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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 33 11
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,608 694 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.71% 7.24% 10.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 8.22% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 307 711
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,180 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -4.19%

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 16,979 8,439 10,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.90% 88.03% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,630 4,065 5,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +16 942 £70,000 +3.70% 568
Yorkshire +15 352 £65,000 - 240
North East +35 314 £75,000 +36.36% 131
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 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
2 12 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.44%) Apache
4 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.25%) CMS
4 4 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.19%) Confluence
5 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.12%) nginx
6 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.12%) WinCC
7 1 (0.062%) Kentico
7 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Trello
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.062%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 304 (18.91%) AWS
2 175 (10.88%) Azure
3 84 (5.22%) SaaS
4 62 (3.86%) GCP
5 60 (3.73%) Serverless
6 51 (3.17%) GitHub
7 32 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
13 16 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 15 (0.93%) Datadog
15 13 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.81%) Firebase
15 13 (0.81%) Route 53
16 12 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Wireless
2 9 (0.56%) Internet
3 8 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.19%) 5G
4 3 (0.19%) AMQP
4 3 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.12%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.12%) MQTT
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.062%) DNS
6 1 (0.062%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (2.24%) NoSQL
3 35 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 31 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 27 (1.68%) MySQL
6 22 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.62%) Redis
8 9 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.44%) Chroma
10 7 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.44%) Power BI
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.37%) Metadata
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.25%) Big Data
13 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (4.10%) Git
2 22 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.31%) GitLab
4 17 (1.06%) Claude Code
5 12 (0.75%) JIRA
5 12 (0.75%) JUnit
6 11 (0.68%) Maven
7 9 (0.56%) Spock
8 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
11 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.12%) MLflow
11 2 (0.12%) Mocha
11 2 (0.12%) Vite
12 1 (0.062%) Postman
General
1 155 (9.64%) Social Skills
2 149 (9.27%) Finance
3 75 (4.66%) Public Sector
4 58 (3.61%) Electronics
5 49 (3.05%) Retail
6 39 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (2.43%) Manufacturing
7 28 (1.74%) Legal
8 20 (1.24%) Aviation
8 20 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.18%) Law
10 17 (1.06%) Publishing
11 16 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 15 (0.93%) Automotive
13 11 (0.68%) Banking
13 11 (0.68%) Games
14 10 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.50%) Billing
16 7 (0.44%) Marketing
16 7 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,050 (65.30%) Software Engineer
2 476 (29.60%) Senior
3 350 (21.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 175 (10.88%) Lead
5 166 (10.32%) Developer
6 110 (6.84%) Lead Software Engineer
7 88 (5.47%) Embedded Engineer
8 82 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
9 79 (4.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 77 (4.79%) Software Manager
11 75 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 75 (4.66%) Java Engineer
12 73 (4.54%) Principal Software Engineer
13 67 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
14 63 (3.92%) Engineering Manager
14 63 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
15 56 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 56 (3.48%) Python Engineer
16 55 (3.42%) Software Developer
17 52 (3.23%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.39%) .NET
2 146 (9.08%) React
3 90 (5.60%) Node.js
4 68 (4.23%) Terraform
5 57 (3.54%) REST
6 56 (3.48%) Spring
7 45 (2.80%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.55%) Spring Boot
9 39 (2.43%) AngularJS
9 39 (2.43%) Next.js
10 37 (2.30%) CSS
11 35 (2.18%) RESTful
12 33 (2.05%) Vue
13 26 (1.62%) React Native
14 25 (1.55%) Kafka
15 19 (1.18%) HTML
15 19 (1.18%) LangChain
16 15 (0.93%) FastAPI
16 15 (0.93%) GraphQL
16 15 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.55%) AI Agents
5 27 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 24 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
7 22 (1.37%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.12%) IoT
10 13 (0.81%) Robotics
11 12 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (0.75%) Media Streaming
11 12 (0.75%) Podcast
12 11 (0.68%) Life Science
13 9 (0.56%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.50%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.78%) Linux
2 15 (0.93%) Windows
3 9 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.19%) CentOS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (16.54%) AI
2 258 (16.04%) Agile
3 249 (15.49%) CI/CD
4 204 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 193 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 183 (11.38%) DevOps
7 155 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (8.40%) Microservices
10 104 (6.47%) Test Automation
11 102 (6.34%) Technical Leadership
12 89 (5.53%) Observability
13 85 (5.29%) Computer Science
13 85 (5.29%) Containerisation
14 84 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 83 (5.16%) Code Quality
15 83 (5.16%) Collaborative Culture
16 82 (5.10%) Coaching
16 82 (5.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (4.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 243 (15.11%) Python
2 232 (14.43%) Java
3 218 (13.56%) C#
4 188 (11.69%) TypeScript
5 145 (9.02%) SQL
6 138 (8.58%) JavaScript
7 77 (4.79%) C++
8 38 (2.36%) Go
9 33 (2.05%) Rust
10 31 (1.93%) C
11 19 (1.18%) PHP
11 19 (1.18%) Ruby
12 17 (1.06%) Bash
12 17 (1.06%) Groovy
13 14 (0.87%) Scala
14 7 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.37%) Delphi
15 6 (0.37%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 93 (5.78%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.29%) Degree
4 47 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
5 7 (0.44%) PhD
5 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.31%) PMP
8 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.062%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.062%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.86%) QA
2 28 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.50%) WCAG
5 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.37%) GDPR
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 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 102 (6.34%) Docker
2 46 (2.86%) Firmware
3 19 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.06%) Progress Chef
3 14 (0.87%) Ansible
4 6 (0.37%) Grafana
5 4 (0.25%) Packer
5 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.19%) Podman
6 3 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.12%) Argo
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.062%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.062%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.062%) Kibana
8 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (2.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.24%) Google
2 20 (1.24%) Splunk
3 13 (0.81%) Databricks
4 12 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.56%) AppDynamics
6 8 (0.50%) Foundry
7 7 (0.44%) Rockwell
8 6 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.37%) Siemens
9 5 (0.31%) New Relic
9 5 (0.31%) YouTube
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe
10 4 (0.25%) Mistral
10 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
11 3 (0.19%) IBM
11 3 (0.19%) Sage
11 3 (0.19%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.19%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.19%) Xamarin