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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 11
Rank change year-on-year +19 -24 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,624 699 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.74% 7.30% 10.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 8.29% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 312 752
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,325 £38,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,375
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 £81,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -8.45%

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 17,128 8,435 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.04% 88.09% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,717 4,056 5,569
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 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 2 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 +15 953 £70,000 - 612
Yorkshire +18 357 £65,000 - 260
North East +32 314 £75,000 +36.36% 122
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 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
2 11 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.43%) Apache
4 5 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
6 3 (0.18%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WinCC
8 1 (0.062%) Kentico
8 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
8 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%) Chatbot
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
1 302 (18.60%) AWS
2 179 (11.02%) Azure
3 92 (5.67%) SaaS
4 63 (3.88%) GCP
5 62 (3.82%) Serverless
6 53 (3.26%) GitHub
7 33 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.42%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (1.05%) Datadog
13 16 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (0.80%) Firebase
14 13 (0.80%) Route 53
15 12 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.74%) Wireless
2 9 (0.55%) Internet
3 8 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.18%) 5G
4 3 (0.18%) AMQP
4 3 (0.18%) 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 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (2.28%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.09%) SQL Server
4 31 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 27 (1.66%) MySQL
6 23 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.62%) Redis
8 9 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.43%) Chroma
10 7 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.43%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.43%) Power BI
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.31%) Metadata
13 4 (0.25%) Big Data
13 4 (0.25%) Flink
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (4.00%) Git
2 24 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.29%) GitLab
4 18 (1.11%) Claude Code
5 12 (0.74%) JIRA
5 12 (0.74%) JUnit
6 11 (0.68%) Maven
7 9 (0.55%) Spock
8 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.18%) 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
1 154 (9.48%) Social Skills
2 153 (9.42%) Finance
3 76 (4.68%) Public Sector
4 61 (3.76%) Electronics
5 51 (3.14%) Retail
6 39 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 29 (1.79%) Legal
8 20 (1.23%) Aviation
8 20 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.23%) Law
9 18 (1.11%) Automotive
10 17 (1.05%) Publishing
11 15 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.68%) Banking
12 11 (0.68%) Games
13 10 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.49%) Billing
15 7 (0.43%) Marketing
15 7 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,068 (65.76%) Software Engineer
2 476 (29.31%) Senior
3 351 (21.61%) Senior Software Engineer
4 171 (10.53%) Lead
5 167 (10.28%) Developer
6 108 (6.65%) Lead Software Engineer
7 87 (5.36%) Embedded Engineer
8 86 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
9 78 (4.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 78 (4.80%) Software Manager
10 77 (4.74%) Principal Software Engineer
11 71 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 69 (4.25%) C# Software Engineer
12 69 (4.25%) Java Engineer
13 62 (3.82%) Engineering Manager
14 58 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
15 56 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 56 (3.45%) Python Engineer
15 56 (3.45%) Software Developer
16 52 (3.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.28%) .NET
2 146 (8.99%) React
3 92 (5.67%) Node.js
4 71 (4.37%) Terraform
5 57 (3.51%) Spring
6 55 (3.39%) REST
7 43 (2.65%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.52%) Spring Boot
9 40 (2.46%) AngularJS
10 39 (2.40%) Next.js
11 37 (2.28%) CSS
12 36 (2.22%) RESTful
13 35 (2.16%) Vue
14 26 (1.60%) React Native
15 25 (1.54%) Kafka
16 19 (1.17%) HTML
16 19 (1.17%) LangChain
17 15 (0.92%) FastAPI
17 15 (0.92%) GraphQL
17 15 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 78 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.46%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
7 24 (1.48%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.23%) IoT
9 14 (0.86%) Robotics
10 12 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (0.74%) Media Streaming
10 12 (0.74%) Podcast
11 11 (0.68%) Life Science
12 9 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.55%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 8 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.73%) Linux
2 15 (0.92%) Windows
3 9 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.31%) Android
6 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.25%) Unix
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) CentOS
7 3 (0.18%) Debian
7 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (16.44%) AI
2 262 (16.13%) Agile
3 252 (15.52%) CI/CD
4 202 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 196 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 193 (11.88%) DevOps
7 157 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 142 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (8.25%) Microservices
10 103 (6.34%) Technical Leadership
10 103 (6.34%) Test Automation
11 88 (5.42%) Observability
12 86 (5.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 85 (5.23%) Containerisation
14 84 (5.17%) Coaching
14 84 (5.17%) Computer Science
15 83 (5.11%) Code Quality
15 83 (5.11%) Collaborative Culture
16 82 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (4.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 245 (15.09%) Python
2 225 (13.85%) Java
3 221 (13.61%) C#
4 186 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 149 (9.17%) SQL
6 139 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 78 (4.80%) C++
8 39 (2.40%) Go
9 33 (2.03%) C
9 33 (2.03%) Rust
10 19 (1.17%) Bash
10 19 (1.17%) PHP
10 19 (1.17%) Ruby
11 17 (1.05%) Groovy
12 13 (0.80%) Scala
13 8 (0.49%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.37%) Delphi
16 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 96 (5.91%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.17%) Degree
4 48 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.43%) PhD
6 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.31%) PMP
8 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.18%) 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 48 (2.96%) QA
2 28 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.49%) WCAG
5 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.37%) GDPR
7 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.18%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.18%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 104 (6.40%) Docker
2 47 (2.89%) Firmware
3 21 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.05%) Progress Chef
3 14 (0.86%) Ansible
4 8 (0.49%) Grafana
5 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.18%) Podman
7 3 (0.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.062%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.062%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.062%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (2.34%) Microsoft
2 21 (1.29%) Google
3 20 (1.23%) Splunk
4 13 (0.80%) Databricks
5 12 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.55%) AppDynamics
6 9 (0.55%) Rockwell
7 7 (0.43%) Foundry
7 7 (0.43%) Siemens
8 6 (0.37%) Red Hat
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
10 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.25%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.18%) IBM
11 3 (0.18%) Sage
11 3 (0.18%) SaltStack