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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 725 1,474 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.70% 10.44% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 13.28% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 332 860 563
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.55% -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,250 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £84,811
England median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -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 8,231 11,100 8,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.43% 78.61% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,100 6,080 6,175
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,390 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -18 510 £70,000 +17.65% 238
Yorkshire -24 169 £70,000 +27.27% 109
North East -17 46 £62,500 +13.64% 37
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 48 (6.62%) Confluence
2 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.55%) IIS
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.41%) SAS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.10%) Simulink
3 4 (0.55%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 430 (59.31%) AWS
2 394 (54.34%) Azure
3 237 (32.69%) GCP
4 47 (6.48%) SaaS
5 26 (3.59%) GitHub
6 23 (3.17%) Serverless
7 17 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (1.93%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.69%) IaaS
12 5 (0.69%) PaaS
13 4 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.41%) Apigee
14 3 (0.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Internet
2 3 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.28%) AMQP
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.14%) Modbus
4 1 (0.14%) Profibus
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (18.62%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.86%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 18 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.21%) MySQL
6 11 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.10%) Power BI
9 7 (0.97%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.69%) Big Data
11 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.55%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.41%) HBase
12 3 (0.41%) Impala
12 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.41%) SQL CLR
12 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 128 (17.66%) JIRA
2 124 (17.10%) GitLab
3 123 (16.97%) Selenium
4 118 (16.28%) Cucumber
5 116 (16.00%) Maven
5 116 (16.00%) SonarQube
5 116 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 112 (15.45%) Bitbucket
7 22 (3.03%) Git
8 15 (2.07%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.97%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.41%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.41%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.41%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.28%) webpack
13 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.14%) CMake
13 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 285 (39.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 168 (23.17%) Finance
3 123 (16.97%) Banking
4 114 (15.72%) Social Skills
5 89 (12.28%) Retail
6 72 (9.93%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (9.93%) Investment Banking
7 45 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.62%) Law
10 15 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.79%) Marketing
12 7 (0.97%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Games
14 5 (0.69%) Electronics
14 5 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.55%) Billing
15 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 468 (64.55%) Software Engineer
2 291 (40.14%) Senior
3 241 (33.24%) Senior Software Engineer
4 67 (9.24%) Developer
5 61 (8.41%) Lead
6 39 (5.38%) PLC Engineer
7 36 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
8 23 (3.17%) C# Software Engineer
9 22 (3.03%) Java Engineer
9 22 (3.03%) Senior Developer
10 19 (2.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 17 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (2.34%) Software Developer
12 16 (2.21%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.07%) Architect
13 15 (2.07%) AWS Software Engineer
13 15 (2.07%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (1.93%) .NET Developer
14 14 (1.93%) Head of Engineering
15 13 (1.79%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (37.93%) .NET
2 218 (30.07%) Node.js
3 204 (28.14%) React
4 144 (19.86%) Spring
4 144 (19.86%) Spring Boot
5 136 (18.76%) Kafka
6 133 (18.34%) HTML
7 132 (18.21%) CSS
8 127 (17.52%) Redux
9 112 (15.45%) JPA
10 99 (13.66%) RESTful
11 93 (12.83%) REST
12 82 (11.31%) HTML5
13 80 (11.03%) CSS3
14 78 (10.76%) Jest
15 76 (10.48%) Sass
16 48 (6.62%) Hibernate
17 39 (5.38%) AngularJS
18 30 (4.14%) .NET Core
19 11 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 211 (29.10%) Cyberattack
2 176 (24.28%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (23.72%) Linux Command Line
4 152 (20.97%) Product Ownership
5 116 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (6.62%) Renewable Energy
7 39 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (5.24%) Cloud Native
9 24 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.24%) Wiki
12 8 (1.10%) SCADA
13 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
14 6 (0.83%) Hedge funds
15 5 (0.69%) Client/Server
15 5 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (25.24%) Linux
2 12 (1.66%) Windows
3 7 (0.97%) Unix
4 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.41%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (60.97%) Agile
2 351 (48.41%) Microservices
3 315 (43.45%) Mentoring
4 270 (37.24%) User Experience
5 224 (30.90%) CI/CD
6 222 (30.62%) DevOps
7 197 (27.17%) Scrum
8 187 (25.79%) Machine Learning
9 184 (25.38%) Cloud Security
10 181 (24.97%) Data Engineering
11 177 (24.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 170 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 152 (20.97%) Containerisation
14 143 (19.72%) Test Automation
15 136 (18.76%) SDLC
16 128 (17.66%) Front End Development
17 126 (17.38%) Performance Optimisation
18 98 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 93 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
19 93 (12.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 377 (52.00%) Java
2 369 (50.90%) JavaScript
3 237 (32.69%) Python
4 194 (26.76%) C++
5 186 (25.66%) Go
6 184 (25.38%) SQL
7 175 (24.14%) Rust
8 160 (22.07%) TypeScript
9 110 (15.17%) C#
10 11 (1.52%) C
11 8 (1.10%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.97%) Bash
12 7 (0.97%) Ruby
13 6 (0.83%) PHP
14 5 (0.69%) R
15 4 (0.55%) Delphi
16 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.41%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 197 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 183 (25.24%) DV Cleared
3 176 (24.28%) AWS Certification
4 172 (23.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (23.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 47 (6.48%) HND
6 45 (6.21%) Degree
7 22 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.93%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.10%) HNC
10 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (18.90%) QA
2 77 (10.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
5 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.28%) SEPA
5 2 (0.28%) TARGET2
6 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) MISRA
6 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 172 (23.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.10%) Firmware
3 7 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.41%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.41%) HDFS
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 166 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.52%) Terraform
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
3 4 (0.55%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Istio
4 3 (0.41%) Kibana
4 3 (0.41%) logstash
4 3 (0.41%) Oozie
4 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (15.45%) Solace
2 34 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (0.97%) Ping Identity
4 6 (0.83%) Databricks
4 6 (0.83%) Google
4 6 (0.83%) Sage
4 6 (0.83%) SAP
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle
6 4 (0.55%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.41%) Informatica
7 3 (0.41%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (0.41%) VMware
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe
8 2 (0.28%) Avaya
8 2 (0.28%) Concur
8 2 (0.28%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.28%) IBM
8 2 (0.28%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.14%) Allen-Bradley