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 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
26 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 161 183
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 65 165 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.35% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.43% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 60 98 93
10th Percentile £57,250 £52,500 £44,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.46% -5.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £104,375 £75,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £67,529
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.66% -4.76%

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 8,339 11,512 7,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.05% 94.50% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,055 6,036 5,396
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 November 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 26 November 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 -9 33 £75,000 +17.65% 12
Yorkshire 0 23 £75,000 +20.00% 13
North East -11 9 £75,000 +28.21% 1
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 November 2025, 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 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (33.85%) AWS
3 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 19 (29.23%) DevOps
5 18 (27.69%) Java
5 18 (27.69%) React
6 16 (24.62%) Agile
7 15 (23.08%) C#
8 14 (21.54%) .NET
8 14 (21.54%) Microservices
9 12 (18.46%) Azure
9 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
9 12 (18.46%) Docker
9 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
10 11 (16.92%) TypeScript
11 10 (15.38%) Fintech
11 10 (15.38%) TDD
12 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
13 8 (12.31%) AI
13 8 (12.31%) Clean Code
13 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
13 8 (12.31%) RESTful
13 8 (12.31%) SQL
14 7 (10.77%) AngularJS
14 7 (10.77%) People Management
14 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (10.77%) SOLID
14 7 (10.77%) Terraform
15 6 (9.23%) 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
3 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.54%) Datadog
5 1 (1.54%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) AMQP
1 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (16.92%) Finance
2 7 (10.77%) Financial Institution
3 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Retail
5 2 (3.08%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) React
2 14 (21.54%) .NET
3 8 (12.31%) RESTful
4 7 (10.77%) AngularJS
5 6 (9.23%) Spring
5 6 (9.23%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.69%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.15%) Micronaut
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.62%) FastAPI
8 3 (4.62%) Node.js
8 3 (4.62%) Vue
9 2 (3.08%) Celery
9 2 (3.08%) Django
9 2 (3.08%) Flask
9 2 (3.08%) Next.js
9 2 (3.08%) React Native
9 2 (3.08%) REST
10 1 (1.54%) LangChain
10 1 (1.54%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.77%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.15%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 19 (29.23%) DevOps
4 16 (24.62%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) Microservices
6 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.38%) Fintech
7 10 (15.38%) TDD
8 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
9 8 (12.31%) AI
9 8 (12.31%) Clean Code
9 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (10.77%) People Management
10 7 (10.77%) SOLID
11 6 (9.23%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (9.23%) Event-Driven
11 6 (9.23%) LLM
12 5 (7.69%) Pair Programming
12 5 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (6.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) Java
2 15 (23.08%) C#
3 11 (16.92%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.31%) SQL
5 6 (9.23%) Python
6 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.15%) C++
8 2 (3.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
1 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
26 Senior Software Engineer jobs in the North of England