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 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 140 156
Rank change year-on-year -47 +16 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 134 111 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.79% 1.70% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.85% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 121 99 206
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,625 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - +12.78% -8.28%

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 15,582 5,986 15,514
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.56% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,049 3,786 12,426
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -19 74 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Yorkshire -41 45 £75,000 -4.83% 5
North East -29 15 £77,500 +40.91%
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 15 April 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (26.87%) AWS
3 34 (25.37%) DevOps
4 31 (23.13%) CI/CD
5 30 (22.39%) C#
6 29 (21.64%) Agile
7 27 (20.15%) .NET
7 27 (20.15%) Azure
8 24 (17.91%) React
9 23 (17.16%) SQL
10 22 (16.42%) TypeScript
11 21 (15.67%) NoSQL
12 18 (13.43%) Containerisation
13 17 (12.69%) Java
13 17 (12.69%) Microservices
13 17 (12.69%) Python
14 16 (11.94%) Docker
14 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
14 16 (11.94%) SaaS
15 15 (11.19%) Kubernetes
15 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
16 14 (10.45%) Fintech
16 14 (10.45%) RESTful
16 14 (10.45%) Serverless
17 13 (9.70%) AI
17 13 (9.70%) TDD
18 12 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
18 12 (8.96%) MongoDB
19 11 (8.21%) Node.js

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 4 (2.99%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.87%) AWS
2 27 (20.15%) Azure
3 16 (11.94%) SaaS
4 14 (10.45%) Serverless
5 7 (5.22%) GCP
6 6 (4.48%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.99%) GitHub
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.49%) Apigee
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.96%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.99%) DocumentDB
4 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.99%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.24%) Big Data
5 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Claude Code
2 3 (2.24%) JIRA
3 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) GDB
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.75%) WinDbg
General
1 12 (8.96%) Finance
2 8 (5.97%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Financial Institution
4 5 (3.73%) Agriculture
4 5 (3.73%) Automotive
5 2 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (0.75%) Advertising
6 1 (0.75%) Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) .NET
2 24 (17.91%) React
3 14 (10.45%) RESTful
4 11 (8.21%) Node.js
5 10 (7.46%) REST
6 9 (6.72%) .NET Core
6 9 (6.72%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.97%) Vue
8 7 (5.22%) Flask
9 6 (4.48%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.99%) Celery
10 4 (2.99%) Django
10 4 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.99%) Spring
11 3 (2.24%) Micronaut
11 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.49%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.49%) HTML
12 2 (1.49%) Ionic Framework
12 2 (1.49%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.73%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.24%) Life Science
3 3 (2.24%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.75%) Derivative
4 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (25.37%) DevOps
3 31 (23.13%) CI/CD
4 29 (21.64%) Agile
5 18 (13.43%) Containerisation
6 17 (12.69%) Microservices
7 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 14 (10.45%) Fintech
10 13 (9.70%) AI
10 13 (9.70%) TDD
11 12 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (7.46%) Open Source
13 9 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (5.97%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (5.97%) Scrum
14 8 (5.97%) SDLC
14 8 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
15 7 (5.22%) Clean Code
15 7 (5.22%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.39%) C#
2 23 (17.16%) SQL
3 22 (16.42%) TypeScript
4 17 (12.69%) Java
4 17 (12.69%) Python
5 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.99%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.24%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (11.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (2.24%) Google
2 2 (1.49%) Adobe
3 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.75%) New Relic