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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,002 888 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.45% 11.71% 8.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 12.32% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 833 532 1,235
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +16.00% -13.79%

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 13,086 7,206 13,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.22% 95.00% 82.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 3,813 11,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -8 594 £67,500 +0.69% 169
Yorkshire -2 300 £65,000 -3.70% 91
North East -15 108 £60,000 +9.09% 51
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 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
1 5 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
2 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.20%) Confluence
4 2 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.100%) CMS
5 1 (0.100%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 200 (19.96%) AWS
2 134 (13.37%) Azure
3 88 (8.78%) SaaS
4 43 (4.29%) Serverless
5 27 (2.69%) GCP
6 21 (2.10%) GitHub
7 15 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (1.10%) Azure AKS
11 10 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 9 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (0.80%) Figma
14 6 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (0.40%) PaaS
15 4 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.50%) Wireless
2 3 (0.30%) AMQP
3 2 (0.20%) RTP
4 1 (0.100%) Broadband
4 1 (0.100%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.89%) NoSQL
2 24 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 21 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.50%) MySQL
6 9 (0.90%) Neo4j
6 9 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.80%) Big Data
7 8 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.50%) FileMaker
9 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.50%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.40%) DocumentDB
10 4 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.40%) GIS
10 4 (0.40%) Power BI
10 4 (0.40%) QGIS
11 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Claude Code
2 16 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.50%) Git
4 6 (0.60%) JIRA
5 5 (0.50%) GitLab
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.100%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.100%) GDB
8 1 (0.100%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.100%) JUnit
8 1 (0.100%) MLflow
8 1 (0.100%) Postman
8 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.100%) WinDbg
General
1 100 (9.98%) Finance
2 69 (6.89%) Social Skills
3 45 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 30 (2.99%) Retail
6 28 (2.79%) Electronics
7 26 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 20 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (1.70%) Automotive
10 8 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.70%) Agriculture
11 7 (0.70%) Legal
11 7 (0.70%) Marketing
12 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.60%) Aviation
12 6 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.50%) Law
14 4 (0.40%) Banking
14 4 (0.40%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 654 (65.27%) Software Engineer
2 190 (18.96%) Senior
3 143 (14.27%) Lead
4 137 (13.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 127 (12.67%) Developer
6 83 (8.28%) Lead Software Engineer
7 52 (5.19%) Software Developer
8 51 (5.09%) Embedded Engineer
9 47 (4.69%) Principal Engineer
9 47 (4.69%) Principal Software Engineer
10 46 (4.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 46 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (4.39%) Java Engineer
12 39 (3.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 39 (3.89%) Software Manager
13 38 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 37 (3.69%) C# Software Engineer
15 36 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 31 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
17 29 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (14.97%) .NET
2 94 (9.38%) React
3 71 (7.09%) Node.js
4 44 (4.39%) RESTful
5 38 (3.79%) REST
6 36 (3.59%) AngularJS
7 33 (3.29%) Vue
8 28 (2.79%) .NET Core
8 28 (2.79%) CSS
8 28 (2.79%) Spring
9 26 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 22 (2.20%) HTML
11 16 (1.60%) .NET Framework
12 11 (1.10%) Flask
13 10 (1.00%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.00%) Next.js
13 10 (1.00%) Web Services
14 9 (0.90%) ASP.NET
15 7 (0.70%) LangChain
16 5 (0.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.30%) Hedge funds
5 19 (1.90%) IoT
6 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.00%) Robotics
9 9 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (0.90%) Industry 4.0
9 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 8 (0.80%) Life Science
11 7 (0.70%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.50%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.50%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.30%) Linux
2 10 (1.00%) Android
3 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.50%) Windows
5 3 (0.30%) CentOS
5 3 (0.30%) Debian
5 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.100%) Unix
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (17.37%) Agile
2 140 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
3 123 (12.28%) DevOps
3 123 (12.28%) Mentoring
4 122 (12.18%) CI/CD
5 104 (10.38%) AI
6 95 (9.48%) Microservices
7 91 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (7.39%) Coaching
9 68 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (5.99%) Analytics
11 55 (5.49%) SDLC
11 55 (5.49%) TDD
12 51 (5.09%) Fintech
12 51 (5.09%) Scrum
13 49 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (4.59%) Open Source
15 45 (4.49%) Containerisation
16 44 (4.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (4.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 147 (14.67%) C#
2 146 (14.57%) Java
3 143 (14.27%) Python
4 105 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 97 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 95 (9.48%) SQL
7 27 (2.69%) C++
8 25 (2.50%) C
9 18 (1.80%) PHP
10 13 (1.30%) COBOL
10 13 (1.30%) Go
11 6 (0.60%) Groovy
12 5 (0.50%) Bash
12 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.40%) Bicep
13 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.40%) Scala
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.30%) Ruby
15 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (5.79%) Security Cleared
2 42 (4.19%) SC Cleared
3 39 (3.89%) DV Cleared
4 35 (3.49%) Degree
5 20 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.59%) QA
2 15 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.70%) GDPR
4 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.30%) NCSC
6 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (4.59%) Docker
2 34 (3.39%) Firmware
3 13 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (4.59%) Kubernetes
1 46 (4.59%) Terraform
2 8 (0.80%) Progress Chef
3 5 (0.50%) Grafana
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.30%) Puppet
5 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 51 (5.09%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.49%) Salesforce
3 40 (3.99%) Cisco
4 12 (1.20%) Adobe
5 11 (1.10%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.90%) Google
7 6 (0.60%) Siemens
8 5 (0.50%) Databricks
8 5 (0.50%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.30%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.100%) New Relic