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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 30 81
Rank change year-on-year -20 +51 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 594 987 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.14% 5.63% 4.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.59% 5.94% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 276 724 360
10th Percentile £41,875 £36,534 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,751 £69,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £80,000 £83,781
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 10,635 16,623 15,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.90% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,791 12,864 8,217
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,945 £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 £63,576 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 13 May 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 13 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 -19 461 £65,000 +13.04% 265
Yorkshire -39 86 £59,738 +19.48% 105
North East +12 47 £55,000 - 74
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 594 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 433 (72.90%) Agile
3 410 (69.02%) Java
4 402 (67.68%) AWS
5 388 (65.32%) JavaScript
6 363 (61.11%) Azure
7 335 (56.40%) Microservices
8 316 (53.20%) Mentoring
9 287 (48.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 263 (44.28%) GCP
11 262 (44.11%) .NET
12 258 (43.43%) User Experience
13 234 (39.39%) Node.js
14 230 (38.72%) Python
15 208 (35.02%) Linux
16 206 (34.68%) Finance
17 203 (34.18%) C++
18 199 (33.50%) Scrum
19 196 (33.00%) React
20 193 (32.49%) CI/CD
21 187 (31.48%) Machine Learning
22 186 (31.31%) Rust
22 186 (31.31%) Security Cleared
23 185 (31.14%) Go
24 183 (30.81%) Cloud Security
25 182 (30.64%) SQL
26 179 (30.13%) Kubernetes
27 177 (29.80%) DevOps
28 175 (29.46%) Data Engineering
28 175 (29.46%) Docker

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 57 (9.60%) Confluence
2 4 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 402 (67.68%) AWS
2 363 (61.11%) Azure
3 263 (44.28%) GCP
4 21 (3.54%) SaaS
5 20 (3.37%) GitHub
6 13 (2.19%) Serverless
7 10 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.18%) Apigee
9 7 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.67%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.51%) AWS IoT
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.51%) Cloud Composer
13 2 (0.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.36%) Wireless
2 5 (0.84%) Bluetooth
2 5 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (0.51%) Internet
5 2 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.17%) Modbus
6 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.17%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.37%) MySQL
3 17 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 16 (2.69%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.68%) Cloud Spanner
6 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.84%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.67%) Big Data
7 4 (0.67%) Biml
7 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.67%) Power BI
7 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.51%) SQLite
8 3 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
9 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 148 (24.92%) JIRA
2 129 (21.72%) SonarQube
3 128 (21.55%) Bitbucket
4 120 (20.20%) Maven
4 120 (20.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 119 (20.03%) GitLab
6 114 (19.19%) Cucumber
6 114 (19.19%) Selenium
7 57 (9.60%) Git
8 18 (3.03%) Jenkins
9 15 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 15 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (1.68%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.52%) JUnit
12 6 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.84%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.67%) Eclipse RCP
15 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 2 (0.34%) Storybook
15 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (48.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 206 (34.68%) Finance
3 169 (28.45%) Banking
4 89 (14.98%) Retail
5 72 (12.12%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (12.12%) Investment Banking
6 66 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 27 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.69%) Electronics
9 15 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.19%) Games
11 11 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.52%) Automotive
12 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.84%) Military
14 4 (0.67%) Law
15 3 (0.51%) Online Betting
15 3 (0.51%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.34%) Marketing
16 2 (0.34%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (44.11%) .NET
2 234 (39.39%) Node.js
3 196 (33.00%) React
4 145 (24.41%) HTML
5 144 (24.24%) CSS
6 143 (24.07%) Spring
7 142 (23.91%) Spring Boot
8 128 (21.55%) Kafka
9 115 (19.36%) Redux
10 112 (18.86%) JPA
11 107 (18.01%) RESTful
12 89 (14.98%) REST
13 75 (12.63%) Jest
14 74 (12.46%) HTML5
15 73 (12.29%) CSS3
16 72 (12.12%) Sass
17 47 (7.91%) Hibernate
18 35 (5.89%) AngularJS
19 26 (4.38%) .NET Core
20 15 (2.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 173 (29.12%) Cyberattack
2 172 (28.96%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (28.96%) Self-Motivation
3 139 (23.40%) Product Ownership
4 117 (19.70%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.54%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
7 17 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.36%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.02%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.52%) IoT
12 8 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.01%) Device Driver
15 5 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
16 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
16 4 (0.67%) EMV
16 4 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 208 (35.02%) Linux
2 10 (1.68%) Android
3 9 (1.52%) Windows
4 7 (1.18%) Unix
5 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 433 (72.90%) Agile
3 335 (56.40%) Microservices
4 316 (53.20%) Mentoring
5 258 (43.43%) User Experience
6 199 (33.50%) Scrum
7 193 (32.49%) CI/CD
8 187 (31.48%) Machine Learning
9 183 (30.81%) Cloud Security
10 177 (29.80%) DevOps
11 175 (29.46%) Data Engineering
12 174 (29.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 161 (27.10%) Test Automation
14 147 (24.75%) SDLC
15 136 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
16 130 (21.89%) Containerisation
17 121 (20.37%) Performance Optimisation
18 118 (19.87%) Front End Development
19 98 (16.50%) TDD
20 75 (12.63%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 410 (69.02%) Java
2 388 (65.32%) JavaScript
3 230 (38.72%) Python
4 203 (34.18%) C++
5 186 (31.31%) Rust
6 185 (31.14%) Go
7 182 (30.64%) SQL
8 151 (25.42%) TypeScript
9 112 (18.86%) C#
10 43 (7.24%) C
11 23 (3.87%) PHP
12 19 (3.20%) Ada
13 15 (2.53%) VB
14 6 (1.01%) Embedded C
14 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.34%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.34%) Perl
17 2 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 186 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 173 (29.12%) AWS Certification
2 173 (29.12%) DV Cleared
3 172 (28.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (28.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 59 (9.93%) Degree
5 22 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) HND
9 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (21.04%) QA
2 82 (13.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.17%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
6 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 175 (29.46%) Docker
2 7 (1.18%) Firmware
3 5 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 179 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.72%) Terraform
3 7 (1.18%) Istio
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (18.86%) Solace
2 25 (4.21%) Google
3 17 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.02%) Oracle
5 8 (1.35%) Ping Identity
6 5 (0.84%) Xilinx
7 4 (0.67%) Adobe
8 3 (0.51%) EMC
8 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.34%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.34%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.17%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.17%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.17%) CyberSource
10 1 (0.17%) F5
10 1 (0.17%) New Relic
10 1 (0.17%) Renesas
10 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.17%) Workday