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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 162 173
Rank change year-on-year -42 +11 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 64 135 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.61% 1.37% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.45% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 62 77 83
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £43,150
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £75,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

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 9,202 9,331 6,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.51% 94.67% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,162 4,576 5,063
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,475 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -6 33 £75,000 +20.00% 28
Yorkshire -6 26 £75,000 +14.57% 30
North East -27 5 £75,000 +22.95% 4
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 17 December 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 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 22 (34.38%) AWS
3 22 (34.38%) DevOps
4 20 (31.25%) React
5 17 (26.56%) C#
6 16 (25.00%) .NET
7 15 (23.44%) Agile
7 15 (23.44%) Java
7 15 (23.44%) Microservices
8 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
9 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
9 13 (20.31%) Docker
10 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
11 10 (15.63%) Azure
11 10 (15.63%) Fintech
11 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 10 (15.63%) NoSQL
11 10 (15.63%) SQL
11 10 (15.63%) TDD
12 9 (14.06%) Clean Code
12 9 (14.06%) RESTful
13 8 (12.50%) AI
13 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
13 8 (12.50%) People Management
13 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
14 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Culture
14 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
14 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development

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 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) Datadog
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.81%) MySQL
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 13 (20.31%) Finance
2 8 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Games
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Advertising
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Law
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) React
2 16 (25.00%) .NET
3 9 (14.06%) RESTful
4 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.94%) Spring
4 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.81%) Micronaut
6 4 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.25%) Node.js
7 3 (4.69%) CSS
7 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.69%) HTML
7 3 (4.69%) HTML5
7 3 (4.69%) REST
7 3 (4.69%) Vue
8 2 (3.13%) Celery
8 2 (3.13%) Flask
8 2 (3.13%) Next.js
8 2 (3.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.56%) Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 22 (34.38%) DevOps
4 15 (23.44%) Agile
4 15 (23.44%) Microservices
5 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
6 10 (15.63%) Fintech
6 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.63%) TDD
7 9 (14.06%) Clean Code
8 8 (12.50%) AI
8 8 (12.50%) People Management
9 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven
9 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (10.94%) SOLID
10 6 (9.38%) LLM
10 6 (9.38%) Scrum
10 6 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (7.81%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) C#
2 15 (23.44%) Java
3 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
4 10 (15.63%) SQL
5 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) C++
6 4 (6.25%) Python
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Adobe
2 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) New Relic
2 1 (1.56%) OpenAI