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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 800 1,565 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.30% 9.06% 9.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 10.80% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 684 1,228 910
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £79,063 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £84,964 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +3.57%

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 10,358 14,485 16,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.54% 83.83% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,755 11,127 8,023
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -21 500 £57,500 -4.17% 460
Yorkshire -7 227 £67,500 +22.73% 214
North East +6 73 £55,000 - 100
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 20 (2.50%) Confluence
2 8 (1.00%) Apache
3 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.38%) CICS
3 3 (0.38%) CMS
3 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) nginx
5 1 (0.13%) Strapi
5 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 111 (13.88%) Simulink
2 5 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 212 (26.50%) AWS
2 140 (17.50%) Azure
3 90 (11.25%) GCP
4 39 (4.88%) SaaS
5 31 (3.88%) Serverless
6 28 (3.50%) GitHub
7 23 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.50%) Amazon S3
9 12 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
10 11 (1.38%) dbt
10 11 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (1.38%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.88%) Apigee
12 7 (0.88%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.75%) Wireless
2 5 (0.63%) Bluetooth
2 5 (0.63%) Internet
2 5 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) RS-232
5 1 (0.13%) RS-485
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 30 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 28 (3.50%) MySQL
5 14 (1.75%) BigQuery
6 10 (1.25%) Cloud Spanner
6 10 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.13%) Power BI
8 8 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.88%) Big Data
9 7 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.63%) Metadata
11 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 84 (10.50%) Git
2 44 (5.50%) JIRA
3 34 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.13%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 16 (2.00%) GitLab
5 16 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.88%) Maven
7 10 (1.25%) JUnit
7 10 (1.25%) Visual Studio
8 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.63%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
11 4 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.50%) Selenium
11 4 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 203 (25.38%) Finance
2 145 (18.13%) Banking
2 145 (18.13%) Social Skills
3 45 (5.63%) Electronics
4 40 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.50%) Retail
6 22 (2.75%) Games
6 22 (2.75%) Law
7 21 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.50%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 11 (1.38%) Automotive
10 9 (1.13%) Marketing
10 9 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.88%) Legal
11 7 (0.88%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.75%) Online Betting
13 5 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 315 (39.38%) Software Engineer
2 186 (23.25%) Senior
3 135 (16.88%) Systems Engineer
4 129 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 127 (15.88%) Lead
6 85 (10.63%) Developer
7 40 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 40 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 39 (4.88%) Software Developer
9 32 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
10 28 (3.50%) Software Assurance Engineer
10 28 (3.50%) Software Manager
11 26 (3.25%) Java Engineer
12 23 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (2.88%) Software Engineering Manager
13 22 (2.75%) Lead Systems Engineer
14 20 (2.50%) .NET Software Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) C# Software Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (19.13%) React
2 146 (18.25%) .NET
3 99 (12.38%) Node.js
4 68 (8.50%) AngularJS
5 59 (7.38%) .NET Core
6 49 (6.13%) Spring
7 47 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 46 (5.75%) CSS
9 45 (5.63%) HTML
9 45 (5.63%) RESTful
10 40 (5.00%) Kafka
11 36 (4.50%) Software Packaging
12 27 (3.38%) REST
13 26 (3.25%) Laravel
14 24 (3.00%) Vue
15 20 (2.50%) ASP.NET
16 19 (2.38%) .NET Framework
17 17 (2.13%) GraphQL
18 16 (2.00%) XML
19 15 (1.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 45 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 30 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 25 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
8 18 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.13%) IoT
14 8 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.00%) Client/Server
14 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.38%) Linux
2 12 (1.50%) Android
2 12 (1.50%) Windows
3 9 (1.13%) zOS
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (40.38%) Agile
2 171 (21.38%) Mathematics
3 161 (20.13%) DevOps
3 161 (20.13%) Systems Engineering
4 152 (19.00%) CI/CD
5 148 (18.50%) Mentoring
6 142 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (17.00%) Microservices
7 136 (17.00%) SysML
8 133 (16.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 119 (14.88%) Validation
10 112 (14.00%) Verification and Validation
11 111 (13.88%) Digital Twin
12 95 (11.88%) Roadmaps
13 89 (11.13%) TDD
14 81 (10.13%) Line Management
15 79 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence
16 74 (9.25%) OO
17 73 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
18 68 (8.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 240 (30.00%) Java
2 199 (24.88%) C#
3 188 (23.50%) JavaScript
4 141 (17.63%) TypeScript
5 112 (14.00%) MATLAB
6 110 (13.75%) Python
7 104 (13.00%) SQL
8 69 (8.63%) C
9 43 (5.38%) PHP
10 37 (4.63%) C++
11 24 (3.00%) Go
12 20 (2.50%) Ada
13 16 (2.00%) VB
14 14 (1.75%) Rust
15 8 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.75%) Embedded C
17 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.63%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 298 (37.25%) Degree
2 137 (17.13%) HND
3 112 (14.00%) HNC
4 50 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.25%) Security Cleared
7 19 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.13%) PhD
9 8 (1.00%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.13%) MCSD
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.25%) QA
2 13 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) GMP
7 2 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 97 (12.13%) Docker
2 22 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.00%) Firmware
4 6 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 67 (8.38%) Terraform
3 7 (0.88%) Istio
4 6 (0.75%) Ansible
5 4 (0.50%) Grafana
6 2 (0.25%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.25%) MAINVIEW
6 2 (0.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (5.50%) Google
2 42 (5.25%) Oracle
3 41 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 22 (2.75%) IBM
5 11 (1.38%) Databricks
6 10 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.13%) Ping Identity
8 5 (0.63%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe
9 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.38%) EMC
11 2 (0.25%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.25%) BMC
11 2 (0.25%) New Relic
11 2 (0.25%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.13%) Allen-Bradley
12 1 (0.13%) F5
12 1 (0.13%) Facebook
12 1 (0.13%) Renesas
12 1 (0.13%) ServiceNow