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 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 258 216
Rank change year-on-year +127 -42 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 328 190 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.91% 1.07% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.19% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 214 126 122
10th Percentile £45,375 £46,250 £42,025
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,063 £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 £79,625 £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 16,305 15,905 17,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.16% 89.57% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,642 8,364 11,267
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £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 £68,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +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 18 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 18 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 +111 196 £60,000 -2.44% 31
Yorkshire +57 84 £62,500 -3.85% 7
North East +37 48 £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 18 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.

1 328 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 140 (42.68%) Agile
3 123 (37.50%) AWS
4 104 (31.71%) Azure
5 98 (29.88%) JavaScript
6 87 (26.52%) .NET
7 79 (24.09%) DevOps
8 77 (23.48%) Python
9 75 (22.87%) PostgreSQL
10 74 (22.56%) C#
11 69 (21.04%) Security Cleared
12 67 (20.43%) SQL
12 67 (20.43%) React
13 66 (20.12%) SC Cleared
14 64 (19.51%) CSS
15 63 (19.21%) Actionable Insight
16 59 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (17.68%) Java
18 55 (16.77%) GIS
18 55 (16.77%) ESRI
18 55 (16.77%) ArcGIS
18 55 (16.77%) Web Development
18 55 (16.77%) .NET Core
18 55 (16.77%) GeoServer
18 55 (16.77%) OpenLayers
18 55 (16.77%) QGIS
18 55 (16.77%) PostGIS
18 55 (16.77%) Leaflet
19 44 (13.41%) TypeScript
20 43 (13.11%) 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 (16.77%) ArcGIS
1 55 (16.77%) GeoServer
2 8 (2.44%) JBoss
2 8 (2.44%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (37.50%) AWS
2 104 (31.71%) Azure
3 14 (4.27%) Serverless
4 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (2.74%) GitHub
5 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.83%) GCP
6 5 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
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 (2.13%) Network Security
2 5 (1.52%) MQTT
3 4 (1.22%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.22%) RS-232
3 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (22.87%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (16.77%) GIS
2 55 (16.77%) QGIS
3 43 (13.11%) MySQL
4 21 (6.40%) MongoDB
5 20 (6.10%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.13%) Redis
8 6 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.49%) Git
2 8 (2.44%) IntelliJ
2 8 (2.44%) TeamCity
3 6 (1.83%) Maven
4 5 (1.52%) GitLab
4 5 (1.52%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.22%) Subversion
6 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.61%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 29 (8.84%) Public Sector
2 27 (8.23%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.10%) Finance
4 17 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.66%) Automotive
5 12 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.35%) Retail
7 10 (3.05%) Games
8 9 (2.74%) Health Technology
8 9 (2.74%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.83%) Legal
10 5 (1.52%) Retail Finance
11 4 (1.22%) Banking
11 4 (1.22%) Electronics
12 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (26.52%) .NET
2 67 (20.43%) React
3 64 (19.51%) CSS
4 55 (16.77%) .NET Core
4 55 (16.77%) Leaflet
4 55 (16.77%) OpenLayers
4 55 (16.77%) PostGIS
5 40 (12.20%) RESTful
6 28 (8.54%) AngularJS
6 28 (8.54%) Vue
7 25 (7.62%) ASP.NET
7 25 (7.62%) Node.js
8 18 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 18 (5.49%) Spring
9 16 (4.88%) HTML
10 14 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (4.27%) Web Services
11 13 (3.96%) Django
11 13 (3.96%) JSON
12 10 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
1 11 (3.35%) IoT
2 7 (2.13%) Client/Server
2 7 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.13%) Online Games
3 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.61%) FMCG
5 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
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%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.06%) Linux
2 12 (3.66%) Ubuntu
3 6 (1.83%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 140 (42.68%) Agile
3 79 (24.09%) DevOps
4 63 (19.21%) Actionable Insight
5 59 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (16.77%) Web Development
7 40 (12.20%) Microservices
8 37 (11.28%) Mentoring
9 34 (10.37%) TDD
10 26 (7.93%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (7.62%) Computer Science
12 24 (7.32%) Test Automation
13 23 (7.01%) Continuous Deployment
13 23 (7.01%) SDLC
14 22 (6.71%) Coaching
15 21 (6.40%) BDD
16 19 (5.79%) Functional Programming
16 19 (5.79%) Open Source
17 16 (4.88%) CI/CD
17 16 (4.88%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.88%) JavaScript
2 77 (23.48%) Python
3 74 (22.56%) C#
4 67 (20.43%) SQL
5 58 (17.68%) Java
6 44 (13.41%) TypeScript
7 30 (9.15%) C++
8 25 (7.62%) C
9 3 (0.91%) PHP
9 3 (0.91%) Rust
9 3 (0.91%) Scala
9 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 69 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 66 (20.12%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.45%) Degree
4 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.52%) HND
7 4 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.61%) 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 (2.13%) ISO 9000
2 4 (1.22%) PMO
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (4.57%) Firmware
2 14 (4.27%) Docker
3 3 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (5.18%) Terraform
2 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (16.77%) ESRI
2 7 (2.13%) F5
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.61%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.30%) SAP
5 1 (0.30%) Xamarin