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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 30 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,546 746 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.74% 8.01% 10.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 9.14% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 353 956
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.90% -4.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

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 16,157 8,159 11,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.43% 87.65% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,118 4,089 6,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -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 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +16 888 £70,000 +3.70% 413
Yorkshire +14 364 £65,000 -5.11% 166
North East +23 294 £75,000 +25.00% 92
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 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.39%) Apache
4 5 (0.32%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) WinCC
8 1 (0.065%) CMS
8 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.26%) Trello
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 288 (18.63%) AWS
2 188 (12.16%) Azure
3 101 (6.53%) SaaS
4 60 (3.88%) GCP
5 53 (3.43%) Serverless
6 52 (3.36%) GitHub
7 37 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (1.62%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
13 18 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (0.97%) Datadog
15 14 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (0.78%) Firebase
17 11 (0.71%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.71%) Route 53
18 9 (0.58%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.78%) Wireless
2 8 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.19%) Firewall
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) AMQP
4 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 2 (0.13%) MQTT
4 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) Internet
5 1 (0.065%) LTE
5 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.65%) NoSQL
3 32 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 28 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.62%) MySQL
6 22 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.65%) Redis
8 9 (0.58%) Power BI
9 8 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.32%) Chroma
11 5 (0.32%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.32%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.32%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.26%) Metadata
12 4 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (3.95%) Git
2 23 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.29%) Claude Code
4 17 (1.10%) GitLab
5 13 (0.84%) JIRA
6 12 (0.78%) JUnit
7 11 (0.71%) Maven
8 9 (0.58%) Spock
9 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.26%) NUnit
11 4 (0.26%) Storybook
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
13 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
13 2 (0.13%) Mocha
13 2 (0.13%) Mockito
13 2 (0.13%) Vite
14 1 (0.065%) Postman
General
1 142 (9.18%) Finance
2 133 (8.60%) Social Skills
3 71 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.82%) Electronics
5 50 (3.23%) Retail
6 33 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 30 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (1.94%) Legal
8 22 (1.42%) Law
9 21 (1.36%) Automotive
10 18 (1.16%) Aviation
11 17 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (0.71%) Games
14 9 (0.58%) Marketing
15 8 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.45%) Banking
16 7 (0.45%) Billing
16 7 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,016 (65.72%) Software Engineer
2 409 (26.46%) Senior
3 298 (19.28%) Senior Software Engineer
4 175 (11.32%) Lead
5 163 (10.54%) Developer
6 107 (6.92%) Lead Software Engineer
7 87 (5.63%) Embedded Engineer
8 78 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 78 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
9 75 (4.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 75 (4.85%) Software Manager
10 69 (4.46%) C# Software Engineer
10 69 (4.46%) Principal Software Engineer
11 61 (3.95%) Engineering Manager
12 54 (3.49%) Software Developer
13 53 (3.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 52 (3.36%) Python Engineer
15 48 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 48 (3.10%) Software Engineering Manager
16 45 (2.91%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (11.13%) .NET
2 135 (8.73%) React
3 96 (6.21%) Node.js
4 66 (4.27%) Terraform
5 54 (3.49%) REST
6 50 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 46 (2.98%) Spring
8 41 (2.65%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.65%) Vue
9 40 (2.59%) CSS
9 40 (2.59%) Next.js
9 40 (2.59%) RESTful
10 30 (1.94%) Spring Boot
11 25 (1.62%) React Native
12 22 (1.42%) HTML
13 18 (1.16%) LangChain
14 16 (1.03%) Kafka
15 15 (0.97%) GraphQL
15 15 (0.97%) Ruby on Rails
16 14 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 29 (1.88%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.62%) IoT
8 24 (1.55%) Hedge funds
9 23 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
11 17 (1.10%) Robotics
12 12 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (0.78%) Life Science
13 10 (0.65%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.65%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.58%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.52%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.45%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.45%) Onboarding
17 6 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.69%) Linux
2 15 (0.97%) Windows
3 7 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.39%) Android
5 4 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.26%) Unix
5 4 (0.26%) VMS
6 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.13%) CentOS
7 2 (0.13%) Debian
7 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (15.98%) AI
2 230 (14.88%) Agile
2 230 (14.88%) CI/CD
3 211 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 184 (11.90%) DevOps
5 182 (11.77%) Mentoring
6 137 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 125 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (8.02%) Microservices
9 95 (6.14%) Test Automation
10 93 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
11 81 (5.24%) Collaborative Culture
12 79 (5.11%) Coaching
12 79 (5.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 78 (5.05%) Observability
14 73 (4.72%) Containerisation
14 73 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (4.66%) Computer Science
15 72 (4.66%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (4.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 226 (14.62%) Python
2 222 (14.36%) C#
3 186 (12.03%) Java
4 172 (11.13%) TypeScript
5 151 (9.77%) SQL
6 149 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 82 (5.30%) C++
8 36 (2.33%) C
9 35 (2.26%) Go
10 31 (2.01%) Rust
11 21 (1.36%) PHP
12 19 (1.23%) Ruby
13 16 (1.03%) Bash
13 16 (1.03%) Groovy
14 13 (0.84%) COBOL
14 13 (0.84%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.39%) Delphi
17 5 (0.32%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 80 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 72 (4.66%) Degree
4 49 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.32%) PMP
9 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.19%) PhD
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.065%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.065%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.30%) QA
2 28 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.52%) GDPR
5 7 (0.45%) WCAG
6 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (5.95%) Docker
2 49 (3.17%) Firmware
3 22 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 10 (0.65%) Ansible
4 8 (0.52%) Grafana
5 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.13%) Argo
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.065%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.065%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.065%) Kibana
7 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (2.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.29%) Splunk
3 19 (1.23%) Google
4 15 (0.97%) Databricks
5 11 (0.71%) Rockwell
6 10 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.58%) AppDynamics
7 9 (0.58%) Siemens
8 6 (0.39%) Foundry
9 5 (0.32%) New Relic
9 5 (0.32%) YouTube
10 4 (0.26%) Adobe
10 4 (0.26%) OneTrust
10 4 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.26%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.19%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.19%) Sage
12 2 (0.13%) MEDITECH
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.13%) SaltStack