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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,533 822 1,569
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.72% 8.62% 10.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 9.78% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 422 995
10th Percentile £45,600 £31,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +15.38% -10.34%

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 16,052 8,408 11,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.14% 78.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,042 4,299 7,111
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,971
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +13 875 £70,000 +4.42% 355
Yorkshire +9 367 £65,000 - 153
North East +24 291 £75,000 +25.00% 85
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 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.39%) Apache
4 5 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.20%) Confluence
6 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) WinCC
8 1 (0.065%) CMS
8 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.26%) Trello
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 289 (18.85%) AWS
2 194 (12.65%) Azure
3 101 (6.59%) SaaS
4 60 (3.91%) GCP
5 56 (3.65%) Serverless
6 53 (3.46%) GitHub
7 37 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 22 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
12 18 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (0.98%) Datadog
14 14 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.72%) Firebase
16 11 (0.72%) Route 53
17 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
18 9 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.78%) Wireless
2 8 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) AMQP
4 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 2 (0.13%) MQTT
4 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) LTE
5 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 28 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.63%) MySQL
6 22 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.59%) Redis
8 8 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.46%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.46%) Power BI
10 5 (0.33%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.33%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.33%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.26%) Big Data
11 4 (0.26%) Flink
11 4 (0.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (3.98%) Git
2 24 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.37%) Claude Code
4 15 (0.98%) GitLab
4 15 (0.98%) JIRA
5 11 (0.72%) JUnit
6 9 (0.59%) Maven
7 8 (0.52%) Spock
8 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.26%) NUnit
10 4 (0.26%) Storybook
11 3 (0.20%) Selenium
12 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.13%) MLflow
12 2 (0.13%) Mocha
12 2 (0.13%) Mockito
12 2 (0.13%) Vite
13 1 (0.065%) Postman
General
1 139 (9.07%) Finance
2 132 (8.61%) Social Skills
3 74 (4.83%) Public Sector
4 58 (3.78%) Electronics
5 51 (3.33%) Retail
6 34 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 28 (1.83%) Legal
8 26 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (1.44%) Automotive
10 19 (1.24%) Law
11 18 (1.17%) Aviation
12 16 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.72%) Games
15 9 (0.59%) Marketing
16 8 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.46%) Agriculture
17 7 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.39%) Banking
18 6 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,010 (65.88%) Software Engineer
2 396 (25.83%) Senior
3 287 (18.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 172 (11.22%) Lead
5 165 (10.76%) Developer
6 105 (6.85%) Lead Software Engineer
7 86 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
8 77 (5.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 77 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
9 74 (4.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 74 (4.83%) Software Manager
10 70 (4.57%) C# Software Engineer
11 68 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
12 61 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
13 54 (3.52%) Software Developer
14 53 (3.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 52 (3.39%) Python Engineer
16 48 (3.13%) Software Engineering Manager
17 47 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 46 (3.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (11.48%) .NET
2 133 (8.68%) React
3 103 (6.72%) Node.js
4 68 (4.44%) Terraform
5 52 (3.39%) REST
6 50 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 42 (2.74%) RESTful
7 42 (2.74%) Spring
8 41 (2.67%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.67%) CSS
9 40 (2.61%) Next.js
9 40 (2.61%) Vue
10 28 (1.83%) Spring Boot
11 25 (1.63%) React Native
12 23 (1.50%) HTML
13 18 (1.17%) LangChain
14 16 (1.04%) GraphQL
15 15 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
16 14 (0.91%) .NET Framework
16 14 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 29 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.76%) IoT
8 26 (1.70%) Hedge funds
9 24 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
11 18 (1.17%) Robotics
12 13 (0.85%) Life Science
13 12 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (0.65%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.59%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.52%) Management Information System
17 7 (0.46%) Algorithms
17 7 (0.46%) Low-Code
17 7 (0.46%) Onboarding
18 6 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.48%) Linux
2 13 (0.85%) Windows
3 6 (0.39%) Android
3 6 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.20%) Unix
5 3 (0.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.13%) CentOS
6 2 (0.13%) Debian
6 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (15.66%) AI
2 233 (15.20%) Agile
3 231 (15.07%) CI/CD
4 214 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 184 (12.00%) DevOps
6 180 (11.74%) Mentoring
7 131 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (8.15%) Microservices
9 121 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (6.20%) Test Automation
11 93 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
12 86 (5.61%) Collaborative Culture
13 78 (5.09%) Coaching
14 77 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 72 (4.70%) Observability
15 72 (4.70%) SDLC
15 72 (4.70%) TDD
16 71 (4.63%) Computer Science
16 71 (4.63%) Containerisation
16 71 (4.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (15.00%) Python
2 226 (14.74%) C#
3 187 (12.20%) Java
4 167 (10.89%) TypeScript
5 155 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 148 (9.65%) SQL
7 82 (5.35%) C++
8 36 (2.35%) C
9 35 (2.28%) Go
10 31 (2.02%) Rust
11 22 (1.44%) PHP
12 19 (1.24%) Ruby
13 16 (1.04%) Bash
14 15 (0.98%) Groovy
15 13 (0.85%) COBOL
15 13 (0.85%) Scala
16 8 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.39%) Delphi
18 5 (0.33%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 114 (7.44%) Security Cleared
2 80 (5.22%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.63%) Degree
4 50 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.46%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.33%) PMP
9 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.065%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.065%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.26%) QA
2 26 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.52%) GDPR
5 7 (0.46%) WCAG
6 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.20%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (5.87%) Docker
2 48 (3.13%) Firmware
3 22 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 10 (0.65%) Ansible
4 8 (0.52%) Grafana
5 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.13%) Argo
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.065%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.065%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.065%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (2.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.24%) Google
2 19 (1.24%) Splunk
3 15 (0.98%) Databricks
4 11 (0.72%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.65%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.59%) Siemens
7 8 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.39%) Foundry
9 4 (0.26%) Adobe
9 4 (0.26%) New Relic
9 4 (0.26%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.26%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.20%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.20%) Sage
11 2 (0.13%) IBM
11 2 (0.13%) MEDITECH
11 2 (0.13%) OneTrust
11 2 (0.13%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.13%) SaltStack