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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,481 826 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.61% 8.62% 10.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 9.71% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 425 1,049
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -10.34%

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 15,747 8,511 11,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.27% 88.79% 78.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,766 4,261 7,649
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,594 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +12 860 £70,000 +4.42% 171
Yorkshire +13 357 £65,000 - 79
North East +22 264 £75,000 +25.00% 74
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 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.41%) Apache
4 5 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) WinCC
8 1 (0.068%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.27%) Trello
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 290 (19.58%) AWS
2 196 (13.23%) Azure
3 102 (6.89%) SaaS
4 60 (4.05%) GCP
4 60 (4.05%) Serverless
5 52 (3.51%) GitHub
6 36 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
11 22 (1.49%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.01%) Datadog
14 14 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.74%) Firebase
16 11 (0.74%) Route 53
17 10 (0.68%) Amazon S3
17 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Wireless
2 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.14%) AMQP
4 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.14%) MQTT
4 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.068%) Broadband
5 1 (0.068%) DNS
5 1 (0.068%) LTE
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (3.04%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.69%) MySQL
6 22 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 9 (0.61%) Redis
8 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.41%) Power BI
10 5 (0.34%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.34%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.34%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.27%) Big Data
11 4 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 59 (3.98%) Git
2 23 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 15 (1.01%) JIRA
5 14 (0.95%) GitLab
6 10 (0.68%) JUnit
7 8 (0.54%) Maven
8 7 (0.47%) Spock
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.27%) NUnit
10 4 (0.27%) Storybook
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.14%) MLflow
12 2 (0.14%) Mocha
12 2 (0.14%) Mockito
12 2 (0.14%) Selenium
12 2 (0.14%) Vite
13 1 (0.068%) Postman
General
1 137 (9.25%) Finance
2 132 (8.91%) Social Skills
3 68 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 56 (3.78%) Electronics
5 54 (3.65%) Retail
6 39 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 25 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (1.69%) Legal
8 22 (1.49%) Automotive
9 18 (1.22%) Aviation
10 17 (1.15%) Law
11 14 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.81%) Games
14 9 (0.61%) Marketing
15 8 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.47%) Agriculture
16 7 (0.47%) Banking
17 6 (0.41%) Billing
17 6 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 975 (65.83%) Software Engineer
2 375 (25.32%) Senior
3 276 (18.64%) Senior Software Engineer
4 168 (11.34%) Lead
5 167 (11.28%) Developer
6 99 (6.68%) Lead Software Engineer
7 80 (5.40%) Embedded Engineer
8 76 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 75 (5.06%) Software Manager
10 73 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
11 69 (4.66%) C# Software Engineer
12 68 (4.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 64 (4.32%) Principal Software Engineer
14 62 (4.19%) Engineering Manager
15 55 (3.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 55 (3.71%) Software Developer
16 49 (3.31%) Software Engineering Manager
17 48 (3.24%) Python Engineer
18 44 (2.97%) Senior Developer
19 42 (2.84%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.95%) .NET
2 134 (9.05%) React
3 105 (7.09%) Node.js
4 68 (4.59%) Terraform
5 51 (3.44%) REST
6 50 (3.38%) AngularJS
7 43 (2.90%) CSS
7 43 (2.90%) RESTful
8 42 (2.84%) Vue
9 41 (2.77%) Spring
10 40 (2.70%) Next.js
11 39 (2.63%) .NET Core
12 28 (1.89%) Spring Boot
13 25 (1.69%) HTML
13 25 (1.69%) React Native
14 17 (1.15%) LangChain
15 16 (1.08%) GraphQL
16 15 (1.01%) .NET Framework
16 15 (1.01%) Ruby on Rails
17 13 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 27 (1.82%) IoT
8 23 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
10 18 (1.22%) Robotics
11 13 (0.88%) Life Science
12 12 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.61%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.61%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.54%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.47%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.47%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.41%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 78 (5.27%) Linux
2 9 (0.61%) Windows
3 7 (0.47%) Android
4 5 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
7 2 (0.14%) CentOS
7 2 (0.14%) Debian
7 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (15.60%) CI/CD
2 230 (15.53%) AI
3 227 (15.33%) Agile
4 217 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 189 (12.76%) DevOps
6 182 (12.29%) Mentoring
7 130 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (8.44%) Microservices
9 118 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (6.28%) Test Automation
11 92 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
12 87 (5.87%) Collaborative Culture
13 78 (5.27%) Coaching
13 78 (5.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 73 (4.93%) SDLC
15 72 (4.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (4.86%) TDD
16 71 (4.79%) Containerisation
16 71 (4.79%) Observability
17 68 (4.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 222 (14.99%) Python
2 219 (14.79%) C#
3 181 (12.22%) Java
4 167 (11.28%) TypeScript
5 155 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 150 (10.13%) SQL
7 82 (5.54%) C++
8 36 (2.43%) C
9 34 (2.30%) Go
10 31 (2.09%) Rust
11 22 (1.49%) PHP
12 19 (1.28%) Ruby
13 14 (0.95%) Bash
14 13 (0.88%) COBOL
14 13 (0.88%) Groovy
15 12 (0.81%) Scala
16 8 (0.54%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.41%) Delphi
17 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 74 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 69 (4.66%) Degree
4 48 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.34%) PMP
9 4 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.068%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.31%) QA
2 24 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.54%) GDPR
5 7 (0.47%) WCAG
6 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.20%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (5.94%) Docker
2 44 (2.97%) Firmware
3 22 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.74%) Progress Chef
3 10 (0.68%) Ansible
4 7 (0.47%) Grafana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.068%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.068%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.068%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (2.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.28%) Google
3 17 (1.15%) Splunk
4 15 (1.01%) Databricks
5 11 (0.74%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.61%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.61%) Siemens
7 7 (0.47%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.41%) Foundry
9 4 (0.27%) Adobe
9 4 (0.27%) New Relic
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.27%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.20%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.20%) Sage
11 2 (0.14%) IBM
11 2 (0.14%) MEDITECH
11 2 (0.14%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.14%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.14%) UiPath