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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 988 603 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.45% 8.49% 8.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 9.00% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 808 524 1,227
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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,563 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 13,213 6,702 13,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.87% 94.39% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,134 3,747 11,010
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,168 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +13 570 £70,000 +7.69% 170
Yorkshire -6 310 £65,000 -3.70% 79
North East -12 108 £60,000 +9.09% 43
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 4 (0.40%) Apache
2 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
2 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.30%) Confluence
4 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 207 (20.95%) AWS
2 139 (14.07%) Azure
3 89 (9.01%) SaaS
4 44 (4.45%) Serverless
5 24 (2.43%) GCP
6 18 (1.82%) GitHub
7 17 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (1.21%) Azure AKS
11 10 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.01%) Anthropic Claude
11 10 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (0.91%) Figma
13 8 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.61%) IaaS
14 6 (0.61%) PaaS
15 5 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.40%) AMQP
1 4 (0.40%) Wireless
2 2 (0.20%) RTP
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.66%) NoSQL
2 25 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 22 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.42%) MySQL
5 10 (1.01%) Neo4j
6 9 (0.91%) Big Data
6 9 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 8 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.61%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.51%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.51%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.40%) DocumentDB
11 4 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.40%) GIS
11 4 (0.40%) Power BI
11 4 (0.40%) QGIS
12 3 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 15 (1.52%) Git
2 14 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.32%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.71%) GitLab
4 7 (0.71%) JIRA
5 4 (0.40%) NUnit
6 3 (0.30%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.20%) JUnit
7 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.10%) GDB
8 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.10%) Postman
8 1 (0.10%) WinDbg
General
1 96 (9.72%) Finance
2 77 (7.79%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.83%) Retail
6 26 (2.63%) Electronics
7 25 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 20 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (1.52%) Automotive
10 10 (1.01%) Legal
11 9 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.61%) Games
13 6 (0.61%) Law
13 6 (0.61%) Marketing
13 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Agriculture
14 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.40%) Banking
Job Titles
1 635 (64.27%) Software Engineer
2 197 (19.94%) Senior
3 143 (14.47%) Lead
4 142 (14.37%) Senior Software Engineer
5 126 (12.75%) Developer
6 81 (8.20%) Lead Software Engineer
7 52 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 48 (4.86%) Software Developer
9 47 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 42 (4.25%) Java Engineer
11 41 (4.15%) Principal Engineer
11 41 (4.15%) Principal Software Engineer
12 38 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 37 (3.74%) Software Manager
14 35 (3.54%) .NET Software Engineer
15 34 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
15 34 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.34%) C# Software Engineer
16 33 (3.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 30 (3.04%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.99%) .NET
2 99 (10.02%) React
3 73 (7.39%) Node.js
4 47 (4.76%) RESTful
5 39 (3.95%) AngularJS
6 35 (3.54%) REST
7 33 (3.34%) .NET Core
8 32 (3.24%) Vue
9 31 (3.14%) Spring
10 28 (2.83%) CSS
11 27 (2.73%) Spring Boot
12 24 (2.43%) HTML
13 19 (1.92%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.42%) Flask
15 10 (1.01%) ASP.NET
15 10 (1.01%) GraphQL
16 8 (0.81%) Django
16 8 (0.81%) Next.js
16 8 (0.81%) Web Services
17 6 (0.61%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (2.33%) Hedge funds
4 22 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.92%) IoT
6 14 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.11%) Robotics
8 9 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.91%) Industry 4.0
9 8 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.61%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.61%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.61%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.13%) Linux
2 8 (0.81%) Android
2 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.51%) Windows
4 4 (0.40%) CentOS
4 4 (0.40%) Debian
4 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (18.22%) Agile
2 134 (13.56%) Mentoring
3 132 (13.36%) CI/CD
4 127 (12.85%) DevOps
5 123 (12.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 99 (10.02%) Microservices
7 95 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (8.91%) AI
9 86 (8.70%) Coaching
10 66 (6.68%) Analytics
11 65 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (5.67%) Fintech
12 56 (5.67%) Scrum
13 55 (5.57%) TDD
13 55 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
14 52 (5.26%) SDLC
15 46 (4.66%) Containerisation
15 46 (4.66%) Open Source
16 42 (4.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 42 (4.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.28%) C#
2 148 (14.98%) Java
3 129 (13.06%) Python
4 105 (10.63%) JavaScript
5 100 (10.12%) SQL
6 96 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.94%) C++
8 28 (2.83%) C
9 17 (1.72%) PHP
10 13 (1.32%) COBOL
11 11 (1.11%) Go
12 6 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) Bash
14 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.30%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) Groovy
15 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.30%) Scala
16 2 (0.20%) Delphi
16 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (4.66%) Security Cleared
2 36 (3.64%) Degree
3 29 (2.94%) DV Cleared
3 29 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.53%) QA
2 16 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.61%) GDPR
4 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (4.96%) Docker
2 35 (3.54%) Firmware
3 15 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.86%) Terraform
3 6 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.40%) Ansible
5 4 (0.40%) Puppet
6 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.36%) Salesforce
3 48 (4.86%) Cisco
4 12 (1.21%) Adobe
5 10 (1.01%) Google
5 10 (1.01%) Rockwell
6 6 (0.61%) Databricks
6 6 (0.61%) Siemens
7 5 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.30%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.20%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.10%) New Relic
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle