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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 27 98
Rank change year-on-year -34 +71 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 548 1,268 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.53% 6.16% 3.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.14% 6.48% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 217 867 306
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,120 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £92,000 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +7.69%

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 10,664 19,555 13,701
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.12% 95.07% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,547 14,671 7,859
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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 -27 438 £75,000 +30.43% 573
Yorkshire -74 70 £68,500 +37.00% 299
North East +1 40 £55,000 - 76
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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.

1 548 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 407 (74.27%) Agile
3 403 (73.54%) AWS
4 401 (73.18%) Java
5 369 (67.34%) JavaScript
6 355 (64.78%) Azure
7 339 (61.86%) Microservices
8 307 (56.02%) Mentoring
9 284 (51.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 262 (47.81%) User Experience
11 256 (46.72%) GCP
12 240 (43.80%) .NET
13 227 (41.42%) Node.js
14 225 (41.06%) Python
15 204 (37.23%) Finance
16 200 (36.50%) CI/CD
17 193 (35.22%) Scrum
18 191 (34.85%) Linux
18 191 (34.85%) C++
19 188 (34.31%) React
20 187 (34.12%) Go
20 187 (34.12%) Machine Learning
21 185 (33.76%) Security Cleared
22 183 (33.39%) Rust
22 183 (33.39%) Cloud Security
23 182 (33.21%) Kubernetes
24 181 (33.03%) DevOps
25 179 (32.66%) Docker
26 176 (32.12%) DV Cleared
27 175 (31.93%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 60 (10.95%) Confluence
2 4 (0.73%) Apache
3 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 403 (73.54%) AWS
2 355 (64.78%) Azure
3 256 (46.72%) GCP
4 24 (4.38%) GitHub
5 21 (3.83%) SaaS
6 14 (2.55%) Serverless
7 10 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.91%) Apigee
11 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.55%) AWS IoT
13 3 (0.55%) Cloud Composer
14 2 (0.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.64%) Wireless
2 5 (0.91%) Internet
3 4 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
3 4 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.18%) Modbus
5 1 (0.18%) Profibus
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (23.36%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.55%) MySQL
5 10 (1.82%) Cloud Spanner
6 9 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.73%) Big Data
8 4 (0.73%) Biml
8 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.73%) Power BI
8 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.55%) TimescaleDB
10 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (24.82%) JIRA
2 126 (22.99%) SonarQube
3 122 (22.26%) GitLab
4 118 (21.53%) Selenium
5 117 (21.35%) Cucumber
5 117 (21.35%) Maven
5 117 (21.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 113 (20.62%) Bitbucket
7 44 (8.03%) Git
8 13 (2.37%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.28%) JUnit
10 6 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.91%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.73%) Eclipse RCP
13 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.36%) webpack
15 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 284 (51.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 204 (37.23%) Finance
3 164 (29.93%) Banking
4 88 (16.06%) Retail
5 72 (13.14%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (13.14%) Investment Banking
6 58 (10.58%) Social Skills
7 22 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.46%) Games
10 7 (1.28%) Electronics
10 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.09%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.73%) Law
13 4 (0.73%) Marketing
14 3 (0.55%) Online Betting
14 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (43.80%) .NET
2 227 (41.42%) Node.js
3 188 (34.31%) React
4 151 (27.55%) Spring
5 149 (27.19%) Spring Boot
6 139 (25.36%) CSS
7 137 (25.00%) HTML
8 133 (24.27%) Kafka
9 115 (20.99%) Redux
10 112 (20.44%) JPA
11 107 (19.53%) RESTful
12 87 (15.88%) REST
13 76 (13.87%) Jest
14 75 (13.69%) CSS3
15 74 (13.50%) HTML5
16 72 (13.14%) Sass
17 45 (8.21%) Hibernate
18 31 (5.66%) AngularJS
19 22 (4.01%) .NET Core
20 11 (2.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (31.57%) Cyberattack
2 172 (31.39%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (31.39%) Self-Motivation
3 142 (25.91%) Product Ownership
4 115 (20.99%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.92%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.19%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.28%) Wiki
12 6 (1.09%) IoT
13 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.73%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.73%) EMV
14 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 191 (34.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.91%) Unix
2 5 (0.91%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 407 (74.27%) Agile
3 339 (61.86%) Microservices
4 307 (56.02%) Mentoring
5 262 (47.81%) User Experience
6 200 (36.50%) CI/CD
7 193 (35.22%) Scrum
8 187 (34.12%) Machine Learning
9 183 (33.39%) Cloud Security
10 181 (33.03%) DevOps
11 175 (31.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 174 (31.75%) Data Engineering
13 158 (28.83%) Test Automation
14 143 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
15 138 (25.18%) Containerisation
15 138 (25.18%) SDLC
16 121 (22.08%) Performance Optimisation
17 117 (21.35%) Front End Development
18 85 (15.51%) TDD
19 75 (13.69%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 401 (73.18%) Java
2 369 (67.34%) JavaScript
3 225 (41.06%) Python
4 191 (34.85%) C++
5 187 (34.12%) Go
6 183 (33.39%) Rust
7 172 (31.39%) SQL
8 155 (28.28%) TypeScript
9 74 (13.50%) C#
10 18 (3.28%) C
11 14 (2.55%) PHP
12 6 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.73%) Ada
13 4 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.55%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.18%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.18%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.18%) Lisp
15 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 185 (33.76%) Security Cleared
2 176 (32.12%) DV Cleared
3 172 (31.39%) AWS Certification
3 172 (31.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (31.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 34 (6.20%) Degree
5 16 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (21.72%) QA
2 82 (14.96%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.36%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 179 (32.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 182 (33.21%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.84%) Terraform
3 5 (0.91%) Istio
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (20.44%) Solace
2 23 (4.20%) Google
3 9 (1.64%) Oracle
4 8 (1.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.46%) Ping Identity
5 4 (0.73%) Adobe
5 4 (0.73%) Xilinx
6 2 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.36%) SAP
6 2 (0.36%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.18%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.18%) New Relic
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.18%) Renesas
7 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.18%) Siemens
7 1 (0.18%) Workday