Software Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,143 863 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.69% 10.86% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 11.50% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 983 480 1,301
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,641 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -6.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -16.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,183 7,506 14,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.58% 94.45% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,629 3,555 11,493
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -12.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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 -2 673 £67,500 - 258
Yorkshire +3 326 £65,000 -4.76% 73
North East -2 144 £67,500 +22.73% 61
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.35%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.35%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.26%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.087%) CMS
6 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Magento
2 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (20.65%) AWS
2 156 (13.65%) Azure
3 89 (7.79%) SaaS
4 49 (4.29%) Serverless
5 33 (2.89%) GCP
6 28 (2.45%) GitHub
7 20 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (1.57%) Anthropic Claude
9 18 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (0.87%) Azure AKS
14 8 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (0.52%) Figma
16 4 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
16 4 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.44%) Wireless
2 3 (0.26%) AMQP
3 2 (0.17%) RTP
4 1 (0.087%) Broadband
4 1 (0.087%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 34 (2.97%) MongoDB
3 31 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.92%) MySQL
5 12 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.79%) DynamoDB
7 8 (0.70%) Big Data
7 8 (0.70%) Neo4j
8 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.44%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.44%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.35%) GIS
11 4 (0.35%) QGIS
11 4 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (2.01%) Git
2 21 (1.84%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.61%) JIRA
5 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.26%) NUnit
6 2 (0.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.17%) Maven
6 2 (0.17%) MLflow
6 2 (0.17%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.087%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.087%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.087%) JUnit
7 1 (0.087%) Postman
7 1 (0.087%) Selenium
7 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.087%) WinDbg
General
1 105 (9.19%) Finance
2 69 (6.04%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.72%) Public Sector
4 35 (3.06%) Electronics
4 35 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 24 (2.10%) Retail
7 21 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (1.75%) Automotive
9 12 (1.05%) Legal
10 7 (0.61%) Agriculture
11 6 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.52%) Aviation
12 5 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.44%) Law
12 5 (0.44%) Marketing
13 4 (0.35%) Banking
13 4 (0.35%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 775 (67.80%) Software Engineer
2 253 (22.13%) Senior
3 189 (16.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 159 (13.91%) Lead
5 153 (13.39%) Developer
6 98 (8.57%) Lead Software Engineer
7 65 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 64 (5.60%) Software Developer
9 58 (5.07%) Embedded Engineer
10 56 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
11 55 (4.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 54 (4.72%) Principal Software Engineer
13 53 (4.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 50 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
15 48 (4.20%) Java Engineer
16 46 (4.02%) Senior Developer
17 42 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
18 39 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (3.41%) Software Manager
19 37 (3.24%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (14.17%) .NET
2 120 (10.50%) React
3 93 (8.14%) Node.js
4 53 (4.64%) RESTful
5 46 (4.02%) REST
6 40 (3.50%) Vue
7 34 (2.97%) AngularJS
8 31 (2.71%) CSS
9 30 (2.62%) Spring
10 29 (2.54%) .NET Core
11 28 (2.45%) Spring Boot
12 23 (2.01%) Next.js
13 21 (1.84%) HTML
14 14 (1.22%) GraphQL
15 13 (1.14%) .NET Framework
15 13 (1.14%) LangChain
15 13 (1.14%) React Native
16 11 (0.96%) Flask
16 11 (0.96%) Ruby on Rails
17 9 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.15%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.19%) Hedge funds
5 24 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.01%) IoT
7 19 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.05%) Life Science
11 10 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
11 10 (0.87%) Robotics
12 9 (0.79%) Industry 4.0
12 9 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.61%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.45%) Linux
2 10 (0.87%) Android
3 8 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.35%) Windows
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (16.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 180 (15.75%) Agile
3 150 (13.12%) CI/CD
4 144 (12.60%) Mentoring
5 143 (12.51%) AI
6 137 (11.99%) DevOps
7 115 (10.06%) Microservices
8 94 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (7.26%) Coaching
10 81 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (5.77%) TDD
12 59 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
12 59 (5.16%) Test Automation
13 56 (4.90%) Open Source
14 54 (4.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 53 (4.64%) Fintech
16 52 (4.55%) SDLC
17 49 (4.29%) Containerisation
17 49 (4.29%) Scrum
18 46 (4.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 167 (14.61%) C#
1 167 (14.61%) Python
2 165 (14.44%) Java
3 132 (11.55%) JavaScript
4 117 (10.24%) TypeScript
5 115 (10.06%) SQL
6 41 (3.59%) C++
7 21 (1.84%) C
8 19 (1.66%) PHP
9 16 (1.40%) Go
10 13 (1.14%) COBOL
11 11 (0.96%) Ruby
11 11 (0.96%) Rust
12 7 (0.61%) Groovy
13 6 (0.52%) Bash
13 6 (0.52%) Scala
14 4 (0.35%) Bicep
14 4 (0.35%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (5.42%) Security Cleared
2 46 (4.02%) SC Cleared
3 43 (3.76%) DV Cleared
4 40 (3.50%) Degree
5 26 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.087%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.92%) QA
2 16 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.52%) GDPR
4 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.26%) NCSC
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (4.55%) Docker
2 40 (3.50%) Firmware
3 14 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (4.72%) Terraform
2 46 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.52%) Ansible
5 4 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.26%) Puppet
7 2 (0.17%) Packer
8 1 (0.087%) Argo
Vendors
1 43 (3.76%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.89%) Salesforce
3 28 (2.45%) Cisco
4 11 (0.96%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.87%) Adobe
6 8 (0.70%) Google
7 6 (0.52%) Databricks
7 6 (0.52%) Siemens
8 5 (0.44%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.35%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.26%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.26%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.26%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.26%) Splunk
11 2 (0.17%) BiZZdesign