% 96
North East +13 16 £55,000 -8.33% 20
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 5 July 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.

1 267 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 220 (82.40%) Java
3 218 (81.65%) Agile
4 216 (80.90%) AWS
5 206 (77.15%) Python
6 203 (76.03%) JavaScript
7 197 (73.78%) Azure
8 195 (73.03%) Mentoring
8 195 (73.03%) .NET
9 194 (72.66%) Node.js
10 191 (71.54%) GCP
11 188 (70.41%) Microservices
12 185 (69.29%) Machine Learning
13 183 (68.54%) Cloud Security
14 182 (68.16%) User Experience
15 181 (67.79%) Go
15 181 (67.79%) Scrum
16 180 (67.42%) Linux
17 179 (67.04%) C++
17 179 (67.04%) Rust
18 174 (65.17%) Security Cleared
19 173 (64.79%) Cyberattack
19 173 (64.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 172 (64.42%) Self-Motivation
20 172 (64.42%) Linux Command Line
20 172 (64.42%) Data Engineering
20 172 (64.42%) AWS Certification
20 172 (64.42%) DV Cleared
20 172 (64.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 172 (64.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 216 (80.90%) AWS
2 197 (73.78%) Azure
3 191 (71.54%) GCP
4 10 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (1.87%) Apigee
5 5 (1.87%) GitHub
5 5 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.50%) Serverless
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.75%) SaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.37%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.25%) Wireless
2 4 (1.50%) Internet
2 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.75%) HTTP
3 2 (0.75%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.75%) Cloud Spanner
2 9 (3.37%) MySQL
3 7 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.50%) Biml
6 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.50%) Power BI
6 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.37%) Endeca
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.37%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (6.74%) Git
2 10 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.25%) JIRA
4 5 (1.87%) JUnit
4 5 (1.87%) Maven
4 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.50%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.12%) GitLab
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 172 (64.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (11.99%) Finance
3 21 (7.87%) Banking
4 16 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.00%) Retail
6 6 (2.25%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.50%) Games
8 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.75%) Electronics
9 2 (0.75%) Marketing
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (73.03%) .NET
2 194 (72.66%) Node.js
3 29 (10.86%) React
4 22 (8.24%) RESTful
5 20 (7.49%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.75%) REST
6 10 (3.75%) Spring
7 9 (3.37%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.37%) CSS
7 9 (3.37%) Web Services
8 8 (3.00%) HTML
9 5 (1.87%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.87%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.87%) OAuth
9 5 (1.87%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.50%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.50%) JWT
11 3 (1.12%) Laravel
11 3 (1.12%) NestJS
11 3 (1.12%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 173 (64.79%) Cyberattack
2 172 (64.42%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (64.42%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.50%) IoT
7 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.75%) Device Driver
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.75%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.37%) PKI
9 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 180 (67.42%) Linux
2 5 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 218 (81.65%) Agile
3 195 (73.03%) Mentoring
4 188 (70.41%) Microservices
5 185 (69.29%) Machine Learning
6 183 (68.54%) Cloud Security
7 182 (68.16%) User Experience
8 181 (67.79%) Scrum
9 173 (64.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 172 (64.42%) Data Engineering
11 44 (16.48%) CI/CD
12 23 (8.61%) Test Automation
13 22 (8.24%) DevOps
14 18 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (5.62%) Coaching
16 14 (5.24%) TDD
17 13 (4.87%) Infrastructure as Code
18 12 (4.49%) Continuous Deployment
18 12 (4.49%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (4.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 220 (82.40%) Java
2 206 (77.15%) Python
3 203 (76.03%) JavaScript
4 181 (67.79%) Go
5 179 (67.04%) C++
5 179 (67.04%) Rust
6 39 (14.61%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.12%) C#
8 13 (4.87%) SQL
9 6 (2.25%) PHP
10 4 (1.50%) Ruby
10 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.75%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Elixir
12 1 (0.37%) Erlang
12 1 (0.37%) F#
12 1 (0.37%) Haskell
12 1 (0.37%) Lisp
12 1 (0.37%) PureScript
12 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 174 (65.17%) Security Cleared
2 172 (64.42%) AWS Certification
2 172 (64.42%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (64.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (64.42%) DV Cleared
3 7 (2.62%) Degree
4 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.87%) QA
2 1 (0.37%) GDPR
2 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (9.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.87%) Terraform
3 5 (1.87%) Istio
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.12%) Google
2 8 (3.00%) Ping Identity
3 4 (1.50%) Xilinx
4 2 (0.75%) ForgeRock
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe
5 1 (0.37%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.37%) New Relic
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle