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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 24 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,352 883 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.43% 9.35% 10.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 10.36% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 474 1,252
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +16.59% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +17.19% -11.72%

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 14,751 8,520 13,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.17% 90.24% 79.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,069 4,238 10,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +11 801 £70,000 +3.70% 190
Yorkshire +8 330 £65,000 -4.41% 85
North East +8 221 £70,000 +27.27% 49
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 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.30%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.30%) Confluence
3 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.074%) CMS
5 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.30%) Trello
2 1 (0.074%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.074%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (18.71%) AWS
2 179 (13.24%) Azure
3 85 (6.29%) SaaS
4 51 (3.77%) Serverless
5 40 (2.96%) GCP
6 36 (2.66%) GitHub
7 28 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 22 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.11%) Power Platform
11 13 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 13 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.81%) Firebase
13 9 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.52%) Azure AI
15 7 (0.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.74%) Wireless
2 2 (0.15%) AMQP
2 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.15%) MQTT
2 2 (0.15%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.074%) Broadband
3 1 (0.074%) LTE
3 1 (0.074%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.99%) NoSQL
2 45 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 33 (2.44%) MySQL
5 20 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.59%) Redis
8 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.37%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.37%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 36 (2.66%) Git
2 21 (1.55%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.96%) JIRA
5 11 (0.81%) GitLab
6 6 (0.44%) JUnit
7 5 (0.37%) Maven
7 5 (0.37%) Spock
8 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) NUnit
10 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.15%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.15%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Storybook
10 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
11 1 (0.074%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (9.91%) Finance
2 97 (7.17%) Social Skills
3 63 (4.66%) Public Sector
4 54 (3.99%) Electronics
5 30 (2.22%) Retail
6 29 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 23 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (1.33%) Automotive
8 18 (1.33%) Legal
9 13 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (0.81%) Law
11 7 (0.52%) Agriculture
11 7 (0.52%) Games
11 7 (0.52%) Marketing
12 6 (0.44%) Aviation
12 6 (0.44%) Banking
12 6 (0.44%) Billing
13 5 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 911 (67.38%) Software Engineer
2 328 (24.26%) Senior
3 240 (17.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 178 (13.17%) Developer
5 167 (12.35%) Lead
6 100 (7.40%) Lead Software Engineer
7 78 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 73 (5.40%) Principal Engineer
9 69 (5.10%) Embedded Engineer
10 68 (5.03%) Software Developer
11 65 (4.81%) Principal Software Engineer
12 62 (4.59%) C# Software Engineer
13 60 (4.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 60 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 58 (4.29%) Software Manager
15 51 (3.77%) Java Engineer
16 50 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
16 50 (3.70%) Senior Developer
17 46 (3.40%) .NET Developer
17 46 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.31%) .NET
2 135 (9.99%) React
3 101 (7.47%) Node.js
4 53 (3.92%) RESTful
5 46 (3.40%) AngularJS
5 46 (3.40%) Vue
6 42 (3.11%) Next.js
6 42 (3.11%) REST
7 38 (2.81%) .NET Core
8 36 (2.66%) Spring
9 33 (2.44%) CSS
10 29 (2.14%) Spring Boot
11 22 (1.63%) HTML
12 21 (1.55%) React Native
13 18 (1.33%) LangChain
14 15 (1.11%) GraphQL
14 15 (1.11%) Ruby on Rails
15 14 (1.04%) .NET Framework
16 12 (0.89%) FastAPI
17 10 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 54 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 40 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.07%) Hedge funds
6 28 (2.07%) IoT
7 25 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 22 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
10 15 (1.11%) Robotics
11 12 (0.89%) Life Science
12 9 (0.67%) Industry 4.0
12 9 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.59%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.59%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.59%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.59%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.85%) Linux
2 10 (0.74%) Android
3 9 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.30%) Windows
5 2 (0.15%) CentOS
5 2 (0.15%) Debian
5 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (16.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 205 (15.16%) Agile
3 204 (15.09%) AI
4 193 (14.28%) CI/CD
5 168 (12.43%) DevOps
6 154 (11.39%) Mentoring
7 129 (9.54%) Microservices
8 113 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (6.21%) Test Automation
11 75 (5.55%) Coaching
12 74 (5.47%) TDD
13 69 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
14 65 (4.81%) Computer Science
15 64 (4.73%) SDLC
16 63 (4.66%) Collaborative Culture
17 62 (4.59%) Fintech
18 60 (4.44%) Containerisation
18 60 (4.44%) Decision-Making
19 59 (4.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 208 (15.38%) C#
2 192 (14.20%) Python
3 180 (13.31%) Java
4 161 (11.91%) TypeScript
5 154 (11.39%) JavaScript
6 144 (10.65%) SQL
7 76 (5.62%) C++
8 31 (2.29%) C
8 31 (2.29%) Go
8 31 (2.29%) Rust
9 21 (1.55%) PHP
10 15 (1.11%) Ruby
11 14 (1.04%) Bash
12 13 (0.96%) COBOL
13 9 (0.67%) Groovy
13 9 (0.67%) Scala
14 7 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.44%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.30%) Bicep
16 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (5.99%) Security Cleared
2 63 (4.66%) Degree
3 57 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 47 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (0.30%) PMP
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.66%) QA
2 19 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.44%) GDPR
3 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.30%) WCAG
5 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.22%) NCSC
6 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.074%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 74 (5.47%) Docker
2 40 (2.96%) Firmware
3 20 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 55 (4.07%) Terraform
3 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.44%) Grafana
5 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Argo
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 25 (1.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.81%) Databricks
2 11 (0.81%) Google
2 11 (0.81%) Rockwell
2 11 (0.81%) Splunk
3 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.52%) Siemens
5 6 (0.44%) Foundry
6 5 (0.37%) AppDynamics
6 5 (0.37%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.22%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe
8 2 (0.15%) Cisco
8 2 (0.15%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.15%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.15%) UiPath
9 1 (0.074%) Brio