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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,337 883 1,811
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.42% 9.38% 10.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 10.39% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 473 1,281
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 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £62,820
% change year-on-year - +19.39% -13.35%

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 14,608 8,501 14,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.12% 90.26% 79.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,963 4,212 10,327
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £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 £81,250 £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 17 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 17 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 +11 795 £70,000 +3.70% 147
Yorkshire +5 326 £65,000 -5.11% 71
North East +8 216 £70,000 +27.27% 40
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 (0.97%) 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%) Apache
4 2 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.075%) CMS
5 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.30%) Trello
2 1 (0.075%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (18.92%) AWS
2 178 (13.31%) Azure
3 85 (6.36%) SaaS
4 52 (3.89%) Serverless
5 40 (2.99%) GCP
6 35 (2.62%) GitHub
7 27 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
8 22 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 13 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (0.82%) Firebase
14 9 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.52%) Azure AI
16 7 (0.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.75%) 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 (0.075%) Broadband
3 1 (0.075%) LTE
3 1 (0.075%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 46 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (3.29%) MongoDB
4 33 (2.47%) MySQL
5 19 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.60%) Redis
8 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 6 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
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%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.30%) Power BI
11 4 (0.30%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 36 (2.69%) Git
2 21 (1.57%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.97%) JIRA
5 11 (0.82%) GitLab
6 6 (0.45%) JUnit
7 5 (0.37%) Spock
8 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
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%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
11 1 (0.075%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.075%) Postman
11 1 (0.075%) Storybook
General
1 134 (10.02%) Finance
2 97 (7.26%) Social Skills
3 63 (4.71%) Public Sector
4 51 (3.81%) Electronics
5 29 (2.17%) Retail
6 28 (2.09%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (1.35%) Automotive
8 18 (1.35%) Legal
9 12 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (0.82%) Law
11 7 (0.52%) Agriculture
11 7 (0.52%) Games
11 7 (0.52%) Marketing
12 6 (0.45%) Aviation
12 6 (0.45%) Banking
12 6 (0.45%) Billing
13 5 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 905 (67.69%) Software Engineer
2 325 (24.31%) Senior
3 239 (17.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 176 (13.16%) Developer
5 166 (12.42%) Lead
6 100 (7.48%) Lead Software Engineer
7 79 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 72 (5.39%) Principal Engineer
9 68 (5.09%) Software Developer
10 67 (5.01%) Embedded Engineer
11 65 (4.86%) Principal Software Engineer
12 61 (4.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 59 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
13 59 (4.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 55 (4.11%) Software Manager
15 51 (3.81%) Java Engineer
15 51 (3.81%) Senior Developer
16 48 (3.59%) Engineering Manager
17 46 (3.44%) .NET Developer
17 46 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.24%) .NET
2 137 (10.25%) React
3 102 (7.63%) Node.js
4 55 (4.11%) RESTful
5 47 (3.52%) Vue
6 44 (3.29%) AngularJS
7 43 (3.22%) REST
8 42 (3.14%) Next.js
9 38 (2.84%) .NET Core
10 36 (2.69%) Spring
11 33 (2.47%) CSS
12 29 (2.17%) Spring Boot
13 22 (1.65%) HTML
14 21 (1.57%) React Native
15 18 (1.35%) LangChain
16 15 (1.12%) GraphQL
16 15 (1.12%) Ruby on Rails
17 14 (1.05%) .NET Framework
18 13 (0.97%) FastAPI
19 10 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 40 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.47%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.09%) Hedge funds
7 27 (2.02%) IoT
8 25 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
11 15 (1.12%) Robotics
12 12 (0.90%) Life Science
13 9 (0.67%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.67%) Industry 4.0
13 9 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.60%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.60%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.60%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.52%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.59%) Linux
2 11 (0.82%) Android
3 10 (0.75%) 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 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (16.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 205 (15.33%) Agile
3 203 (15.18%) AI
4 191 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 166 (12.42%) DevOps
6 152 (11.37%) Mentoring
7 128 (9.57%) Microservices
8 113 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (6.28%) Test Automation
11 74 (5.53%) TDD
12 73 (5.46%) Coaching
13 68 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
14 64 (4.79%) Collaborative Culture
14 64 (4.79%) Computer Science
15 63 (4.71%) Fintech
15 63 (4.71%) SDLC
16 60 (4.49%) Scrum
17 59 (4.41%) Containerisation
18 58 (4.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (15.03%) C#
2 189 (14.14%) Python
3 178 (13.31%) Java
4 161 (12.04%) TypeScript
5 154 (11.52%) JavaScript
6 144 (10.77%) SQL
7 72 (5.39%) C++
8 30 (2.24%) Go
9 29 (2.17%) C
9 29 (2.17%) Rust
10 20 (1.50%) PHP
11 15 (1.12%) Ruby
12 13 (0.97%) Bash
12 13 (0.97%) COBOL
13 9 (0.67%) Groovy
13 9 (0.67%) Scala
14 7 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.45%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.30%) Bicep
16 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 62 (4.64%) Degree
3 57 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 47 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 41 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.45%) 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 35 (2.62%) QA
2 18 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.45%) GDPR
3 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.22%) NCSC
4 3 (0.22%) WCAG
5 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.075%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 73 (5.46%) Docker
2 39 (2.92%) Firmware
3 19 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 56 (4.19%) Terraform
3 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.60%) Ansible
5 5 (0.37%) Grafana
5 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Argo
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.075%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 24 (1.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.82%) Databricks
2 11 (0.82%) Rockwell
2 11 (0.82%) Splunk
3 10 (0.75%) Google
4 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
5 7 (0.52%) Siemens
6 6 (0.45%) Foundry
7 5 (0.37%) AppDynamics
7 5 (0.37%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
8 3 (0.22%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.15%) Cisco
9 2 (0.15%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.15%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.15%) UiPath
10 1 (0.075%) Adobe
10 1 (0.075%) Brio