Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 12 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,019 1,978 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.78% 10.15% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 12.69% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,356 698
10th Percentile £36,000 £39,668 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -5.74% +10.91%
75th Percentile £82,751 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,964 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +3.57%

All Process and 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 11,646 15,593 14,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 79.98% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,854 11,287 7,746
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,091
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £64,681 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,435 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.43% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 -12 731 £60,000 - 919
Yorkshire -21 231 £68,500 +24.55% 447
North East -4 57 £55,000 - 100
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (6.38%) Confluence
2 5 (0.49%) Apache
3 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.39%) IIS
3 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.20%) CMS
5 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.098%) nginx
Applications
1 108 (10.60%) Simulink
2 10 (0.98%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.098%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.098%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.098%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 491 (48.18%) AWS
2 410 (40.24%) Azure
3 280 (27.48%) GCP
4 43 (4.22%) SaaS
5 37 (3.63%) GitHub
6 34 (3.34%) Serverless
7 23 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (1.28%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.69%) Cloud Composer
16 6 (0.59%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (0.49%) Amazon Cognito
17 5 (0.49%) CloudFront
17 5 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Wireless
3 4 (0.39%) LoRaWAN
3 4 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.29%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.098%) Broadband
6 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.098%) Modbus
6 1 (0.098%) MQTT
6 1 (0.098%) Profibus
6 1 (0.098%) RS-232
6 1 (0.098%) RS-485
6 1 (0.098%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.098%) VPN
6 1 (0.098%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.53%) MongoDB
3 31 (3.04%) NoSQL
4 21 (2.06%) MySQL
5 18 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 10 (0.98%) Cloud Spanner
7 10 (0.98%) DynamoDB
7 10 (0.98%) Power BI
8 9 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.79%) Big Data
10 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.49%) Metadata
11 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.39%) Biml
12 4 (0.39%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 147 (14.43%) JIRA
2 132 (12.95%) GitLab
3 124 (12.17%) SonarQube
4 123 (12.07%) Selenium
5 118 (11.58%) Cucumber
6 117 (11.48%) Maven
6 117 (11.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 113 (11.09%) Bitbucket
8 59 (5.79%) Git
9 23 (2.26%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.69%) JUnit
10 7 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.59%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.49%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
12 5 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.39%) Eclipse RCP
14 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 291 (28.56%) Finance
2 286 (28.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 227 (22.28%) Banking
4 166 (16.29%) Social Skills
5 95 (9.32%) Retail
6 73 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (7.07%) Corporate Banking
7 72 (7.07%) Investment Banking
8 24 (2.36%) Electronics
9 20 (1.96%) Law
10 19 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.77%) Public Sector
12 14 (1.37%) Games
13 11 (1.08%) Marketing
14 8 (0.79%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.59%) Online Betting
17 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.39%) Legal
19 3 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 548 (53.78%) Software Engineer
2 329 (32.29%) Senior
3 267 (26.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 130 (12.76%) Systems Engineer
5 121 (11.87%) Lead
6 69 (6.77%) Developer
7 48 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 39 (3.83%) PLC Engineer
9 34 (3.34%) Principal Engineer
10 33 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
11 28 (2.75%) Java Engineer
11 28 (2.75%) Software Manager
12 27 (2.65%) Senior Developer
13 23 (2.26%) Software Engineering Manager
14 22 (2.16%) Java Software Engineer
15 21 (2.06%) C# Software Engineer
16 18 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (1.77%) AWS Software Engineer
16 18 (1.77%) Software Assurance Engineer
17 16 (1.57%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (28.95%) .NET
2 253 (24.83%) Node.js
3 240 (23.55%) React
4 159 (15.60%) Spring
5 158 (15.51%) Spring Boot
6 156 (15.31%) CSS
7 154 (15.11%) Kafka
8 152 (14.92%) HTML
9 124 (12.17%) Redux
10 114 (11.19%) RESTful
11 112 (10.99%) JPA
12 92 (9.03%) REST
13 82 (8.05%) HTML5
14 78 (7.65%) CSS3
15 77 (7.56%) Sass
16 76 (7.46%) Jest
17 60 (5.89%) AngularJS
18 49 (4.81%) Hibernate
19 47 (4.61%) .NET Core
20 36 (3.53%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 214 (21.00%) Cyberattack
2 181 (17.76%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (16.88%) Linux Command Line
4 168 (16.49%) Product Ownership
5 121 (11.87%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (5.30%) Renewable Energy
7 42 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (3.04%) Cloud Native
9 27 (2.65%) Algorithms
9 27 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.67%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.98%) Wiki
15 7 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 199 (19.53%) Linux
2 12 (1.18%) Windows
3 8 (0.79%) Android
3 8 (0.79%) Unix
4 6 (0.59%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.098%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.098%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (52.21%) Agile
2 391 (38.37%) Microservices
3 366 (35.92%) Mentoring
4 281 (27.58%) User Experience
5 267 (26.20%) DevOps
6 263 (25.81%) CI/CD
7 205 (20.12%) Scrum
8 203 (19.92%) Machine Learning
9 189 (18.55%) Cloud Security
10 186 (18.25%) Data Engineering
11 183 (17.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 180 (17.66%) Full-Stack Development
13 172 (16.88%) Containerisation
14 171 (16.78%) Test Automation
15 166 (16.29%) Mathematics
16 151 (14.82%) SDLC
17 147 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
18 141 (13.84%) Systems Engineering
19 129 (12.66%) Front End Development
19 129 (12.66%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 463 (45.44%) Java
2 433 (42.49%) JavaScript
3 272 (26.69%) Python
4 208 (20.41%) SQL
5 204 (20.02%) TypeScript
6 200 (19.63%) Go
7 199 (19.53%) C++
8 183 (17.96%) Rust
9 128 (12.56%) C#
10 109 (10.70%) MATLAB
11 36 (3.53%) C
12 28 (2.75%) PHP
13 7 (0.69%) R
14 6 (0.59%) Bash
14 6 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.49%) Ruby
16 4 (0.39%) Ada
16 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.29%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (22.96%) Degree
2 196 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 185 (18.16%) DV Cleared
4 175 (17.17%) AWS Certification
5 172 (16.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 172 (16.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 162 (15.90%) HND
7 108 (10.60%) HNC
8 39 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.69%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.29%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.098%) MCSD
15 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.098%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (13.25%) QA
2 86 (8.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.20%) GDPR
7 2 (0.20%) GMP
7 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.098%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.098%) MISRA
8 1 (0.098%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.098%) SEPA
8 1 (0.098%) SLA
8 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 208 (20.41%) Docker
2 15 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.29%) Firmware
3 3 (0.29%) HDFS
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.098%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (20.61%) Kubernetes
2 59 (5.79%) Terraform
3 5 (0.49%) Istio
4 4 (0.39%) Ansible
4 4 (0.39%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) logstash
5 3 (0.29%) Oozie
5 3 (0.29%) Puppet
6 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (10.99%) Solace
2 33 (3.24%) Google
2 33 (3.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (0.98%) Oracle
4 9 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 8 (0.79%) IBM
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe
6 5 (0.49%) Databricks
6 5 (0.49%) SAP
7 4 (0.39%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.39%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.29%) Informatica
8 3 (0.29%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.29%) VMware
9 2 (0.20%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (0.20%) Avaya
9 2 (0.20%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.20%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.20%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.098%) New Relic