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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 33 11
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,581 718 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.63% 7.68% 10.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.37% 8.78% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,335 328 820
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,775 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -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 16,873 8,174 10,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.74% 87.41% 78.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 4,065 5,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +15 921 £70,000 - 568
Yorkshire +18 359 £65,000 -5.11% 239
North East +24 301 £75,000 +25.00% 116
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 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
2 10 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.44%) Apache
4 5 (0.32%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
6 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.13%) WinCC
8 1 (0.063%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.063%) Kentico
8 1 (0.063%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Trello
2 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
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 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 291 (18.41%) AWS
2 176 (11.13%) Azure
3 95 (6.01%) SaaS
4 61 (3.86%) GCP
5 60 (3.80%) Serverless
6 51 (3.23%) GitHub
7 34 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.45%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
13 20 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.08%) Datadog
15 15 (0.95%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (0.82%) Firebase
17 13 (0.82%) Route 53
18 12 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
19 11 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.76%) Wireless
2 8 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.44%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) 5G
4 3 (0.19%) AMQP
4 3 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.13%) HTTP
5 2 (0.13%) MQTT
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.063%) DNS
6 1 (0.063%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (2.34%) NoSQL
3 32 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 30 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 25 (1.58%) MySQL
6 22 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.63%) Redis
8 9 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) Power BI
11 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.32%) Chroma
12 5 (0.32%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.25%) Flink
13 4 (0.25%) Metadata
13 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 63 (3.98%) Git
2 22 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.20%) Claude Code
4 18 (1.14%) GitLab
5 12 (0.76%) JIRA
5 12 (0.76%) JUnit
6 11 (0.70%) Maven
7 9 (0.57%) Spock
8 8 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
11 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.13%) MLflow
11 2 (0.13%) Mocha
11 2 (0.13%) NUnit
11 2 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 145 (9.17%) Finance
2 144 (9.11%) Social Skills
3 72 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.73%) Electronics
5 51 (3.23%) Retail
6 37 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 35 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (1.96%) Legal
9 21 (1.33%) Law
10 20 (1.27%) Aviation
10 20 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.20%) Automotive
12 12 (0.76%) Publishing
13 11 (0.70%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.70%) Games
14 10 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.51%) Banking
15 8 (0.51%) Billing
16 7 (0.44%) Marketing
16 7 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,041 (65.84%) Software Engineer
2 438 (27.70%) Senior
3 319 (20.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 170 (10.75%) Lead
5 161 (10.18%) Developer
6 109 (6.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 89 (5.63%) Embedded Engineer
8 87 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
9 79 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 78 (4.93%) Principal Software Engineer
10 78 (4.93%) Software Manager
11 75 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 69 (4.36%) C# Software Engineer
13 61 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
14 55 (3.48%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 54 (3.42%) Python Engineer
15 54 (3.42%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 50 (3.16%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (10.37%) .NET
2 144 (9.11%) React
3 92 (5.82%) Node.js
4 67 (4.24%) Terraform
5 56 (3.54%) REST
6 55 (3.48%) Spring
7 46 (2.91%) AngularJS
8 41 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 39 (2.47%) Next.js
10 38 (2.40%) CSS
10 38 (2.40%) Spring Boot
10 38 (2.40%) Vue
11 36 (2.28%) RESTful
12 26 (1.64%) React Native
13 20 (1.27%) HTML
13 20 (1.27%) Kafka
14 17 (1.08%) LangChain
15 15 (0.95%) GraphQL
15 15 (0.95%) Ruby on Rails
15 15 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 77 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 42 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.77%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.58%) Hedge funds
8 23 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
9 22 (1.39%) IoT
10 20 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (0.89%) Robotics
12 12 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (0.70%) Life Science
14 9 (0.57%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.57%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 8 (0.51%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.51%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.44%) Media Streaming
16 7 (0.44%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.82%) Linux
2 15 (0.95%) Windows
3 9 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.32%) Android
4 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.19%) CentOS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.063%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (16.26%) AI
2 245 (15.50%) Agile
3 237 (14.99%) CI/CD
4 203 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 192 (12.14%) Mentoring
6 189 (11.95%) DevOps
7 150 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (7.91%) Microservices
10 99 (6.26%) Technical Leadership
10 99 (6.26%) Test Automation
11 82 (5.19%) Collaborative Culture
11 82 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 81 (5.12%) Observability
13 80 (5.06%) Coaching
14 78 (4.93%) Code Quality
14 78 (4.93%) Computer Science
14 78 (4.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 77 (4.87%) Containerisation
16 72 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 232 (14.67%) Python
2 219 (13.85%) C#
3 198 (12.52%) Java
4 178 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 150 (9.49%) SQL
6 144 (9.11%) JavaScript
7 78 (4.93%) C++
8 37 (2.34%) Go
9 34 (2.15%) C
10 31 (1.96%) Rust
11 19 (1.20%) PHP
11 19 (1.20%) Ruby
12 18 (1.14%) Bash
13 17 (1.08%) Groovy
14 13 (0.82%) Scala
15 11 (0.70%) COBOL
16 8 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.38%) Delphi
18 5 (0.32%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 126 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 92 (5.82%) SC Cleared
3 75 (4.74%) Degree
4 48 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.32%) PhD
7 5 (0.32%) PMP
8 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.063%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.063%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.16%) QA
2 29 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.51%) WCAG
5 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.38%) GDPR
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.19%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.19%) NCSC
8 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 99 (6.26%) Docker
2 49 (3.10%) Firmware
3 22 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.08%) Progress Chef
3 13 (0.82%) Ansible
4 8 (0.51%) Grafana
5 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.13%) Argo
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.13%) Podman
9 1 (0.063%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.063%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.063%) Kibana
9 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (2.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.27%) Splunk
3 19 (1.20%) Google
4 14 (0.89%) Databricks
5 10 (0.63%) OpenAI
5 10 (0.63%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.57%) AppDynamics
7 8 (0.51%) Siemens
8 6 (0.38%) Foundry
9 5 (0.32%) New Relic
9 5 (0.32%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.32%) YouTube
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe
10 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
10 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.25%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.19%) IBM
11 3 (0.19%) Sage
11 3 (0.19%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.13%) MEDITECH