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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,102 851 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.60% 11.01% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 11.62% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 940 470 1,273
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -6.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -14.97%

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 13,943 7,324 14,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.85% 94.72% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,378 3,425 11,269
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 27 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 27 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 -2 648 £67,500 - 222
Yorkshire -2 322 £65,000 -7.14% 71
North East -4 132 £67,500 +22.73% 59
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 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.36%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.18%) Confluence
6 1 (0.091%) CMS
6 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.091%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 233 (21.14%) AWS
2 153 (13.88%) Azure
3 87 (7.89%) SaaS
4 48 (4.36%) Serverless
5 32 (2.90%) GCP
6 28 (2.54%) GitHub
7 19 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (0.91%) Azure AKS
13 8 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.64%) Figma
15 6 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 4 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.45%) Wireless
2 3 (0.27%) AMQP
3 2 (0.18%) RTP
4 1 (0.091%) Broadband
4 1 (0.091%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 33 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 31 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.91%) MySQL
5 13 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.73%) Big Data
8 8 (0.73%) Neo4j
9 7 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.45%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.45%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.45%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.36%) GIS
12 4 (0.36%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Git
2 21 (1.91%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.64%) JIRA
5 3 (0.27%) NUnit
6 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.18%) MLflow
6 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.091%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.091%) GDB
7 1 (0.091%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.091%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.091%) JUnit
7 1 (0.091%) Postman
7 1 (0.091%) Selenium
7 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.091%) WinDbg
General
1 99 (8.98%) Finance
2 67 (6.08%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 39 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (3.09%) Electronics
6 26 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 25 (2.27%) Retail
8 21 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (1.81%) Automotive
10 10 (0.91%) Legal
11 7 (0.64%) Agriculture
12 6 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.54%) Aviation
13 5 (0.45%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.45%) Law
13 5 (0.45%) Marketing
14 4 (0.36%) Banking
14 4 (0.36%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 741 (67.24%) Software Engineer
2 233 (21.14%) Senior
3 174 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 158 (14.34%) Lead
5 145 (13.16%) Developer
6 98 (8.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 59 (5.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 59 (5.35%) Software Developer
8 56 (5.08%) Embedded Engineer
9 53 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
9 53 (4.81%) Principal Software Engineer
10 51 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 49 (4.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 47 (4.26%) Java Engineer
13 46 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
14 41 (3.72%) Java Software Engineer
14 41 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 38 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (3.45%) Software Manager
16 37 (3.36%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (14.43%) .NET
2 110 (9.98%) React
3 88 (7.99%) Node.js
4 53 (4.81%) RESTful
5 45 (4.08%) REST
6 38 (3.45%) Vue
7 34 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 32 (2.90%) CSS
9 30 (2.72%) Spring
10 28 (2.54%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.54%) Spring Boot
11 22 (2.00%) HTML
12 17 (1.54%) Next.js
13 14 (1.27%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.18%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.18%) LangChain
15 12 (1.09%) React Native
16 11 (1.00%) Flask
17 10 (0.91%) Ruby on Rails
18 9 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 33 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.27%) Hedge funds
5 23 (2.09%) IoT
6 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.09%) Life Science
9 10 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (0.91%) Robotics
10 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (0.82%) Industry 4.0
10 9 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.64%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.00%) Linux
2 10 (0.91%) Android
3 8 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.27%) CentOS
4 3 (0.27%) Debian
4 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (16.33%) Agile
1 180 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 145 (13.16%) Mentoring
3 144 (13.07%) CI/CD
4 132 (11.98%) DevOps
5 130 (11.80%) AI
6 109 (9.89%) Microservices
7 94 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (7.80%) Coaching
9 77 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (5.81%) TDD
11 59 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
12 55 (4.99%) Open Source
13 54 (4.90%) SDLC
13 54 (4.90%) Test Automation
14 52 (4.72%) Fintech
15 51 (4.63%) Analytics
15 51 (4.63%) Infrastructure as Code
16 50 (4.54%) Scrum
17 47 (4.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 165 (14.97%) Java
2 160 (14.52%) Python
3 157 (14.25%) C#
4 128 (11.62%) JavaScript
5 106 (9.62%) SQL
5 106 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 35 (3.18%) C++
7 20 (1.81%) C
8 18 (1.63%) PHP
9 14 (1.27%) Go
10 13 (1.18%) COBOL
11 10 (0.91%) Ruby
12 7 (0.64%) Groovy
13 6 (0.54%) Rust
13 6 (0.54%) Scala
14 5 (0.45%) Bash
15 4 (0.36%) Bicep
15 4 (0.36%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (5.44%) Security Cleared
2 45 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.72%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.36%) Degree
5 22 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.091%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.00%) QA
2 18 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.54%) GDPR
4 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.27%) NCSC
6 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (4.63%) Docker
2 40 (3.63%) Firmware
3 14 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (4.72%) Terraform
2 45 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
4 5 (0.45%) Ansible
5 4 (0.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.27%) Puppet
7 2 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.36%) Salesforce
3 32 (2.90%) Cisco
4 11 (1.00%) Adobe
4 11 (1.00%) Rockwell
5 8 (0.73%) Google
6 6 (0.54%) Siemens
7 5 (0.45%) Databricks
7 5 (0.45%) Xamarin
8 4 (0.36%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.27%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.27%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.27%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.18%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.18%) Splunk