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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 130 154
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 350 227 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 2.38% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.73% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 291 47 108
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £70,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,475
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% +3.66%

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 22,227 8,321 12,573
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 87.40% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,158 4,314 6,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £39,922
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -1 215 £75,000 +0.67% 109
Yorkshire +37 79 £70,000 -6.67% 25
North East -25 56 £80,000 +700.00% 18
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 10 October 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.

1 350 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 64 (18.29%) AWS
3 59 (16.86%) Java
4 54 (15.43%) Agile
5 48 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (12.86%) AI
7 43 (12.29%) TypeScript
8 42 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 40 (11.43%) C#
9 40 (11.43%) Python
10 39 (11.14%) .NET
11 38 (10.86%) Mentoring
11 38 (10.86%) React
12 32 (9.14%) DevOps
12 32 (9.14%) Microservices
12 32 (9.14%) SQL
13 24 (6.86%) Node.js
14 21 (6.00%) Code Quality
15 20 (5.71%) SaaS
16 19 (5.43%) Azure
16 19 (5.43%) Kubernetes
17 18 (5.14%) Docker
18 17 (4.86%) JavaScript
19 16 (4.57%) C++
19 16 (4.57%) Coaching
19 16 (4.57%) Containerisation
19 16 (4.57%) Next.js
20 15 (4.29%) Spring
20 15 (4.29%) Spring Boot
20 15 (4.29%) Terraform

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 (3.71%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.57%) Apache
2 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.29%) AWS
2 20 (5.71%) SaaS
3 19 (5.43%) Azure
4 12 (3.43%) Serverless
5 8 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.00%) GCP
7 6 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.14%) GitHub
10 3 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.86%) Slack
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.57%) dbt
11 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.57%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.57%) Internet
2 3 (0.86%) Firewall
2 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.14%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.86%) MySQL
5 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.57%) Redis
5 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Git
2 5 (1.43%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.29%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.29%) Mocha
General
1 16 (4.57%) Public Sector
2 15 (4.29%) Social Skills
3 13 (3.71%) Finance
4 6 (1.71%) Billing
4 6 (1.71%) Legal
4 6 (1.71%) Publishing
4 6 (1.71%) Retail
5 5 (1.43%) Banking
6 4 (1.14%) Games
6 4 (1.14%) Local Government
7 3 (0.86%) Agriculture
7 3 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.86%) Automotive
7 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.57%) Advertising
8 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.14%) .NET
2 38 (10.86%) React
3 24 (6.86%) Node.js
4 16 (4.57%) Next.js
5 15 (4.29%) Spring
5 15 (4.29%) Spring Boot
5 15 (4.29%) Terraform
6 8 (2.29%) React Native
6 8 (2.29%) Ruby on Rails
6 8 (2.29%) Vue
7 7 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.00%) FastAPI
7 7 (2.00%) Kafka
8 4 (1.14%) CSS
8 4 (1.14%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.86%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.86%) NestJS
9 3 (0.86%) RESTful
10 2 (0.57%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.57%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.86%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (1.71%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.71%) Media Streaming
6 6 (1.71%) Podcast
7 4 (1.14%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.86%) Blog
8 3 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.86%) NHS
9 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.00%) Linux
2 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 54 (15.43%) Agile
3 48 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (12.86%) AI
5 42 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 38 (10.86%) Mentoring
7 32 (9.14%) DevOps
7 32 (9.14%) Microservices
8 21 (6.00%) Code Quality
9 16 (4.57%) Coaching
9 16 (4.57%) Containerisation
10 13 (3.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (3.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (3.43%) Observability
11 12 (3.43%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (3.43%) Software Architecture
11 12 (3.43%) Software Delivery
12 11 (3.14%) Architectural Design
12 11 (3.14%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (3.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (16.86%) Java
2 43 (12.29%) TypeScript
3 40 (11.43%) C#
3 40 (11.43%) Python
4 32 (9.14%) SQL
5 17 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.57%) C++
7 11 (3.14%) Ruby
8 10 (2.86%) Rust
9 8 (2.29%) Go
10 6 (1.71%) Delphi
11 3 (0.86%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (2.57%) SC Cleared
1 9 (2.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.00%) Degree
3 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (5.14%) Docker
2 5 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (2.57%) Splunk
2 3 (0.86%) New Relic
3 2 (0.57%) Databricks
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft