Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,692 1,139 2,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.38% 8.78% 13.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.09% 9.11% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 646 1,376
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Process and 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 12,923 12,508 18,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 79.28% 96.36% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,866 7,319 11,204
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,238 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +17 1,033 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +10 522 £55,000 -8.33% 29
North East +9 137 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 66 (3.90%) ArcGIS
2 56 (3.31%) GeoServer
3 25 (1.48%) Apache
4 23 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.53%) NServiceBus
5 9 (0.53%) Tuxedo
6 8 (0.47%) Confluence
7 6 (0.35%) nginx
7 6 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.24%) IIS
9 3 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.059%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.41%) Simulink
2 6 (0.35%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.059%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 387 (22.87%) AWS
2 350 (20.69%) Azure
3 86 (5.08%) GCP
4 76 (4.49%) Amazon Kinesis
5 58 (3.43%) GitHub
6 57 (3.37%) Serverless
7 56 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.78%) SaaS
9 42 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (1.71%) Power Platform
13 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (0.65%) OpenShift
19 10 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
19 10 (0.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.54%) MQTT
2 19 (1.12%) Wireless
3 17 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (0.95%) RS-485
5 15 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.77%) 3G
6 13 (0.77%) 4G
7 12 (0.71%) RS-232
8 11 (0.65%) AMQP
9 8 (0.47%) Network Security
10 7 (0.41%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.41%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.35%) HTTP
12 4 (0.24%) SAN
12 4 (0.24%) ZigBee
13 3 (0.18%) Internet
14 2 (0.12%) DSL
14 2 (0.12%) VoIP
15 1 (0.059%) Firewall
15 1 (0.059%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (7.51%) MySQL
3 97 (5.73%) NoSQL
4 70 (4.14%) DynamoDB
5 66 (3.90%) GIS
6 65 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 56 (3.31%) QGIS
8 50 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (2.48%) Redis
10 39 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 35 (2.07%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
13 28 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.42%) Big Data
15 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.00%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.95%) Power BI
18 15 (0.89%) Hadoop
19 13 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
20 12 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 121 (7.15%) Git
2 30 (1.77%) Gatling
3 28 (1.65%) CircleCI
4 26 (1.54%) GitLab
4 26 (1.54%) JIRA
5 21 (1.24%) LabVIEW
5 21 (1.24%) Postman
6 18 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.77%) Subversion
9 12 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.71%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.65%) JUnit
11 10 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.41%) Maven
13 6 (0.35%) PHPUnit
14 5 (0.30%) GCC
14 5 (0.30%) GDB
14 5 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 236 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 161 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 97 (5.73%) Finance
4 84 (4.96%) Manufacturing
5 70 (4.14%) Electronics
6 66 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 43 (2.54%) Retail
8 40 (2.36%) Automotive
9 34 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
11 31 (1.83%) Tech for Good
12 24 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.42%) Legal
13 20 (1.18%) Banking
14 19 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
15 18 (1.06%) Games
15 18 (1.06%) Law
16 17 (1.00%) Billing
17 15 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,016 (60.05%) Software Engineer
2 413 (24.41%) Senior
3 302 (17.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 260 (15.37%) Developer
5 256 (15.13%) Lead
6 206 (12.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 202 (11.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 146 (8.63%) Lead Software Engineer
9 105 (6.21%) Architect
10 79 (4.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 79 (4.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 77 (4.55%) Software Architect
11 77 (4.55%) Software Developer
12 71 (4.20%) Programmer
12 71 (4.20%) Software Programmer
13 59 (3.49%) Technical Leader
14 54 (3.19%) C++ Software Engineer
15 53 (3.13%) Senior Developer
16 52 (3.07%) .NET Software Engineer
17 43 (2.54%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (20.39%) .NET
2 245 (14.48%) React
3 174 (10.28%) CSS
4 152 (8.98%) .NET Core
5 127 (7.51%) AngularJS
6 125 (7.39%) Node.js
7 114 (6.74%) HTML
8 112 (6.62%) REST
9 98 (5.79%) RESTful
10 78 (4.61%) Spring
11 73 (4.31%) Web Services
12 68 (4.02%) GraphQL
13 66 (3.90%) Vue
14 65 (3.84%) ASP.NET
15 64 (3.78%) PostGIS
16 60 (3.55%) Leaflet
16 60 (3.55%) OpenLayers
17 56 (3.31%) Spring Boot
18 43 (2.54%) http4s
18 43 (2.54%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 223 (13.18%) Cyberattack
2 82 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 62 (3.66%) Media Streaming
5 51 (3.01%) Blog
6 49 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 35 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
10 33 (1.95%) IoT
11 32 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.77%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.71%) NHS
16 11 (0.65%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.59%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.59%) Robotics
18 8 (0.47%) SCADA
19 7 (0.41%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 132 (7.80%) Linux
2 47 (2.78%) Windows
3 34 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.30%) Android
6 14 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (0.65%) CentOS
8 11 (0.65%) Debian
9 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.12%) Unix
12 1 (0.059%) HPUX
12 1 (0.059%) Solaris
12 1 (0.059%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (40.90%) Agile
2 424 (25.06%) Mentoring
3 370 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
4 340 (20.09%) DevOps
5 263 (15.54%) User Experience
6 250 (14.78%) Machine Learning
7 236 (13.95%) Data Engineering
8 235 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 220 (13.00%) Creative Thinking
10 157 (9.28%) CI/CD
11 154 (9.10%) Full Stack Development
12 149 (8.81%) Computer Science
13 148 (8.75%) Microservices
14 144 (8.51%) TDD
15 126 (7.45%) Open Source
16 123 (7.27%) Coaching
17 94 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
18 91 (5.38%) Web Development
19 90 (5.32%) Roadmaps
20 88 (5.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 352 (20.80%) C#
2 299 (17.67%) JavaScript
3 252 (14.89%) Python
4 242 (14.30%) SQL
5 202 (11.94%) Java
6 166 (9.81%) C++
7 137 (8.10%) TypeScript
8 131 (7.74%) C
9 65 (3.84%) Scala
10 62 (3.66%) PHP
11 35 (2.07%) COBOL
12 34 (2.01%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 30 (1.77%) Go
14 22 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.06%) Embedded C
16 11 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.53%) Embedded C++
18 8 (0.47%) Bash
19 7 (0.41%) MATLAB
20 6 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 206 (12.17%) Degree
2 133 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 115 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.65%) HND
8 9 (0.53%) PhD
9 8 (0.47%) HNC
10 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.18%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.18%) CIPD
13 3 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.12%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.059%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.059%) MBA
15 1 (0.059%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.30%) QA
2 15 (0.89%) GDPR
3 14 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.41%) ISO 9000
5 4 (0.24%) PMO
6 2 (0.12%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.059%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.059%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (5.20%) Docker
2 34 (2.01%) Firmware
3 18 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.53%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.41%) IAG
Systems Management
1 126 (7.45%) Terraform
2 102 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.12%) Ansible
4 12 (0.71%) Puppet
5 7 (0.41%) Grafana
6 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.059%) Istio
8 1 (0.059%) Kiali
8 1 (0.059%) Kibana
8 1 (0.059%) Podman
8 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 64 (3.78%) ESRI
3 44 (2.60%) Google
4 34 (2.01%) Micro Focus
5 16 (0.95%) Oracle
6 14 (0.83%) Red Hat
7 11 (0.65%) SaltStack
8 10 (0.59%) Databricks
9 7 (0.41%) EMC
9 7 (0.41%) SAP
10 6 (0.35%) Allen-Bradley
10 6 (0.35%) Autodesk
11 5 (0.30%) F5
12 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.24%) Cadence
13 3 (0.18%) Epicor
13 3 (0.18%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.18%) Splunk
13 3 (0.18%) Synopsys
13 3 (0.18%) Xamarin