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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 24 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,221 862 1,926
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.11% 10.54% 9.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 11.28% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 476 1,385
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £39,652
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 13,779 7,644 15,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.00% 93.47% 79.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,233 3,653 11,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,250
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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +11 727 £70,000 +3.70% 247
Yorkshire +1 330 £65,000 -5.11% 79
North East -1 164 £70,000 +27.27% 71
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 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.41%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.25%) Apache
4 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.082%) CMS
6 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (20.56%) AWS
2 163 (13.35%) Azure
3 89 (7.29%) SaaS
4 49 (4.01%) Serverless
5 38 (3.11%) GCP
6 32 (2.62%) GitHub
7 22 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
8 20 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.66%) Azure AKS
13 8 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.49%) Firebase
15 4 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (0.33%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.33%) Wireless
2 3 (0.25%) AMQP
3 2 (0.16%) MQTT
3 2 (0.16%) RTP
4 1 (0.082%) Broadband
4 1 (0.082%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.10%) NoSQL
2 34 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 34 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.88%) MySQL
4 11 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (0.66%) Big Data
6 7 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.57%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.57%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.41%) FileMaker
7 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.41%) Redis
7 5 (0.41%) Spark SQL
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.33%) GIS
8 4 (0.33%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 30 (2.46%) Git
2 22 (1.80%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.57%) JIRA
5 6 (0.49%) GitLab
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.25%) JUnit
6 3 (0.25%) NUnit
7 2 (0.16%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.16%) Maven
7 2 (0.16%) MLflow
7 2 (0.16%) Spock
7 2 (0.16%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.16%) Vite
8 1 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.082%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.082%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.082%) Postman
8 1 (0.082%) Selenium
8 1 (0.082%) WinDbg
General
1 114 (9.34%) Finance
2 68 (5.57%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.42%) Public Sector
4 37 (3.03%) Electronics
5 28 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (2.29%) Manufacturing
6 27 (2.21%) Retail
7 20 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.56%) Automotive
9 14 (1.15%) Legal
10 7 (0.57%) Agriculture
11 6 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.49%) Aviation
11 6 (0.49%) Marketing
12 5 (0.41%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.41%) Law
13 4 (0.33%) Billing
13 4 (0.33%) Games
13 4 (0.33%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 841 (68.88%) Software Engineer
2 292 (23.91%) Senior
3 225 (18.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 163 (13.35%) Developer
5 155 (12.69%) Lead
6 92 (7.53%) Lead Software Engineer
7 76 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 71 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 65 (5.32%) Principal Engineer
10 63 (5.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 62 (5.08%) Embedded Engineer
12 60 (4.91%) Principal Software Engineer
13 57 (4.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 56 (4.59%) C# Software Engineer
15 52 (4.26%) Java Engineer
16 47 (3.85%) Senior Developer
17 46 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
18 42 (3.44%) Software Manager
19 40 (3.28%) .NET Developer
20 39 (3.19%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (13.60%) .NET
2 124 (10.16%) React
3 93 (7.62%) Node.js
4 51 (4.18%) RESTful
5 48 (3.93%) REST
6 41 (3.36%) Vue
7 37 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.78%) Spring
9 31 (2.54%) CSS
9 31 (2.54%) Next.js
10 30 (2.46%) .NET Core
10 30 (2.46%) Spring Boot
11 20 (1.64%) HTML
12 17 (1.39%) LangChain
13 15 (1.23%) React Native
14 13 (1.06%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.06%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (0.98%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.90%) FastAPI
17 10 (0.82%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 46 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.29%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.21%) IoT
7 25 (2.05%) Hedge funds
8 23 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (0.98%) Life Science
12 11 (0.90%) Robotics
13 9 (0.74%) Industry 4.0
13 9 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.66%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.66%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.57%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.57%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
17 5 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.19%) Linux
2 10 (0.82%) Android
3 8 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.33%) Windows
5 3 (0.25%) CentOS
5 3 (0.25%) Debian
5 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (15.32%) Agile
3 177 (14.50%) AI
4 164 (13.43%) CI/CD
5 146 (11.96%) DevOps
5 146 (11.96%) Mentoring
6 122 (9.99%) Microservices
7 101 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (6.72%) Coaching
10 69 (5.65%) TDD
11 67 (5.49%) Test Automation
12 62 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (4.67%) Fintech
13 57 (4.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (4.50%) Open Source
15 53 (4.34%) Containerisation
16 52 (4.26%) Computer Science
17 51 (4.18%) SDLC
18 50 (4.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 180 (14.74%) C#
2 179 (14.66%) Python
3 174 (14.25%) Java
4 136 (11.14%) JavaScript
5 125 (10.24%) SQL
6 124 (10.16%) TypeScript
7 53 (4.34%) C++
8 23 (1.88%) Rust
9 22 (1.80%) C
9 22 (1.80%) PHP
10 21 (1.72%) Go
11 13 (1.06%) COBOL
11 13 (1.06%) Ruby
12 8 (0.66%) Groovy
13 7 (0.57%) Bash
14 6 (0.49%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.49%) Scala
15 4 (0.33%) Bicep
15 4 (0.33%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 50 (4.10%) Degree
2 50 (4.10%) SC Cleared
3 43 (3.52%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.41%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.64%) QA
2 16 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.49%) GDPR
4 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (5.16%) Docker
2 39 (3.19%) Firmware
3 14 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (4.91%) Terraform
2 52 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.82%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.66%) Ansible
5 3 (0.25%) Grafana
5 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.25%) Puppet
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
7 1 (0.082%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (2.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.05%) Salesforce
3 20 (1.64%) Cisco
4 11 (0.90%) Rockwell
5 9 (0.74%) Adobe
5 9 (0.74%) Google
6 7 (0.57%) Databricks
6 7 (0.57%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.57%) Splunk
7 6 (0.49%) Siemens
8 5 (0.41%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.25%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.25%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.25%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.16%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.082%) Foundry