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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 30 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,571 739 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.73% 7.87% 10.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 8.99% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 345 902
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,951 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
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 £85,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 16,465 8,223 11,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.48% 87.55% 77.96%
Number of salaries quoted 12,348 4,133 6,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,136 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% -3.73% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,986 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 10 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 10 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 +14 908 £70,000 - 238
Yorkshire +18 367 £65,000 -5.11% 114
North East +24 296 £75,000 +25.00% 53
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 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
2 10 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.45%) 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
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 (0.064%) CMS
8 1 (0.064%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.25%) 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 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 294 (18.71%) AWS
2 188 (11.97%) Azure
3 103 (6.56%) SaaS
4 62 (3.95%) GCP
5 57 (3.63%) Serverless
6 51 (3.25%) GitHub
7 37 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
13 18 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.08%) Datadog
15 15 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.83%) Firebase
16 13 (0.83%) Route 53
17 12 (0.76%) Amazon S3
17 12 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
18 10 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.76%) Wireless
2 8 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.25%) 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 (0.064%) DNS
6 1 (0.064%) LTE
6 1 (0.064%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 32 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.59%) MySQL
6 22 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.64%) Redis
8 9 (0.57%) Power BI
9 8 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.32%) Big Data
11 5 (0.32%) Chroma
11 5 (0.32%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.32%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.32%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (3.95%) Git
2 23 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.27%) Claude Code
4 17 (1.08%) GitLab
5 13 (0.83%) JIRA
6 12 (0.76%) JUnit
7 11 (0.70%) Maven
8 9 (0.57%) Spock
9 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.25%) NUnit
11 4 (0.25%) Storybook
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
13 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
13 2 (0.13%) Mocha
13 2 (0.13%) Mockito
13 2 (0.13%) Vite
14 1 (0.064%) Postman
General
1 141 (8.98%) Finance
2 137 (8.72%) Social Skills
3 73 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 58 (3.69%) Electronics
5 53 (3.37%) Retail
6 34 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 30 (1.91%) Legal
8 22 (1.40%) Law
9 20 (1.27%) Automotive
9 20 (1.27%) Aviation
10 17 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.70%) Games
13 9 (0.57%) Marketing
14 8 (0.51%) Publishing
15 7 (0.45%) Agriculture
15 7 (0.45%) Billing
15 7 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,039 (66.14%) Software Engineer
2 418 (26.61%) Senior
3 307 (19.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 178 (11.33%) Lead
5 162 (10.31%) Developer
6 110 (7.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 90 (5.73%) Embedded Engineer
8 83 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
9 79 (5.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 78 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 75 (4.77%) Software Manager
12 74 (4.71%) Principal Software Engineer
13 68 (4.33%) C# Software Engineer
14 60 (3.82%) Engineering Manager
15 56 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 53 (3.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 52 (3.31%) Python Engineer
18 51 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 49 (3.12%) Java Engineer
20 48 (3.06%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (10.88%) .NET
2 138 (8.78%) React
3 97 (6.17%) Node.js
4 66 (4.20%) Terraform
5 55 (3.50%) REST
6 51 (3.25%) AngularJS
7 48 (3.06%) Spring
8 41 (2.61%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.61%) Vue
9 40 (2.55%) CSS
9 40 (2.55%) Next.js
9 40 (2.55%) RESTful
10 32 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 25 (1.59%) React Native
12 22 (1.40%) HTML
13 18 (1.15%) LangChain
14 17 (1.08%) Kafka
15 15 (0.95%) GraphQL
15 15 (0.95%) Ruby on Rails
16 14 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 29 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.53%) Hedge funds
7 24 (1.53%) IoT
8 23 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
8 23 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.08%) Robotics
10 12 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (0.76%) Life Science
11 10 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.57%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.57%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.45%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.45%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.98%) Linux
2 17 (1.08%) Windows
3 8 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.38%) Android
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.25%) Unix
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Debian
7 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (16.10%) AI
2 239 (15.21%) Agile
3 233 (14.83%) CI/CD
4 210 (13.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 188 (11.97%) DevOps
6 187 (11.90%) Mentoring
7 140 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 128 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (8.02%) Microservices
10 99 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
11 96 (6.11%) Test Automation
12 82 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 82 (5.22%) Observability
13 81 (5.16%) Collaborative Culture
14 79 (5.03%) Coaching
15 76 (4.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 75 (4.77%) Containerisation
17 74 (4.71%) Computer Science
18 73 (4.65%) Platform Engineering
19 69 (4.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 232 (14.77%) Python
2 221 (14.07%) C#
3 192 (12.22%) Java
4 174 (11.08%) TypeScript
5 153 (9.74%) SQL
6 151 (9.61%) JavaScript
7 82 (5.22%) C++
8 37 (2.36%) Go
9 36 (2.29%) C
10 31 (1.97%) Rust
11 21 (1.34%) PHP
12 19 (1.21%) Ruby
13 18 (1.15%) Bash
14 16 (1.02%) Groovy
15 13 (0.83%) COBOL
15 13 (0.83%) Scala
16 8 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.38%) Delphi
18 5 (0.32%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 87 (5.54%) SC Cleared
3 74 (4.71%) Degree
4 49 (3.12%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.32%) PMP
9 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.19%) PhD
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.064%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.064%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.25%) QA
2 30 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.51%) GDPR
5 7 (0.45%) WCAG
6 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
8 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (5.98%) Docker
2 48 (3.06%) Firmware
3 21 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.83%) Ansible
3 12 (0.76%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.51%) Grafana
5 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.13%) Argo
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.13%) Podman
8 1 (0.064%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.064%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.064%) Kibana
8 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (2.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (1.34%) Google
3 20 (1.27%) Splunk
4 15 (0.95%) Databricks
5 11 (0.70%) Rockwell
6 10 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.57%) AppDynamics
7 9 (0.57%) 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%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.19%) Sage
11 3 (0.19%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.13%) IBM