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 £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 250 214
Rank change year-on-year +115 -36 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 331 191 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.92% 1.09% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.21% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 216 126 124
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,991 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,375 £86,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,409 15,721 17,323
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 89.50% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,690 8,294 11,123
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +109 197 £60,000 -1.23% 31
Yorkshire +68 85 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East +43 49 £60,000 -15.37% 7
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 25 April 2024, 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.

1 331 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 140 (42.30%) Agile
3 124 (37.46%) AWS
4 106 (32.02%) Azure
5 98 (29.61%) JavaScript
6 89 (26.89%) .NET
7 78 (23.56%) DevOps
8 77 (23.26%) C#
8 77 (23.26%) Python
9 75 (22.66%) PostgreSQL
10 69 (20.85%) Security Cleared
10 69 (20.85%) SQL
11 68 (20.54%) React
12 66 (19.94%) SC Cleared
13 65 (19.64%) CSS
14 63 (19.03%) Actionable Insight
15 59 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (17.52%) Java
17 55 (16.62%) GIS
17 55 (16.62%) ESRI
17 55 (16.62%) ArcGIS
17 55 (16.62%) Web Development
17 55 (16.62%) .NET Core
17 55 (16.62%) GeoServer
17 55 (16.62%) OpenLayers
17 55 (16.62%) QGIS
17 55 (16.62%) PostGIS
17 55 (16.62%) Leaflet
18 45 (13.60%) TypeScript
19 43 (12.99%) MySQL

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 55 (16.62%) ArcGIS
1 55 (16.62%) GeoServer
2 8 (2.42%) JBoss
2 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.46%) AWS
2 106 (32.02%) Azure
3 14 (4.23%) Serverless
4 9 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (2.72%) GitHub
5 6 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.51%) GCP
7 3 (0.91%) SaaS
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.11%) Network Security
2 5 (1.51%) MQTT
3 4 (1.21%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.21%) RS-232
3 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.66%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (16.62%) GIS
2 55 (16.62%) QGIS
3 43 (12.99%) MySQL
4 21 (6.34%) MongoDB
5 20 (6.04%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.11%) Redis
8 6 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (5.74%) Git
2 8 (2.42%) IntelliJ
2 8 (2.42%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.11%) Maven
4 5 (1.51%) GitLab
4 5 (1.51%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.21%) Subversion
6 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.60%) webpack
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 29 (8.76%) Public Sector
2 28 (8.46%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.04%) Finance
4 17 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.63%) Automotive
5 12 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.32%) Retail
7 10 (3.02%) Games
8 9 (2.72%) Health Technology
8 9 (2.72%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.81%) Legal
10 5 (1.51%) Retail Finance
11 4 (1.21%) Banking
11 4 (1.21%) Electronics
12 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (26.89%) .NET
2 68 (20.54%) React
3 65 (19.64%) CSS
4 55 (16.62%) .NET Core
4 55 (16.62%) Leaflet
4 55 (16.62%) OpenLayers
4 55 (16.62%) PostGIS
5 40 (12.08%) RESTful
6 29 (8.76%) AngularJS
6 29 (8.76%) Vue
7 26 (7.85%) ASP.NET
8 24 (7.25%) Node.js
9 19 (5.74%) Spring
10 18 (5.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (5.14%) HTML
12 14 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (4.23%) Web Services
13 13 (3.93%) Django
13 13 (3.93%) JSON
14 10 (3.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
1 11 (3.32%) IoT
2 7 (2.11%) Client/Server
2 7 (2.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.11%) Online Games
3 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.60%) FMCG
5 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.30%) FPGA
6 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.97%) Linux
2 12 (3.63%) Ubuntu
3 6 (1.81%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 140 (42.30%) Agile
3 78 (23.56%) DevOps
4 63 (19.03%) Actionable Insight
5 59 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (16.62%) Web Development
7 40 (12.08%) Microservices
8 37 (11.18%) Mentoring
9 33 (9.97%) TDD
10 27 (8.16%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (7.85%) Computer Science
12 25 (7.55%) Test Automation
13 23 (6.95%) Continuous Deployment
13 23 (6.95%) SDLC
14 22 (6.65%) Coaching
15 21 (6.34%) BDD
16 19 (5.74%) Functional Programming
16 19 (5.74%) Open Source
17 16 (4.83%) CI/CD
17 16 (4.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.61%) JavaScript
2 77 (23.26%) C#
2 77 (23.26%) Python
3 69 (20.85%) SQL
4 58 (17.52%) Java
5 45 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 30 (9.06%) C++
7 25 (7.55%) C
8 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.91%) PHP
9 3 (0.91%) Rust
9 3 (0.91%) Scala
10 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 69 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 66 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.67%) Degree
4 9 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.51%) HND
7 4 (1.21%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.11%) ISO 9000
2 4 (1.21%) PMO
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (4.53%) Firmware
2 14 (4.23%) Docker
3 3 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (5.14%) Terraform
2 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (16.62%) ESRI
2 7 (2.11%) F5
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.91%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.30%) SAP
5 1 (0.30%) Xamarin