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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,338 892 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.42% 9.46% 10.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 10.45% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 481 1,318
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +17.19% -11.72%

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 14,630 8,532 14,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.21% 90.53% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,960 4,226 10,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,803 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,235 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +10 793 £70,000 +3.70% 179
Yorkshire +4 329 £65,000 -5.11% 104
North East +3 216 £70,000 +27.27% 48
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 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
4 4 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.22%) Confluence
6 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.075%) CMS
7 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.22%) Trello
3 2 (0.15%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (18.91%) AWS
2 174 (13.00%) Azure
3 87 (6.50%) SaaS
4 55 (4.11%) Serverless
5 42 (3.14%) GCP
6 34 (2.54%) GitHub
7 26 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
9 21 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (1.05%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (0.97%) Power Platform
14 11 (0.82%) Firebase
15 10 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.52%) Azure AI
16 7 (0.52%) Azure AKS
16 7 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.67%) Wireless
2 3 (0.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.15%) MQTT
3 2 (0.15%) RTP
3 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.15%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.075%) Broadband
4 1 (0.075%) LTE
4 1 (0.075%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 45 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 32 (2.39%) MySQL
5 18 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.60%) Redis
8 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 6 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.45%) Big Data
9 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.37%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.37%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.30%) GIS
11 4 (0.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (2.62%) Git
2 21 (1.57%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.82%) JIRA
5 9 (0.67%) GitLab
6 5 (0.37%) JUnit
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Spock
8 3 (0.22%) Maven
8 3 (0.22%) NUnit
9 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.15%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.15%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.15%) MLflow
9 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.15%) Vite
10 1 (0.075%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.075%) GDB
10 1 (0.075%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.075%) Postman
General
1 135 (10.09%) Finance
2 93 (6.95%) Social Skills
3 61 (4.56%) Public Sector
4 53 (3.96%) Electronics
5 29 (2.17%) Retail
6 28 (2.09%) Manufacturing
7 23 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.42%) Automotive
9 18 (1.35%) Legal
10 14 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.82%) Law
12 7 (0.52%) Agriculture
12 7 (0.52%) Games
12 7 (0.52%) Marketing
13 6 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.45%) Aviation
13 6 (0.45%) Billing
14 5 (0.37%) Banking
14 5 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 913 (68.24%) Software Engineer
2 322 (24.07%) Senior
3 242 (18.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 175 (13.08%) Developer
5 169 (12.63%) Lead
6 102 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
7 80 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 73 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
9 69 (5.16%) Embedded Engineer
9 69 (5.16%) Software Developer
10 66 (4.93%) Principal Software Engineer
11 63 (4.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 61 (4.56%) C# Software Engineer
12 61 (4.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 55 (4.11%) Software Manager
14 51 (3.81%) Java Engineer
15 49 (3.66%) Senior Developer
16 46 (3.44%) .NET Developer
16 46 (3.44%) Engineering Manager
16 46 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.45%) .NET
2 136 (10.16%) React
3 103 (7.70%) Node.js
4 54 (4.04%) RESTful
5 47 (3.51%) Vue
6 43 (3.21%) REST
7 42 (3.14%) AngularJS
8 40 (2.99%) Next.js
9 39 (2.91%) .NET Core
10 36 (2.69%) Spring
11 31 (2.32%) CSS
12 30 (2.24%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.57%) React Native
14 20 (1.49%) HTML
15 18 (1.35%) LangChain
16 15 (1.12%) Ruby on Rails
17 14 (1.05%) .NET Framework
17 14 (1.05%) GraphQL
18 13 (0.97%) FastAPI
19 10 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.47%) AI Agents
6 31 (2.32%) Hedge funds
7 28 (2.09%) IoT
8 25 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
11 17 (1.27%) Robotics
12 12 (0.90%) Life Science
13 9 (0.67%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.67%) Industry 4.0
13 9 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.60%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.60%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.52%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.52%) Private Cloud
16 6 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.66%) Linux
2 11 (0.82%) Android
3 10 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.30%) Windows
5 3 (0.22%) CentOS
5 3 (0.22%) Debian
5 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 202 (15.10%) Agile
3 198 (14.80%) AI
4 189 (14.13%) CI/CD
5 166 (12.41%) DevOps
6 152 (11.36%) Mentoring
7 127 (9.49%) Microservices
8 115 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (6.05%) Test Automation
11 73 (5.46%) Coaching
12 72 (5.38%) TDD
13 68 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (4.93%) Fintech
15 63 (4.71%) Collaborative Culture
16 62 (4.63%) Computer Science
17 61 (4.56%) Containerisation
17 61 (4.56%) SDLC
18 59 (4.41%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (4.26%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 203 (15.17%) C#
2 189 (14.13%) Python
3 178 (13.30%) Java
4 153 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 151 (11.29%) JavaScript
6 144 (10.76%) SQL
7 71 (5.31%) C++
8 29 (2.17%) C
8 29 (2.17%) Go
8 29 (2.17%) Rust
9 19 (1.42%) PHP
10 15 (1.12%) Ruby
11 13 (0.97%) Bash
11 13 (0.97%) COBOL
12 9 (0.67%) Groovy
12 9 (0.67%) Scala
13 7 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.45%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.30%) Bicep
15 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (6.05%) Security Cleared
2 60 (4.48%) Degree
3 56 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 48 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.22%) PMP
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.47%) QA
2 16 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.45%) GDPR
3 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.22%) NCSC
5 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.075%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (5.23%) Docker
2 40 (2.99%) Firmware
3 20 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 58 (4.33%) Terraform
3 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 9 (0.67%) Ansible
5 5 (0.37%) Grafana
5 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.22%) Puppet
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 1 (0.075%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (1.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.82%) Databricks
2 11 (0.82%) Google
2 11 (0.82%) Rockwell
3 10 (0.75%) Splunk
4 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
5 7 (0.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (0.52%) Siemens
6 5 (0.37%) Foundry
6 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.30%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.30%) Cisco
8 3 (0.22%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.22%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.22%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.075%) Brio
9 1 (0.075%) UiPath