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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 991 682 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.39% 9.48% 8.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 10.02% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 814 530 1,222
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 13,338 6,803 13,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.50% 94.59% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,235 3,797 11,027
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 4 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 4 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 +5 585 £70,000 +4.42% 188
Yorkshire -4 301 £69,305 +2.67% 109
North East -15 105 £60,000 +9.09% 54
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 6 (0.61%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.40%) Apache
3 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.30%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.10%) CMS
6 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 198 (19.98%) AWS
2 135 (13.62%) Azure
3 88 (8.88%) SaaS
4 44 (4.44%) Serverless
5 23 (2.32%) GCP
6 19 (1.92%) GitHub
7 17 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.21%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.11%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (0.81%) Figma
14 6 (0.61%) IaaS
14 6 (0.61%) PaaS
15 5 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.50%) Wireless
2 4 (0.40%) AMQP
3 2 (0.20%) RTP
4 1 (0.10%) Broadband
4 1 (0.10%) HTTP
4 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.24%) NoSQL
2 24 (2.42%) MongoDB
3 20 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.41%) MySQL
5 9 (0.91%) Big Data
5 9 (0.91%) DynamoDB
5 9 (0.91%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 6 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.50%) FileMaker
8 5 (0.50%) Spark SQL
9 4 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (0.40%) DocumentDB
9 4 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.40%) GIS
9 4 (0.40%) Power BI
9 4 (0.40%) QGIS
10 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (1.61%) Claude Code
1 16 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.41%) Git
3 7 (0.71%) GitLab
3 7 (0.71%) JIRA
4 4 (0.40%) NUnit
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.20%) JUnit
6 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.20%) Maven
6 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.10%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.10%) GDB
7 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.10%) Postman
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.10%) WinDbg
General
1 100 (10.09%) Finance
2 73 (7.37%) Social Skills
3 51 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (3.83%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.83%) Retail
6 27 (2.72%) Electronics
7 24 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 19 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (1.61%) Automotive
10 9 (0.91%) Legal
11 8 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.71%) Marketing
13 6 (0.61%) Law
13 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Agriculture
14 5 (0.50%) Aviation
14 5 (0.50%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.40%) Games
15 4 (0.40%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 636 (64.18%) Software Engineer
2 193 (19.48%) Senior
3 140 (14.13%) Lead
3 140 (14.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 128 (12.92%) Developer
5 79 (7.97%) Lead Software Engineer
6 53 (5.35%) Embedded Engineer
7 51 (5.15%) Software Developer
8 47 (4.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 45 (4.54%) Java Engineer
9 45 (4.54%) Principal Engineer
9 45 (4.54%) Principal Software Engineer
10 41 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (3.73%) Software Manager
12 35 (3.53%) C# Software Engineer
12 35 (3.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 35 (3.53%) Senior Developer
13 32 (3.23%) .NET Software Engineer
14 29 (2.93%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (15.54%) .NET
2 95 (9.59%) React
3 72 (7.27%) Node.js
4 48 (4.84%) RESTful
5 37 (3.73%) AngularJS
6 36 (3.63%) REST
7 31 (3.13%) Spring
7 31 (3.13%) Vue
8 28 (2.83%) .NET Core
9 27 (2.72%) Spring Boot
10 25 (2.52%) CSS
11 21 (2.12%) HTML
12 18 (1.82%) .NET Framework
13 12 (1.21%) Flask
14 10 (1.01%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.91%) ASP.NET
15 9 (0.91%) Web Services
16 7 (0.71%) Next.js
17 6 (0.61%) OpenAPI
17 6 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 24 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (2.22%) Hedge funds
3 22 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.02%) IoT
5 13 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.21%) Robotics
7 9 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.91%) Industry 4.0
7 9 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 7 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 7 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 6 (0.61%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.50%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.50%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.50%) Life Science
11 4 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.12%) Linux
2 9 (0.91%) Android
3 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.40%) CentOS
4 4 (0.40%) Debian
4 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (17.56%) Agile
2 132 (13.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 130 (13.12%) CI/CD
4 127 (12.82%) DevOps
5 123 (12.41%) Mentoring
6 100 (10.09%) Microservices
7 96 (9.69%) AI
8 92 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (8.17%) Coaching
10 66 (6.66%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (6.26%) Analytics
12 55 (5.55%) TDD
13 54 (5.45%) Scrum
14 52 (5.25%) Fintech
15 51 (5.15%) SDLC
16 50 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (4.64%) Open Source
18 45 (4.54%) Containerisation
19 43 (4.34%) Infrastructure as Code
20 42 (4.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 148 (14.93%) Java
2 146 (14.73%) C#
3 133 (13.42%) Python
4 102 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 95 (9.59%) SQL
6 94 (9.49%) TypeScript
7 26 (2.62%) C++
8 25 (2.52%) C
9 17 (1.72%) PHP
10 13 (1.31%) COBOL
11 12 (1.21%) Go
12 5 (0.50%) Bash
12 5 (0.50%) Groovy
12 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.40%) Bicep
13 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.30%) Scala
15 2 (0.20%) Delphi
15 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (4.84%) Security Cleared
2 35 (3.53%) Degree
3 33 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 29 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.62%) QA
2 15 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.71%) 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 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (4.44%) Docker
2 35 (3.53%) Firmware
3 14 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.64%) Terraform
3 7 (0.71%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.61%) Grafana
5 4 (0.40%) Ansible
5 4 (0.40%) Puppet
6 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 56 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.94%) Salesforce
3 44 (4.44%) Cisco
4 12 (1.21%) Adobe
5 11 (1.11%) Rockwell
6 10 (1.01%) Google
7 6 (0.61%) Databricks
7 6 (0.61%) Siemens
8 5 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.40%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.10%) New Relic
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle