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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 24 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,269 875 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.28% 10.29% 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.01% 11.07% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,111 472 1,364
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +17.19% -14.09%

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 14,088 7,907 15,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.67% 92.95% 79.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,509 3,760 11,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,988 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +10 755 £70,000 +1.82% 154
Yorkshire +6 327 £65,000 -7.14% 53
North East +5 187 £70,000 +27.27% 49
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 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.39%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.32%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.16%) Apache
4 2 (0.16%) Confluence
4 2 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.079%) CMS
5 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Magento
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 258 (20.33%) AWS
2 163 (12.84%) Azure
3 91 (7.17%) SaaS
4 53 (4.18%) Serverless
5 39 (3.07%) GCP
6 34 (2.68%) GitHub
7 24 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
8 23 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.18%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (0.71%) Firebase
15 9 (0.71%) Power Platform
16 8 (0.63%) Azure AKS
17 6 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 5 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.47%) Wireless
2 2 (0.16%) AMQP
2 2 (0.16%) MQTT
2 2 (0.16%) RTP
3 1 (0.079%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.079%) Broadband
3 1 (0.079%) LTE
3 1 (0.079%) Network Security
3 1 (0.079%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.079%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.079%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.18%) NoSQL
2 39 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 25 (1.97%) MySQL
5 16 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.63%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.55%) Neo4j
8 7 (0.55%) Redis
9 5 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.39%) Big Data
9 5 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.39%) FileMaker
9 5 (0.39%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.32%) Power BI
10 4 (0.32%) QGIS
10 4 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.60%) Git
2 24 (1.89%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.55%) JIRA
5 6 (0.47%) GitLab
6 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.24%) JUnit
7 3 (0.24%) NUnit
8 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.16%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Spock
8 2 (0.16%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.16%) Vite
9 1 (0.079%) GDB
9 1 (0.079%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.079%) Mocha
9 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.079%) WinDbg
General
1 123 (9.69%) Finance
2 76 (5.99%) Social Skills
3 53 (4.18%) Public Sector
4 43 (3.39%) Electronics
5 28 (2.21%) Manufacturing
5 28 (2.21%) Retail
6 20 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.50%) Automotive
8 15 (1.18%) Legal
9 7 (0.55%) Agriculture
9 7 (0.55%) Games
9 7 (0.55%) Law
9 7 (0.55%) Marketing
10 6 (0.47%) Aviation
11 5 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.39%) Billing
11 5 (0.39%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.32%) Italian Language
12 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 868 (68.40%) Software Engineer
2 308 (24.27%) Senior
3 237 (18.68%) Senior Software Engineer
4 171 (13.48%) Developer
5 165 (13.00%) Lead
6 97 (7.64%) Lead Software Engineer
7 78 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 73 (5.75%) Software Developer
9 72 (5.67%) Principal Engineer
10 65 (5.12%) Principal Software Engineer
11 63 (4.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 62 (4.89%) Embedded Engineer
13 59 (4.65%) C# Software Engineer
14 56 (4.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 54 (4.26%) Java Engineer
16 48 (3.78%) Java Software Engineer
16 48 (3.78%) Software Manager
17 47 (3.70%) Senior Developer
18 43 (3.39%) .NET Developer
19 41 (3.23%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.87%) .NET
2 134 (10.56%) React
3 100 (7.88%) Node.js
4 53 (4.18%) RESTful
5 49 (3.86%) REST
6 45 (3.55%) Vue
7 40 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 36 (2.84%) Next.js
9 35 (2.76%) .NET Core
10 34 (2.68%) Spring
11 31 (2.44%) CSS
12 30 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.58%) HTML
14 18 (1.42%) LangChain
14 18 (1.42%) React Native
15 14 (1.10%) .NET Framework
15 14 (1.10%) GraphQL
15 14 (1.10%) Ruby on Rails
16 12 (0.95%) FastAPI
17 9 (0.71%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.36%) Hedge funds
7 27 (2.13%) IoT
8 23 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
11 15 (1.18%) Robotics
12 12 (0.95%) Life Science
13 9 (0.71%) Industry 4.0
13 9 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.63%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.63%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.55%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.55%) Onboarding
16 5 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.39%) Linux
2 10 (0.79%) Android
3 8 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.32%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) CentOS
5 2 (0.16%) Debian
5 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.079%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.079%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 192 (15.13%) Agile
3 189 (14.89%) AI
4 178 (14.03%) CI/CD
5 154 (12.14%) DevOps
6 145 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 125 (9.85%) Microservices
8 110 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (5.83%) Coaching
11 72 (5.67%) Test Automation
12 69 (5.44%) TDD
13 67 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (5.20%) Fintech
15 58 (4.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 57 (4.49%) Containerisation
17 55 (4.33%) Computer Science
18 54 (4.26%) Open Source
18 54 (4.26%) SDLC
19 51 (4.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.13%) C#
2 180 (14.18%) Python
3 176 (13.87%) Java
4 144 (11.35%) TypeScript
5 141 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 135 (10.64%) SQL
7 60 (4.73%) C++
8 27 (2.13%) Rust
9 25 (1.97%) Go
10 23 (1.81%) C
11 20 (1.58%) PHP
12 14 (1.10%) Ruby
13 13 (1.02%) COBOL
14 9 (0.71%) Bash
15 8 (0.63%) Groovy
16 7 (0.55%) Scala
17 6 (0.47%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.39%) PowerShell
19 4 (0.32%) Bicep
19 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 71 (5.59%) Security Cleared
2 52 (4.10%) Degree
2 52 (4.10%) SC Cleared
3 43 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 38 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.05%) QA
2 16 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.47%) GDPR
3 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.24%) NCSC
6 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (5.28%) Docker
2 38 (2.99%) Firmware
3 16 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (4.81%) Terraform
2 55 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.63%) Ansible
5 3 (0.24%) Grafana
5 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.16%) Argo
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (2.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
3 12 (0.95%) Cisco
4 11 (0.87%) Rockwell
5 9 (0.71%) Databricks
5 9 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.63%) Google
6 8 (0.63%) Splunk
7 6 (0.47%) Siemens
8 5 (0.39%) Adobe
8 5 (0.39%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.24%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.16%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.16%) Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.16%) SaltStack