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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 137 262
Rank change year-on-year +11 +125 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 304 331 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.61% 1.89% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 1.99% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 119 221 115
10th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £82,625 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £85,000
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 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -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 16 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 16 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 +12 258 £65,000 +8.33% 61
Yorkshire +7 28 £78,810 +26.10% 24
North East +15 18 £55,000 -8.33% 18
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 16 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.

1 304 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 245 (80.59%) Agile
3 232 (76.32%) Java
4 218 (71.71%) AWS
5 210 (69.08%) JavaScript
5 210 (69.08%) Python
6 207 (68.09%) Mentoring
7 205 (67.43%) Azure
8 203 (66.78%) .NET
9 196 (64.47%) GCP
10 194 (63.82%) Node.js
11 191 (62.83%) Microservices
12 189 (62.17%) Linux
13 186 (61.18%) Scrum
14 185 (60.86%) C++
14 185 (60.86%) Machine Learning
14 185 (60.86%) Cloud Security
15 180 (59.21%) Go
15 180 (59.21%) Rust
16 179 (58.88%) User Experience
17 178 (58.55%) Security Cleared
18 173 (56.91%) Cyberattack
18 173 (56.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 172 (56.58%) Self-Motivation
19 172 (56.58%) Linux Command Line
19 172 (56.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 172 (56.58%) AWS Certified Developer
19 172 (56.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 172 (56.58%) Data Engineering
19 172 (56.58%) 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
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 218 (71.71%) AWS
2 205 (67.43%) Azure
3 196 (64.47%) GCP
4 10 (3.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.64%) Apigee
6 5 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (1.32%) GitHub
7 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.32%) Serverless
8 3 (0.99%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (0.66%) SaaS
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.33%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.62%) Wireless
2 5 (1.64%) 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 (4.93%) MySQL
2 14 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.29%) Cloud Spanner
4 7 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.32%) Biml
6 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.32%) Power BI
6 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.33%) Endeca
9 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (8.88%) Git
2 21 (6.91%) JIRA
3 16 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 15 (4.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (4.93%) Rational DOORS
5 14 (4.61%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.97%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.64%) JUnit
7 5 (1.64%) Maven
7 5 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.99%) GitLab
9 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.66%) Selenium
9 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 172 (56.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (12.83%) Finance
3 25 (8.22%) Banking
4 22 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.95%) Social Skills
6 10 (3.29%) Electronics
7 9 (2.96%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.96%) Games
8 7 (2.30%) Retail
8 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (66.78%) .NET
2 194 (63.82%) Node.js
3 36 (11.84%) React
4 24 (7.89%) RESTful
5 23 (7.57%) Spring Boot
6 14 (4.61%) CSS
7 13 (4.28%) AngularJS
7 13 (4.28%) HTML
7 13 (4.28%) REST
7 13 (4.28%) Spring
8 11 (3.62%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.62%) Web Services
9 9 (2.96%) Laravel
10 8 (2.63%) OAuth
10 8 (2.63%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.30%) JWT
12 6 (1.97%) Vue
13 5 (1.64%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.64%) Hibernate
14 4 (1.32%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (56.91%) Cyberattack
2 172 (56.58%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (56.58%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.96%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (1.97%) Device Driver
5 6 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.64%) IoT
7 4 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.33%) PKI
10 1 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 189 (62.17%) Linux
2 5 (1.64%) Unix
3 4 (1.32%) Android
3 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 245 (80.59%) Agile
3 207 (68.09%) Mentoring
4 191 (62.83%) Microservices
5 186 (61.18%) Scrum
6 185 (60.86%) Cloud Security
6 185 (60.86%) Machine Learning
7 179 (58.88%) User Experience
8 173 (56.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (56.58%) Data Engineering
10 44 (14.47%) CI/CD
11 31 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
12 30 (9.87%) Test Automation
13 26 (8.55%) TDD
14 25 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (6.91%) DevOps
16 17 (5.59%) Design Patterns
17 16 (5.26%) Coaching
18 15 (4.93%) Clean Code
18 15 (4.93%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 232 (76.32%) Java
2 210 (69.08%) JavaScript
2 210 (69.08%) Python
3 185 (60.86%) C++
4 180 (59.21%) Go
4 180 (59.21%) Rust
5 40 (13.16%) C#
6 39 (12.83%) TypeScript
7 26 (8.55%) C
8 15 (4.93%) Ada
8 15 (4.93%) PHP
8 15 (4.93%) VB
9 12 (3.95%) SQL
10 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.32%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.66%) Ruby
12 1 (0.33%) Erlang
12 1 (0.33%) Haskell
12 1 (0.33%) Lisp
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 178 (58.55%) Security Cleared
2 172 (56.58%) AWS Certification
2 172 (56.58%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (56.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (56.58%) DV Cleared
3 24 (7.89%) Degree
4 15 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.62%) QA
2 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (8.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.29%) Terraform
3 5 (1.64%) Istio
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (3.62%) Google
2 10 (3.29%) Ping Identity
3 5 (1.64%) 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%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.33%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.33%) F5
6 1 (0.33%) New Relic
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat