Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 83 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -39 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,025 510 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.29% 3.93% 5.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.61% 4.42% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 658 314 503
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,637
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,350 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,220 £82,548 £77,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.86% +3.70% +12.50%

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 15,505 11,528 18,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 88.81% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,970 7,461 11,427
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

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 Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +60 592 £60,000 - 46
Yorkshire +42 350 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North East +38 83 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,016 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 342 (33.37%) Agile
3 263 (25.66%) AWS
4 229 (22.34%) Azure
5 221 (21.56%) C#
6 213 (20.78%) .NET
7 205 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 196 (19.12%) DevOps
9 179 (17.46%) Python
10 170 (16.59%) Mentoring
11 153 (14.93%) React
12 143 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
12 143 (13.95%) SQL
12 143 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
13 131 (12.78%) Java
14 127 (12.39%) C++
15 120 (11.71%) CSS
16 106 (10.34%) Linux
16 106 (10.34%) Degree
17 102 (9.95%) .NET Core
18 99 (9.66%) User Experience
19 98 (9.56%) Microservices
19 98 (9.56%) C
20 95 (9.27%) Social Skills
21 91 (8.88%) Machine Learning
22 90 (8.78%) Full Stack Development
23 88 (8.59%) AngularJS
23 88 (8.59%) Security Cleared
24 87 (8.49%) NoSQL
25 86 (8.39%) Open Source

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 65 (6.34%) ArcGIS
2 56 (5.46%) GeoServer
3 20 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.66%) Apache
5 9 (0.88%) NServiceBus
5 9 (0.88%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.39%) Confluence
7 2 (0.20%) CMS
7 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.39%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 263 (25.66%) AWS
2 229 (22.34%) Azure
3 52 (5.07%) GCP
4 49 (4.78%) Amazon Kinesis
5 36 (3.51%) Serverless
6 30 (2.93%) GitHub
7 27 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (1.27%) SaaS
11 11 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (1.07%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.98%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.68%) Firebase
14 6 (0.59%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.24%) MQTT
2 19 (1.85%) Wireless
3 16 (1.56%) RS-485
3 16 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.27%) 3G
4 13 (1.27%) 4G
5 11 (1.07%) AMQP
5 11 (1.07%) RS-232
6 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.68%) Network Security
8 6 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.39%) SAN
9 4 (0.39%) ZigBee
10 2 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.20%) VoIP
11 1 (0.098%) HTTP
11 1 (0.098%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.49%) NoSQL
3 70 (6.83%) MySQL
4 65 (6.34%) GIS
5 56 (5.46%) QGIS
6 53 (5.17%) DynamoDB
7 52 (5.07%) SQL Server
8 43 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (3.90%) Redis
10 28 (2.73%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.85%) Big Data
11 19 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.37%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
13 11 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.68%) Power BI
15 6 (0.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (6.15%) Git
2 30 (2.93%) Gatling
3 18 (1.76%) JIRA
4 16 (1.56%) GitLab
5 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.37%) CircleCI
6 14 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.27%) LabVIEW
8 12 (1.17%) Subversion
9 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.59%) Maven
11 5 (0.49%) CMake
11 5 (0.49%) GCC
11 5 (0.49%) GDB
11 5 (0.49%) Selenium
12 4 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.29%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (9.27%) Social Skills
2 82 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (5.27%) Electronics
3 54 (5.27%) Manufacturing
4 48 (4.68%) Public Sector
5 38 (3.71%) Finance
6 26 (2.54%) Automotive
7 24 (2.34%) Tech for Good
8 22 (2.15%) Legal
9 20 (1.95%) Retail
10 19 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
11 17 (1.66%) Billing
12 16 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
13 14 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.98%) Games
15 10 (0.98%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.88%) Banking
17 7 (0.68%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (20.78%) .NET
2 153 (14.93%) React
3 120 (11.71%) CSS
4 102 (9.95%) .NET Core
5 88 (8.59%) AngularJS
6 82 (8.00%) REST
7 69 (6.73%) Node.js
8 67 (6.54%) RESTful
9 64 (6.24%) PostGIS
10 60 (5.85%) Leaflet
10 60 (5.85%) OpenLayers
10 60 (5.85%) Web Services
11 55 (5.37%) GraphQL
11 55 (5.37%) HTML
12 48 (4.68%) Vue
13 43 (4.20%) http4s
13 43 (4.20%) Scalaz
14 39 (3.80%) ASP.NET
15 34 (3.32%) Spring
16 29 (2.83%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.02%) Cyberattack
2 61 (5.95%) Media Streaming
3 59 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (4.98%) Blog
5 48 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
7 26 (2.54%) IoT
8 21 (2.05%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.88%) Robotics
14 8 (0.78%) SCADA
15 7 (0.68%) NHS
16 4 (0.39%) ARM Cortex
16 4 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
17 3 (0.29%) Fat Client
17 3 (0.29%) Online Games
17 3 (0.29%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.34%) Linux
2 32 (3.12%) Embedded Linux
3 30 (2.93%) Windows
4 22 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.56%) Android
6 13 (1.27%) FreeRTOS
7 12 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.07%) CentOS
8 11 (1.07%) Debian
8 11 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.98%) Unix
10 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.29%) VMS
12 1 (0.098%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,016 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 342 (33.37%) Agile
3 196 (19.12%) DevOps
4 170 (16.59%) Mentoring
5 143 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (9.66%) User Experience
7 98 (9.56%) Microservices
8 91 (8.88%) Machine Learning
9 90 (8.78%) Full Stack Development
10 86 (8.39%) Open Source
11 81 (7.90%) TDD
11 81 (7.90%) Unit Testing
12 75 (7.32%) Data Engineering
12 75 (7.32%) Web Development
13 73 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 72 (7.02%) Creative Thinking
15 70 (6.83%) Computer Science
16 67 (6.54%) Actionable Insight
17 66 (6.44%) Continuous Integration
18 64 (6.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 221 (21.56%) C#
2 205 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 179 (17.46%) Python
4 143 (13.95%) SQL
5 131 (12.78%) Java
6 127 (12.39%) C++
7 98 (9.56%) C
8 79 (7.71%) TypeScript
9 64 (6.24%) Scala
10 20 (1.95%) Go
10 20 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.66%) PHP
12 16 (1.56%) Embedded C
13 10 (0.98%) COBOL
13 10 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.88%) Embedded C++
14 9 (0.88%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 8 (0.78%) Bash
16 7 (0.68%) Perl
17 6 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (10.34%) Degree
2 88 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 79 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 29 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.68%) PhD
8 6 (0.59%) HND
9 4 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.20%) HNC
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.27%) GDPR
2 8 (0.78%) QA
3 7 (0.68%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.39%) PMO
5 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.098%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (4.59%) Docker
2 24 (2.34%) Firmware
3 13 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.78%) Terraform
3 15 (1.46%) Ansible
4 12 (1.17%) Puppet
5 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.098%) Grafana
6 1 (0.098%) Podman
6 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (6.15%) ESRI
2 35 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.12%) Google
4 15 (1.46%) Oracle
5 13 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.07%) SaltStack
7 9 (0.88%) Micro Focus
8 6 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
8 6 (0.59%) Databricks
8 6 (0.59%) Facebook
9 5 (0.49%) F5
9 5 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.29%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.29%) Cadence
10 3 (0.29%) Synopsys
10 3 (0.29%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.20%) EMC
12 1 (0.098%) Siemens
12 1 (0.098%) Sitecore