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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,475 825 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.61% 8.54% 10.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 9.60% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 423 1,051
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £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 £84,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15,705 8,595 11,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.36% 88.92% 78.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 4,292 7,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 17 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 17 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 +14 855 £70,000 +3.70% 251
Yorkshire +17 361 £65,000 - 113
North East +19 259 £75,000 +25.00% 91
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 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
2 8 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.41%) Apache
4 5 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) WinCC
8 1 (0.068%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.27%) Trello
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 288 (19.53%) AWS
2 196 (13.29%) Azure
3 102 (6.92%) SaaS
4 60 (4.07%) GCP
4 60 (4.07%) Serverless
5 50 (3.39%) GitHub
6 36 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
11 21 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.02%) Datadog
14 14 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.75%) Firebase
16 11 (0.75%) Route 53
17 10 (0.68%) Amazon S3
17 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Wireless
2 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.14%) AMQP
4 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.14%) MQTT
4 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.068%) Broadband
5 1 (0.068%) DNS
5 1 (0.068%) LTE
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (2.98%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.31%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.97%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.69%) MySQL
6 21 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 9 (0.61%) Redis
8 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.34%) FileMaker
9 5 (0.34%) Neo4j
9 5 (0.34%) Pinecone
9 5 (0.34%) Power BI
10 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.27%) Big Data
10 4 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (3.86%) Git
2 23 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 15 (1.02%) JIRA
5 14 (0.95%) GitLab
6 10 (0.68%) JUnit
7 8 (0.54%) Maven
8 7 (0.47%) Spock
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.27%) NUnit
10 4 (0.27%) Storybook
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.14%) MLflow
12 2 (0.14%) Mocha
12 2 (0.14%) Mockito
12 2 (0.14%) Selenium
12 2 (0.14%) Vite
13 1 (0.068%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (9.42%) Finance
2 132 (8.95%) Social Skills
3 68 (4.61%) Public Sector
4 56 (3.80%) Electronics
5 55 (3.73%) Retail
6 41 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (1.63%) Legal
8 21 (1.42%) Automotive
9 18 (1.22%) Aviation
10 16 (1.08%) Law
11 14 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.75%) Games
14 9 (0.61%) Marketing
15 8 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.47%) Agriculture
16 7 (0.47%) Banking
17 6 (0.41%) Billing
17 6 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 971 (65.83%) Software Engineer
2 374 (25.36%) Senior
3 273 (18.51%) Senior Software Engineer
4 168 (11.39%) Developer
5 167 (11.32%) Lead
6 98 (6.64%) Lead Software Engineer
7 79 (5.36%) Embedded Engineer
8 76 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 75 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
9 75 (5.08%) Software Manager
10 70 (4.75%) C# Software Engineer
11 67 (4.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 66 (4.47%) Principal Software Engineer
13 62 (4.20%) Engineering Manager
14 55 (3.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 55 (3.73%) Software Developer
15 49 (3.32%) Software Engineering Manager
16 47 (3.19%) Python Engineer
17 45 (3.05%) Senior Developer
18 42 (2.85%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (12.20%) .NET
2 134 (9.08%) React
3 104 (7.05%) Node.js
4 51 (3.46%) REST
5 50 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 43 (2.92%) RESTful
7 42 (2.85%) CSS
7 42 (2.85%) Vue
8 41 (2.78%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.78%) Next.js
8 41 (2.78%) Spring
9 28 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 25 (1.69%) HTML
10 25 (1.69%) React Native
11 17 (1.15%) LangChain
12 16 (1.08%) GraphQL
13 15 (1.02%) .NET Framework
13 15 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (0.88%) FastAPI
14 13 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.12%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.83%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.76%) IoT
9 23 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
11 18 (1.22%) Robotics
12 13 (0.88%) Life Science
13 12 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.61%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.54%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.47%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.47%) Industry 4.0
17 6 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 78 (5.29%) Linux
2 9 (0.61%) Windows
3 7 (0.47%) Android
4 5 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
7 2 (0.14%) CentOS
7 2 (0.14%) Debian
7 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (15.46%) CI/CD
2 227 (15.39%) AI
3 226 (15.32%) Agile
4 216 (14.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 188 (12.75%) DevOps
6 182 (12.34%) Mentoring
7 131 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 126 (8.54%) Microservices
9 117 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (6.31%) Test Automation
11 91 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
12 87 (5.90%) Collaborative Culture
13 78 (5.29%) Coaching
14 76 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 73 (4.95%) SDLC
15 73 (4.95%) TDD
16 72 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
17 70 (4.75%) Observability
18 69 (4.68%) Computer Science
18 69 (4.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 222 (15.05%) C#
2 219 (14.85%) Python
3 179 (12.14%) Java
4 165 (11.19%) TypeScript
5 158 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 149 (10.10%) SQL
7 82 (5.56%) C++
8 36 (2.44%) C
9 33 (2.24%) Go
10 31 (2.10%) Rust
11 22 (1.49%) PHP
12 19 (1.29%) Ruby
13 14 (0.95%) Bash
14 13 (0.88%) COBOL
14 13 (0.88%) Groovy
15 12 (0.81%) Scala
16 8 (0.54%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.41%) Delphi
17 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 101 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 73 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.75%) Degree
4 48 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.34%) PMP
9 4 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.068%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.32%) QA
2 23 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.54%) GDPR
5 7 (0.47%) WCAG
6 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (5.90%) Docker
2 44 (2.98%) Firmware
3 22 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (4.68%) Terraform
2 67 (4.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 10 (0.68%) Ansible
5 7 (0.47%) Grafana
6 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.068%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.068%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.068%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.29%) Google
3 17 (1.15%) Splunk
4 15 (1.02%) Databricks
5 11 (0.75%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.61%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.61%) Siemens
7 7 (0.47%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.41%) Foundry
9 4 (0.27%) Adobe
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.27%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.20%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.20%) New Relic
10 3 (0.20%) Sage
11 2 (0.14%) IBM
11 2 (0.14%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.14%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.14%) UiPath
12 1 (0.068%) SAP