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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,127 867 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.65% 11.05% 8.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 11.68% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 966 485 1,289
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -5.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £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 14,098 7,426 14,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.73% 94.65% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,539 3,504 11,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,939 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 0 665 £67,500 - 218
Yorkshire +3 324 £65,000 -5.11% 57
North East -3 138 £67,500 +22.73% 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 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.35%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.35%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.18%) Confluence
5 2 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.089%) CMS
6 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Magento
2 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (20.94%) AWS
2 156 (13.84%) Azure
3 92 (8.16%) SaaS
4 49 (4.35%) Serverless
5 33 (2.93%) GCP
6 28 (2.48%) GitHub
7 20 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (1.60%) Anthropic Claude
9 18 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (0.89%) Azure AKS
14 8 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (0.53%) Figma
16 4 (0.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 4 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.44%) Wireless
2 3 (0.27%) AMQP
3 2 (0.18%) RTP
4 1 (0.089%) Broadband
4 1 (0.089%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 34 (3.02%) MongoDB
3 31 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.95%) MySQL
5 15 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.71%) Big Data
8 8 (0.71%) Neo4j
9 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.44%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.44%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.35%) GIS
12 4 (0.35%) QGIS
12 4 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (2.04%) Git
2 21 (1.86%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.62%) JIRA
5 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.27%) NUnit
6 2 (0.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.18%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.18%) Maven
6 2 (0.18%) MLflow
6 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.089%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.089%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.089%) GDB
7 1 (0.089%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.089%) JUnit
7 1 (0.089%) Postman
7 1 (0.089%) Selenium
7 1 (0.089%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.089%) WinDbg
General
1 105 (9.32%) Finance
2 69 (6.12%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.79%) Public Sector
4 35 (3.11%) Electronics
4 35 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (2.31%) Manufacturing
6 24 (2.13%) Retail
7 22 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (1.77%) Automotive
9 12 (1.06%) Legal
10 7 (0.62%) Agriculture
11 6 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.53%) Aviation
12 5 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.44%) Law
12 5 (0.44%) Marketing
13 4 (0.35%) Banking
13 4 (0.35%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 759 (67.35%) Software Engineer
2 241 (21.38%) Senior
3 178 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 159 (14.11%) Lead
5 151 (13.40%) Developer
6 98 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 64 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 64 (5.68%) Software Developer
8 56 (4.97%) Embedded Engineer
9 55 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (4.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 54 (4.79%) Principal Software Engineer
11 51 (4.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 48 (4.26%) C# Software Engineer
12 48 (4.26%) Java Engineer
13 45 (3.99%) Senior Developer
14 42 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
14 42 (3.73%) Software Manager
15 38 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (3.28%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (14.46%) .NET
2 117 (10.38%) React
3 93 (8.25%) Node.js
4 53 (4.70%) RESTful
5 46 (4.08%) REST
6 40 (3.55%) Vue
7 33 (2.93%) AngularJS
8 31 (2.75%) CSS
9 30 (2.66%) Spring
10 29 (2.57%) .NET Core
11 28 (2.48%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.86%) HTML
12 21 (1.86%) Next.js
13 14 (1.24%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.15%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.15%) LangChain
15 12 (1.06%) React Native
16 11 (0.98%) Flask
17 10 (0.89%) Ruby on Rails
18 9 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.19%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 23 (2.04%) IoT
6 19 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.06%) Life Science
10 10 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (0.89%) Robotics
11 9 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (0.80%) Industry 4.0
11 9 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (0.80%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.62%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.48%) Linux
2 10 (0.89%) Android
3 8 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.35%) Windows
5 3 (0.27%) CentOS
5 3 (0.27%) Debian
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (16.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 183 (16.24%) Agile
3 149 (13.22%) CI/CD
4 142 (12.60%) Mentoring
5 141 (12.51%) AI
6 136 (12.07%) DevOps
7 114 (10.12%) Microservices
8 97 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (7.28%) Coaching
10 81 (7.19%) Problem-Solving
11 65 (5.77%) TDD
12 58 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
12 58 (5.15%) Test Automation
13 56 (4.97%) Open Source
14 55 (4.88%) SDLC
15 53 (4.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (4.53%) Fintech
17 50 (4.44%) Scrum
18 48 (4.26%) Containerisation
19 46 (4.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 166 (14.73%) C#
2 165 (14.64%) Python
3 164 (14.55%) Java
4 131 (11.62%) JavaScript
5 116 (10.29%) TypeScript
6 113 (10.03%) SQL
7 39 (3.46%) C++
8 21 (1.86%) C
9 19 (1.69%) PHP
10 15 (1.33%) Go
11 13 (1.15%) COBOL
12 10 (0.89%) Ruby
13 9 (0.80%) Rust
14 7 (0.62%) Groovy
15 6 (0.53%) Bash
15 6 (0.53%) Scala
16 4 (0.35%) Bicep
16 4 (0.35%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (5.50%) Security Cleared
2 46 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 43 (3.82%) DV Cleared
4 40 (3.55%) Degree
5 26 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.089%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.04%) QA
2 16 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.53%) GDPR
4 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.27%) NCSC
7 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (4.44%) Docker
2 40 (3.55%) Firmware
3 14 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (4.61%) Terraform
2 45 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.80%) Progress Chef
4 5 (0.44%) Ansible
5 4 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.27%) Puppet
7 2 (0.18%) Packer
8 1 (0.089%) Argo
Vendors
1 43 (3.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.93%) Salesforce
3 28 (2.48%) Cisco
4 11 (0.98%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.89%) Adobe
6 8 (0.71%) Google
7 6 (0.53%) Databricks
7 6 (0.53%) Siemens
8 5 (0.44%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.35%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.27%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.27%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.27%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.18%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.18%) Splunk