Software Engineering Manager Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering Manager
England > North of England

The median Software Engineering Manager salary in the North of England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 364 421
Rank change year-on-year +62 +57 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 23 31 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.18% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.19% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 8
10th Percentile £79,500 £67,500 £59,750
25th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +5.08%
75th Percentile £140,677 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £87,500 £97,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% -14.29%

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 10,310 16,534 15,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.96% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 12,788 8,257
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 Engineering Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering Manager in the North of England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering Manager in the North of England

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering Manager in the North of England

Software Engineering Manager
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 Engineering Manager within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire +66 16 £85,000 +6.25% 1
North West -7 7 £86,250 +4.55% 11
Software Engineering Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Software Engineering Manager 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 Engineering Manager in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) .NET
3 12 (52.17%) Coaching
4 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (47.83%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) C#
4 11 (47.83%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 10 (43.48%) JavaScript
5 10 (43.48%) Azure
6 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (39.13%) React
7 8 (34.78%) .NET Core
7 8 (34.78%) Finance
7 8 (34.78%) Performance Management
7 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
7 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
8 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
8 7 (30.43%) Banking
9 6 (26.09%) zOS
9 6 (26.09%) IBM
9 6 (26.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (26.09%) Risk Management
9 6 (26.09%) ITIL
9 6 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (26.09%) Virtual Team
9 6 (26.09%) Strategic Roadmap
9 6 (26.09%) Batch Scheduling

Software Engineering Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) .NET
2 9 (39.13%) React
3 8 (34.78%) .NET Core
3 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) Coaching
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (47.83%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (34.78%) Performance Management
5 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
5 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (26.09%) Batch Scheduling
6 6 (26.09%) ITIL
6 6 (26.09%) Risk Management
6 6 (26.09%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
7 5 (21.74%) Line Management
7 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
8 4 (17.39%) People Management
8 4 (17.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Facebook