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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,249 879 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.18% 10.41% 9.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.90% 11.19% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,091 476 1,404
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -16.67%

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 14,027 7,854 15,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.43% 93.02% 79.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 3,734 11,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,963 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 23 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 23 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 +10 745 £70,000 +3.70% 145
Yorkshire +7 327 £65,000 -7.14% 48
North East +1 177 £70,000 +27.27% 52
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 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.080%) CMS
6 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 258 (20.66%) AWS
2 160 (12.81%) Azure
3 92 (7.37%) SaaS
4 52 (4.16%) Serverless
5 39 (3.12%) GCP
6 33 (2.64%) GitHub
7 24 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
8 23 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (0.72%) Firebase
15 8 (0.64%) Azure AKS
15 8 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (0.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (0.48%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.32%) Wireless
2 2 (0.16%) AMQP
2 2 (0.16%) MQTT
2 2 (0.16%) RTP
3 1 (0.080%) Broadband
3 1 (0.080%) LTE
3 1 (0.080%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.24%) NoSQL
2 39 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 25 (2.00%) MySQL
5 13 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.56%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.56%) Redis
8 6 (0.48%) Big Data
9 5 (0.40%) FileMaker
9 5 (0.40%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.32%) Power BI
10 4 (0.32%) QGIS
10 4 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.64%) Git
2 24 (1.92%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.56%) JIRA
5 6 (0.48%) GitLab
6 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.24%) JUnit
7 3 (0.24%) NUnit
8 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.16%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Spock
8 2 (0.16%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.16%) Vite
9 1 (0.080%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.080%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.080%) Mocha
9 1 (0.080%) Postman
9 1 (0.080%) WinDbg
General
1 118 (9.45%) Finance
2 73 (5.84%) Social Skills
3 53 (4.24%) Public Sector
4 41 (3.28%) Electronics
5 29 (2.32%) Manufacturing
6 26 (2.08%) Retail
7 24 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (1.52%) Automotive
10 15 (1.20%) Legal
11 7 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 7 (0.56%) Marketing
12 6 (0.48%) Aviation
13 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.40%) Billing
13 5 (0.40%) Games
13 5 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.40%) Law
14 4 (0.32%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 857 (68.61%) Software Engineer
2 305 (24.42%) Senior
3 236 (18.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 168 (13.45%) Developer
5 156 (12.49%) Lead
6 92 (7.37%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 73 (5.84%) Software Developer
9 69 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
10 63 (5.04%) Principal Software Engineer
11 62 (4.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 61 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
13 58 (4.64%) C# Software Engineer
14 56 (4.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 53 (4.24%) Java Engineer
16 47 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
16 47 (3.76%) Senior Developer
17 46 (3.68%) Software Manager
18 42 (3.36%) .NET Developer
19 41 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.77%) .NET
2 131 (10.49%) React
3 98 (7.85%) Node.js
4 53 (4.24%) RESTful
5 50 (4.00%) REST
6 45 (3.60%) Vue
7 39 (3.12%) AngularJS
8 36 (2.88%) Next.js
9 35 (2.80%) .NET Core
10 34 (2.72%) Spring
11 31 (2.48%) CSS
12 30 (2.40%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.60%) HTML
14 18 (1.44%) LangChain
14 18 (1.44%) React Native
15 14 (1.12%) .NET Framework
15 14 (1.12%) GraphQL
15 14 (1.12%) Ruby on Rails
16 12 (0.96%) FastAPI
17 9 (0.72%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 48 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.16%) Hedge funds
6 27 (2.16%) IoT
7 23 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
10 14 (1.12%) Robotics
11 12 (0.96%) Life Science
12 9 (0.72%) Industry 4.0
12 9 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.64%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.64%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.56%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.56%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.20%) Linux
2 10 (0.80%) Android
3 8 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.32%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) CentOS
5 2 (0.16%) Debian
5 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (14.97%) AI
3 186 (14.89%) Agile
4 172 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 153 (12.25%) DevOps
6 145 (11.61%) Mentoring
7 125 (10.01%) Microservices
8 105 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (6.08%) Coaching
11 69 (5.52%) TDD
12 68 (5.44%) Test Automation
13 65 (5.20%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (4.88%) Fintech
15 56 (4.48%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (4.32%) Containerisation
16 54 (4.32%) Open Source
16 54 (4.32%) SDLC
17 53 (4.24%) Computer Science
18 49 (3.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 188 (15.05%) C#
2 178 (14.25%) Python
3 174 (13.93%) Java
4 142 (11.37%) TypeScript
5 139 (11.13%) JavaScript
6 131 (10.49%) SQL
7 58 (4.64%) C++
8 26 (2.08%) Rust
9 24 (1.92%) Go
10 22 (1.76%) C
11 21 (1.68%) PHP
12 14 (1.12%) Ruby
13 13 (1.04%) COBOL
14 8 (0.64%) Bash
14 8 (0.64%) Groovy
15 7 (0.56%) Scala
16 6 (0.48%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.40%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.32%) Bicep
18 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 51 (4.08%) Degree
3 50 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 42 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.76%) QA
2 16 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.48%) GDPR
3 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.24%) NCSC
6 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.080%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (5.28%) Docker
2 38 (3.04%) Firmware
3 15 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (4.80%) Terraform
2 53 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.80%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.24%) Grafana
5 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.16%) Argo
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (2.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.60%) Salesforce
3 16 (1.28%) Cisco
4 11 (0.88%) Rockwell
5 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.64%) Google
6 8 (0.64%) Splunk
7 7 (0.56%) Adobe
7 7 (0.56%) Databricks
8 6 (0.48%) Siemens
9 5 (0.40%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.24%) DevExpress
11 2 (0.16%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.16%) Foundry
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.16%) SaltStack