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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 139 257
Rank change year-on-year +21 +118 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 303 329 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.62% 1.88% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.85% 1.98% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 119 219 121
10th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.51% +10.43%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +3.57%

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 10,619 16,613 15,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 94.91% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 12,861 8,184
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,075 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +18 257 £65,000 +8.33% 81
Yorkshire +14 29 £78,810 +26.10% 41
North East +14 17 £55,000 -8.33% 21
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 12 May 2025, 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.

1 303 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 244 (80.53%) Agile
3 230 (75.91%) Java
4 215 (70.96%) AWS
5 211 (69.64%) JavaScript
6 208 (68.65%) Python
7 207 (68.32%) Mentoring
8 205 (67.66%) Azure
9 203 (67.00%) .NET
10 196 (64.69%) GCP
11 193 (63.70%) Node.js
12 190 (62.71%) Linux
13 189 (62.38%) Microservices
14 186 (61.39%) C++
15 185 (61.06%) Scrum
15 185 (61.06%) Machine Learning
16 183 (60.40%) Cloud Security
17 181 (59.74%) Rust
18 180 (59.41%) Go
19 178 (58.75%) User Experience
19 178 (58.75%) Security Cleared
20 173 (57.10%) Cyberattack
20 173 (57.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 172 (56.77%) Self-Motivation
21 172 (56.77%) Linux Command Line
21 172 (56.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 172 (56.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
21 172 (56.77%) AWS Certified Developer
21 172 (56.77%) Data Engineering
21 172 (56.77%) AWS Certification

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 2 (0.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 215 (70.96%) AWS
2 205 (67.66%) Azure
3 196 (64.69%) GCP
4 10 (3.30%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (1.65%) Apigee
5 5 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (1.32%) GitHub
6 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.32%) Serverless
7 3 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (0.66%) SaaS
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.63%) Wireless
2 5 (1.65%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.32%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.66%) HTTP
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.95%) MySQL
1 15 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.30%) Cloud Spanner
3 7 (2.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.32%) Biml
5 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.32%) Power BI
5 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) DB2
8 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.33%) Endeca
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 28 (9.24%) Git
2 21 (6.93%) JIRA
3 16 (5.28%) Bitbucket
4 15 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.95%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.65%) JUnit
6 5 (1.65%) Maven
6 5 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.99%) GitLab
8 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.66%) Selenium
8 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.33%) Storybook
9 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (56.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (13.20%) Finance
3 26 (8.58%) Banking
4 22 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.63%) Social Skills
6 10 (3.30%) Electronics
7 9 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.97%) Games
8 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.98%) Retail
10 5 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.32%) Automotive
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Advertising
13 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (67.00%) .NET
2 193 (63.70%) Node.js
3 35 (11.55%) React
4 23 (7.59%) RESTful
5 22 (7.26%) Spring Boot
6 15 (4.95%) CSS
7 14 (4.62%) HTML
8 12 (3.96%) AngularJS
8 12 (3.96%) Spring
9 11 (3.63%) .NET Framework
9 11 (3.63%) REST
10 10 (3.30%) Laravel
10 10 (3.30%) Web Services
11 8 (2.64%) OAuth
11 8 (2.64%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.31%) JWT
12 7 (2.31%) Vue
13 6 (1.98%) XML
14 5 (1.65%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 173 (57.10%) Cyberattack
2 172 (56.77%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (56.77%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.97%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.98%) Device Driver
6 6 (1.98%) IoT
7 5 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.66%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.33%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 190 (62.71%) Linux
2 5 (1.65%) Android
2 5 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.33%) VMS
3 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 244 (80.53%) Agile
3 207 (68.32%) Mentoring
4 189 (62.38%) Microservices
5 185 (61.06%) Machine Learning
5 185 (61.06%) Scrum
6 183 (60.40%) Cloud Security
7 178 (58.75%) User Experience
8 173 (57.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (56.77%) Data Engineering
10 44 (14.52%) CI/CD
11 31 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
12 30 (9.90%) Test Automation
13 27 (8.91%) TDD
14 26 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (6.93%) DevOps
16 17 (5.61%) Design Patterns
17 16 (5.28%) Clean Code
17 16 (5.28%) Coaching
18 15 (4.95%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (75.91%) Java
2 211 (69.64%) JavaScript
3 208 (68.65%) Python
4 186 (61.39%) C++
5 181 (59.74%) Rust
6 180 (59.41%) Go
7 40 (13.20%) C#
8 35 (11.55%) TypeScript
9 27 (8.91%) C
10 16 (5.28%) PHP
11 15 (4.95%) Ada
11 15 (4.95%) VB
12 12 (3.96%) SQL
13 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.32%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.66%) Ruby
15 1 (0.33%) Erlang
15 1 (0.33%) F#
15 1 (0.33%) Haskell
15 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 178 (58.75%) Security Cleared
2 172 (56.77%) AWS Certification
2 172 (56.77%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (56.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (56.77%) DV Cleared
3 25 (8.25%) Degree
4 15 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.63%) QA
2 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (8.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.30%) Terraform
3 5 (1.65%) Istio
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.33%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (3.63%) Google
2 8 (2.64%) Ping Identity
3 5 (1.65%) Xilinx
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.66%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe
6 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.33%) BMC
6 1 (0.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.33%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.33%) F5
6 1 (0.33%) IBM
6 1 (0.33%) New Relic
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat